Three Vice employees fired amid probe into sexual harassment
Conduct included “verbal and sexual harassment”
Growing private sector use of facial scanners worries privacy advocates
“Biometric surveillance creep is going on in both the government and the private sector”
Tesla switches on giant battery to shore up Australia’s grid
“We think that’s what’s really going to accelerate the uptake of energy storage in Australia”
Kim Jong Nam had nerve agent antidote in bag, Malaysian court told
The vials contained atropine, an antidote for poisons such as VX and insecticides
Smartphone Addiction Alters Brain Chemistry In Young People For The Worse
46 percent of Americans claim that they couldn’t live without their smartphones
DOD Inspector General Opens Probe Into Alleged Retaliation By Obama Holdover
High-ranking official accused of retaliating against whistleblower
Kate Steinle’s Last Words As She Died Were “Help Me, Dad”
She died in her father’s arms
BUCHANAN: Little Rocket Man’s Risky Game
Kim playing highest stakes poker in world
Islamic Extremists Urge Lone Wolves in Europe, Australia and the U.S. to ‘Burn Children With Oil’
Breitbart | Calls by an Islamic State-linked group for so-called lone wolves to murder Western children are going viral in Islamic fundamentalist chat rooms.
FBI account of Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting released by watchdog group
Fox News | The account appears to show officials were more concerned about the leak than the meeting itself.
Robots could replace nearly a third of the U.S. workforce by 2030
Washington Post | Over the next 13 years, the rising tide of automation will force as many as 70 million workers in the United States to find another way to make money.
The future? Intelligent robot politician aiming to stand in 2020
Daily Star | AN AI programme is attempting to become the first ever virtual politician in the world.
Giant oil field discovered in China with over billion tons of reserves
RT | A new oil deposit holding more than a billion tons of crude has been found in China, reports the official Xinhua News agency.
Russia won’t be surprised by war in North Korea, it’s been preparing for it – Security Council head
RT | A war breaking out on the Korean Peninsula is one of the scenarios considered by the Russian military.
UK’s Top Fund Manager: “So Many Lights Flashing Red, I’m Losing Count”
Zero Hedge | “The funds I manage are positioned to exploit this opportunity and I am utterly convinced it will pay off when the bubble bursts — which I believe it inevitably will.”