President Trump Press Conference with the Prime Minister of Ireland…
March 14, 2019
Andrew Weissman leaves Mueller team in sign the Russian investigation is coming to an end…
March 14, 2019
One of the most prominent members of special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Russia's attack on the 2016 presidential election will soon leave the office and the Justice Department, two sources close to the matter tell NPR.
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The departure is the strongest sign yet that Mueller and his team have all but concluded their work.Samantha Bee Attempts A Poor Takedown Of Tucker Carlson…
March 14, 2019
Does anybody even watch this show?
Nellie Ohr Testimony Confirms Her Work for the CIA…
March 14, 2019
If you want to know more about Nellie and how she was recruited to the CIA, read our article 'OHR’S HEAD HAM – From Farm To Table'
‘You Have to End Them’: El Salvador President-Elect Outlines His 3 Steps to Destroy MS-13, Other Gangs..
March 14, 2019
Last month in El Salvador, a third-party outsider won in a landslide election, defeating his opponents, promising to crack down on corruption, to fight crime, and to improve the economy. President-elect Nayib Bukele shares with us his thoughts on immigration, gangs, and how the U.S. and El Salvador can work together. Read the transcript...
China may overtake the US with the best AI research in just two years…
March 14, 2019
The number of influential AI research papers coming from China is increasing rapidly, a data analysis shows.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Forces Schools to Adopt ‘Meatless Monday’ School Lunches to Combat Climate Change…
March 14, 2019
According to a report from Politico, de Blasio pointed to greenhouse emissions as the main reason he wanted to pursue the school lunch changes.
“Cutting back on meat a little will improve New Yorkers’ health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” he told the outlet.
The city claims the change is cost-neutral and won’t be enforced until the next school year.
DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence…
March 14, 2019
Hassabis officially founded DeepMind on November 15th 2010. The company’s mission statement was the same then as it is now: to “solve intelligence”, and then use it to solve everything else. As Hassabis told the Singularity Summit attendees, this means translating our understanding of how the brain accomplished tasks into software that could use the same methods to teach itself.
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From the start, Hassabis has tried to protect DeepMind’s independence. He has always insisted that DeepMind remain in London. When Google bought the company in 2014, the question of control became more pressing.A New Theory On Time Indicates Present And Future Exist Simultaneously…
March 14, 2019
The new theory suggests that time does not PASS and that everything is ever-present. fact, time is not linear as we have been thinking all along, and everything around us is ever present. The researchers indicates that time should be regarded as a dimension of spacetime, as relativity theory holds — so it does not pass by us in some way, because spacetime doesn’t. Instead, time is part of the uniform larger fabric of the universe, not something moving around inside it. According to a scientist, everything that has happened, and everything that will happen is in fact occurring at this very moment as time is positioned in space.
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Goldman Sachs: Trump Raises Voters’ Wages with Tight Labor Market…
March 14, 2019
Goldman Sachs says blue-collar and middle-class wages jumped by four percent in the last 12 months — after discounting inflation — and are likely to keep growing in President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy.
Trump’s low immigration “tight labor market” policy played a key role, the report acknowledged: “Even if job growth slows as the labor market tightens, labor income should continue to grow at a healthy pace,” says the March 12 report titled “Wage Growth by Income Level: Acceleration From Below.”
House calls for public release of Robert Mueller’s final report in 420-0 vote
March 14, 2019
The vote comes amid signs that Mueller's inquiry could be drawing closer to its conclusion. Mueller's office confirmed on Thursday that one of its top prosecutors, Andrew Weissmann, plans to leave for another job soon, the latest in a series of departures from the office.
Justice Department rules require Mueller to submit a final, confidential report to Barr outlining why he charged some people and not others. Barr has said he wants to release as much detail as possible about the results of the special counsel investigation, but has not committed to releasing all of the findings of an investigation that has been based in part on classified intelligence and secret grand jury information.
Roger Stone faces angry judge over gag order…
March 14, 2019
Stone is due back in federal court on Thursday to face U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is overseeing his case and appears to be running out of patience with him.
