As a genuflection to the brave new world of woke, Twitter has announced an “algorithmic bias bounty challenge”, promising rewards for anyone who can find bias in its code. So, will Donald Trump get some cold cash for pointing out that hundreds of his tweets were restricted or banned during election 2020, while not one...
Tag: aug 3 2021
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
WORLDWIDE CRYPTO INVESTORS DOUBLED IN FOUR MONTHS. There are a lot of metrics and info about what various cryptos do that can and should be analysed when making investment decisions. But the explosion in the numbers of people entering the crypto sphere may be one of the telling signs that in 2021, cryptos have taken...
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BLOCKCHAIN IDENTITIES WILL SEE A BOOM OVER NEXT FEW YEARS
Blockchain technology will see expanded use in the identity industry over the next several years, with networks like Ethereum and Cardano likely to see some of that action. How much money is potentially involved? More than $3.5 billion, according to ReportLinker, a market research firm which conducted a recent study on the industry. The projected...
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BLOCKCHAIN MOVING FAST TO DIFFERENT SECTORS
Blockchain technologies are impacting many sectors, including banking and financials, Ecommerce and retail, but also healthcare and insurance, media, and even politics. Some of the more interesting potential or emerging uses of blockchains include things like smart solar power grid utilization, voting systems and combating cyber threats and attacks. The general principle of blockchains is...
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“CELEBRITIES” VAX SMART, YOU’RE STUPID
As we have been reporting so called “actors” – people who can memorize scripts and play someone who they are not – have been elevated to national heroes in the battle to fight the COVID War. (See “CELEBRITY SELLOUTS SELL COVID VAX,” 18 May 2021) And in this issue, for example, we noted how Piers...
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KNOCK, KNOCK: IT’S THE COVID POLICE. DEATH CAMPS NEXT?
In New South Wales, you can run but you cannot hide from the government. Police and the army are knocking on the doors of homes to make sure that there is nobody inside the property who should not be there as the government works to bring down the number of new infections. And helicopters are flying...
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BLOOD CLOT JABS: IDIOTS DELIGHT
Researchers from Spain said data collected from 1.3 million vaccinated individuals in Catalonia who received the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs had about the same number of clotting incidents, EuroNews reported. The news outlet obtained a “pre-print” paper on the subject from Barcelona’s IDIAP Jordi Gol institute that has not been peer-reviewed. The study included 1,372, 213 people...
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SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY: FUELING AI ASCENDANCE
Imagine an “Internet of Things” in virtually every object around you, “alive” with AI, observing, collecting and interacting. Now imagine this pervasive AI presence being smarter than you…and wanting you dead. The scenario might seem like just a variation of sci-fi movies. But it’s not sci-fi. It’s the quickly advancing vision of Singularity University, a...
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WORLD’S ECONOMY RETURNED TO PRE-CRISIS LEVELS: NOT FOR LONG
China’s economy righted itself to pre-crisis levels last year, the U.S.’s in this year’s second quarter, and with Europe’s 8.3 percent second-quarter expansion, the world’s economy as a whole has likely returned to pre-crisis levels of productivity, economists at Capital Economics and Oxford Economics told The Wall Street Journal. Successful vaccination campaigns and massive government...
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U.S. MARKET OVERVIEW
EQUITY MARKETS GAINED AGAIN IN JULY Despite momentum slowing in recent weeks, and slipping on the month’s last trading day, stock markets booked another positive month in July. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.3 percent, the NASDAQ gained 1.2 percent, and the S&P added 2.3 percent last month. The Stoxx Europe 600 index also...