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Autonomous Drones Could Soon Run the UK’s Energy Grid
The National Grid is testing computer-manned drones that can save millions in maintenance work.... Read more »
Source: Wired | Published: July 5, 2022 - 2:40 pm - ●
Crypto’s Free Rein May Be Coming to a Close
Lawmakers in the US and Europe are considering ways to regulate crypto and crack down on money-laundering and other illicit... Read more »
Source: Wired | Published: July 5, 2022 - 2:36 pm - ●
The Best Barefoot Shoes for Walking or Running
Our favorite zero-drop, minimalist footwear will let you feel the ground beneath your feet.... Read more »
Source: Wired | Published: July 5, 2022 - 1:00 pm - ●
Transport Apps Promised to Eliminate Friction. But at What Cost?
Cities of the future will likely be even more segregated by income, hostile to pedestrians, and designed to line the... Read more »
Source: Wired | Published: July 5, 2022 - 1:00 pm - ●
How Landsat Chronicled 50 Years on a Changing, Fiery Planet
The pioneering satellite program has provided the longest continuous document of how fire, global warming, and humanity are remaking our... Read more »
Source: Wired | Published: July 5, 2022 - 12:00 pm - ●
Instagram Keeps Showing Me Children’s Tragedies
After I became a parent, my social media feeds filled up with videos of kids who are sick or have... Read more »
Source: Wired | Published: July 5, 2022 - 11:00 am
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UK signs its first data sharing deal post-Brexit, with South Korea, allowing organizations in the two countries to transfer data without restrictions (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK signs its first data sharing deal post-Brexit, with South Korea, allowing organizations in the two countries to transfer data without restrictions — Six years on from the referendum where the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU, the country is announcing its first international data... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 8:15 pm - ●
Core Scientific, a top bitcoin miner with nearly 10% of the network's hash rate, sold 7,202 mined BTC for $167M in June and now holds 1,959 BTC (David Pan/Bloomberg)
David Pan / Bloomberg: Core Scientific, a top bitcoin miner with nearly 10% of the network's hash rate, sold 7,202 mined BTC for $167M in June and now holds 1,959 BTC — Core Scientific Inc., a top crypto miner, sold the bulk of its Bitcoin holdings in June as a... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:10 pm - ●
Nexo, a crypto lender managing assets for ~4M users, says it signed a term sheet to explore buying Vauld, which halted withdrawals and manages assets for ~100K (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
Ryan Browne / CNBC: Nexo, a crypto lender managing assets for ~4M users, says it signed a term sheet to explore buying Vauld, which halted withdrawals and manages assets for ~100K — - Nexo has signed a term sheet with Vauld giving it 60 days of exclusive talks to explore... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 5:35 pm - ●
How Ukraine's Kyivstar mobile network stays operational during Russia's invasion, despite killed employees, seized infrastructure, and relentless cyberattacks (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: How Ukraine's Kyivstar mobile network stays operational during Russia's invasion, despite killed employees, seized infrastructure, and relentless cyberattacks — Employees killed and displaced, infrastructure seized by force and relentless cyberattacks are only a few of the challenges …... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 4:40 pm - ●
Synergy Research: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google accounted for 65% of the $53B in global cloud spending in Q1 2022, up from 52% in 2018 (Aaron Tilley/Wall Street Journal)
Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: Synergy Research: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google accounted for 65% of the $53B in global cloud spending in Q1 2022, up from 52% in 2018 — Three companies account for about two-thirds of cloud spending and are using their size to maintain their hold on... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 1:45 pm - ●
Survey: 25% of Black American investors owned crypto at the start of 2022, compared to 15% of white investors, leaving them vulnerable during the downturn (Taylor Nicole Rogers/Financial Times)
Taylor Nicole Rogers / Financial Times: Survey: 25% of Black American investors owned crypto at the start of 2022, compared to 15% of white investors, leaving them vulnerable during the downturn — Higher exposure to digital assets leaves owners vulnerable to downturn — The widespread losses caused by the cryptocurrency... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 1:10 pm - ●
Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros., and others cut costs, staff, movies, and TV shows; the industry released 559 scripted shows in 2021, up by 200+ compared to 2013 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros., and others cut costs, staff, movies, and TV shows; the industry released 559 scripted shows in 2021, up by 200+ compared to 2013 — The sudden decline in Netflix's share price and the growing fear of a recession have forced Hollywood into... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 12:45 pm - ●
