Little Girl Gets An Amazing Purple And Pink 3D-Printed Arm

ZappRx Raises $5.6 Million In Series A Funding To Expand The CompanyAnother day, another life changed thanks to ubiquitous 3D printing. This time makers made a little girl named Faith a Flamingo-like pink and purple arm that lets her grasp objects when she flexes. The arm, which is almost entirely 3D-printed except for some straps and screws, lets her pick up objects, play and even ride a bike.
I’ve been talking about these things for a while and the organization that makes them available, Enabling The Future, is doing some amazing work spreading the word about this technology. These things are important because good prosthetics have been traditionally too expensive and uncomfortable for kids.
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Now that they can be easily printed on a home printer, however, kids can receive upgraded arms as they grow. The price makes them almost recyclable, and they are unique and fun in a way that regular prostheses aren’t. It’s an amazing thing to see these things change a child’s life and I’m glad we’re all getting to see it.
You can check out Tony Stark handing over an Iron Man arm over here.

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The Guardian Publishes A Pretty Amazing Whisper “Clarification”

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The Guardian, the British newspaper that published a series of articles last fall (starting with this one) about anonymous social media app Whisper, issued a “clarification” today about those stories.
The Guardian post gets pretty nitpicky and specific, to the extent that it’s tough to parse if (like me) you haven’t read those stories recently. But here’s the gist: The Guardian is walking back some of its reporting, and it took down an opinion piece with the headline “Think you can Whisper privately? Think again.”
The juiciest part of The Guardian’s stories was the suggestion that Whisper tracks users’ locations even if they opt out of location tracking, and that it was sharing that information with the US Department of Defense.
Whisper, however, denied that it was tracking users after they opted out, aside from using IP addresses to establish a very rough location. And while it acknowledged that it was working with the military “to lower suicide rates,” it said it was not sharing any personally identifiable information.
Here’s what The Guardian says now:
We reported that IP addresses can only provide an approximate indication of a person’s whereabouts, not usually more accurate than their country, state or city. We are happy to clarify that this data (which all internet companies receive) is a very rough and unreliable indicator of location. We are also happy to make clear that the public cannot ascertain the identity or location of a Whisper user unless the user publicly discloses this information, that the information Whisper shared with the US Department of Defense’s Suicide Prevention Office did not include personal data, and that Whisper did not store data outside the United States. Whisper’s terms for sharing information proactively with law enforcement authorities where there is a danger of death or serious injury is both lawful and industry standard.
What does all of that mean? It seems that even though the Guardian was careful to call this a clarification, not a correction (though it’s published in the “corrections and clarifications” section), and even though it claims to be “happy” to report these facts, its main accusation against Whisper has been largely defanged. After all, it’s now admitting that no personal information was shared with the government, and that the data Whisper does receive is pretty much standard for the industry.
To be clear, Whisper has said that if you opt into its location services, it can track your location (duh) “to within 500 meters,” but the location data can’t be tied to individual users.
Oh, and the Guardian also said it could “confirm” that Whisper had already created an updated version of its terms of service and privacy policy before it “became aware that the Guardian was intending to write about it.” So again, whether you call it a correction or not, what seemed fairly damning before, now looks pretty innocuous.
Whisper CEO Michael Heyward (pictured above) sent me the following statement via email:
We appreciate the Guardian issuing the corrections and setting the record straight. For us this isn’t about vindication. It is vital that our users and partners know that Whisper is and always has been totally committed to the privacy of everyone who uses our product.

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