Many employees at Silicon Valley tech companies have recently moved to cheaper residences to work remotely amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Big Tech has responded by slashing salaries using “cost-of-living” reductions as a reason. This has increased tensions between employers and their workers. One tech CEO in the midwest called Silicon Valley’s salary cuts “hypocritical.” The Wall […] Read more
Cybersecurity multimillionaire John McAfee has been arrested in Spain and charged with tax evasion. He allegedly earned millions in income from promoting cryptocurrencies. The indictment alleges that McAfee, 75, has evaded U.S. taxes by having his income “paid into bank accounts and cryptocurrency accounts in the names of others, while also using the names of […] Read more
Big technology companies may already be complying with secret Chinese requests for user information held in Hong Kong. They ought to “come clean” about the vulnerability of the data they hold there, a senior US state department official has said. Hong Kong can demand data from tech companies, and some are complying The allegation of […] Read more
Have you noticed a trend lately of the government, and particularly branches of the military, taking the potential threat of UFOs far more seriously? Now, the Pentagon is forming a new task force to investigate UFO sightings that have been observed on several occasions by U.S. military aircraft. The creation of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena […] Read more
In the past seven months, more than 100 COVID-19 vaccines, therapies, and drugs have been pushed into development. But for any of these treatments to make it to humans, they usually have to face another animal first: a monkey. And here, scientists in the United States say they are facing a bottleneck. There just aren’t […] Read more
Companies are learning the hard way that consumers do not appreciate personal data or financial information being stolen by hackers. While consumer data protection seems to be the focus now, there is a lack of HR professionals seeing the need to protect employee data. More than 40 percent of companies are not training their HR […] Read more
NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center sprawls across the southern coastal Mississippi wetlands, built in the early 1960s to fulfill President John Kennedy’s space race dream to land the first man on the moon. Specifically, the ground-breaking (and sound-shattering) facility’s task was to flight-certify all first and second stages of the Saturn V rocket for […] Read more
My acupuncturist Dr. Jim is an amazing guy. Last week, he told me how he decided to shed 10 pounds of excess belly flab that had crept up. He figured that his back pain was caused by pressure from the front of his body. So he set fitness goals with rewards for successful completion. What […] Read more
I remember seeing the Tom Cruise film Minority Report in 2002 with flying cars and cereal boxes that came alive, and wondered how that could all happen. I still don’t quite get it, but I know it has something to do with computers, 1 trillion of them. The interconnectivity of society will be beyond a scale we […] Read more
Smart preppers plan ahead for worst-case scenarios before they happen. Many people coordinate bug-out plans with family members and friends, just in case the need arises to escape an emergency situation, be it natural (hurricane or electromagnetic solar flare) or not (armed conflict or disease). While we’re all waiting for the End of the World, […] Read more
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