First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records

The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.
Read more: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/first-american-financial-corp-leaked-hundreds-of-millions-of-title-insurance-records?source=Snapzu

Maine lawmakers pass bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent

Good news! Maine lawmakers have passed a bill that will prevent internet providers from selling consumers’ private internet data to advertisers. The state’s senate unanimously passed the bill 35-0 on Thursday following an earlier vote by state representatives 96-45 in favor of the bill.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/30/maine-internet-history-data/?source=Snapzu

Planting more trees 'one of the best things we can do' to reduce carbon in the air

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we examine the climate strikes happening around the world, trees as a carbon capture "technology" and reader suggestions on sustainable living.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/what-on-earth-newsletter-trees-carbon-capture-climate-strikes-1.5156358?source=Snapzu

Google kills its Twitch killer—the YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week

YouTube's standalone gaming interface didn't prove popular with users.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/googles-killing-the-youtube-gaming-app-this-week/?source=Snapzu

Assange 'subjected to psychological torture'

The UN's special rapporteur on torture says the Wikileaks founder is not fit to stand trial.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48473898?source=Snapzu

A New York School District Will Test Facial Recognition On Students Even Though The State Asked It To Wait

The western New York school district says it is "confident" in its data collection policies.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/lockport-school-district-defies-new-york-education?source=Snapzu

Spacewatch: Nasa awards first contract for lunar space station

Nasa has contracted Maxar Technologies to develop the first element of its Lunar Gateway space station, an essential part of its plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2024.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/30/spacewatch-nasa-awards-first-contract-for-lunar-gateway-space-station?source=Snapzu

Coal and gas are far more harmful than nuclear power – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

Human-caused climate change and air pollution remain major global-scale problems and are both due mostly to fossil fuel burning. Mitigation efforts for both of these problems should be undertaken concurrently in order to maximize effectiveness. Such efforts can be accomplished largely with currently available low-carbon and carbon-free alternative energy sources like nuclear power and renewables, as well as energy efficiency improvements.
Read more: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-harmful-than-nuclear-power/?source=Snapzu

Sugar tax and prominent labels can lower sugar consumption: study

Prominent nutrition labels and taxes on sugary products can help consumers opt for healthier options, researchers said Wednesday -- a day after the federal government ruled out imposing a tax on sugary drinks.
Read more: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/sugar-tax-and-prominent-labels-can-lower-sugar-consumption-study-1.4442836?source=Snapzu

Apex Legends revenue falls down by 74% in two months

Apex Legends has dropped out of the top 10 highest grossing games on PC for the first time since its launch, according to Nielsen-owned market research firm SuperData. The firm estimates Apex Legends earned $24m in April, down nearly three quarters from its February launch month earnings of $92m. Mighty fall of grace, particularly considering SuperData believes Apex Legends had the strongest start for a free-to-play title of all time.
Read more: https://www.thegamingjunction.com/2019/05/apex-legends-revenue-falls.html?source=Snapzu

Hollywood is quietly using AI to help decide which movies to make

The film world is full of intriguing what-ifs. Will Smith famously turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix. Nicolas Cage was cast as the lead in Tim Burton’s Superman Lives, but he only had time to try on the costume before the film was canned. Actors and directors are forever glancing off projects that never get made or that get made by someone else, and fans are left wondering what might have been.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/28/18637135/hollywood-ai-film-decision-script-analysis-data-machine-learning?source=Snapzu

Nearly 25% of consumers feel they have too many online TV subscriptions, study says

There’s no shortage of choices for streaming video services—with Apple, Disney, NBCUniversal and WarnerMedia all planning launches in the coming year. But consumers may already feel they have too many subscriptions. That’s according to Hub Research, which recently released results from its Best Bundle survey of 1,631 U.S. consumers, ages 16 to 74, who watch at least one hour of television per week.
Read more: https://www.fiercevideo.com/video/nearly-25-consumers-feel-they-have-too-many-online-tv-subscriptions-study-says?source=Snapzu

Photographer 'overwhelmed' by eagle photo response

Steve Biro snapped the picture of 'Bruce' the bald eagle at a raptor conservation centre in Canada.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48360559?source=Snapzu

China’s first Mars spacecraft undergoing integration for 2020 launch

China remains on schedule to ready its first independent mission to Mars in time for a short launch window in mid-2020, according to a leading space official. “Mars 2020 mission spacecraft is undergoing integration,” Wang Chi, director of the National Space Science Center (NSSC) in Beijing, told SpaceNews in a rare update on the mission.
Read more: https://spacenews.com/chinas-first-mars-spacecraft-undergoing-integration-for-2020-launch/?source=Snapzu

