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Big Data

Crowdfunding a picture book about resisting surveillance

When my first couple novels came out, I lobbied to add some kind of notation about "fair use" and "limitations and exceptions to copyright" on the copyright notice page and was told not even to try because legal would never allow even the slightest variance f…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Privacy Concerns

[Update: Privacy details] Google is gathering face data for Pixel 4 in the streets for $5

Google has a lot of ways to gather data on users, but likely in preparation for the Pixel 4, the company has a new method in place. Apparently, Google employees are stopping random people in the street and giving them $5 gift cards in exchange for their face …

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Dear Moderators of the Presidential Debates: How About Raising the Issue of How to Avert Nuclear War?

You mass media folks lead busy lives, Im sure. But you must have heard something about nuclear weaponsthose supremely destructive devices that, along with climate change, threaten the continued existence of the human race. Yes, thanks to popular protest an…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

A Conversation With Sam Brownback

BROWNBACK: Hi, guys. Hi, folks. DIAS: Good evening! We are glad to be here, and thank you so much, Ambassador Brownback, for sitting down with me and with all of these fine folks who have traveled from very far. I hearI would be curious to take a poll to se…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Slavery Abolition

You know who was into Karl Marx? No, not AOC. Abraham Lincoln.

It was December 1861, a Tuesday at noon, when President Abraham Lincoln sent his first annual message — what later became the State of the Union — to the House and Senate. By the next day, all 7,000 words of the manuscript were published in newspapers acros…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Big Data

Microsoft acquires data privacy and governance service BlueTalon

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired BlueTalon, a data privacy and governance service that helps enterprises set policies for how their employees can access their data. The service then enforces those policies across most popular data environments a…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Alibaba

The crypto whiz kid who paid $4.6 million to have lunch with Warren Buffett and invited Donald Trump along might cancel permanently

Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images The crypto whiz kid who paid $4.6 million to have lunch with Warren Buffett and invited Donald Trump to join them could permanently cancel the meal under pressure from the Chinese government, says a host of CNBC Africa's C…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Skateboard

The UNDERCOVER x Nike Daybreak Returns in This Week’s Best Footwear Drops

After an eventful week filled with collaborative drops, it appears things are going to cool down a bit with regards to this week’s sneaker releases. That hasn’t stopped the footwear industry from swirling with news however. The biggest headline of last week …

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Neymar

KOCHÉ Reimagines PSG’s Football Kit Into Colorful Boxing Robes & Dresses

After reimagining the iconic football kit into a graphic dress for the recently passed 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, KOCHÉs Christelle Kocher has turned her sights to Paris Saint-Germain‘s 2019/20 outfit. Created from both PSG‘s Home and Jordan Brand-ed Away …

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Alibaba

The crypto whiz kid who paid $4.6 million to have lunch with Warren Buffett and invited Donald Trump along might cancel it permanently

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Crowdfunding a picture book about resisting surveillance

[Update: Privacy details] Google is gathering face data for Pixel 4 in the streets for $5

Dear Moderators of the Presidential Debates: How About Raising the Issue of How to Avert Nuclear War?

You know who was into Karl Marx? No, not AOC. Abraham Lincoln.

Microsoft acquires data privacy and governance service BlueTalon

The crypto whiz kid who paid $4.6 million to have lunch with Warren Buffett and invited Donald Trump along might cancel permanently

The UNDERCOVER x Nike Daybreak Returns in This Week’s Best Footwear Drops

KOCHÉ Reimagines PSG’s Football Kit Into Colorful Boxing Robes & Dresses

The crypto whiz kid who paid $4.6 million to have lunch with Warren Buffett and invited Donald Trump along might cancel it permanently

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