Category Archives: Science and Technology
Facebook To Pay Record $5 Billion Fine In FTC Settlement
On Wednesday morning Facebook agreed to pay a record $5 billion fine to resolve a long-running federal investigation that has damaged the company’s standing with consumers and clouded its future, and agreed to better police its data-privacy practices.
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The Race For The Moon Continues
On July 21, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to set foot on the moon. Ten more Apollo astronauts followed in their footsteps until 1972 but since then, no human has set foot on Earth’s closest companion in space. Fifty years later, the race for the moon is starting anew with several countries and private companies announcing missions.
Read moreWhat Your iPhone May Be Telling Mysterious Companies About You… Without Your Permission
Apple has used the phrase “what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone” many times before, but it turns out that may not be entirely true.
Read moreThe Rise Of Facial Recognition Should Scare Us All
It seems the sleeping masses are finally waking to the privacy dangers posed by the rise of facial recognition technology.
Read more“The Most Destructive Breach In History”: Hackers Use NSA Code To Grind Baltimore To A Halt
Security experts say that attacks using EternalBlue have soared and cyber-criminals are honing in on vulnerable towns and cities, using it to paralyze governments.
Read moreFTC Prepares To Slap Facebook With $5 Billion Fine [VIDEO]
As the FTC prepares to slap Facebook with a $5 billion fine – expected to be the biggest fine the agency has ever levied, and the largest incurred in Facebook’s history – one of the company’s co-founders has published an op-ed in the New York Times calling on the government to intervene and break up Facebook.
Read moreRobots Taking Over “Miserable” Job Of Unloading Trucks As E-Commerce Margins Slide [VIDEO]
Loading and unloading 18-wheelers – a staple of working in the shipping business – is about to be the next “miserable” job that becomes automated.
Read moreAmazon Employees Hired And Fired By Robots
Robots at Amazon decide who gets a job. Based on performance algorithms, the robots also decide who gets fired.
Read moreFacebook, Instagram, Whatsapp Suffer World-Wide Outage
Almost a month to the day after Facebook experienced its worst outage ever, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp are again experiencing worldwide outages that started around 6:30 am Eastern, triggering a flurry of complaints on rival social networks like Twitter.
Read moreHow Amazon Demand Drives Autonomous Truck Tech [VIDEO]
Self-driving and semi-autonomous trucks could help fill the the major trucking shortage of 898,000 faced by America’s trucking industry.
Read moreThe FCC Has Collected Just $6,790 Of $208 Million It Has Fined Robocallers
The Federal Communications Commission has been fighting what seems like a never-ending battle against robocallers for the last several years. Of the $208 million in fines that they have levied against illegal automated callers, they have only collected about $6,790, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Read moreNASA Is About To Test A Solar-Powered Drone That Broadcasts 5G
…the experimental solar-powered drone can beam 5G connectivity to anywhere in the world.
Read moreChina Plans To Build Space Solar Station [VIDEO]
Chinese scientists have revealed plans to build and launch in orbit a space solar station that could capture the Sun’s rays 24/7.
Read moreSnopes & AP Suddenly Quit As Facebook Fact-Checkers
Two of Facebook’s four fact checkers, Snopes and the Associated Press, have abruptly ended their fact-checking relationship with the social media giant. The announcement comes on the heels of a December report that the two-year relationship between Facebook and its fact checkers was in disarray.
Read moreFacebook Slides After Report Claims 50% Of Its Users Are Fake
In a report published Thursday by PlainSite, analysts calculated that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been regularly lying to investors and the public about the company’s user metrics, and that the company could be overestimating the number of users by as much as 50%.
Read moreWatch Robot Dog Deliver A Package From Autonomous Shuttle [VIDEO]
At CES 2019, the transport firm Continental pushed the boundaries of autonomous vehicle technology, showed how a driverless utility van could be used to stage and deploy delivery robot dogs, taking packages from the vehicle to a customer’s doorstep. Automating the last mile serves as a warning that thousands of gig-economy jobs are about to be eliminated…
Read moreNASA’s Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space [VIDEO]
For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere (the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun) and entered Interstellar Space. Voyager 2 is now slightly more than 11 billion miles from Earth.
Read moreListen To Martian Wind: In Historic First, NASA Captures Audio Of Mars Surface [VIDEO]
What does Martian wind sound like? Now we know as for the first time in history sound has been recorded on another planet’s surface.
Read moreThe FCC is Right: Cities are Delaying 5G
The cost of 5G deployment is already high, but some big cities are making it worse by charging telecommunications providers ridiculous fees just to attach wireless equipment to electric poles.
Read moreSocial Media Linked To Loneliness And Depression, New Study Finds
The most recent study linking poor mental health conditions to social media use has added even more evidence to back up the theory “Using less social media than you normally would lead to significant decreases in both depression and loneliness. These effects are particularly pronounced for folks who were more depressed when they came into the study. It is a little ironic that reducing your use of social media actually makes you feel less lonely,”
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