If You Value Your Privacy, Never Bring An Amazon Alexa Device Into Your Home
Mac Slavo | Privacy advocates are sounding alarms about Amazon’s Alexa device.
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Japan’s Medical Freedom: No Vaccine Mandates And Healthier Children
Mac Slavo | As politicians in the United States do their best to remove Americans’ freedom of choice when it comes to vaccines, Japan has medical freedom.
Report: Green New Deal Would Have ‘No Effect’ on Climate
Free Beacon | The Green New Deal would have essentially no effect on global warming, a new report argues, while imposing enormous economic and social costs.
UK will reportedly allow Huawei to build out parts of its 5G networks
CNBC | The U.K. government will reportedly allow Huawei to build out parts of its 5G wireless networks, defying U.S. demands for a blanket ban on the Chinese tech giant.
Fifty Years Of Apocalyptic Global Warming Predictions And Why People Believe Them
Peter Baggins | In contrast to the dire Earth Day predictions of 1970, climate-related deaths have been declining strongly for 70 years.
Elon Musk claims Neuralink technology that will connect the human brain with computers is ‘coming soon’
Daily Mail | Elon Musk believes humans must link up with machines in order to fight the inevitable onslaught of artificial intelligence.
Large Earthquakes Cause Tall Buildings In Mexico City And Manila To Sway Back And Forth
Michael Snyder | We live at a time of great change, and many believe that the Earth changes that we have seen so far are just the beginning…
Watch: Wolf Pack Of Robot Dogs Pulls Box Truck Across Parking Lot
Zero Hedge | Robotics company Boston Dynamics published a stunning video Tuesday of ten SpotMini robots pulling a Freightliner box truck across a parking lot, presumably at their headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Scientists create programmable circuits in HUMAN CELLS, in gene-editing breakthrough they claim could lead to powerful ‘biocomputers’
Daily Mail | Researchers say they’ve successfully created a more powerful computer-like human cell that could eventually be used to help monitor one’s health or even fight against cancer and other illnesses.
Facebook harvested the email addresses of 1.5 million users then ‘unintentionally’ uploaded them without consent
Daily Mail | Company said 1.5 million new users since May 2016 may have been affected.
Facebook ‘gave access to user data to friends of Mark Zuckerberg and favored companies who spent big on advertising’, leaked documents reveal
Daily Mail | Some 4,000 pages of highly sensitive Facebook internal documents, largely spanning 2011 to 2015, were leaked to a British journalist who shared them with several outlets, according to NBC News.
Twitter Drops SPLC Following Controversy. But What About Facebook And Google?
The Daily Caller | Twitter distanced itself from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) following reports suggesting that the group scams liberal donors out of money.
Internet age really DOES mean we get bored more easily and have shorter attention spans, study finds
Daily Mail | The age of the smartphone has led to a generation of people with shorter attention spans as ‘information overload’ makes us get bored more quickly, experts say.
Austria Wants To Ban Online Anonymity, And Urges The World To Follow In Its Footsteps
Zero Hedge | Isn’t the anonymous denigration and humiliation of others a founding principle of the internet, and part of what makes it great?
Europe backs copyright overhaul that threatens to hit YouTube and Facebook hard
CNBC | EU countries approved sweeping reforms to the bloc’s copyright laws on Monday, marking a symbolic end to a political battle that has pitted tech giants against high-profile media figures.