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Apple’s Invasion feels like the first chapter of a sci-fi epic

The Verge

There are hints here and there — a haunting artificial voice, a mysterious alien-killing weapon, a kid with seizures that may or may not show the future — but the biggest reveal of all doesn’t even happen until the very last shot in the final episode. The first season of Invasion on Apple TV Plus feels a little incomplete. Image: Apple.

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Go read this report on an app that turns intelligence gathering into gig work

The Verge

That might not immediately send up the biggest red flags, but Premise was also apparently paying contributors in Afghanistan to identify and photograph Shiite mosques in the city of Kabul, which is hard to not see as a little suspicious.

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Fab Lab and Do-It-Yourself Infrastructure Building

Tech Soup

Over the past 18 months or so, the antennas have been appearing around Jalalabad , a former Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. It wasn't created by a government either, but it could become the new symbol of infrastructure rebuilding in Afghanistan and around the world. These may not be the most sophisticated antennas, but they work.

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Apple’s latest sci-fi drama Invasion starts out too dang slow

The Verge

Instead, those episodes oh-so-slowly introduce you to characters and stories without giving much of a hint as to how it all connects aside from the teaseist of teases. Across the first three hours, there are only hints of alien elements. Three hours in, and I’m still not even sure what it’s about.

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The most popular posts on Facebook are plagiarized

The Verge

There’s something else in the data that bothers me — something that hints at some of the darker forces in the ecosystem. You’ll find it on the “Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans” page and, more logically, the Vietnam Veterans page. Over the long term, though, they would seem to provide a motivated adversary with a broad attack surface.

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