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Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked

To help Firefox users have more control of their data on Facebook, we’ve created the Facebook Container Extension.

This extension helps you control more of your web activity from Facebook by isolating your identity into a separate container.

That includes us: Mozilla does not collect data from your use of the Facebook Container extension.

When you install this extension it will delete your Facebook cookies and log you out of Facebook.

Should you click on any Facebook Share buttons on other browser tabs it will load them within the Facebook container.

Also, because you’re logged into Facebook in the container tab, embedded Facebook comments and Like buttons in tabs outside the Facebook container tab will not work.

This prevents Facebook from associating information about your activity on websites outside of Facebook to your Facebook identity. »

The Time a B-52 Landed Without a Tail Fin

Authored by popularmechanics.com

The vertical stabilizer—the tail fin—sheared off in flight, forcing the crew to make a wild emergency landing.

The bomber would fly on autopilot at an altitude of 500 feet and a speed between 280 and 400 knots.

After the plane turned north to run parallel to the Rockies, the instruments recorded "increasing turbulence and heavy gust loads on the tail section." »

Zuckerberg Hits Users with the Hard Truth: You Agreed to This

Authored by vanityfair.com

In its current iteration, Facebook’s Messenger application requests that those who download it give it permission to access incoming and outgoing call and text logs.

But, as users discovered when prompted to download a copy of their personal data before permanently deleting their Facebook accounts, a certain amount of data was covertly siphoned without explicit permissions.

Facebook responded with a blog post laying out the applicable user-agreement terms and denying that Facebook collects call or SMS data surreptitiously. »

Newly-discovered human organ may help explain how cancer spreads

Authored by newscientist.com

A newly discovered network of fluid-filled channels in the human body may be a previously-unknown organ, and it seems to help transport cancer cells around the body.

One team had expected to find that the bile duct is surrounded by a hard, dense wall of tissue.

Theise reckons that every tissue in the body may be surrounded by a network of these channels, which essentially form an organ. »

Researchers charge ahead to develop better batteries

Authored by phys.org

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have developed a high-powered, environmentally safe lithium-sulfur substitute that could drastically lengthen battery life.

"Common lithium-ion batteries only have a certain capacity," said Dr. Kyeongjae "K.J." Cho, professor of materials science and engineering.

"A lithium-sulfur battery is what most of the research community thinks is the next generation of battery," Cho said. »