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New NASA Official Took Her Oath of Office on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’
When Dr. Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre last week, she didn’t take her oath of office on the Bible or the U.S. Constitution, but rather on a tome revered by space enthusiasts everywhere: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot.
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Oath Will Pay $5 Million To Settle Charges Of Violating Children’s Privacy
Oath, the Verizon subsidiary born of the fusion of AOL and Yahoo, has agreed to pay $7 million to settle charges that it violated children privacy. It is the largest penalization ever to come from enforcement of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), according to the New York attorney general’s office.
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Squirrel Is A New App That’s Just Like Slack But Made By Yahoo, And We’ll Leave It At That
Well this is odd. It looks like Yahoo is releasing a new messaging app. The invite-only service is called Squirrel, as Android Police reports, and honestly it looks a lot like Slack, but with a focus on families instead of office productivity. It might turn out to be a huge hit, just a new, creepy…
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Tumblr Founder David Karp Steps Down
After 11 years, Tumblr’s founder and public face David Karp announced his resignation from the company in a staff email today.