‘This did not happen’: Tim Cook calls for Bloomberg to retract story claiming Apple servers contained Chinese spy chips
Daily Mail | Apple and Amazon denied claims their products contained Chinese spy chips.
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Elon Musk says first tunnel is almost done, opens Dec 10: Tweet
Reuters | Elon Musk’s Boring Co is nearing completion on the first tunnel for its high-speed transit system.
Putin Announces New Hypersonic Weapon Will Be Deployed In “Months”
Zero Hedge | “We are improving our attack systems in response to the construction of a missile defense system by the United States.”
Biohackers Are Implanting Everything From Magnets to Sex Toys
Bloomberg | Patrick Kramer sticks a needle into a customer’s hand and injects a microchip the size of a grain of rice under the skin.
Stephen Hawking: Time Travel More Likely Than The Existence Of God
Forbes.com | “There is no time for a creator to have existed in.”
Hundreds of Amazon employees back anonymous letter to Jeff Bezos demanding the firm stop selling its controversial facial recognition tech to police
Daily Mail | Letter demands that Amazon stop selling its ‘Rekognition’ technology to cops.
China reveals plan to launch an ‘artificial moon’ to light up city skies in 2020
Daily Mail | Officials in China revealed the plan to launch an ‘illumination satellite’ in 2020.
Would you let Facebook put a camera on top of your TV?
Daily Mail | ‘Ripley’ project revealed as firms admits its cameras DO collect data about users to target ads.
The Staggering Numbers Behind America’s Opioid Epidemic
Zero Hedge | The hard truth is that, unless bold action is taken, the opioid epidemic is projected to claim nearly 500,000 lives over the next decade.
Supreme Court agrees to hear a case that could determine whether Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies can censor their users
CNBC | The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could determine whether users can challenge social media companies on free speech grounds.
Hawking’s Final Prediction: Race Of Engineered Superhumans Will Conquer The World
Zero Hedge | Physicist Stephen Hawking’s final prediction before his death seven months ago was that the human race will diverge – with wealthy, genetically engineered “superhumans” dominating the “unimproved.”
Google CEO on censored search app in China: We could serve ‘well over 99 percent of queries’
CNBC | Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed the company’s internal project to build a censored search app for the Chinese market.
Gore: Jet Stream ‘Getting Loopier and Wavier,’ So ‘We Have a Global Emergency’
PJ Media | “They’re going to get a lot worse still until we stop using the Earth’s atmosphere as an open sewer.”
Facebook is dead to people under 30
Daily Mail | Fails to make most popular 50 brands voted for by UK’s under 30s.
US Marines reveal plans for plasma crowd control weapon
Daily Mail | It can shout at people from 3,000 feet away – then be ‘turned up’ to temporarily blind and even burn them.