Brittney Walker

For those rare times that demand a silent start.

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The 10 Most-Read WIRED Stories in July

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Missouri: Marijuana Medicalization Effort Reaches Signature Milestone

Proponents of a Missouri voter initiative effort to legalize and regulate the therapeutic use and distribution of cannabis statewide have gathered over 50,000 signatures over the past several weeks.

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How to Record Calls on Your Smartphone

We look at TapeACall, Google Voice, and other software and hardware options.

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iPhone 8 Leak: How an iOS Developer Discovered Apple's Slip-Up

Inside Apple's big cellphone self-own.

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Game of Thrones Leak Puts Unreleased Script and Other HBO Shows Online

This hack could go way deeper than Game of Thrones

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Missouri: Medicalization Effort Reaches Signature Milestone

Proponents of a Missouri voter initiative effort to legalize and regulate the therapeutic use and distribution of cannabis statewide have gathered over 50,000 signatures over the past several weeks. Advocates must collect a total of 160,000 signatures by May 6, 2018 in six of Missouri’s eight congressional districts in order to qualify the measure for the 2018 electoral ballot.

The initiative permits patients, at the discretion of a physician, to cultivate limited quantities of marijuana or to obtain cannabis and cannabis-infused products from licensed facilities.

The group behind the effort, New Approach Missouri, includes members of both national NORML as well as its state and local affiliates. To date, the signature gathering effort has largely consisted of volunteers.

Proponents sought to place a similar effort on the 2016 ballot. That effort failed after the courts upheld the decision of St. Louis-area election authorities to reject some 2,000 signatures in the state’s second Congressional district.

Marijuana law reform advocates are also presently gathering signatures for voter-initiated efforts in Michigan and Utah. A statewide initiative legalizing the use of medical marijuana in Oklahoma has already qualified for the 2018 electoral ballot.

A Victory Over Some Illegal “Drug Courier Profile” Traffic Stops in Illinois

The high court found that the prosecutor did not have the legal authority to hire his own people to drive up and down the highways, making traffic stops and searching vehicles for drugs.

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A Victory Over Some Illegal “Drug Courier Profile” Traffic Stops in Illinois

The Supreme Court of Illinois recently handed down a decision which found that some of the drug courier profile traffic stops in their state were illegal, and agreed with the lower courts that the drugs confiscated in five cases that had been combined for the court’s consideration, should be suppressed. The case was People v. Ringland, et al.

The criminal defense attorney bringing this legal challenge was NORML Legal Committee (NLC) Life Member Stephen M. Komie from Chicago.

The somewhat unique fact in all five of these cases, which arose in 2012 and 2013, was that the drivers were all stopped and searched by a “special investigator” of the La Salle County prosecutor’s office; not by state or local police. After carefully considering the statute that establishes and defines the powers of state prosecutors, the high court found that the prosecutor did not have the legal authority to hire their own people to drive up and down the highways, making traffic stops and searching vehicles for drugs.

Congratulations to attorney Stephen Komie for ending these illegal traffic stops in Illinois with a creative legal challenge.

'Game of Thrones' Recap Season 7, Episode 3: The Fury That Drives You

Who will you be when the whip is finally in your hand: the woman who gets to wield it, or the one who drops it in the sand?

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Our Favorite Gear This Month, From Cameras to Cookware

Master & Dynamic's dope concrete speaker, e-bikes to drool over, BuzzFeed's new cooking gadget, and more.

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Science Says _13 Reasons Why_ May Be the Public Health Scare People Thought

Google searches for all things suicide spiked in the wake of the Netflix original series premiere, according to new research.

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The Space Junk Problem Is About to Get a Whole Lot Gnarlier

Thousands and thousands of satellites are set to launch before 2025. Things just got real in low Earth orbit.

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The Super Cute Porgs of 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Will Give BB-8 a Run for Its Money

If there's a cuteness race in the world of Star Wars, these puffin-like creatures could take the lead in December.

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Strange, Twisted Fragments of Bullets After They Hit Targets

Garrett Hansen photographs mangled bullets from a local firing range.

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Facebook and Google Policing the Web Will Do More Harm Than Good

Opinion: A new German law could curtail free speech on social media sites.

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Canceling Your Tesla Model 3 Deposit? Don't Count on a Timely Refund

Tesla is taking weeks or months longer than promised to refund Model 3 deposits. Why so long?