Digital ad and linear TV ad spending by the top crypto advertisers in the US plummeted in the past few months amid the cryptocurrency markets' sharp decline (Seb Joseph/Digiday)
Seb Joseph / Digiday: Digital ad and linear TV ad spending by the top crypto advertisers in the US plummeted in the past few months amid the cryptocurrency markets' sharp decline — Don't expect to see many crypto ads for a minute. The companies behind them are trimming down costs... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 12:25 pm - ●
French music streamer Deezer goes public via a SPAC merger on the Euronext stock exchange, opening at €8.50 per share before dropping 29.41% to €6 (Reuters)
Reuters: French music streamer Deezer goes public via a SPAC merger on the Euronext stock exchange, opening at €8.50 per share before dropping 29.41% to €6 — Shares of French music-streaming platform Deezer plunged as much as 35% on its first trading day, in a blow to telecoms maverick Xavier... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 12:10 pm - ●
Copenhagen-based Onomondo, which offers a virtualized IoT network integrated with 700+ operators across 180+ countries, raised a $21M Series A led by Verdane (Megha Paul/Tech.eu)
Megha Paul / Tech.eu: Copenhagen-based Onomondo, which offers a virtualized IoT network integrated with 700+ operators across 180+ countries, raised a $21M Series A led by Verdane — The Danish platform offers interoperable cross-border connectivity and performance management without operator constraints... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 12:00 pm - ●
EU lawmakers pass the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, seeking to regulate US tech giants, but limited resources could hamstring enforcement (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU lawmakers pass the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, seeking to regulate US tech giants, but limited resources could hamstring enforcement — EU lawmakers gave the thumbs up on Tuesday to landmark rules to rein in the power of tech giants such... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 11:45 am - ●
China is rapidly censoring news of the alleged Shanghai police database breach exposing 1B+ people's data; WeChat and Weibo appear to be blocking the topic (Financial Times)
Financial Times: China is rapidly censoring news of the alleged Shanghai police database breach exposing 1B+ people's data; WeChat and Weibo appear to be blocking the topic — Purported leak of personal information of more than 1bn people offered for sale for $200,000 — China is rapidly censoring news …... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 11:30 am - ●
FIFA plans to introduce semi-automated offside technology at the 2022 World Cup with a custom soccer ball and 12 cameras to track 29 points on players' bodies (Paul MacInnes/The Guardian)
Paul MacInnes / The Guardian: FIFA plans to introduce semi-automated offside technology at the 2022 World Cup with a custom soccer ball and 12 cameras to track 29 points on players' bodies — - Sensor in ball will send out location data 500 times per second — Fifa claim average... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 11:25 am - ●
Source: Twitter is seeking to overturn some Indian government content takedown orders through a judicial review, alleging abuse of power by officials (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)
Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: Source: Twitter is seeking to overturn some Indian government content takedown orders through a judicial review, alleging abuse of power by officials — Twitter is seeking to overturn some Indian government orders to take down content, a source familiar with the matter said …... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 11:15 am - ●
Tencent, Baidu, JD.com, and other Chinese tech giants agree to a "self-discipline initiative" for NFTs, including ID checks and avoiding secondary marketplaces (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: Tencent, Baidu, JD.com, and other Chinese tech giants agree to a “self-discipline initiative” for NFTs, including ID checks and avoiding secondary marketplaces — In a new ‘self-discipline initiative’, China's biggest tech firms agreed to enforce real-name authentication …... Read more »
Source: Techmeme | Published: July 5, 2022 - 10:15 am - ●
My mum is locked out of her Apple iPad and can’t get her photos
A reader writes that their 79-year-old relative can’t access her tablet or iCloud accountMy 79-year-old mother has found herself locked out of her Apple iCloud account and denied access to many years’ worth of family photos saved on her original iPad.She has had long periods in hospital and her iPad... Read more »Source: Technology | The Guardian | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:00 am NHS to test using drones to fly chemotherapy drugs to Isle of Wight
Trial will take treatments from Portsmouth to St Mary’s hospital and health service plans similar drops elsewhere in EnglandThe NHS plans to use drones to fly chemotherapy drugs to cancer patients in England to avoid the need for long journeys to collect them.The devices will transport doses from Portsmouth to... Read more »Source: Technology | The Guardian | Published: July 4, 2022 - 11:01 pmLegislation aims to shield UK internet users from state-backed disinformation
