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Privacy Concerns

Why Facebook’s Voice Assistant Will Succeed (And Fail)

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Amidst 'unintentionally' uploading 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent, Facebook is also doing something else that people haven't asked them to do - make a voice assistant. At firs…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Cold War

Sci-fi espionage sim Sigma Theory starts snooping out early access

Future spies are the best kind of spies. What they lack in self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, they more than make up for with mind control and scary drones. By crazy random happenstance, those are just two of the tools available in Sigma Th…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Recycling

Apple expands its iPhone recycling program to US Best Buy stores and the Netherlands

Apple has announced that it’s expanding its iPhone recycling program to include Best Buy stores in the US and KPM locations in the Netherlands, greatly increasing the number of places where customers can return old devices to ensure that they’re recycled prop…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Yellow Vests

Michel Houellebecq: Controversial writer wins Légion d’honneur

Image copyrightAFP/GettyImage caption Michel Houellebecq has been called France's greatest living writer but is accused of misogyny, Islamophobia and racism The controversial writer Michel Houellebecq is to be awarded France's highest honour on Thursday. …

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Holocaust

Denver Suburb Drops ‘Swastika Acres’ Name From Neighborhood

The city council in the Denver suburb of Cherry Hills Village voted unanimously Tuesday evening to drop the name “Swastika Acres” from a subdivision, according to local news reports. “I think it’s important for our community to bring some closure to this iss…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Lessons On Longevity- What The East Can Teach The West To Harness The ‘Longevity Dividend’

Only a third of us are looking forward to growing older and the biggest worry about old age globally is simply not having enough money. Why the doom and gloom? Living longer brings great opportunities, including the possibility of rethinking how our entire li…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

NASDAQ

Zoom — a profitable unicorn — is set to make its stock-market debut

bubmagApril 18, 2019

CCTV

Microsoft denies Cali feds access to facial recognition tech in shocking show of ethics

BASTION OF VIRTUE Microsoft has been revealed to have rejected a request to use its facial recognition technology on human rights grounds. Now you've finished spitting out your coffee in shock, we'll explain. A report from Reuters suggests that a California…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

Fleetwood Mac is back – World News – Castanet.net

World Ukraine's presidential runoff Sunday is a battle between a billionaire tycoon who rode anti-Russian protests to the nation's top office five years ago and a comedian who plays a president in a TV sitcom. Improbably, the actor appears poised to win. …

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Climate change: Sir David Attenborough warns of ‘catastrophe’

Media captionViewers can watch Climate Change - The Facts on BBC One, Tonight at 9pm Sir David Attenborough has issued his strongest statement yet on the threat posed to the world by climate change. In the BBC programme Climate Change - The Facts, the vete…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Why Facebook’s Voice Assistant Will Succeed (And Fail)

Sci-fi espionage sim Sigma Theory starts snooping out early access

Apple expands its iPhone recycling program to US Best Buy stores and the Netherlands

Michel Houellebecq: Controversial writer wins Légion d’honneur

Denver Suburb Drops ‘Swastika Acres’ Name From Neighborhood

Zoom — a profitable unicorn — is set to make its stock-market debut

Microsoft denies Cali feds access to facial recognition tech in shocking show of ethics

Fleetwood Mac is back – World News – Castanet.net

Climate change: Sir David Attenborough warns of ‘catastrophe’

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