Category Archives: Science and Technology
Why Spam Calls Are At An All-Time High [VIDEO]
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Robocalls are at an all-time high. On average, Americans received more than 2,000 robocalls every second in October, up 25% from the previous month. With 49 billion robocalls so far this year, all four major U.S. phone carriers now offer some form of blocking or screening service, such as T-Mobile’s well known “Scam Likely” label. Congress and state officials passed new robocall regulations in recent months and have seen an uptick in successful cases against the scammers. Meanwhile, hundreds of tech start-ups are developing new ways to tackle the problem.
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YouTube To Delete All Accounts That Aren’t “Commercially Viable” Starting Dec. 10th
Content creators everywhere are starting to panic about an upcoming policy change over at YouTube that threatens to eliminate all accounts and channels on the Google-owned video platform that are deemed to no longer be “commercially viable.”
Read moreFacebook Tumbles After Antitrust Probe Expands To 47 States And Territories
Facebook shares hit session lows after the company’s antitrust woes exploded with now 47 states and territories joining New York’s push to investigate the company’s advertising practices.
Read moreCreator Of Global-Warming’s Infamous “Hockey Stick” Chart Loses ‘Climate-Science’ Lawsuit
Michael Mann, a climatologist at Penn State University, is the creator of the “hockey stick graph” that appears to show global temperatures taking a noticeable swing upward in the era when humanity has been burning fossil fuels and dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. Dr. Mann lost his case when, to the astonishment of legal experts, he refused to comply with the court direction to hand over and show in open court his R2 regression numbers (the ‘working out’) behind the world-famous ‘hockey stick’ graph. Mann’s iconic hockey stick has been relied upon by the UN’s IPCC and western governments as crucial evidence for the science of ‘man-made global warming.’
Read moreFacebook 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.
Read moreThe 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…
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