People are used to strange behaviour from the band of bonkers billionaires who run US tech giants, but the one most people have never heard of, Peter Thiel, is far and away the strangest of them all. The reason most of us aren’t as familiar with Thiel as we are …
Read More »Facebook is too powerful, morally bankrupt and in need of government oversight, ‘whistleblower’ Haugen tells Senate
Fresh off the ‘60 Minutes’ interview on Sunday and sporting a Twitter verification in record time, Haugen testified on Tuesday before a Senate subcommittee chaired by Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut). “Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy,” Haugen told the senators. Haugen accused Facebook of putting “profit over …
Read More »India fails to send powerful Earth monitoring satellite into space, as indigenous engine malfunctions
On Thursday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that the 12-story-tall Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) had launched successfully at 5:43am IST (0:43pm GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota Island in eastern India. The group shared an image of the lift-off from their livestream. However, despite …
Read More »The word for it is ‘propaganda’: Wikipedia co-founder says website has morphed into playground for rich and powerful manipulators
“There is a big nasty complex game being played behind the scenes to make the articles say what somebody wants them to say,” Sanger said this week, blasting the current community culture at Wikipedia. “There are all kinds of tricks that people can play to ‘win’ it.” Sanger, who launched …
Read More »Up to 20 missing after powerful landslide ploughs through houses due to heavy rain in Japan (VIDEO)
A video posted on social media shows a powerful flood sweeping away several houses on hilly terrain. A fire truck is seen driving away from the flood, while a firefighter runs for his life. The Japanese media quoted regional officials as saying that around 20 people are missing. The officials …
Read More »6 injured after gas station fire triggers powerful explosions with mushroom clouds in Siberia’s largest city (VIDEOS)
Bystanders and residents of multi-story apartment buildings filmed powerful mushroom-shaped explosions near a busy road. The TASS news agency cited emergency services saying that four employees and two firefighters had been hurt. The officials said that fuel tanks had detonated. Emergency officials separately told RIA Novosti that four people were …
Read More »Scientists discover underwater currents which make hurricanes up to 65% more powerful
While parsing through the high-resolution data from subsurface oceanographic instruments positioned along coral reefs in southwest Puerto Rico, researchers from the US Geological Survey (USGS) may have inadvertently stumbled upon a new method which could improve forecasts ahead of the Earth’s most devastating storms. For context, Hurricane Maria killed over …
Read More »‘We may find signs of life on other planets in next 5 to 10 years’ thanks to powerful new telescope, claims researcher
Due to launch in October 2021 after years of delays, the new cutting-edge telescope could allow humanity to detect life signs on distant planets in as little as 60 hours, according to early calculations. “What really surprised me about the results is that we may realistically find signs of life …
Read More »Russia building most powerful icebreaker fleet, aims for year-round sailing on its Arctic sea route – Putin
“Russia is building the world’s most powerful icebreaker fleet, including giants such as the ‘Leader’, which no one has ever built before,” the Russian leader said Wednesday as he had a meeting with the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society. The construction of the Leader, or Project 10510 …
Read More »Facebook exec says Zuckerberg is TOO POWERFUL and Facebook should be BROKEN UP, in undercover interview
“No king in the history of the world has been the ruler of two billion people, but Mark Zuckerberg is,” Thomas told a Project Veritas reporter, in an interview published by Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe on Monday. Thomas claimed that Facebook is “doing a lot of damage in the …
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