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• Employees: Google Continues Development Of China’s Censorship Search Engine

  05-03-2019 16:13 via technocracy.news
  Dissenting employees are waiting for Google to declare that “censorship is unacceptable and that they will not collaborate with governments in the oppression of their people.” They may be waiting for a long time. ⁃ TN EditorGoogle employees have carried out their own investigation into the company’s plan to launch a censored search engine for China and say they are concerned that development of the project remains ongoing, The Intercept can reveal.
  Late last year, bosses
  
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• In-Store Cameras Spot Shoplifters Before They Steal

  05-03-2019 15:48 via technocracy.news
  Vaak’s website claims to “Analyze more than 100 person feature quantities such as face, clothes, movement direction, attribute and estimate behavior and purpose.” Basically, it tags you ‘guilty’ before you commit a crime. ⁃ TN EditorIt’s watching, and knows a crime is about to take place before it happens. Vaak, a Japanese startup, has developed artificial intelligence software that hunts for potential shoplifters, using footage from security cameras for
  
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• Slouching Toward Green New Deal, Some Republicans Flip-Flop On Climate Change

  05-03-2019 15:35 via technocracy.news
  Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) used to forcefully fight against climate change fanatics. Now he says, “It’s just not worth the fight anymore.” Such surrender is spreading among Republican and conservative ranks. ⁃ TN Editor 
  Representative John Shimkus once issued a forceful rejection of climate science at a congressional hearing, invoking the Bible and declaring that “Earth will end only when God declares it’s time to be over.”
  Last month, in a turnabou
  
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• Marine heat waves threaten fish, corals

  05-03-2019 06:22
  
  Fish, corals and other marine life are threatened by the rising frequency of ocean heat waves, a scientific study shows.
  
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