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• U.S. Lawmakers Press Facebook Over Chinese Data Sharing

  20-06-2018 16:42 via Technocracy News
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and culture, and had no problem in negotiating the sale of personal data to Chinese companies. Technocracy transcends national borders and cultural differences because it is the same science and technology that works everywhere. In Facebook’s instance, “follow the data, follow the power.” ⁃ TN EditorFacebook Inc faced criticism on Wednesday from Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers who demanded that the social
  
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• European Democracies In The Age Of Populisms And Technocracies

  20-06-2018 15:49 via Technocracy News
  Techno-populism, a curious blend of Populism and Technocracy, is rising in Europe and is being openly discussed. However, the same phenomenon is seen in the U.S. with Trump (populism) partnering with Technocrats. Because the Technocrats wind up being the only people able to run complex systems, they end up with the upper hand. ⁃ TN EditorIn Europe, home to one of the most ambitious political and institutional experiments in recent history, the European Union, populist movements and technoc
  
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• Whitehead: We Are All Prisoners Of The Surveillance State

  20-06-2018 09:12 via Technocracy News
  Whitehead clearly makes the case that government eyes are watching us, but he misses the Technocrats who are doing the watching and why they are watching. Technocracy is the Utopian goal, technology is the means to get there and  data is the grease that covers the skids. ⁃ TN Editor“We’re run by the Pentagon, we’re run by Madison Avenue, we’re run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don’t revolt we’ll have to go along with the s
  
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• 2019 Honda Insight first drive review: The 55-mpg Civic - CNET

  20-06-2018 06:01
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  2019 Honda Insight first drive review: The 55-mpg Civic
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  The Honda Insight is back, though it has more in common with a Civic than it does with the two prior generations of its namesake. Honda chose to revive the Insight name for a variety of reasons. The main intent is to draw connections between this new, ...
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• Your Facebook Messenger chats may soon get autoplaying video ads - CNET

  20-06-2018 00:53
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  Your Facebook Messenger chats may soon get autoplaying video ads
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  The autoplaying video ads will appear in the "sponsored" section. Facebook. Facebook Messenger ads just got more invasive. The company confirmed on Tuesday that it has started placing autoplaying video ads in the Messenger chat app. The news was ...
  Facebook now running autoplay video ads in MessengerAdAge.com
  Facebook Messenger Gets Autoplaying Video AdsNDTV
  Facebook follows users into every nook with adsHindustan
  
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• PUBG Update Adds New Sanhok Map On PC This Week; Patch Notes Released - GameSpot

  19-06-2018 23:05
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  PUBG Update Adds New Sanhok Map On PC This Week; Patch Notes Released
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  A new update is on the way soon for the PC version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Patch #15 is scheduled to arrive this Friday, June 22, and will introduce an assortment of UI and sound improvements to the game, as well as the tropical map, Sanhok.
  PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Event Pass Coming SoonGame Rant
  The 'Fortnite'-sized 'PUBG' map goes live FridayEngadget
  'PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' is on sa
  
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• PS4 Cross-Play Restrictions Are All About Money, Says Ex-Sony Dev - GameSpot

  19-06-2018 21:35
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  PS4 Cross-Play Restrictions Are All About Money, Says Ex-Sony Dev
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  The lack of PS4 cross-play in Fortnite and other games can be chalked up to money, according to former Sony developer John Smedley. The ex-boss of Daybreak Game Company, formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment, said that he saw the rationale ...
  Is Sony's Fortnite decision all about the money?Polygon
  Forget 2018 — early 2019 is full of huge blockbuster gamesBusiness Insider
  Why PlayStation Won't A
  
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• Couple raises more than $5 million on Facebook to reunite immigrant families

  19-06-2018 21:24 via NBC News Technology
  It's Facebook's largest ever single fundraiser, and at one point, it was raising $4,000 a minute.
  
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• Pitch perfect? Why World Cup referees have gone high tech

  19-06-2018 20:23 via NBC News Technology
  An analysis of 1,000 matches found the accuracy of calls went from 93 percent to 98.3 percent when VAR was used.
  
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• Couple raises more than $4.5 million on Facebook to reunite immigrant families

  19-06-2018 18:28 via NBC News Technology
  It's Facebook's largest ever single fundraiser, and at one point, it was raising $4,000 a minute.
  
