Tag: google
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode169 – Black Sites, Designer Babies, FDA Shutdown
Story #1: Obama Swaps ‘Black Sites’ for ‘Justice at Sea’ // Story #2: 23andMe Receives Patent To Create Designer Babies, Denies Plans To Do So // Story #3: Shutdown Ends Food Inspections in US, Leaving 90% of U.S. Seafood Imports Unchecked
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Google Poetry Robot Speaks on George Bush & Paradigm Shifts
from JazzPianoCafe.com: The Geoff Peters Trio, a jazz band from Vancouver, Canada, “…decided to create an online gallery of poems. However, these poems are the original work of a “poetry robot”, which I created. Given a few words to start the poem, the robot decides what to write by looking at what people have written…
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Google Will Help Police to Track “Extremist Websites” Through its Search Results
from Guardian.co.uk: Google’s indexing of extremist websites helps police track their activity and will continue, the company’s chief told an audience at the Hay festival. Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, was asked to act to take down terrorist-sympathising websites from his search engines during a question and answer session at the literary festival on…
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Hi-tech contact lenses show texts and maps
from trueactivist.com: Imagine texting while driving, or placing a call while showering, without holding your phone in your hands. It’s not sci-fi any more – a new technology allows information like text messages and driving directions to be projected onto a contact lens. The hardware behind this invention is a spherical curved LCD display that…
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Google Faces EU Action Over Privacy Policy
Six European countries, including France and Britain, have launched a joint action against Google to get the US Internet giant to scale back on new monitoring powers that watchdogs believe violate EU privacy protection rules.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode141 – Flu Shot Narcolepsy, Bye Bye Scanners, Privacy Glasses
https://archive.org/download/20130124NewWorldNextWeek141/20130124_NewWorldNextWeek141-c.mp4 Download MP4 Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Evidence Grows for Narcolepsy Link to GSK Swine Flu Shot Breaking: Scientists To Resume Work With Lab-Bred Bird Flu…
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Google Drones Launch In Africa
The World Wildlife Fund and Google are teaming up to deploy a fleet of anti-poacher UAVs in Africa. The goal? Survey and stop rhino poachers.
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#DataDump: Airspace, Appeals, Algorithms and More
Unblinking surveillance stare: Army’s 7-story flying football field-sized blimp // FAA Documents Raise Questions About Safety of Drones in U.S. Airspace // Google Pays Record $22.5 Million Fine for Privacy Violations // George Soros ‘likes’ Facebook with $10m investment
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#DataDump: #Mars, Meteorite, Mystery and more
Curiosity Lands Safely on Mars – “most high-tech interplanetary rover ever built sent a signal to Earth”* Man will walk on Mars within a generation, says Astronomer Royal* 14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite* Opening the X-Files in Australia* Proposed Privacy Law Demands Court Warrants for Cloud Data* Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping* Flame…
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How Apple/Amazon Security Flaws Led to Epic Hacking
How Not to Become Mat Honan: A Short Primer on Online Security* from wired.com: In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of…
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#DataDump: Rules, Reality and More
First Newspapers, Now TV: The Internet Reformation Rolls On // Porn Studios Accused of Screwing Their Fans in BitTorrent Lawsuits // Atari Teenage Riot Goes for the Lulz With Anonymous // University of Oregon physicists help discover elusive particle // Future Shock: Bryan Singer Discusses His New Web Series, ‘H+’
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Google’s ‘Chairman’ Predicts End Of China’s Firewall
from pcmag.com: Following Google’s high-profile spat with China over censorship in 2010, the company has been mostly candid about its disagreements with the country’s Internet policies. However, those comments have usually been tempered by the silent understanding that China must be dealt with in some fashion. But in a new interview, Google executive chairman Eric…
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Malware Arrives, Nuked on App Store For First Time
from tomsguide.com: Kaspersky has discovered the first-ever malicious app on Apple’s App Store. Kaspersky Lab is calling this a first-ever for Apple: an app offered on the App Store containing malware. The security firm confirmed its existence on Thursday, reporting that the malicious app was also available to download from Google Play. The app has…
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#DataDump: Infiltration, Asylum, Aircraft and More
Facebook To Buy Israeli Biometrics Startup Face.com For $100 Million // Face.com App Allowed Facebook, Twitter Account Hijacking // Researcher: CIA, NSA may have infiltrated Microsoft to write malware // NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say If We Spied on You // Apple fined more than $2m over 4G claim // Assange Seeks…
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Corbett Report: Episode231 – The Revolution of the Mind
Listen to @CorbettReport on @RBNlive Weeknights at Midnight from corbett report: We live in an era of upheaval with the word “revolution” on the tip of many a tongue. But what kind of revolution is it to be? Join us this week on the podcast as we scour the secret text of Emmanuel Goldstein and…