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New Documents Expose Government Censorship Efforts At Facebook And WhatsApp

New Documents Expose Government Censorship Efforts At Facebook And WhatsApp Authored by Jonathan Turley, March 26, 2023 New emails uncovered in the ongoing Missouri v. Biden litigation reportedly show that the Biden Administration’s censorship efforts extended to Facebook to censor private communications on its WhatsApp messaging service. In recent months, the Twitter Files revealed an extensive and secret effort by the FBI and other agencies to censor citizens on social media. I testified on that effort. Democratic members oppose efforts to investigate the full scope of this effort and even denounced those calling for greater transparency as “Putin lovers” and apologists for insurrectionists and racists. Yet, the evidence of an extensive censorship and blacklisting effort by the Administration continues to mount. Facebook (now known as Meta) is accused of working with the government to target citizens with dissenting views on Covid and the pandemic. According to emails obtained t
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Eminent Oxford Scientist Says Wind Power "Fails On Every Count"

Eminent Oxford Scientist Says Wind Power "Fails On Every Count" Authored by Chris Morrison via DailySceptic.org, March 26, 2023 It could be argued that the basic arithmetic showing wind power is an economic and societal disaster in the making should be clear to a bright primary school child. Now the Oxford University mathematician and physicist, researcher at CERN and Fellow of Keble College, Emeritus Professor Wade Allison has done the sums. The U.K. is facing the likelihood of a failure in the electricity supply, he concludes. “Wind power fails on every count,” he says, adding that governments are ignoring “overwhelming evidence” of the inadequacies of wind power, “and resorting to bluster rather than reasoned analysis”. Professor Allison’s dire warnings are contained in a short paper recently published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. He notes that the energy provided by the Sun is “extremely weak”, which is why it was unable to provide the energy to sustain e
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Cashless Society: Panera Bread Debuts "Frictionless" Palm Payment System

Cashless Society: Panera Bread Debuts "Frictionless" Palm Payment System BY TYLER DURDEN WEDNESDAY, MAR 22, 2023 - 06:40 PM Amazon's palm-reading payment technology was first introduced at numerous Whole Foods locations in California, enabling customers to pay for their groceries by scanning their palms at checkout terminals rather than using cash or a card. Now Panera Bread is experimenting with Amazon's cashless payment system as the war on cash marches on. On Wednesday, Panera Bread announced plans to roll out a "contactless payment method" to several stores with additional locations in the coming months. The bakery-cafe chain has over 2,000 locations, and its loyalty program has 52 million members. "Panera is the first national restaurant company to use Amazon One as both a way for guests to pay and access their loyalty account with their palm," the company said. "Our philosophy has been centered around leveraging best-in-class techn
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Baidu Granted Permits To Operate Humanless Robotaxis In Beijing

Baidu Granted Permits To Operate Humanless Robotaxis In Beijing BY TYLER DURDEN SATURDAY, MAR 18, 2023 - 11:30 AM It looks like those robotaxis that were promised years ago are finally making their way onto the roads. The only problem is they aren't Teslas - instead, they are products of Beijing's internet search giant, Baidu. The company, akin to Google in the U.S., received "the first permits to provide fully driverless ride-hailing services in a suburb of Beijing", according to a Bloomberg wrap-up Friday morning. Baidu says it has plans of putting 10 robotaxis on the road to start in the Beijing Yizhuang Economic Development Zone, which Bloomberg notes is "roughly the size of Manhattan". The vehicles will have no human driver in the car. As a condition of the new permits, the company won't be able to charge fees for rides yet. "Baidu won China’s first commercial licenses for fully humanless taxis in Wuhan and Chongqing" back in August,
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Microsoft Cuts AI Ethics Team As It Invests Billions More Into AI Technology, Report Says

Microsoft Cuts AI Ethics Team As It Invests Billions More Into AI Technology, Report Says Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), March 17, 2023 The last remaining members of an ethics and society team within Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) department didn’t survive a recent round of mass layoffs, according to a report. The change comes as Microsoft signs a “multi-year, multi-billion-dollar investment” deal with OpenAI, the startup behind AI-powered image and text generators like DALL-E and ChatGPT, and upgrades its Bing search engine and Edge internet browser to incorporate a “new, next-generation OpenAI large language model that is more powerful than ChatGPT.” The team, as reported by tech news site Platformer, was tasked to make sure Microsoft’s ethical standards regarding AI were actually reflected in product designs. The team was also reportedly working to identify potential risks posed by integrating OpenAI’s technology into a range of Microsoft pro
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Microsoft's Stunning Copilot AI Demo Could Change Office Work Forever

Microsoft's Stunning Copilot AI Demo Could Change Office Work Forever Story by Victor Tangermann • March 16, 2023 2:18 PM Microsoft has announced its GPT-4-powered Copilot is coming to its suite of Office 365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.© Provided by Futurism Clippy on Steroids You can run, but you can't hide — AI is coming for your office work. All of it. Still riding high on the success of integrating ChatGPT in Bing, Microsoft just announced that its GPT-4-powered Copilot is coming to Office 365 apps. With it, users will be able to generate entire Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Outlook emails, and PowerPoint presentations with a click of a button, horizontally integrating all those apps (along with Microsoft Teams). In other words, it's Clippy, our paperclip companion of yore, but on steroids. A lot. Think, maybe, Bruce Banner to Incredible Hulk. Or as Microsoft 365 head Jared Spataro gushed during an announcement today: "
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Scientists discover superconducting material that could bring total revolution in energy and electronics

Scientists discover superconducting material that could bring total revolution in energy and electronics Story by Andrew Griffin • March 9, 2023 8:20 PM Scientists have discovered a new material that could be set to change the entire world. Researchers say they have created a superconducting material that works at both a temperature and a pressure low enough to actually use it in practical situations. It reaches a breakthrough that scientists have been chasing for more than a century, in making a material that is able to transmit electricity without resistance, and pass magnetic fields around the material. Its discovery could lead to power grids that are able to seamlessly transmit energy, saving up to 200 million megawatt hours that is currently lost to resistance. It could also contribute to nuclear fusion, a long-awaited process that could create unlimited power. Other applications include high speed, hovering trains and new kinds of medical equipment, they suggest. A team
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