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But Stone is in hot water again because he failed to tell Jackson about the imminent publication of a book called “The Myth of Russian Collusion,” an updated version of a tome that was first released shortly after the 2016 election.
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“Having been scolded, we seek only to defend Mr. Stone and move ahead without further ado,” they wrote.It’s unclear whether Jackson will agree with them.
This judge is something else.
140 years ago on this day, Albert Einstein was born. 1 year ago on this day, Stephen Hawking passed away. Today is also Pi day. What a day!…
March 14, 2019
This is one of those Amazing facts that makes for great conversation.
NXIVM Cult leader Keith Raniere hit with child porn charges…
March 14, 2019
The additional charges against Keith Raniere, 58, were revealed hours after Nancy Salzman, the co-founder of the Albany-based group known as NXIVM, pleaded guilty to a charge of racketeering conspiracy.
Federal prosecutors said in court papers that Raniere, who was known inside the organization as "Vanguard," engaged in relationships with two underage girls, including a 15-year-old.
The government has images of the 15-year-old, "constituting child pornography,
Global Internet Outage, What’s Going On?
March 14, 2019
Major sites such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail were all glitchy yesterday and some continue to face issues. In fact, many users aren’t able to access their profile on Instagram yet. Many also complained about erratic file uploading on Gmail. It seems that the internet outage was linked somehow across the globe, all at the same time. The internet isn’t down for everyone, but users are selectively affected by it. Facebook in a post acknowledged the issue. A similar outage was experienced back in 2016. These kinds of attack are known as distributed denial of service attack. The attack overloads the internet servers and disturbs its functioning, affecting sites like Facebook and Whatsapp.
“In China, women are “dating” virtual boyfriends in an app. This is a glimpse of our virtual future…
March 14, 2019
Such is life in Love and Producer, a mobile game that has become a surprise hit in China, attracting millions of women looking for love. “The men in the game are more attractive than real boyfriends,” says one fan, who asked not to be named. “They’re very attentive. They’re generally more into feelings and emotions.”
Geneticists push for a 5-year global ban on gene-edited babies…
March 14, 2019
Eighteen researchers, including two CRISPR pioneers, are calling for a temporary ban on creating gene-edited babies.
“We call for a global moratorium on all clinical uses of human germline editing — that is, changing heritable DNA (in sperm, eggs or embryos) to make genetically modified children,” the statement’s cosigners, who come from seven countries, wrote in the March 14 Nature.
The proposed moratorium would last about five years to give time for public education and debate about experiments. The delay would buy time for scientists to further test and refine CRISPR/Cas9 and other gene-editing tools to make them safer.
Robots that feed people who can’t feed themselves are here…
March 14, 2019
For the past year, researchers at the University of Washington have been developing a robotic arm that could enable anyone capable of opening their mouth to feed themselves. The robot can be hooked onto a wheelchair, where it holds a fork, pokes at bites of food, and delivers those bites right into someone’s mouth. It’s a personal companion for food that could one day replace assisted eating altogether.
No Body Double: Trump Blasts Fake Melania Theories…
March 14, 2019
President Donald Trump is not amused by the #FakeMelania conspiracy theories circulating on social media.
He said on March 13 that if there was a body double of his wife who stepped in to fill her shoes, then it would be the “fake news” that organized it.
Trump alleged on Wednesday in a tweet that photos of his wife had been altered to make them appear as though a look-alike accompanied him to Alabama last week to survey tornado damage.
First graphene-based device is a “few months” away, says startup…
March 14, 2019
...graphene’s complex, expensive manufacturing process has prevented it from reaching the mainstream.
Now that could be poised to change, with a University of Cambridge spin-out company claiming it’s found a way to produce graphene at commercial scale — meaning the world might finally be able to make good on the promise of this “wonder material.”
It's a cambridge startup that has produced their product already. Which is simply commercial scale graphene. Considering they have sold to several sources it's not entirely unreasonable to think those sources plan on having a product. But then again, this is coming from 'futurism' site, so it's pretty suspect.