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The Verge
Facebook is working on opening up its Safety Check feature to users, reports VentureBeat. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Rome, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the social giant is building on the feature to allow users to activate it themselves during emergencies. Though it’s not clear when the update will roll out, it should certainly help to address criticism the company has received regarding the way it has deployed Safety Check in the past.
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Government Executive
There are seemingly endless opportunities to waste our time in search of improved productivity, increased creativity and higher quality in our personal and working lives. The buffet of apps for our devices and ubiquitous articles offering tips to help us conquer our personal drift toward entropy are everywhere. It feels as if everyone is looking for help and no one is finding what they need.
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Governing
For years, Denver Water, like many other drinking water utilities, would refer its customers concerned about the lead content in their water to state-approved labs that could collect and analyze samples from the homeowners’ faucets. This summer, Denver Water made the process much easier: Now if a resident is concerned, the agency will send out a testing kit, analyze the water in its own labs and report the results back to the customer — all for free. More than 100 homeowners used the new service in its first month.
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Route Fifty
After cyberattacks that compromised voter registration computer systems in Arizona and Illinois this summer, the FBI issued an alert bulletin earlier this month warning that states should take extra precautions to safeguard election databases.
First reported Monday by Yahoo News, the leaked document is dated Aug. 18.
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Government Technology
Basketball was pretty lame when it started out. Half of the reason was the rules — players used a soccer ball, which didn’t bounce well, and they weren’t allowed to dribble. It was sort of like ultimate Frisbee, except instead of enjoying the splendor of nature, they played in a big room that smelled like armpits. Then, a bit later, players were allowed to dribble, but they still weren’t allowed to put their hand on the underside of the ball.
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FutureStructure
Though there is still room for further drops in solar prices, it isn’t likely to come from advances in solar technologies. Instead, it will come from decreases in the mass production of panels and the cost associated with installing them. “Once you have a face-to-face conversation with people, it clicks for them that this is a safe investment and what they’ve come to believe, their passing understanding of solar, has some holes in it,” Wilke said. “People think solar doesn’t work here, that it’s not cost-effective here, and that’s absolutely wrong.”
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NBC News
A drug already on the market to treat worm infections and another being tested against liver diseases may also help treat Zika virus infections, researchers reported Monday.
The findings are a rare bit of good news about Zika, which has caused epidemics across Latin America and the Caribbean, and smaller outbreaks in Florida, the Pacific and southeast Asia.
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NextGov
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said his agency is preparing for a renewed conversation on encryption by collecting information regarding how “widespread default encryption” has affected law enforcement at the federal level.
Comey said default encryption — especially on mobile devices — in the post-Edward Snowden era has fundamentally impacted law enforcement agencies at the local, state and federal levels, providing a near “absolute privacy” that he argued had never occurred before in history.
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Emergency Management
Five years after Tropical Storm Irene saturated the village of Schoharie, New York, frustrated merchants and homeowners fear the 304-year-old community is a "ghost town" recovering at a glacial pace from the floodwaters that devastated homes, businesses and public buildings in the hours and days after the storm hit on Aug. 28, 2011.
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