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Police body cameras don’t tell the whole story. This experiment shows it.

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To explore these effects, The Verge provided clips from a recent incident of police violence to Broderick Turner, a researcher at Virginia Tech who authored a study on body cameras and intent. And for a broader look at the ways video footage can manipulate our assessment of police violence, read this piece by our colleague Nicole Wetsman.

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Is Google finally managing its messaging mess?

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As Nicole Wetsman writes, you’re going to need to learn yet more: The challenge is, Quinn’s research shows that most people don’t have a good sense of the difference between drug approval and emergency authorization. You’ve already learned a lot of medical terminology in the past couple months.

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The big takeaways from Samsung’s Unpacked announcements

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Where you’d normally have to grab your phone to complete the process, or painstakingly use a TV remote to fill out your credentials, the new addition lets you authorize the payment and automatically set up a subscription by linking your Google account from Android TV with just a few clicks. ? More from The Verge. ?

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What Facebook doesn’t understand about the Facebook walkout

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One of the rumors claimed authorities had somehow blocked protesters from communicating from their smartphones in order to crack down on the unrest. Authorities and law enforcement officials are helping to push a narrative that outside groups were responsible for inciting violent confrontations at the protests over the weekend.

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Turning off political ads on Facebook could have unpredictable consequences

The Verge

That changes the way the incident is interpreted,” this author writes. Nicole Wetsman / The Verge ). “Body cameras show a scene from the perspective of the officer, and the image on the screen is focused on the suspect. But they’ve offered few details about how.