Kim Darroch, UK ambassador forced to resign after he called Trump ‘inept’ and ‘incompetent’ is being made a Lord by former Prime Minister Theresa May…
September 10, 2019
May on Tuesday released her resignation honors list, a tradition in British politics where an outgoing prime minister grants honors such as knighthoods and peerages (which grant the title of Lord) to people of their choosing... Darroch became Britain's ambassador to the US in 2016, under President Barack Obama. He continued to serve after Trump's election but announced his resignation in July after a leak of his internal guidance to the British government provoked the president's fury.
Trump fires National Security Advisor John Bolton …
September 10, 2019
....I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Advisor next week.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2019
Walmart is done trying to buy small retailers to compete with Amazon – The company is set to lose $1 billion this year in its attempts to compete with Amazon. That’s not a problem, says the Walmart executive who’s supposed to compete with Amazon…
September 10, 2019
A New Laser Technology Can See Inside Our Bodies Like Never Before…
September 10, 2019
Doctors have put human livers in suspended animation – Supercooling organs could save the lives of people on transplant waiting lists…
September 10, 2019
New York City mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Bill de Blasio wants a robot tax, and a new agency called the Federal Automation and Worker Protection Agency (FAWPA), which would govern how companies could automate jobs…
September 10, 2019
Astronauts mix cement in space for the first time, pave way for future space colonies on other worlds, such as the Moon and Mars…
September 10, 2019
OANN Files $10 Million Lawsuit Against Rachel Maddow…
September 10, 2019
The Complaint alleges that Comcast refused to carry OAN as part of its cable programming because OAN counters the liberal politics of its own channel, MSNBC.
The Complaint further alleges that one week after OAN’s President, Charles Herring, called out and objected to Comcast’s anti-competitive censorship in an email to Comcast’s President of Content Acquisition, MSNBC’s most popular show — The Rachel Maddow Show — opened with the show’s host, Rachel Maddow, telling her audience that OAN “really literally is paid Russian propaganda.”
OAN asserts that, in fact, Defendants knew this statement was false and that they acted maliciously and recklessly in making it...
Over 6 Million Americans Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump Presidency…
September 10, 2019
Data from the USDA shows 6,268,285 individuals have left the food stamp program since Trump took office. In February 2017, the first month after Trump took office, 42,297,791 persons were participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. As of June 2019, 36,029,506 persons were participating in the program. Similarly, 20,937,903 households were participating in the program in February of 2017 – a number which slimmed down to 18,230,968 by June 2019 revealing that 2,706,935 households dropped out of the food stamps program since Trump took office.
Trump: Taliban talks are ‘dead’
September 10, 2019
Rep. Doug Collins calls for investigation into CNN report on CIA extracting spy out of Russia…
September 10, 2019
"I really question whose side CNN is on," Collins said. “To put this out at this time and to put it in such a way that the CIA had to come out and respond to this is, really, a disturbing part.” The White House on Tuesday rebuked CNN for the widely challenged report, which claimed the CIA had pulled a high-level spy out of Russia after President Trump “mishandled” classified material – saying the report is wrong and could put lives at risk... CNN is standing by its reporting...
Jack Ma officially retires as Alibaba’s chairman…
September 10, 2019
Google open-sources datasets for AI assistants with human-level understanding…
September 10, 2019
Google today open-sourced Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation (CCPE) and Taskmaster-1, datasets of dialog between two people. Both datasets are being shared by Google AI researchers to supply the training material necessary to model natural language systems that achieve human-level performance.
Google researchers call CCPE a new way to collect voice data. It includes 500 dialogues with people about their movie preferences — 10,000 in total, across 12,000 utterances...
Artificial leaf produces first drugs using sunlight, reports a new study, successfully producing two different drugs: artimensinin, which is effective against malaria, and ascaridole, used against certain parasitic worms. “Artificial leaves are perfectly scalable; where there is sun, it works”…
September 10, 2019
POLITICO: The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy…
September 10, 2019
Rosenberg, a professor at UC Irvine, was challenging a core assumption about America and the West. His theory? Democracy is devouring itself—his phrase — and it won’t last... We’re to blame, said Rosenberg. As in “we the people." ... His prediction? “In well-established democracies like the United States, democratic governance will continue its inexorable decline and will eventually fail.”...
"A well-informed and educated electorate is a prerequisite to democracy."...
Good thing we're not a Democracy. We're a Republic. Does Rosenberg know? Someone should tell this psuedo-intellect.
Brain-computer interface will make people telepathic, scientists say: People will communicate ‘not only without speaking but without words – through access to each other’s thoughts at a conceptual level’…
September 10, 2019
NRA sues San Francisco over “domestic terrorist organization” label…
September 10, 2019
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses city officials of violating the gun lobby's free speech rights for political reasons and says the city is seeking to blacklist anyone associated with the NRA. It asks the court to step in "to instruct elected officials that freedom of speech means you cannot silence or punish those with whom you disagree."...
Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules…
September 10, 2019
Scraping a public website without the approval of the website's owner isn't a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, an appeals court ruled on Monday. The ruling comes in a legal battle that pits Microsoft-owned LinkedIn against a small data-analytics company called hiQ Labs...
FBI Given Evidence Of Clinton-Linked Libya Scheme; Instead Launched Trump-Russia Quagmire…
September 10, 2019
Blumenthal and associates "stood to gain a brokers' cut of perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars."...
Watch: Jim Mattis Leaves Andrea Mitchell At A Loss For Words After Torpedoing Her Anti-Trump Narrative…
September 10, 2019
Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis corrects NBC's Andrea Mitchell, says "NATO is actually stronger today" under President Trump.
Mattis left her SPEECHLESS! pic.twitter.com/pjip4wUEYD
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 9, 2019