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The Man Who Calls His Trolls to Talk It Out

Night Vale Presents’ latest podcast tries to humanize harassers through in-depth conversations

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Trump Wants the EPA Radon Program Cut. So Do Some Scientists

A rising chorus of radiation professionals says the way the US measures radiation risk is all wrong.

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What Google's New Autoplay Experiment Means for the Future of Search

The search giant gives users another reason to try out the competition

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Sunday, 30 July 2017

The Very Best Black Hat Hacks

All the best hacks from the year's biggest security conferences.

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Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics

Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they appear to show how order can arise from nothing.

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Darpa Wants to Build a BS Detector for Science

The Pentagon's blue-sky division asks for help in figuring out what research to believe.

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While You Were Offline: We're Goin' All Mooch, All the Time

Everything's coming up Anthony Scaramucci. Welcome to the White House, rook!

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Let Your iPhone Tell You When to Go to Bed

The Bedtime feature already in your iPhone could be your path to more effective sleep.

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Saturday, 29 July 2017

A $10 Hardware Hack Turns Up Zero Day Vulnerabilities in IoT Devices

Using an SD card reader and some soldering savvy, these hackers rooted out a ton of IoT zero days.

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'Valerian' Would Make a Great Silent Movie

Luc Besson's latest film is the perfect thing to play on mute at a party.

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How Hackers Can Use 'Evil Bubbles' to Destroy Industrial Pumps

One demonstration at the Black Hat conference shows how insidious physical infrastructure hacking could be.

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Space Photos of the Week: Spiral Galaxy’s Got More Twins Than Beyonce

Behold the Orion Nebula's many stars, a gorgeous green aurora, and more dazzling visions of Saturn this week in space.

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The Model 3 Is Out. Now Elon Musk Has Better Things to Do Than Run Tesla

Musk the visionary is ill-suited to the next phase of Tesla's expansion: being a real automaker.

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Google and Facebook Still Reign Over Digital Advertising

It's all about the money, and the money's all about the ads.

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You Might Not Miss Flash, But Videogames Will

When Adobe Flash is discontinued in 2020, it will imperil a creatively significant era of gaming history.

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Turn Your Dead Grandma Into a Tree With This Smart Planter

The Bios Urn and its new automated watering planter let you sprinkle human ashes into saplings that grow into trees.

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Your Own Pacemaker Can Now Testify Against You In Court

Opinion: What happens to privacy when data from our medical devices can lead to criminal charges?

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I Drove a Tesla Model 3. Here’s What You Need to Know

The company delivered the first 30 of its new "affordable" car on Friday.

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Tesla Model 3 Launch: Live Coverage

Today's the day Elon Musk delivers the first new cars off the line.

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NORML Chapters Hope to Bring Marijuana Discussion To Congressional Town Hall Meetings

NORML Chapters across the country are starting to shift their focus from state-level lobbying efforts to Congressional Town Hall meetings for the August recess. In addition to engaging their representatives, activists will be encouraging participants to join the marijuana law reform conversation.

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Friday, 28 July 2017

NORML Chapters Hope to Bring Marijuana Discussion To Congressional Town Hall Meetings

NORML Chapters around the country are currently organizing efforts to engage their representatives on the issue of marijuana law reform during the upcoming congressional recess where members of the House and Senate will host town hall meetings in their districts. In addition to providing unique opportunities for face-to-face interactions with congressional representatives, town hall meetings provide our volunteers the chance to promote NORML’s message of ending the federal prohibition of marijuana to an audience of politically engaged voters.

With the help of Town Hall Project, a nonprofit organization that’s focused on empowering constituents across the country to have face-to-face conversations with their elected representatives, we have identified almost a dozen town hall meetings taking place in cities with strong NORML representation. To take advantage, NORML leadership is focused on mobilizing our supporters to ask specific questions and encourage their representatives to support legislation that will: protect consumers and business in legal marijuana states, expand access to medical marijuana for veterans, stop civil forfeiture and end the federal prohibition of marijuana.

