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Privacy Concerns

‘Invisible Computing’ Contact Lens Is Surveillance Capitalism’s Holy Grail

Mojo Vision Reveals XR Contact Lens The Washington Post via Getty Images Do you remember Google Glass? First announced in 2012 as the next step in smart technology, it died a painful death as a consumer tech gadget in early 2015. Killed off by premature hyp…

bubmagJanuary 17, 2020

CCTV

Hikvision discusses seven key trends for the security industry in 2020

“Normally when we talk about trends and the future, we are actually thinking more about the present. The reason we are keen on understanding trends is because we want to know how they will affect our current business and how we should act now to avoid being outdated.” Significant changes…

bubmagJanuary 17, 2020

Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama visits Bihar CM#39;s residence, prays for peace

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on January 17 at his official residence here, and held a prayer ceremony for peace and well-being of one and all, official sources said. Kumar accorded a warm welcome to the …

bubmagJanuary 17, 2020

Electric Car

VW knows it must become a tech company to compete with Tesla

German marque, and the world’s largest car maker by sales, Volkswagen (VW) appears to be wising up to the changing landscape of the automobile world. In a meeting with more than 100 company managers in Berlin this week, VW CEO Herbert Diess said that the company will have to “slaughter…

bubmagJanuary 17, 2020

Belt and Road

Myanmar president hails ‘historic’ visit as China’s Xi arrives to fanfare

YANGON (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping flew into Myanmar on Friday for two days of talks to shore up massive infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation isolated by the West over its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority. State counse…

bubmagJanuary 17, 2020

Holocaust

Pain still acute as Hungary’s Jews mark liberation of Budapest ghetto

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Jews on Friday marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto and the end of the Holocaust, which killed more than 500,000 Jews and destroyed a once-vibrant Jewish culture across Hungary. “I lost 49 famil…

bubmagJanuary 17, 2020

Filter Bubble

Book Review: Are Filter Bubbles Real? by Axel Bruns

As references to echo chambers and filter bubbles become ubiquitous in contemporary discourse, Axel Bruns offers a riposte in Are Filter Bubbles Real?, which questions the existence of these phenomena. While not convinced by all of the author’s arguments, Ignas Kalpokas welcomes the book as a must-read for those looking…

bubmagJanuary 17, 2020

Julian Assange

Links 1/17/2020

Scientists Design Bacteria-Based Living Concrete Smithsonian Banking’s Problem Child May Be Due Another Tantrum Bloomberg Euro zone slowdown has bottomed but no big bounce in sight: Reuters poll Reuters Big Brother Australia aims to ban cash spending Asia Times Extreme mega-fires force rethink on fighting blazes FT The solution to…

bubmagJanuary 17, 2020

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz-Birkenau as it’s never been seen before

Auschwitz was the largest of the concentration camps and extermination centres built by the Nazis in occupied Poland, with more than 1.1 million men, women and children dying there. Most of them were Jews, some six million of whom were killed in the Holocaust…

bubmagJanuary 17, 2020

Blockchain

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad to inaugurate ‘Centre of Excellence in Blockchain Technology’ in Bengaluru tomorrow

National Informatics Centre (NIC) has set up the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Blockchain Technology in Bengaluru, Karnataka, aiming to provide Blockchain as a service and allowing all stakeholders to benefit from shared learning, experiences and resources. I…

bubmagJanuary 17, 2020

‘Invisible Computing’ Contact Lens Is Surveillance Capitalism’s Holy Grail

Hikvision discusses seven key trends for the security industry in 2020

Dalai Lama visits Bihar CM#39;s residence, prays for peace

VW knows it must become a tech company to compete with Tesla

Myanmar president hails ‘historic’ visit as China’s Xi arrives to fanfare

Pain still acute as Hungary’s Jews mark liberation of Budapest ghetto

Book Review: Are Filter Bubbles Real? by Axel Bruns

Links 1/17/2020

Auschwitz-Birkenau as it’s never been seen before

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad to inaugurate ‘Centre of Excellence in Blockchain Technology’ in Bengaluru tomorrow

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