Pandemic ‘could wipe out 900 million people,’ experts warn
London Metro | A chilling simulation has revealed just how easily a new pathogen could wipe out a huge slice of the world’s population – up to 900 million people.
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‘Every necessary precaution’: Fear of Ebola spreading places Denver hospital on lockdown
RT | A possible Ebola infection has prompted Denver Health Medical Center to go into temporary lockdown, as medical staff in hazmat suits handled a patient who recently returned from a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Jeff Bezos hails the success of Alexa as record profits put Amazon on the verge of becoming the first TRILLION dollar company
Daily Mail | While top tech rival Facebook faces the aftermath of the biggest loss in Wall Street history, shares of Amazon marched higher Thursday after it bested analysts’ expectations.
Boston Dynamics To Produce 1,000 Robot Dogs Per Year By Mid-2019
Zero Hedge | The robot uprising is right on schedule.
Irony: Amazon’s Facial Recognition Says 28 Members Of Congress Are Criminals
The Daily Sheeple | Oh, the irony…Amazon’s new facial recognition software identified 28 members of Congress as criminals.
Radioactive Cesium-137 From Fukushima Found In California Wine
Zero Hedge | “We can measure some radioactive level that is much higher than the usual level.”
Could rogue AIs turn self driving cars into killer robots? Experts warns first fatal attacks will ‘become reality in the next few years’
Daily Mail | AIs that can work out how to hack self driving cars and other vehicles to turn them into killers are coming – and sooner than many people think, a leading expert has warned.
A string of earthquakes off the west coast of the US are detected miles from the Cascadia fault, where scientists warn ‘the Big One’ could be poised to hit at any time
Daily Mail | A series of earthquakes have shaken a region of ocean off the west coast of the US.
Explosion In Sex Dolls Threatens Japanese Race With “Extinction”
Zero Hedge | As Japanese birth rates plummet amid a generational fertility crisis, experts have fingered an explosion in sex dolls as an emerging threat.
By 2050 humans will attend own funerals as robots – futurologist
RT | On top of planning your pension and future financial security, now’s the time to put money aside for downloading your brain data, according to a leading futurologist who says we’ll be attending our own funerals as robots by 2050.
Experts warn humanity now consumes a year’s worth of global resources in just 212 days
Daily Mail | Humans are gobbling up Earth’s resources at record-breaking rates, worrying new estimates show.
STUDY: GOP pages suffer 26.8% larger decline than Dems after Facebook algorithm change
American Mirror | A study released today by The Western Journal does nothing to ease concerns that social media giant Facebook is silencing conservative voices.
All Cultures Are Equal: Aztec Child Sacrifice Site Found At Center Of Mexico City
Information Liberation | Cortes was right.
Twitter Caught Censoring Conservative Journalists With Site-Wide Shadowbans
Zero Hedge | Which prevents anyone not already following them from viewing their posts.
Elon Musk and Google DeepMind lead thousands of tech experts in signing pledge against killer robots
Daily Mail | ‘The decision to take a life should never be delegated to a machine’