New reports from SolarPower Europe show that solar power had a very good year last year. Worldwide, installed solar power capacity grew by an amazing 50 percent in 2016, with a the largest growth occurring in the U.S. and China. The total amount of solar capacity added last year was more than 76 gigawatts (GW), […]
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SICK: ‘Smart Vibrator’ Maker Ordered to Pay Out C$4M for Tracking Users’ Sexual Activity…
Sex toy maker We-Vibe has agreed to pay customers up to C$10,000 (£6,120) each after shipping a “smart vibrator” which tracked owners’ use without their knowledge. Following a class-action lawsuit in an Illinois federal court, We-Vibe’s parent company Standard Innovation has been ordered to pay a total of C$4m to owners, with those who used […]
Former Dem Rep Comes to Trump’s Defense on Wiretap Claim: Obama Admin Did The Same Thing to Me…
Former Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich said Monday that people shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss President Trump’s claim of being wiretapped. The reason? It happened to him. In an interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly on Monday, Kucinich recalled how a phone call from a foreign leader to his congressional office was tapped in 2011—a […]
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Rand Paul Is Right: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants by Glenn Greenwald…
On Sunday’s Face the Nation, Sen. Rand Paul was asked about President Trump’s accusation that President Obama ordered the NSA to wiretap his calls. The Kentucky senator expressed skepticism about the mechanics of Trump’s specific charge, saying: “I doubt that Trump was a target directly of any kind of eavesdropping.” But he then made a […]
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I Invented the Web. Here Are Three Things We Need to Change to Save It by Tim Berners-Lee…
Today marks 28 years since I submitted my original proposal for the worldwide web. I imagined the web as an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities, and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries. In many ways, the web has lived up to this vision, though it has been a […]
Scrutiny Intensifies on the Warrantless Collection of Americans’ Communications…
Civil Liberties advocates call for more transparency around a controversial foreign surveillance law that Congress must decide whether to reauthorize this year. The controversy around the communications between Donald Trump’s associates and Russian officials before he became president is highlighting something civil liberties advocates particularly dislike about the government’s…
DOJ Asks for More Time to Address Trump’s Wiretapping Claim…
The Justice Department is asking the House Intelligence Committee for more time to respond to a request intended to clear up President Donald Trump’s claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in the run-up to the 2016 election. The intelligence panel had asked the department to respond by Monday to a request for information […]
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New York Times Busted Changing Article Title After Trump Tweets the Word ‘Wiretapped’…
The New York Times comes to Obama’s aid, yet again. Hollywood conservative and “Love Connection” host, Chuck Woolery, tweeted this revelation about fake news New York Times…” So the #NYTimes actually went into their archives and changed their Headline from Jan 20th. They changed Wire Tapped to surveilled”…
Elon Musk Pledges to Solve South Australia’s Energy Problems in 100 Days Or Do It for Free…
Billionaire Elon Musk has offered SolarCity services to help South Australia tackle blackouts across the state. Musk promised to solve the problem in 100 days, or he will do it for free. South Australia is vulnerable due to its energy requirements. Last September, storms led to a state-wide blackout, forcing the shutdown of ports and […]
Who Controls Your Computer? (And How to Make Sure It’s You)…
At least in theory, we therefore know how to build ourselves small paradises of trusted code. Unhappily, we also know that even if you can trust all the source code on the system, you still cannot blindly trust the system — because as Gödel once established, the source code is not and can never be […]
Meet Flippy, a Burger Grilling Robot…
Flipping burgers is a hot and greasy job. Slips, trips, burns and cuts are common hazards associated with the work. But global demand for burgers is tremendous. Top burger chains racked up more than $75.5 billion in annual sales in 2016. To help keep human cooks out of harm’s way while fulfilling our collective appetite […]
Amazon Echo Shuts Down Over CIA Connection Query (VIDEO)…
The WikiLeaks ‘Vault 7’ data dump allegedly detailing CIA hacking tactics has again thrown the privacy of electronic devices into focus. One viral video showing an Amazon Echo refusing to confirm a link to the US spy agency is summing up people’s fears. On Tuesday, Wikileaks unexpectedly released 8,761 documents claiming to reveal “CIA hacking […]
Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt: ‘Big data is so powerful, nation states will fight’ over It…
If big data really is the “new oil,” does this mean that countries will fight over it? This is what Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, suggested in a speech at the company’s Google Cloud Next conference on Wednesday. “I think big data is so powerful that nation states will fight over how […]
WikiLeaks to Provide Tech Firms Access to CIA Hacking Tools…
WikiLeaks has much more detailed information about CIA hacking techniques and will allow tech companies access so they can “develop fixes” before the information is more widely published, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Thursday. The news conference took place at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, where he has been holed up since seeking asylum […]
Americans’ Sex Lives Have Gone Limp–Lovemaking Fell ~15% Since the ’90s…
Sexy times in the US are declining, according to a new study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. American adults reported having nine fewer romps a year in the early 2010s than they did in the late 1990s—dropping from an average of about 62 times a year between 1995 and 2000 to around 53 a […]
From Russia, with Panic: Cozy Bears, Unsourced Hacks–and a Silicon Valley Shakedown…
The Russians hacked America. After Donald Trump’s surprise victory in November, these four words reverberated across the nation. Democratic Party insiders, liberal pundits, economists, members of Congress, spies, Hollywood celebrities, and neocons of every stripe and classification level—all these worthy souls reeled in horror at the horribly compromised new American electoral order…
#Vault7: U.S. Officials Say WikiLeaks Papers Authentic, Knew of Breach in 2016…
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Wednesday that they have been aware since the end of last year of a security breach at the CIA that led to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks publishing agency documents on its hacking tools. The officials, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters that they believed that the […]
FBI’s Comey: “You’re Stuck With Me For Another Six And A Half Years”…
Refuting speculation that after infuriating first democrats with his handling of Hillary Clinton’s email server scandal, and then by demanding that the DOJ deny Trump’s allegations that Obama had bugged the Trump Tower, he may quit prematurely, FBI Director James Comey made it clear where he stands on the issue: “You’re stuck with me for […]
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Q&A: How Can I Stop My TV Spying On Me?…
Following today’s publication, by WikiLeaks, of documents exposing the CIA’s secret hacking program – describing tools that can turn a world of increasingly networked, camera- and microphone-equipped devices into eavesdroppers, AP’s Frank Bajak answers the public’s biggest questions. Bajak warns consumers, there’s “not much you can do if you don’t want to sacrifice the benefits […]
Wikileaks Unveils ‘Vault 7’: “The Largest Ever Publication Of Confidential Documents On The CIA”…
Last night Wikileaks announced that it has released an encrypted torrent file which reportedly contains information on the mysterious “Vault 7”, and which we now know is the biggest “collection of material about CIA activities obtained by WikiLeaks.publication in history.” It can be downloaded now at the following URL, and accessed using the password “SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds”…
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