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• Mechanical camera sliders are the coolest terrible idea of 2018 - The Verge

  19-06-2018 18:00
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  Mechanical camera sliders are the coolest terrible idea of 2018
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  Oppo's Find X and Vivo's Nex are the two most recent and exciting Android devices of the year. Why exciting? Well, they bring us closer to the dream of a truly bezel-less phone, and they do it in dramatic style. Instead of putting a notched area at the ...
  Oppo Find X tackles the notch issue with a unique innovation, but will it work?Business Today
  Oppo Find X first impressions: A new way to kill the notchBGR In
  
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• Kerry Washington to NBC: The real 'Scandal' is Trump's immigration policy

  19-06-2018 17:24 via NBC News Technology
  "We’re trying to make sure our portfolio of storytelling is diversified."
  
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• Evan Spiegel talks at Cannes on Kylie Jenner, parents and tech, and the future of Snapchat

  19-06-2018 17:21 via NBC News Technology
  The Snap CEO has come under fire for a redesign that did not go over well with Snapchat fans.
  
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• Google Is Training AI To Predict When A Patient Will Die

  19-06-2018 16:38 via Technocracy News
  ‘Evidence-based medicine’ is already turning the medical profession upside-down and dehumanizing patient care, but the application of AI to predict treatment and outcomes is several orders of magnitude worse. If Google wrongly predicts your imminent demise, will treatment be pulled away to save money? ⁃ TN EditorA woman with late-stage breast cancer came to a city hospital, fluids already flooding her lungs. She saw two doctors and got a radiology scan. The hospital’s co
  
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• Forty Percent Have Deleted A Social Media Account In Past Year Over Privacy Worries

  19-06-2018 16:21 via Technocracy News
  For whatever reason, one in four have deleted at least one social media account in the last year. This is sending Technocrat social media managers on a frenzied search for a treatment to ‘stop the bleeding’, but rebuilding trust may be beyond their understanding. ⁃ TN EditorThere is a serious lack of trust in social media such as Facebook and Twitter and consumers expect brands that advertise on such platforms to urgently find solutions, according to research published Monday.
  
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• Bank For International Settlements Blasts Crypto-Currencies As Fatally Flawed As Money

  19-06-2018 16:08 via Technocracy News
  As currently created, crypto-currencies are serving a purpose of showing what will not work as digital currency, but at the same time, central major banks are intent on creating a replacement that will work. By nature, Technocrats will use technology to solve all of their problems, and a cashless global economy obviously begs for some sort of digital currency that is accepted by all. ⁃ TN EditorA Bank of International Settlements (BIS) report examines cryptocurrencies in depth. The study,
  
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• Amazon's Alexa is checking in to hotels — but what about privacy?

  19-06-2018 15:53 via NBC News Technology
  "This is the new world order — and these devices are going to follow us wherever we go now."
  
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• New Galaxy Note 9 leak shows the phone's refreshed design - BGR

  19-06-2018 14:51
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  New Galaxy Note 9 leak shows the phone's refreshed design
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  Android smartphones are launching left and right these days, but there's no doubt in anybody's mind that the Galaxy Note 9 will be one of the two most important phones released in the second half of the year. At the same time, there's no doubt in ...
  A Galaxy S10 prototype may have just leaked, reveals extremely bezel-less designPhone Arena
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• Gaming disorder is now a diagnosis, WHO says

  19-06-2018 13:53 via NBC News Technology
  This isn’t about kids playing “Fortnite” or “Call of Duty” for a few hours in the basement. As with any medical disorder, the person affected must be seriously impaired.
  
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• Scientists Identify Source Of Mysterious Mars Rock Formation - Tech Times

  19-06-2018 13:25
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  Scientists Identify Source Of Mysterious Mars Rock Formation
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  For decades, the Medusae Fossae Formation, a massive and strange hilly landscape that extends for more than 3,100 miles across Mars's equators has baffled scientists. The strange Martian rock formation was first spotted back in the 1960s when NASA's ...
  Mysterious Mars rock formation explained - and it doesn't involve UFOsFox News
  Scientists Say We've Finally Found the Secret Behind the Strangest Rock Format
  
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• Resolved: New robot can hold its own in debate with a human, IBM says

  19-06-2018 04:34 via NBC News Technology
  Project Debater gets its knowledge from hundreds of millions of journal articles, but humans still have one key advantage.
  
