Google researchers taught an AI to recognize smells. Their algorithms can identify odors based on their molecular structures…
October 25, 2019
The researchers created a data set of nearly 5,000 molecules identified by perfumers, who labeled the molecules with descriptions ranging from "buttery" to "tropical" and "weedy." The team used about two-thirds of the data set to train its AI (a graph neural network or GNN) to associate molecules with the descriptors they often receive. The researchers then used the remaining scents to test the AI -- and it passed. The algorithms were able to predict molecules' smells based on their structures...
Walmart, CVS, and Rite Aid are pulling all containers of Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder after asbestos found…
October 25, 2019
Charles Barkley: ‘Vice President Pence needs to shut the hell up’…
October 25, 2019
The former NBA player added that he thought it was “unfair” that politicians were attempting “to make the NBA and our players look bad” after President Trump has started a trade war against China. “But I don’t understand why these holier than thou politicians — if they’re so worried about China, then why don’t they stop all transactions with China?” Barkley said...
It looks like Jeff Bezos is about to lose his spot as the world’s richest person to Bill Gates…
October 25, 2019
Amazon's share price plummeted during after-hours trading in New York on Thursday. f Amazon's share price opens at the lower level, the value of Bezos' stock would come to around $96 billion, bringing his net worth down to an estimated $105 billion. If the Amazon stock losses hold through Friday, Bezos will lose his title of world's richest person to Gates, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index...
WikiLeaks Releases New Documents Questioning Syria Chemical Attack Narrative…
October 25, 2019
A whistleblower with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)... has presented WikiLeaks with a body of evidence suggesting the chemical weapons watchdog agency manipulated and suppressed evidence... WikiLeaks published documents based on evidence presented by the internal OPCW whistleblower to an expert review panel on Wednesday... “Based on the whistleblower’s extensive presentation, including internal emails, text exchanges and suppressed draft reports, we are unanimous in expressing our alarm over unacceptable practices in the investigation of the alleged chemical attack in Douma,” the experts pointed out...
WikiLeks release: A statement from the panel tasked with investigating evidence from a OPCW whistleblower regarding the Douma alleged chemical attack in Syria, April 7, 2018. casts doubts on the accuracy of the OPCW final report. https://t.co/0y1MRStibG
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 23, 2019
Keep Eyes On Romania With Bidens Connections To Shady Dealings & Associations
October 25, 2019
DIG INCLUDES:
- Throwback video from Rudy on Hannity telling us to keep an eye on Romania
- What the Bidens were doing in Romania
- A look into the Romanians connected to the Bidens
- Rudy's Letter To Romanian President Klaus Iohannis
Flynn Case Update: Lisa Page Caught Editing FBI 302 Reports & Lying About It
October 25, 2019
Flynn’s court filings have been unsealed. Lisa Page and Strzok caught editing the 302 Forms, plus more…
October 25, 2019
DIG INCLUDES:
- Important highlights from the motion filed by Sidney Powell
- Link to full US v Flynn; DE 129-2 filing
Former Apple lawyer in charge of preventing insider trading indicted for insider trading…
October 25, 2019
Gene Levoff, who was a senior director of corporate law, was aware of Apple financial results before they were public, and the government alleges he traded based on those results. Levoff was in charge of enforcing Apple's Insider Trading Policy, according to the indictment...
Joe Biden twice used his position as Senator to intervene to boost son Hunter’s lobbying…
October 25, 2019
Joe Biden privately contacted the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice when he was a senior and influential U.S. Senator to discuss issues that his son Hunter’s firm was being paid to lobby on, according to government records. On at least two occasions, Biden contacted federal departments to discuss issues related to Hunter’s firm’s lobbying clients... Government records show that Biden, who has always insisted he knows nothing about his son's business activities, helped Hunter's work with strategic and highly-specific interventions that could have benefited his son to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.
Trump Administration to Begin Official Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord…
October 25, 2019
The official action sets in motion a withdrawal that still would take a year to complete under the rules of the accord. Abandoning the landmark 2015 agreement in which nearly 200 nations vowed to reduce planet warming emissions would fulfill one of President Trump’s key campaign promises while placing the world’s largest economy at odds with the rest of the globe on a top international policy priority.
Convicted Russian agent Maria Butina is set to be released from a Florida prison after serving her 18-month sentence for conspiring to influence U.S. conservative activists and infiltrate the National Rifle Association…
October 25, 2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously expressed “outrage” over Butina’s prison sentence and said she did not carry out any orders from Russian security services... The Siberia native admitted to conspiring with a Russian official and two Americans to infiltrate the NRA, the powerful gun rights group closely aligned with U.S. conservatives and Republican politicians including President Donald Trump, and create unofficial lines of communication to try to shape Washington’s policy toward Moscow...
Chicago Ranked Most Rat-Infested City In America For Fifth Consecutive Time…
October 25, 2019
New York and Los Angeles take second and third place, with San Francisco-Oakland, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia rounding out the top five Rattiest Cities.
Eyes on Bidens in Romania with troubling dealings & associations
October 25, 2019
Betsy DeVos in contempt of court and imposed a fine for violating an order to stop collecting on the student loans owed by students of a defunct for-profit college.
October 25, 2019
DeVos is named in the lawsuit in her official capacity as secretary of Education. She will not be personally responsible for paying the $100,000 in monetary sanctions, which will be paid by the government.
AG Bill Barr Announces Durham Probe is Now a Criminal Investigation..
October 25, 2019
The move also creates an unusual situation in which the Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into itself. Mr. Barr’s reliance on Mr. Durham, a widely respected and veteran prosecutor who has investigated C.I.A. torture and broken up Mafia rings, could help insulate the attorney general from accusations that he is doing the president’s bidding and putting politics above justice. It was not clear what potential crime Mr. Durham is investigating, nor when the criminal investigation was prompted.
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Mr. Durham is running the investigation with a trusted aide, Nora R. Dannehy, and a pair of retired F.B.I. agents. Other prosecutors are also assisting...