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2 in 3 Americans think 5G will be widely available within a year
A study – driven by T-Mobile and conducted by HarrisX – is planned to be produced quarterly, and today the…
Read More »Here’s How The Government Shutdown Could Create More Headaches For Facebook
The government shutdown is threatening to derail a Federal Trade Commission investigation into Facebook’s use of people’s private information, The…
Read More »Report Details Nature Of Facebook’s Secret Rulebook Governing Global Speech
Facebook’s secretive rule book regulating how employees censor certain forms of expression contains numerous biases and outright errors, according to…
Read More »A New Study Could Spell Trouble For The Future Of Wind Energy
Wind energy resources have been in sharp decline in regions all across the world, according to a study conducted by…
Read More »Facebook Dings Dem Operatives Who Pulled A Fast One During Alabama Election
Facebook suspended several accounts linked to Democratic operatives who orchestrated a ruse to fool Alabama voters into believing that Russian…
Read More »What on Earth is the Global Positioning System?
GPS is everywhere—on your phone, in your car, even on your wrist—but what the heck even is it and how…
Read More »Amazon’s Alexa Goes Haywire, Tells Customer To ‘Kill’ Your Foster Parents’
One of Amazon’s newest projects is researching ways to make Alexa a more human-like communicator for customers, but sometimes the…
Read More »This Drone Seamlessly Transitions Between Swimming and Flying
By David Pring-Mill It isn’t unreasonable to think of drones as pesky technological nuisances. Our modern digital ecosystem regularly infringes…
Read More »Reaching out to touch virtual reality
By Matthew Hutson, Knowable Magazine In Steven Spielberg’s 2018 film Ready Player One, based on the 2011 book by Ernest Cline,…
Read More »Facebook Gave AI Control Of A Crucial Personal Data Collection Tool
Facebook ceded control of a critical pillar of the company’s personal data collection tools to artificial intelligence after it became too large…
Read More »Google’s Secret Chinese Censorship Project Effectively Ends After Employees Revolted
Google abandoned a program aimed at developing a censored search engine for China after employees complained that the plan was not being…
Read More »NASA Begins America’s New Moon to Mars Exploration Approach in 2018
NASA welcomed a new administrator, Jim Bridenstine, deputy administrator, Jim Morhard, and chief financial officer, Jeff DeWit, in 2018. Their focus is on…
Read More »In praise of parasites
By Kenneth R. Weiss, Knowable Magazine Kevin Lafferty gets more than his share of intimate disclosures from strangers about their…
Read More »Buddies No More? Enviros At Sierra Club Could Sabotage Their Relationship With Musk
Tesla employees seek to unionize the company’s Buffalo plant as the automaker attempts to meet crucial hiring promises at the…
Read More »China Bans World’s Most Popular Video Games
The Chinese government reportedly banned or penalized 20 popular video games Wednesday, with industry giants like Fortnite and World of…
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