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Wear a mask not just to protect against the COVID-19 virus but also to protect against permanent government surveillance NSA

Wear a mask not just to protect against the COVID-19 virus but also to protect against permanent government surveillance

(Natural News) Former NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden warned this week that governments including the United States are sure to employ sophisticated surveillance technology and methods to ‘fight’ the COVID-19 outbreak, and that it could even become permanent, long after the outbreak crisis has passed. During a remote appearance at the…
bubmag
March 31, 2020
This Russian’s groundbreaking tech will solve a massive problem for space science Space Debris

This Russian’s groundbreaking tech will solve a massive problem for space science

The increasing amount of satellite clusters, often launched into orbit by tech giants, are interfering with the work of astronomers worldwide. A Russian startup claims to have a solution. In any other year, looking up at the night sky, you’d see galaxies, planets, constellations. Perhaps the odd moving light that…
bubmag
March 31, 2020
Grab makes e-scooter and cab rides free for frontline coronavirus workers in the Philippines Self-driving Vehicles

Grab makes e-scooter and cab rides free for frontline coronavirus workers in the Philippines

Essential workers in the Philippines are getting a helping hand from mobility company Grab in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. In an update to users last week, Grab said it has deployed 50 e-scooters to local governments specifically use by health care workers and other essential employees. Workers in…
bubmag
March 31, 2020
The Politics of COVID-19 Nuclear Disarmament

The Politics of COVID-19

The far right thrives on fear. It’s no surprise, then, that it would use the latest pandemic, which has generated widespread panic, to bolster its own agenda. All of the hallmarks of the far right are in play during the current crisis. It has pushed to close borders. It has…
bubmag
March 31, 2020
What’s the difference between Windows 7 and a bin lorry? One is full of garbage, and the other… oh dear Recycling

What’s the difference between Windows 7 and a bin lorry? One is full of garbage, and the other… oh dear

Forget the Lambeth Walk, instead enjoy the Camden Bork Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another in our uplifting series of incidents where someone else's IT misdemeanours are flashed at an unsuspecting world. Behold the bork. Today's example was spotted on the side of a recycling collection lorry pulling out of Queen's Crescent…
bubmag
March 31, 2020
Scientists record first reported heatwave at Antarctica’s Casey research station Antarctica

Scientists record first reported heatwave at Antarctica’s Casey research station

University of Wollongong climate change biologist Senior Professor Sharon Robinson in the lab. Credit: Paul Jones, UOW This summer, while drought, heatwaves and bushfires ravaged Australia, Antarctica was also experiencing a summer of extreme weather. In East Antarctica, scientists recorded the first reported heatwave event at Casey research station in…
bubmag
March 31, 2020