Below is a list of town hall meetings that NORML Chapters will be targeting. We will continue to update the list as new town hall meetings are announced:

Rep. Ruben Kihuen (Democrat, NV-4)
Tuesday Aug 1, 2017 at 09:00 AM
Walnut Community Center
3075 N Walnut Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89115

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (Republican, CA-48)
Tuesday Aug 1, 2017 at 6:30 PM
Aliso Niguel High School Gym
28000 Wolverine Way, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656

Rep. Bradley Byrne (Republican, AL-1)
Thursday August 3 2017 at 3:00 PM
Gulf Shores City Hall
1905 W 1st St, Gulf Shores, AL 36542

Rep. Steve Cohen (Democrat, TN-9)
Saturday August 5, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Memphis College of Art
1930 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN 38104

Rep. Will Hurd (Republican, TX-23)
Sunday August 6, 2017 at 1:00 PM
Horizon City Dairy Queen
800 N Zaragoza Rd, El Paso, TX 79907

Rep. G.K. Butterfield (Democrat, NC-1)
Tuesday August 8, 2017 at 6:00 PM
Bertie High School
716 US-13, Windsor, NC 27983

Rep. Donald Norcross (Democrat, NJ-1)
Wednesday August 9, 2017 at 7:30 PM
Carmen Tilelli Community Center
820 Mercer St, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002

Rep. Adam Smith (Democrat, WA-9)
Saturday August 12, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Foster High School Performing Arts Center
4242 S 144th St, Tukwila, WA 98168

Rep. David Scott (Democrat, GA-13)
Saturday August 19, 2017 at 09:00 AM Â
Mundyâ€™s Mill High School
9652 Fayetteville Rd, Jonesboro, GA 30238

Rep. Trent Franks (Republican, AZ-8)
Tuesday August 22, 2017 at 7:00 AM
The Colonnade
19116 N Colonnade Way, Surprise, AZ 85374

Rep. Ami Bera (Democrat, CA-7)
Tuesday August 29, 2017 at 10:00 AM Â
Folsom Public Library
411 Stafford St, Folsom, CA 95630

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (Republican WI-5)
Saturday September 9, 2017 at 1:00 PM
Elm Grove Village Park
13600 Juneau Blvd, Elm Grove, WI 53122

To support these efforts, NORML has prepared a guide to town hall meetings, as well as a list of questions specific to each representative. If you would like to participate or want a copy of either document, please email chapters@NORML.org.

A GOP Staffer Crowdsourced a Resolution From a Conspiracy Subreddit

An amendment that targets Hillary Clinton and James Comey has its roots in r/The_Donald, a notoriously conspiracy-minded subreddit.

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Photo of the Week: All These Tourists Got in the French Riviera Was a Giant Fire

More than 12,000 people evacuated Bormes-les-Mimosas, France when a wildfire broke out.

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How Netflix DDoS’d Itself To Help Protect the Entire Internet

Taking one for the stream.

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Altspace, VR's First Major Casualty, Was One of Its Smartest Startups

Altspace was one of VR's first social platforms—and was also its most forward-thinking.

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Hiking and Camping Gear From REI, Danner, Big Agnes, and Osprey

With this lightweight yet rugged gear, you can hit the backwoods without breaking your back.

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The Mind-Boggling Physics of a Standing Double Back Flip

Aaron Cook is basically a superhero.

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A Search for Anti-Aging Secrets Starts With the Blood of 600 Estonians

BioAge is trying to solve the problem of aging using advanced machine learning, a horde of lab mice, and the blood of 600 especially long-lived Estonians.

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Breville Oracle Touch Review: It's Expensive, But It Makes a Damn Good Espresso

Breville's new espresso machine costs as much as a used car. But it's totally worth it.

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Origin of a Feces: A Not-So-Brief History of 'The Emoji Movie''s Biggest Star

What can brown do for you?

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The Tesla Model 3 Is More Than an Electric Car―It’s a Landmark in Automotive History

It's Model 3 delivery day.

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What Gene-Swapping Cheese Microbes Could Say About Antibiotic Resistance

The search for lively bacterial communities led Rachel Dutton, a microbiologist at UC San Diego, to cave-aged cheese wheels.

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Thursday, 27 July 2017

Tesla's Model 3 Is Here: How to Watch the Big Event

The long-awaited affordable electric car is finally here, for a lucky few.

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The 'Cloak & Dagger' Attack That Bedeviled Android For Months

Not all Android attacks come from firmware mistakes.

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Scientists Crispr the First Human Embryos in the US (Maybe)

The research was conducted by Shoukhrat Mitalipov, the same guy who first cloned embryonic stem cells in humans. And came up with three-parent in-vitro fertilization.