World's smallest surviving baby born in San Diego

At 8.6 ounces, or 245 grams, the newborn known as Saybie weighed 7 grams less than the world's previous smallest surviving baby.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/world-s-smallest-surviving-baby-born-san-diego-n1011621?source=Snapzu

India becomes lowest-cost producer of solar power - ET EnergyWorld

Further, the costs of setting up solar PV projects were found to have dropped at the fastest pace – 80 per cent – in India between 2010 and 2018.
Read more: https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/renewable/india-becomes-lowest-cost-producer-of-solar-power/69565769?source=Snapzu

How (Not) To Investigate When Cryptocurrency Is Stolen

Coinoimi cried extortion when a user alleged the crypto wallet provider cost him $70,000. Now, it has published a new report by cyber-sleuths CipherBlade. But maybe Google has the answer.
Read more: https://decrypt.co/7241/cipherblade-coiniomi-wallet-cryptocurrency-stolen?source=Snapzu

Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who named quarks, dies at 89

Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel-winning physicist who brought order to the universe by helping discover and classify subatomic particles, has died. He was 89. Gell-Mann died on Friday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His death was confirmed by the Santa Fe Institute, where he held the title of distinguished fellow, and the California Institute of Technology, where he taught for decades. The cause was not disclosed.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/26/murray-gell-mann-nobel-prize-physicist-quarks-dies?source=Snapzu

Fallout Shelter is getting a sequel with PvP – but only in China

A sequel to the popular free-to-play online RPG Fallout Shelter is on its way - but only to mobile users in China, it seems. Trailers and gameplay footage have started to emerge giving us the first proper details about the mysterious new Fallout game you might never get to play.
Read more: https://www.pcgamesn.com/fallout-shelter/online-china-exclusive?source=Snapzu

Microsoft is bringing more games to Steam, says 'We believe you should have choice in where you buy your PC games'

In a big move for its approach to PC gaming, Microsoft has announced that it's planning to bring more Xbox Game Studios games to Steam, freeing them from the confines of the Microsoft Store. That store itself isn't dead and gone—it's part of Microsoft's plans for bringing the Xbox Game Pass subscription service to PC, which it also announced today. But it will no longer be the only way to play those first-party games on PC.
Read more: https://www.pcgamer.com/microsoft-games-on-steam-announced/?source=Snapzu

Domino’s Now Using AI and Cameras to Make 'Perfect' Pizzas

The new DOM Pizza Checker uses a ceiling-mounted camera and artificial intelligence to make sure that every pizza is up to standards.
Read more: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/dominos-pizza-dom-ai-pizza-checker,news-30182.html?source=Snapzu

Even after mobile and console excursions, Blizzard boss says “we are PC”

Blizzard promises it won't go mobile-only any time soon
Read more: https://www.pcgamesn.com/blizzard-pc-games?source=Snapzu

Motorola announces the Moto Z4 with a 48MP camera, a headphone jack, and more

After various leaks, Motorola today finally announced its Moto Z4 handset. Indeed, there are no surprises left with the device. It's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 chipset, a 2GHz octa-core SoC. Motorola opted for a single-lens camera this time around, which means you lose features like Selective Black & White and Selective Focus. It does have a 48-megapixel sensor though, which uses quad pixel technology. In other words, it combines four pixels into one for better low-light photography, so you'll end up with a 12-megapixel image.
Read more: https://www.neowin.net/news/motorola-announces-the-moto-z4-with-a-48mp-camera-a-headphone-jack-and-more/?source=Snapzu

Connecticut House passes bill mandating education of human-induced climate change

The Connecticut House on Tuesday passed a bill to make Connecticut the first state to mandate the teaching of human-induced climate change.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/445929-connecticut-house-passes-bill-mandating-education-of-human-induced?source=Snapzu

Alex Trebek shares 'mind-boggling' pancreatic cancer update

"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek says his doctors say he's in "near remission" of advanced pancreatic cancer and his response to the treatment is "kind of mind-boggling."
Read more: http://www.startribune.com/alex-trebek-shares-mind-boggling-pancreatic-cancer-update/510557082/?source=Snapzu

Poland has filed a complaint against the European Union’s copyright directive

The directive was approved in April, and goes into force in June
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/25/18639963/poland-european-union-copyright-directive-filed-complaint-court-of-justice?source=Snapzu

