Archive for July, 2026
New Zealand: Biometric Payment Terminals
July 31st, 2026“like, wow”. Via: Radio New Zealand: Kiwis could soon be able to make purchases using their face or hand, without the need for a card. EFTPOS New Zealand is rolling out new Verifone Victa biometric payment terminals that will allow people to pay with their faces or palms – without cards. The new tech can […]
Exploring Abandoned Sears Headquarters
July 31st, 2026Via: Stringer Media:
GDID – Microsoft’s Secret Windows Tracker That Can’t Be Turned Off
July 31st, 2026Via: Rob Braxman Tech:
A Visit to Cuba in 2026
July 30th, 2026Via: Sabbatical:
Thousands of Immigrants Pour into Spanish Territory in North Africa
July 30th, 2026Via: AP: Spain will deploy its military to restore order at its border with Morocco in Ceuta after thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory. The announcement comes after local authorities in Ceuta had asked the central government in Madrid for reinforcements to manage a border crisis that had been building up before […]
Anthony Fauci Pleads the Fifth During Republican Questioning on COVID
July 29th, 2026Well this didn't age wellpic.twitter.com/prvxPsrHpF — Julian Assange (@ImJulianAssange) July 29, 2026 Via: USA Today: Dr. Anthony Fauci may be held in contempt of Congress after refusing to answer Republicans’ questions about the origins of COVID-19, invoking the Fifth Amendment right against incriminating himself during a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday. Sen. Rand Paul, the […]
And Now… Ebola Vaccine Trial
July 28th, 2026Via: University of Oxford: The University of Oxford’s Oxford Vaccine Group has today successfully vaccinated the first volunteer in the world’s first clinical trial of a vaccine designed to protect against Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV). The milestone comes just weeks after the launch of the BD-Ebov study and marks the first time the ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine […]
GrapheneOS Wipe at Airport Leads to Federal Charge in Atlanta
July 28th, 2026Via: Reclaim the Net: The Justice Department is asking a federal court in Atlanta to treat a man’s erasure of his own phone as destruction of property, in the first known US prosecution built on a phone’s duress password. Samuel Tunick faces one count under Title 18, Section 2232(a), a statute covering the destruction of […]
AI Companies Are Setting Money on Fire
July 28th, 2026MABA: Make Americans Bagholders Again Via: Gamers Nexus:
They Don’t Want You To Read
July 28th, 2026Via: Corbett Report: Related: The End of Reading Is Here AI Companies Buying, Ingesting and Destroying Physical Books by the Millions
