Archive for the 'Economy' Category
We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe
October 21st, 2019Via: Scientific American: The telecommunications industry and their experts have accused many scientists who have researched the effects of cell phone radiation of “fear mongering” over the advent of wireless technology’s 5G. Since much of our research is publicly-funded, we believe it is our ethical responsibility to inform the public about what the peer-reviewed scientific […]
Clinton Email Probe Finds No Deliberate Mishandling of Classified Information
October 18th, 2019Oh suuuuuuuuuuuure. haha If you want to know why the Clintons will never face justice, read: Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed. My best guess is that their decades long criminal enterprise has been allowed to continue unhindered because of what went down in Arkansas in the 1980s. Via: Reuters: A U.S. […]
House Committee Votes to Increase Funding for Energy’s ARPA-E by $2.9B
October 18th, 2019In other news, Scientist Behind The Navy’s “UFO Patents” Has Now Filed One For A Compact Fusion Reactor. Via: NextGov: The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology advanced a bill to significantly increase funding for the Energy Department’s bleeding-edge research office despite several attempts from the administration to cut funding for the program. All […]
Google Starts Drone Deliveries in Christiansburg, Virginia
October 18th, 2019Via: VentureBeat: As of this afternoon, select residents of Christiansburg, Virginia can tap drones operated by Google parent company Alphabet’s Wing for quick and fee-free deliveries of packages, over-the-counter medications, snacks, and gifts. The company today revealed that it’s become the first to operate a commercial air delivery service directly to homes in the U.S., […]
SpaceX Submits Paperwork for 30,000 More Starlink Satellites
October 16th, 201942,000 satellites in low Earth orbit… Is anyone besides me wondering if there is some other purpose here besides fast Internet access? Via: SpaceNews: SpaceX has asked the International Telecommunication Union to arrange spectrum for 30,000 additional Starlink satellites. SpaceX, which is already planning the world’s largest low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation by far, filed paperwork in […]
“The Digital Poorhouse”
October 15th, 2019Via: Guardian: The Guardian has spent the past three months investigating how billions are being poured into AI innovations that are explosively recasting how low-income people interact with the state. Together, our reporters in the US, Britain, India and Australia have explored what amounts to the birth of the digital welfare state. Their dispatches reveal […]
How Amazon.com Moved Into the Business of U.S. Elections
October 15th, 2019Via: Reuters: The expansion by Amazon Web Services into state and local elections has quietly gathered pace since the 2016 U.S. presidential vote. More than 40 states now use one or more of Amazon’s election offerings, according to a presentation given by an Amazon executive this year and seen by Reuters. So do America’s two […]
Counterfeiting Microsoft’s “Restore CD” Landed Me in Prison for a Year
October 14th, 2019“When I save something, that’s taking away from their market share.” Via: Vice:
Pentagon to Send More Troops, Fighter Jets to Saudi Arabia
October 11th, 2019Via: USA Today: The Pentagon will send thousands more troops and two squadrons of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia as tensions increase with Iran. The move follows an attack last month on oil production facilities in Saudi Arabia that Iran was “clearly responsible for,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday. Iran denied it had a […]
Burisma Paid Joe Biden $900,000 for Lobbying – Ukrainian MP
October 9th, 2019Hmm… Via: Interfax Ukraine: Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 for lobbying activities from Burisma Group, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada member Andriy Derkach said citing investigation materials. Derkach publicized documents which, as he said, “describe the mechanism of getting money by Biden Sr.” at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine’s press center in Kyiv on […]