Cable companies might have a secret weapon to deal with cord-cutting

Cable companies like Altice USA Inc. are starting to gravitate toward a business move that might — might — help them staunch the mounting losses on the cable side of their business. The solution? Offering cut-rate cellphone service, which no one wants to be without, and try to use it to retain customers who’d otherwise dump a cable company altogether.
Read more: https://bgr.com/2019/05/28/cord-cutting-options-2019-cell-phone-service/?source=Snapzu

E-cigarette use, flavorings may increase heart disease risk, study finds

E-cigarette flavorings damage human blood vessel cells grown in the lab even in the absence of nicotine, Stanford researchers and their colleagues found. Cinnamon and menthol flavors were particularly harmful.
Read more: http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/05/e-cigarette-use-and-flavorings-may-increase-heart-disease-risk.html?linkId=68170148?source=Snapzu

No chill: Google just banned marijuana delivery apps from the Play Store

So much for being the chiller of the two mobile platforms: Google just changed its content policy for the Google Play Store such that all apps...
Read more: https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/29/no-chill-google-just-banned-marijuana-delivery-apps-from-the-play-store/?source=Snapzu

Canadian lawmakers fume after Facebook's Zuckerberg snubs invitation

It was the second time in six months Zuckerberg and Facebook’s Chief Operating Office Sheryl Sandberg have failed to show up when invited to address a committee of international lawmakers investigating disinformation, privacy and how to protect democracy. Zuckerberg and Sandberg will be served with an formal summons should they “decide to come to Canada to go fishing,” said Canada’s Charlie Angus, a parliamentarian for the left-leaning New Democratic Party. “It’s not good enough for them to blow us off.”
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-privacy/canadian-lawmakers-fume-after-facebooks-zuckerberg-snubs-invitation-idUSKCN1SY208?source=Snapzu

DIY Facial Recognition for Porn Is a Dystopian Disaster

Someone posting on Chinese social network Weibo claims to have used facial recognition to cross-reference women’s photos on social media with faces pulled from videos on adult platforms like Pornhub. In a Monday post on Weibo, the user, who says he's based in Germany, claimed to have “successfully identified more than 100,000 young ladies” in the adult industry “on a global scale.”
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kxny7/diy-facial-recognition-for-porn-weibo?source=Snapzu

Your Kids Think You’re Addicted to Your Phone

The kids are all right. But the parents? Since 2016, adults have grown much more concerned about the time they spend on mobile devices even as their teenage children have grown far less worried about their own use, according to a new report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit children’s advocacy and media ratings organization.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/technology/cell-phone-usage.html?partner=IFTTT?source=Snapzu

NYC subway riders will be able to swipe in with Apple Pay starting Friday

If you frequent the New York City subway’s 4, 5, 6 line, you’ve probably seen the new terminals at a variety of stations like Union Square and Grand Central. Located between turnstiles, they’ve all been sporting a curious “Test Phase/Coming Soon” screen. That finally changes this week.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/29/nyc-subway-riders-will-be-able-to-swipe-in-with-apple-pay-starting-friday/?source=Snapzu

Chrome to limit full ad blocking extensions to enterprise users - 9to5Google

In a response to negative feedback, Google shared that Chrome's current ad blocking capabilities for extensions will soon be restricted to enterprise users.
Read more: https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterprise-manifest-v3/?source=Snapzu

US and Japan to Cooperate on Return to the Moon

The governments of the United States and Japan have agreed to further cooperation in space which could include flying Japanese astronauts to the moon. At a joint press conference in Tokyo May 27 with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, President Donald Trump mentioned cooperation in space exploration as one outcome of their meetings during the president’s visit to the country.
Read more: https://www.space.com/us-japan-cooperation-moon-return.html?source=Snapzu

Hundreds marry in Taiwan on Asia's first day of same-sex marriage

Island becomes first Asian nation to pass law but some newlyweds still fear anonymity necessary
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/taiwan-same-sex-marriage-legalised-lgbt-couples-marry-taipei-a8928416.html?source=Snapzu

The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia

For a while, the residents of Manitoba Colony thought demons were raping the town's women. There was no other way of explaining how a woman could wake up with blood and semen stains smeared across her sheets and no memory of the previous night.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w7gqj/the-ghost-rapes-of-bolivia-000300-v20n8?source=Snapzu