Changes to online safety bill require tech firms to minimise people’s exposure to ‘hostile online warfare’Tech firms will be required to shield internet users from state-sponsored disinformation posing a threat to UK society and democracy, under changes to a landmark online safety bill.The legislation will require social media platforms, video... Read more »Source: Technology | The Guardian | Published: July 4, 2022 - 9:30 pmUK subscribers will soon be able to leave Amazon Prime in two clicks
The move follows changes across the EU that made it simpler for users to quit the subscription serviceQuitting an Amazon Prime membership is a confusing business that can often feel like it takes longer than the next-day delivery the service promises. By the end of next month, however, UK subscribers... Read more »Source: Technology | The Guardian | Published: July 4, 2022 - 4:28 pmHacker claims to have obtained data on 1 billion Chinese citizens
Personal information allegedly taken from Shanghai police database would be one of biggest data breaches in historyA hacker has claimed to have stolen the personal information of 1 billion Chinese citizens from a Shanghai police database, in what would amount to one of the biggest data breaches in history if... Read more »Source: Technology | The Guardian | Published: July 4, 2022 - 1:42 pm
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July Open Thread (2022)
Corbett Report members are invited to log in and leave their thoughts in the July Open Thread. The post July Open Thread (2022) first appeared on The Corbett Report.... Read more »Source: The Corbett Report | Published: July 3, 2022 - 2:58 pm- mp3
Interview 1735 - New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: the increasingly inaccurately named North Atlantic Treaty Organization sets its sights on the Asia-Pacific; the Dutch government cracks down on farming and farmers' protests; and Amazon demonstrates creepy dead grandma voice technology on Alexa. The post Interview 1735 - New World Next... Read more »Source: The Corbett Report | Published: June 30, 2022 - 10:06 pm - mp3
Teaching Children About History - #SolutionsWatch
As concerned parents know all too well, the revolution of the mind that is the only thing that will really change the world for the better is an intergenerational project. It is more important than ever that we take back the responsibility of educating our children about history and about... Read more »Source: The Corbett Report | Published: June 29, 2022 - 12:27 pm The OTHER Globalist Summit
There was another assembly of globalist super-gophers that took place last week. Didn't hear about it? That's not surprising. This conference—unlike the flashier Davos or Bilderberg or NATO meetings—barely gets any mention at all in the Western press, MSM or independent . . . The post The OTHER Globalist Summit... Read more »Source: The Corbett Report | Published: June 25, 2022 - 9:32 pm- mp3
Interview 1734 - New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: the controlled demolition of the economy continues apace; France introduces climate lockdowns (exactly as predicted); and trust in the dinosaur media sinks to NEW all-time lows! The post Interview 1734 - New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato first appeared on... Read more »Source: The Corbett Report | Published: June 23, 2022 - 10:05 pm - mp3
Fairy Tales and Children's Stories - #SolutionsWatch
In this edition of #SolutionsWatch, James talks to Frode Burdal Klevstul about his new self-published book, Bill Goats and the Forest. We discuss the power of narrative in helping children (and adults) to understand world events in their proper context and we talk about the process of conceptualizing, writing and... Read more »Source: The Corbett Report | Published: June 21, 2022 - 7:40 am The Controlled Demolition of the Economy
As I'm sure you've seen, there have been many, many such stories circulating in the financial press in recent months, all touting similarly bleak numbers. But it's important to keep in mind that these numbers are just that: numbers. The real question is what these numbers actually mean. Today, let's... Read more »Source: The Corbett Report | Published: June 19, 2022 - 2:17 pm- mp3
Interview 1733 - New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
This week on the New World Next Week: Chinese protesters stopped by health apps; Ghislaine Maxwell wants to serve out her sentence in the UK; and the Svalbard vault is about to get some musical glass deposits. The post Interview 1733 - New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato... Read more »Source: The Corbett Report | Published: June 16, 2022 - 10:08 pm - Video
FLASHBACK: Shut Up and Eat Your GMOs (2007)
FROM 2007: Tinkering with the building blocks of life is more than just child play, it's big business. Today we examine the consequences, intended and unintended of chimera cross-species genetic engineering. The post FLASHBACK: Shut Up and Eat Your GMOs (2007) first appeared on The Corbett Report.... Read more »Source: The Corbett Report | Published: June 12, 2022 - 11:11 pm Why Do People Believe Fake Statistics?
It turns out that the very people who are perfectly capable of pointing out the statistical chicanery of the globalist supervillains and their MSM cronies are, often, the same people who fall for the statistical chicanery of people that they like. Why is this? Let's find out. The post Why... Read more »Source: The Corbett Report | Published: June 12, 2022 - 3:11 pm