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San Francisco to open tent ‘sobering’ center for meth users

Health

A center for people experiencing methamphetamine-induced psychosis will open in San Francisco to help them get sober in a safe placeBy Associated PressFebruary 6, 2020, 9:45 PM3 min readSAN FRANCISCO -- A center for people experiencing methamphetamine-induced psychosis will open in San Francisco to help them get sober in a safe place, the latest effort to address the city's rising drug overdoses and rampant street drug use. The center, believed to be the first in the U.S. specifically for people who are high on methamphetamine, will open late this spring on a city-owned parking lot in the Tenderloin neighborhood, where streets are littered with syringes and addicts congregate, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday. Mayor London Breed said the 24-hour center will get high p...

Tech Tent: Facebook’s deepfake dilemma

Technology

In a video on Instagram this week, Mark Zuckerberg confessed to controlling the stolen data of billions of people and said he owed it all to an organisation called Spectre. The video was of course faked, and on this week's Tech Tent we examine the dilemma it posed for Instagram's owner Facebook. Stream the latest Tech Tent podcast on BBC SoundsA few weeks ago, the social media giant came under fire for allowing a doctored video of the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remain up. So how would it react when the faked video of its founder emerged?The video featured the real Mark Zuckerberg, but the voice and the words emerging from his mouth were not his. It was the work of two artists, Daniel Howe...

Tech Tent: the technology of pleasure

Technology

When it comes to sex tech, the gadgets that grab the headlines tend to be the sex robots, with their exaggeratedly feminine shapes and artificially intelligent responses to desire.But the market extends beyond these devices, and one British firm is seeking to challenge the stereotype.Stephanie Alys, co-founder of Mystery Vibe, describes her firm's product, the Crescendo vibrator, as a luxury sex toy. With a $ 180 price tag - £139 in the UK - it's certainly not cheap.It's a silicon-encased device which can be bent into a number of shapes. It can be controlled via a phone app and features wireless charging.It's app-powered, but in this age of fierce debate about data privacy and protection, is this most personal of data for sharing?There is no log-in to the Mystery Vibe app and no data is co...