In 2016, Google announced that it was renaming its small Google Ideas unit to “Jigsaw,” giving the new unit a much broader, “wildly ambitious” mandate: to tackle “surveillance, extremist indoctrination, and censorship.”
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Garden gnome dispatched to poles, equator, elsewhere, to measure gravitational variation
Kern Precision Scales has dispatched a garden gnome around the world to be weighed, in order to test the hypothesis that things weigh less at the equator than they do at the poles, due to the “little bit potato shaped” imperfections in the Earth’s sphericalness. They’ve reported that their gnome is 0.6% lighter at the equator. This is a pretty awesome stunt.