‘Terrifying’: How a single line of computer code put thousands of innocent Turks in jail | CBC News


‘Terrifying’: How a single line of computer code put thousands of innocent Turks in jail | CBC News
Having the Bylock app on your phone or even knowing someone who did is to become an instant pariah in Turkey, resulting in isolation, shame, a lost livelihood or worse. But people who never even downloaded the app have also been targeted.

January 23, 2018 at 08:49AM
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Facebook Programmers Seriously Just Invented a New Unit of Time


Facebook Programmers Seriously Just Invented a New Unit of Time
While that might sound like the next level of tech hubris — we’re here to disrupt time itself and all that — there’s actually a really good reason why Facebook programmers released the new unit, known as the flick.

January 22, 2018 at 07:35PM
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