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Chinese internet stocks soar as phony tech war fades
Inaction against China’s largest internet companies with a combined market value of $1.3 trillion follows a recurring pattern in Washington’s phony war against China. ...[Read more]
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Uber and Lyft drivers are planning a massive strike this week over work conditions and pay rates
Drivers for ride-share companies Uber and Lyft are planning strikes this week in several cities as the controversy around the two companies' massive IPOs... ...[Read more]
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Why Silicon Valley is embracing universal basic income
In a pilot study influential incubator Y Combinator will hand over cash monthly to 100 families in Oakland, California. What’s UBI’s payoff for tech entrepreneurs? ...[Read more]
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As US Government Strangles Iran’s Economy, Google ‘Suffocates’ Iranian Media
The recent shutdown of PressTV and HispanTV's YouTube and Gmail accounts are more examples of the continued effort by the US government to silence Iranian media outlets, Alex Rubinstein, a journalist for MintPress News, told Sputnik. ...[Read more]
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Who Takes the Rap for Robots? Robot Developer Probes Tech’s Moral Side
"From a moral point of view, how will machines make decisions, when they have this ability? Who will be responsible for errors in decision-making by machines that have learned independently?" are some of the pertinent questions, Zabala said. ...[Read more]
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Quantum supercomputer could change life completely
Physicists have produced the first-ever blueprints for a large-scale quantum computer that could herald a technological revolution in computing. If the industrial blueprint works, it could see the first super-fast quantum machine being built within a deca ...[Read more]
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Whose Fake News Gets a Pass? NYT Advocates Internet Censorship
In its lead editorial on Sunday, The New York Times decried what it deemed 'The Digital Virus Called Fake News' and called for Internet censorship to counter this alleged problem, taking particular aim at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for letting '€œ ...[Read more]
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What to Do About ‘Fake News’ – Consortiumnews
So, who are the “responsible” journalists who should be anointed to regulate what the world’s public gets to see and hear? For that Orwellian task, a kind of Ministry of Truth has been set up by Google, called the First Draft Coalition, which touts ...[Read more]
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