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• Some Amazon investors side with ACLU on facial recognition

  19-06-2018 00:11 via ABC News: Technology
  Some Amazon company investors are siding with privacy and civil rights advocates who are urging the tech giant to halt a powerful face recognition tool used by police
  
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• Trump announces plans for Pentagon to create 'Space Force'

  18-06-2018 23:34 via ABC News: Technology
  President Donald Trump is announcing that he is directing the Pentagon to create a new "Space Force" as an independent service branch aimed at ensuring American supremacy in space
  
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• Microsoft backtracks on 'proud support' for ICE as blog post goes viral

  18-06-2018 23:26 via NBC News Technology
  In January, Microsoft published a blog post touting how ICE used its facial recognition technology.
  
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• Warned 30 years ago, global warming 'is in our living room'

  18-06-2018 23:06 via ABC News: Technology
  Thirty years ago a NASA scientist said global warming was here in what was called the opening salvo of the age of climate change
  
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• Inside the controversial new surgery to transplant human wombs

  18-06-2018 21:31
  
  SciencePioneering surgeons have made it possible to transplant a human uterus that can bear children, offering hope to millions of women who never thought they could give birth.
  Pioneering surgeons have made it possible to transplant a human uterus that can bear children, offering hope to millions of women who never thought they could give…
  
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• Dating Do-Over For Anzick-1, Famous First Americans Burial

  18-06-2018 21:00 via Top Stories
  He is arguably the most famous ancient American baby: an infant First American whose partial remains were found 50 years ago on a Montana ranch. But while Anzick-1, as the child is known, changed our understanding of the human history of the Americas, critics have complained the dates around the burial are messy, and throw the significance of the site into question.Today, researchers announce the results of a second look at the dating discrepancy that's caused controversy over the famous
  
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• Last month was the fourth warmest May on record, two reports out today agree

  18-06-2018 20:54 via Top Stories
  In their monthly climate reports released today, both NASA and NOAA agree that last month was fourth warmest among all Mays dating back to 1800.This means that the period 2014 through 2018 has brought the five warmest Mays in 138 years of record-keeping, according to NOAA's report. The warmest was May 2016."May 2018 also marks the 42nd consecutive May and the 401st consecutive month with temperatures, at least nominally, above the 20th century average," according to NOAA.As t
  
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• Yes, a tax bill can—and likely will—spoil America’s most pristine wildlife refuge

  18-06-2018 20:30
  
  EnvironmentThe public can submit comment until June 19.
  The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the largest swath of undeveloped land in the United States—a pristine frontier boasting unparalleled biodiversity and natural…
  
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• 8 paid iPhone apps that are free downloads today - BGR

  18-06-2018 20:16
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  8 paid iPhone apps that are free downloads today
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  School's out and summer weather is officially here, which means it's the perfect time to… sit inside and fill up your iPhone or iPad with awesome paid iOS apps that are on sale for free. We've rounded up the eight best premium apps of the day that are ...
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• The President just called for a new branch of the military called the Space Force

  18-06-2018 19:39
  
  SpaceIt's not clear how this will fit into existing exploration efforts.
  Today President Trump announced he was directing the Department of Defense to create a military “Space Force.”…
  
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• Apple aims to solve problems locating 911 calls for help

  18-06-2018 18:13 via ABC News: Technology
  Apple will try to drag the U.S.'s outdated 911 emergency calling system into the 21st century
  
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• Amazon shareholders to Jeff Bezos: Stop marketing facial recognition tool

  18-06-2018 17:50 via NBC News Technology
  Privacy activists have sounded the alarm about the tool, called Rekognition.
  
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• Scientists Reveal the Source of a Mysterious Martian Rock Formation

  18-06-2018 17:45 via SciTechDaily
  Explosive volcanic eruptions that shot jets of hot ash, rock and gas skyward are the likely source of a mysterious Martian rock formation, a new...
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• Astronomers Hunt Molecules in the Search for New Planets

  18-06-2018 17:23 via SciTechDaily
  Each exoplanet revolves around a star, like the Earth around the Sun. This is why it is generally impossible to obtain images of an exoplanet,...
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• The World Health Organization now recognizes video game addiction

  18-06-2018 17:16
  
  HealthIs your gaming habit a mental health problem?
  Medical professionals are starting to realize that in the modern age, behavioral addictions can turn seemingly harmless things—like video games—quite dangerous.
  