Iceland to become first European country to ban circumcision

Religious leaders have reacted with outrage to a bill proposed by MPs in Iceland that would criminalise male circumcision. The bill proposes a six-year prison term for anyone found guilty of “removing sexual organs in whole or in part”. Salmann Tamimi, president of the Muslim Association of Iceland, described the proposal as an “attack on religion”.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/iceland-male-circumcision-ban-religious-leaders-outrage-mp-bill-proposed-a8217696.html?utm_source=reddit.com?source=Snapzu

18 Earth-size planets found in our galaxy—all hiding in plain sight

And a hundred more small worlds may be awaiting discovery, astronomers predict, thanks to a new method for combing through NASA data.
Read more: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/05/18-earth-size-planets-found-hiding-in-plain-sight/?source=Snapzu

Microsoft hints at new modern Windows OS with ‘invisible’ background updates

Windows might be getting more like Chrome OS
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18643857/microsoft-windows-lite-modern-operating-system-computex-2019-hints?source=Snapzu

Nine People Arrested and 50 Kids Rescued After Probe into an International Pedophile Ring

Nine people have been arrested in Thailand, Australia and the U.S. and 50 children were rescued after an investigation into an international paedophile ring.
Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/nine-people-arrested-50-kids-153313326.html?source=Snapzu

Amash gets standing ovation at first town hall after calling for Trump's impeachment

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) received a standing ovation Tuesday evening at his first public event since becoming the first Republican to call for President Trump's impeachment. 
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/445862-amash-gets-standing-ovation-at-first-town-hall-after-calling-for-trumps?source=Snapzu

Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior In a ‘Risk’ Database

The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, health workers, and more.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzdp5v/police-in-canada-are-tracking-peoples-negative-behavior-in-a-risk-database?source=Snapzu

China ready to Hit Back at U.S. with Rare Earths

China is ready to use rare earths to strike back in a trade war with the United States
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-rareearth/china-ready-to-hit-back-at-u-s-with-rare-earths-newspapers-idUSKCN1SZ07V?source=Snapzu

Teenagers Define Themselves Mostly In Terms Of Their Positive Traits; Adults More In Terms Of Their Social Roles

This is the Twenty Statements Test and it’s designed to assess how we see ourselves – our “self-concept”. For their new paper in the journal Memory, a team at the University of Reading, led by Emily Hards, gave this test to 822 teenagers (aged 13-18) from three schools in England, with the additional instruction “not to think too much about the responses and not to worry about the order/importance of the statements”.
Read more: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/05/28/teenagers-define-themselves-mostly-in-terms-of-their-traits-adults-more-in-terms-of-their-social-roles/?source=Snapzu

MacKenzie Bezos, worth nearly $37 billion, will give half her fortune to charity

MacKenzie Bezos has promised to give at least half of her fortune to charity, just months after finalizing her divorce from the world's richest man.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/business/mackenzie-bezos-giving-pledge/index.html?source=Snapzu

Dayton Stuck With $650,000 Bill for KKK Rally That Drew 9 People

After Dayton, Ohio became the site of a peaceful protest against a very small Ku Klux Klan rally on Saturday, Mayor Nan Whaley is proud of the way her community came together. There’s only one problem: paying the massive bill required to keep protestors, and KKK demonstrators, safe.
Read more: http://time.com/5596284/dayton-mayor-kkk-rally-cost/?source=Snapzu

'Blatant Attempt to Politicize the Science': Trump Reportedly Moving to End Long-Term Studies of Climate Crisis

In what environmental experts warned could be President Donald Trump's most dangerous assault on science yet, the White House is reportedly moving to end long-term assessments of the impacts of the climate crisis while pushing a polluter-friendly agenda that is making the planetary emergency worse.
Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/28/while-hastening-climate-apocalypse-big-oil-agenda-trump-reportedly-moving-end-long?source=Snapzu

The Galaxy Fold gets delayed again, now possibly coming out in July

Yet another delay for the Samsung Galaxy Fold. It looks as if the Galaxy Fold won't launch in June, but the release date may be announced by the end of next month. According to a Samsung Electronics official...
Read more: https://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-fold-looks-have-been-delayed-yet-again?source=Snapzu

Switch's Cadence Of Hyrule Releasing This Week, According To Leak

The next Zelda game, officially titled Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring the Legend of Zelda, will seemingly launch this week for Nintendo Switch. On the surface, Nintendo of America's website simply states the game will be released this "spring," but inspecting the site's source code reveals a line that reads, "Release date: May 30, 2019."
Read more: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/switchs-cadence-of-hyrule-releasing-this-week-acco/1100-6467182/?utm_source=reddit.com?source=Snapzu