• 8,700 ‘Opportunity Zones’ In U.S. Targeted For Smart City Infrastructure

    There are 35 million people living in Opportunity Zones throughout America who have no idea that Chinese-style surveillance is about to descend upon them. This investment scheme gives huge tax breaks to any company who invests in infrastructure in these areas. ⁃ TN EditorIs there no end to Big Brother’s desire to turn America into a mirror image of China?
    An article in Go Erie, revealed how the Feds are classifying parts of cities as “Opportunity Zones” or as I call them
  • Update: Google Cancels AI Ethics Panel After Uproar

    Google’s ethics panel got swarmed by thousands of (unethical?) non-participants attacking individual members of its ethics panel. The result was utter chaos, resignations and finally, cancelling the whole thing. Big Tech and ethics are approaching oxymoronic status. ⁃ TN EditorThis week, Vox and other outlets reported that Google’s newly created AI ethics board was falling apart amid controversy over several of the board members.
    Well, it’s officially done falling ap
  • Fintech: BIS Has Vision For Central Bank Digital Currencies

    The BIS is a policy-making central bank to all the central banks of the world, and there is no doubt that it is planning to restructure the entire global financial system (Fintech) to enable the Sustainable Development economic system, aka Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorThe behaviour of central bankers is rarely (if ever) given sustained coverage in the national press. Outside of prominent economic channels, developments from within institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the Ban
  • Skills and climate science a focus for Budget Reply

    Measures to support the future science- and technology-skilled workforce and a commitment to action on climate change were welcome highlights of the Opposition’s Budget Reply speech, but Science & Technology Australia lamented the lack of detail on investment in the nation’s knowledge economy. “Labor’s commitment to support access to universities by removing caps on undergraduate places would […]
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