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• Ancient Crocodile Reveals the Humble Beginnings of the Apex Predator

  18-06-2018 17:06 via SciTechDaily
  The mouth of today’s crocodilians inspires fear and awe, with their wide gape and the greatest known bite force in the vertebrate animal kingdom. However,...
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• Why your brain loves mac and cheese more than macaroni or cheese alone

  18-06-2018 17:00
  
  HealthThe culinary sum of fat and carbs is greater than its parts
  Researchers found that our brain’s reward pathways value the combination of fats and carbs so much that we perceive the hybrid mix as having more calories than a fat or…
  
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• 22,000-year-old Panda Skull Shows New Family Line

  18-06-2018 17:00 via Top Stories
  When Qiaomei Fu got her hands on a 22,000-year-old panda skull in 2014, she was both surprised and elated.An expert in paleogenomics, Fu had done most of her past work on the DNA of ancient humans, but she has a personal interest in pandas. Now, in 2018, she and her team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences are the first to have sequenced the entire mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome of an ancient giant panda. The work is outlined in Current Biology.The skull was discovered by her collea
  
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• Germany will fail 2020 climate goals, now eyes 2030 target

  18-06-2018 16:54 via ABC News: Technology
  Germany's environment minister says the country will likely miss its target of cutting carbon emissions by 2020, an embarrassment for a government that wants to lead the charge on limiting climate change
  
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• NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Views a Dark and Stormy Jupiter

  18-06-2018 16:45 via SciTechDaily
  This image captures the intensity of the jets and vortices in Jupiter’s North North Temperate Belt. NASA’s Juno spacecraft took this color-enhanced image at 10:31...
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• WATCH: Apple to unveil 3 new iPhones

  18-06-2018 16:44 via ABC News: Technology
  The tech giant plans to showcase the new smartphones in the fall, according to leaked specifications.
  
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• MIT Engineers Develop a Smart Power Outlet

  18-06-2018 16:34 via SciTechDaily
  Have you ever plugged in a vacuum cleaner, only to have it turn off without warning before the job is done? Or perhaps your desk...
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• Machine-Learning Algorithm Compares 3D Scans Up To 1,000 Times Faster

  18-06-2018 16:27 via SciTechDaily
  Medical image registration is a common technique that involves overlaying two images, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, to compare and analyze anatomical differences...
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• WATCH: Video of burning Tesla raises new concerns

  18-06-2018 16:22 via ABC News: Technology
  Actress Mary McCormack posted a video of her husband's car on fire in West Hollywood saying it went up in flames "out of the blue."
  
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• U.S. Army To Deploy Autonomous Killer Robots On Battlefield By 2028

  18-06-2018 16:21 via Technocracy News
  Technocrat Elon Musk is afraid that AI super-intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity and the issue is over control. Technocrats themselves want to socially engineer the planet with science and technology, but autonomous AI would be direct competition. In other words, the very technology they are compelled to create is already backfiring on them.  ⁃ TN EditorUnited States Army Secretary Mark Esper recently revealed that the military has a strategic vision of utilizing auto
  
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• Hubble Image of the Week – One Galaxy, Three Supernovae

  18-06-2018 16:15 via SciTechDaily
  In astronomy, the devil is in the details — as this image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide-Field...
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• How to improve your posture

  18-06-2018 15:30
  
  DIYStart by tossing out the idea that you need to sit perfectly straight.
  Posture is a common boogeyman in modern medicine. It may not be the root of all your problems, but you can still improve your position and reduce back pain.
  
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• How the new World Cup ball was designed to not influence the games

  18-06-2018 14:00
  
  ScienceThe quest for the perfect soccer ball continues.
  Every four years there’s a new ball for the World Cup—and every four years players are unhappy with it. Maybe it’s too light and has too much lift, like the 2002…
  
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• Berkeley: ‘Climate Emergency’ Worse Than World War II, Demands ‘Humane’ Population Control

  18-06-2018 07:46 via Technocracy News
  Somebody should tell the Berkeley City Council that population is already ‘stabilized’ and headed down on a global basis and that global warming is a hoax. People who are given to receive delusion seem to have plenty to share with everyone else, and Berkeley is no exception.  ⁃ TN EditorBerkeley’s city council declares a ‘climate emergency’ and calls for stabilizing the population; #Tucker takes on political commentator Anushay Hossain.
  The Berkeley City
  
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