March 26th, 2019

The order is the "first ever to establish a comprehensive policy to improve resilience to EMPs," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders explained.

Autonomous delivery drone networks are coming to the US in earnest. UPS and Matternet are launching a drone "airline" that will use the robotic aircraft to carry medical samples between WakeMed's health care facilities in Raleigh, North Carolina. The drone of choice (an M2 quadcopter) can only carry up to 5lbs at distances as long as 12.5 miles, but it should still be faster, cheaper and more consistent than the current system of driving samples across town using cars.

Inhaled marijuana caused the most severe problems. Marijuana-infused foods and candies also led to trouble. Patients came to the ER with symptoms such as repeated vomiting, racing hearts and psychotic episodes. Nearly a third of patients were admitted to the hospital, indicating severe problems.

The researchers analyzed records from University of Colorado Health Emergency Department from 2012 through 2016. They found a three-fold increase in marijuana cases since the state became the first to allow sales of recreational marijuana in January 2014.

Effective at the stroke of midnight, Wednesday, anyone who is under 18 years of age and unvaccinated against the measles will be barred from public places until this declaration expires in 30 days or until they receive the MMR vaccination.

Those unable to be vaccinated for documented and confirmed medical reasons are exempt from the declaration.

Researchers from Russia and Japan had been working for more 20 years before what they describe as a major development, when cells that had been extracted from a woolly mammoth discovered in Siberia’s permafrost were transplanted into a mouse embryo, which then showed biological activity.

State campaign finance records show that Soros personally contributed a total of $333,000 to Foxx’s super PAC before the March 15, 2016 primary was over, and an additional $75,000 after she won.
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As Breitbart News has reported extensively, Soros has been intervening in local races for prosecutor, state’s attorney, and district attorney — often backing left-wing Democrats against other Democrats in doing so.

“Prism, prism on the wall, who’s the most trustworthy of them all?” said Huawei’s rotating chairman Guo Ping on stage on Tuesday at Mobile World Congress 2019. But Guo wasn’t talking about Snow White. He was poking fun at the massive surveillance programs maintained by the United States.

Huawei is under fire around the world as countries like the U.S., Canada, UK, New Zealand, and Australia question the technology company’s close ties to the Chinese government and warn of potential spying by Beijing.

In a blow delivered to global warming purveyors, a new study discovered that a massive Greenland glacier that had been shrinking rapidly is expanding again.

NBC News reports that a new study published in Nature Geoscience examined the Jakobshavn glacier, in central west Greenland, the ice sheet’s fastest glacier and largest by volume discharge, and found that as opposed to the situation in 2012, when the glacier was shrinking 1.8 miles every year while thinning roughly 130 feet, over the last two years the process has been reversed.

Analysis of the newfound inscriptions is underway. So far, archaeologists can tell that many of the inscriptions date back around 3,900 years, to a time that modern day archaeologists call the " Middle Kingdom ." One of the inscriptions mentions Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea who presided over the trial of Jesus, according to the bible. Many of the ostraca date back around 2,000 years, to around the time that Rome took over Egypt.
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During the excavation, the team found a mysterious, 3,400-year-old stela written in the name of a senior official named Usersatet, who was viceroy of Kush, a region to the south of Egypt. It dates to a time when there was no mining activity at Wadi el-Hudi and the site had been abandoned. This leaves archaeologists with the question of why someone bothered to drag the stela 18. 6 miles into the eastern desert and leave it at Wadi el-Hudi.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham concluded the hearing after all senators present had asked questions. "I'm far more enlightened than I was before," Graham said, adding that he hoped Congress would be able to come to a bipartisan agreement to help implement red flag laws in states.

"I really can't see a reason why we can't pursue this at the federal level, to incentivize states," Graham said.

No senator voted to begin debate on the legislation, while 57 lawmakers voted against breaking the filibuster. Democratic Sens. Doug Jones of Alabama, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona joined 53 Republicans in voting "no." Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, who caucuses with the Democrats, also voted "no."

The vote had been teed up by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in a bid to make Democratic senators -- including several 2020 presidential candidates -- go on the record about the measure. McConnell had called the proposal "a radical, top-down, socialist makeover of the entire U.S. economy."

House Democrats on Tuesday failed to override President Trump’s first veto as part of their battle over border security, representing a victory for the administration that allows the president's declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border to stand...The outcome of the vote, while not surprising, now enables Trump to move forward on an issue that was a hallmark of his 2016 presidential campaign and of his presidency.

Before MEPs could vote on the final bill, the European Parliament ruled against a number of last minute amendments from MEPs unhappy with the final text.

The proposed amendments included the deletion of Article 13 (renamed Article 17 in the consolidated text), which requires UGC platforms like YouTube to agree "fair remuneration" license deals with rights holders and makes them legally liable for hosting unlicensed content, effectively ending safe harbor immunity.

In practice, that's likely to involve YouTube using a stricter filtering system, although upload filters are not mentioned anywhere in the text and the directive does not specify what methods or tools platforms must use to block illegal content.

For those unaware on what this does, essentially, it fractures the internet as it forces every commercial site older than 3 years old to implement a mechanism in which once a copyright infringement has been detected, you have to block further attempts to upload such content.

How? No one really knows and nobody, including Google, has truly figured it out.
Essentially expect EU to be geoblocked by major platforms in the next 2 years (time needed for this to become a law). If you happen to be an artist - you are done because you won't have a place to promote yourself. Definitely move off existing platforms like deviantart/tumblr to your own one however (hosting companies are not affected by this law), that way you will not have your own legit content blocked. If you do that, you are off to a fairer fight as you at least can prove you own a website completely (so you can sign contracts regarding article 11 and linking).

The new kids’ show will focus on coding, because “coding fosters collaboration, critical thinking skills and is an essential language that every child can learn,” Apple announced today by way of a muppet called Cody, who has learned to speak in PR soundbites.

“By teaching preschoolers about coding, we’re giving them the opportunity to change the world!,” the muppet exclaimed.

Just think; The Count will now start at zero, and the 'cookie' monster will violate your privacy. KEK!

Google is launching the Local Experiments Project, an effort to fund dozens of new local news websites around the country and eventually around the world. The tech giant says it will have no editorial control over the sites, which will be built by partners it selects with local news expertise.
...Big tech companies like Google and Facebook are often blamed for the demise of the local news business model. Now, both are trying to fix the broken local news ecosystem for the sake of their audiences, which they say crave more local news.

Today, the transcript of George Papadopoulos's interview before the Judiciary Committee will be made available to the American people. To read the full transcript, visit https://t.co/er8svhlm8F. pic.twitter.com/u3Fnn1EwNd

— Rep. Doug Collins (@RepDougCollins) March 26, 2019

The latest iteration of New Story’s home can be printed in a single day and is being designed by Yves Behar’s Fuseproject. Soon, they’ll start going up in Latin America.