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Today’s links:

• Google Maps is turning 15! Celebrate with a new look and featureswww.blog.google #

• Kirk Douglas, Hollywood legend and star of Spartacus, dies aged 103www.theguardian.com #

• IMDb’s free streaming service is adding major TV showswww.slashgear.com #

• Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sells off another $1.6B in stock; he’s sold $3.4B over the past weekwww.geekwire.com #

• Looks like Elon Musk might take SpaceX’s Starlink public with an IPOwww.cnbc.com #

• European parliament says it will not use facial recognition tech - I wonder what the consequences of having some large areas of the world using facial recognition extensively and other large areas not using it will be, it’s a pretty massive difference so it follows that there will be some new dynamics that will arisewww.theguardian.com #

• Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open - Really well written writeup of one person’s mini quest to figure out what data a Wacom tablet is tracking and sending back to head office, I reckon that softwares that are doing this should at the very least offer a web interface that shows clearly what data is being sent, of course it’s also good to know how to verify what’s actually being sent over the wirerobertheaton.com #

• Hosting Your Static Website For Freecodebushi.com #

• What are your favorite portfolio sites for devs?dev.to #