The Daily Populous

A U.S. judge has dismissed nationwide litigation accusing Facebook of tracking users' internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website.

The plaintiffs claimed that Facebook violated federal and California privacy and wiretapping laws by storing cookies on their browsers that tracked when they visited outside websites containing Facebook "like" buttons.

The case is In re: Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 12-md-02314. »

The world's most detailed scan of the brain's internal wiring has been produced by scientists at Cardiff University.

The MRI machine reveals the fibres which carry all the brain's thought processes.

Doctors hope it will help increase understanding of a range of neurological disorders and could be used instead of invasive biopsies. »

Displaying the same lack of vision that put its entire industry into a state of crisis just over a decade later, in 1989 Sony Music decided to stop making vinyl records, dismissing the format as outdated and cumbersome compared to the sleekness and portability of CDs.

So while we’re still waiting, by and large, for the CD revival, these and other factors have led to an unprecedented resurgence of the vinyl market, which is now big enough that Sony is going to start making LPs again 28 years after declaring the format dead.

Meanwhile, industry directory Vinyl Pressing Plants counts nearly 30 pressing plants small and large in the U.S. as of 2017, up from the 16 NPR reported back in 2015. »

On Oct. 14, 1926, a distinguished citizen of Poland named Leopold Kotnowski came to the White House with a greeting card for the United States’ 150th birthday.

Sahr Conway-Lanz looks through one of the 111 volumes of books signed by 5 million Polish citizens.

“We, the people of Poland, send to you, citizens of the great American union, fraternal greetings [and] . »