May 28th, 2019

The new method Alexa will use to backtrack when it hears the wake word is relatively simple - listen to everything and detect the command using the same speech recognition it uses currently...

A Pew Research Center study finds that an overwhelming majority of the 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. do not define themselves as being proficient in English. Despite a slight uptick in the number of illegal aliens who claim they are English proficient, still only about 34 percent said they are proficient in English.

Likewise, only about 57 percent of legal immigrants — that is, legal foreign-born residents whom the federal government has admitted to the country — are proficient in English, according to the Pew Research study.

Jacob Schwartz admitted to downloading over 3,000 child pornography pictures and nearly 90 videos from the internet that featured children as young as 6 months old engaged in sexual acts. Schwartz, who was initially arrested in December of 2017, had been holding out for a no-jail plea deal for months, but authorities would not budge on the condition of his incarceration... both Jacob and his father Arthur Schwarz share interest in the political arena. The older Schwartz is a democratic insider and practicing labor lawyer and Jacob Schwartz served as the President of the Manhattan Young Democrats until charges were filed against him.

A growing list of individuals and groups in and outside the film industry are agitating against Georgia... Organizations such as the Producers Guild of America and the ACLU have also called for boycotts of Georgia over the state’s new “heartbeat” abortion law that bans abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected (usually around the fifth or sixth week of pregnancy). Despite the growing chorus of protesters in the film industry, no studios have taken up the cause until now. Netflix has become the first studio to speak out against the abortion laws...

Two black workers in the car were spared but Johanco Fleischman, 19, and Jessica Kuhn, 23, were shot dead...

Full-scale cross border assault using ground troops, airstrikes, and artillery.

“Was this startled fishermen reacting to the unexpected? Or was it the sort of coordinated harassment more suggestive of China’s maritime militia? It’s hard to say for sure, but similar incidents have occurred in the western Pacific,” Euan Graham wrote on the website The Strategist run by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute...

Chinese maritime militia. Deosn't that sound familiar? A couple of weeks back, we brought up China's maritime militia and how China uses fishermen by the South China sea to work as a proxy for their military as a secret weapon. Just recently, the U.S. delivered a stern message to Beijing about its aggression in the highly disputed body of water, announcing that Chinese fishing militia and Coast Guard ships would be treated as military vessels...

The Canadian Parliament’s ethics committee voted earlier this month to subpoena Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, requesting that the pair appear as witnesses for a hearing in Ottawa slated to include several other top tech bosses—Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai among them...

Memorial Day was the busiest recent day of enforcement activity for El Paso Sector Border Patrol Agents during the ongoing influx. The 2,200 apprehensions included two large groups and many smaller ones.

Trump’s surest path to victory in 2020 will be the same as it was in 2016: depress Democratic turnout. He’ll hit the nominee from the left, knowing that reporters will be more interested in chasing his attacks than calling out his lies and hypocrisy.

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 27, 2019

Favreau, 37, joined Barack Obama’s speechwriting team in 2005 when Obama was a freshman senator. After Obama won election to the presidency in 2008, Favreau joined Obama in the White House as the president’s speechwriting director, the second-youngest person to ever hold that position.

The researchers also said they've made the first clear detection of a remote star emitting a kind of eruption known as a coronal mass ejection that were until now only seen from our sun. Such explosions may wreak havoc on any surrounding worlds...

MacKenzie Bezos, ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, just pledged to donate half of her wealth to charity via The Giving Pledge, an organization created by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett that invites billionaires to publicly dedicate more than half of their wealth to philanthropy. The Giving Pledge, which has been signed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, David Rockefeller, Airbnb founder Brian Chesky, and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, has notably not been signed by Jeff Bezos.

The former British spy who produced a dossier describing alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia will not cooperate with a prosecutor assigned by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to review how the investigations of Trump and his 2016 election campaign began, a source with knowledge of the situation said....

We'll see about that...

CT: "This case highlights the fact that abortion is an act rife with the potential for eugenic manipulation. From the beginning, birth control and abortion were promoted as means of effectuating eugenics."...

Thousands of mom-and-pops will lose bulk orders from company. Big brands like P&G and Lego will be immune from the changes...

More than 100 journalists were present when Malaysian authorities opened the Canadian container, along with containers from the U.S., China, Japan and Saudi Arabia.

"We are going to send this back to Canada," Malaysia's environment minister told CBC News. "We really hope the people of Canada will demand better tracking and monitoring of your waste recycling."...

The annual Bilderberg Meeting, designed to foster warmer relations between the United States and Europe, starts Thursday in Switzerland and runs through Sunday. The event's website says about 130 participants from 23 countries have confirmed their attendance this year...

Reading the official guest list, 1 name that popped up in a surprise, Stacey Abrams.

Innovations in solar technology - from creating solar skins that are more aesthetically pleasing for homeowners to smart solar water bottles and solar storage advancements by using bacteria (electroactive microbes) to store energy - the future of photovoltaics and concentrated solar power remains in a state innovation...