Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham last night that the U.S. was considering banning TikTok, one of the most popular smart phone social media apps in the world.
“We’re certainly looking at it,” Pompeo said, …
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The Trump administration has awarded a contract to a California-based startup to design and build “autonomous surveillance towers,” to will monitor and detect moving objects along the souther border.
The tech company, Anduril Industries, will build and deploy …
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The head of France’s cybersecurity agency ANSSI said there will be no ban on using 5G equipment built by Huawei, China’s telecomm giant, but that the French government was encouraging firms not to use them.
“What I can say …
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Michigan’s House of Representatives passed a controversial bill that would allow companies to microchip their employees under the guise of “protecting their privacy,” reports greatgameindia.com.
The Microchip Protection Act would allow businesses to microchip their employees with their consent.…
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The city of Yamato in Japan is looking to ban people from texting, or otherwise staring down at their smartphones, while walking in the hopes that it will cut down on dangers both to the users as well as …
Continue ReadingOscar Veneszee, an employee with Facebook for three years, has filed a complaint with federal officials accusing the tech giant of systemic discrimination in hiring, compensation, performance evaluations and promotions of African-American employees. The complaint points out that African-Americans …
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The Federal Aviation Administration is currently evaluating a proposal to fly a surveillance drone over San Diego, according to Voice of San Diego.
The aircraft, built by General Atomics, is the MQ-9B Reaper, known as the Predator. For domestic …
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Instagram is now classifying my WORSHIP videos as “harmful or false information” 🤦🏼♂️
Religious Liberty? Freedom of Speech? Big Tech censorship? pic.twitter.com/I7s6HUfKH4
— Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) June 23, 2020
Sean Feucht is …
As more and more people all over the world begin to realize that we will have to live with the coronavirus for the foreseeable future and delaying a return to normalcy as being counterproductive, “experts” and international organizations are straining …
Continue ReadingReddit, the popular chat-forum, announced that it is shutting down the largest Trump sub-forum, because of repeated violations to its content-posting policy.
The subreddit, as it’s known, The_Donald, had almost 800,000 subscribers and was one of the most popular conservative …
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Organizers of the boycott against Facebook are trying to get the social media giant to do more to stop hate speech on its platform. They are now set to take their efforts global, they say.
The campaign, “Stop Hate …
Continue ReadingInternational digital health firm Circle Pass Enterprises has contracted with technology firm VST to integrate its VCode technology into biometric “passports.” The passports, dubbed Covi-Pass, can be accessed via mobile phone and are going to be used to show an …
Continue ReadingAmnesty International’s Security Lab reviewed contact tracing apps from counties all over the world and found apps used by the several countries to violate standards of privacy. Those countries with the most egregious violations are Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway…
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Qianxi Robot Catering Group, a subsidiary of Country Garden, opened the world’s first completely automated restaurant this week.
The restaurant, 2,000 square meters (more than 6,000 feet) decorated in pink and futuristic-looking metals, has been outfitted with 20 robots that …
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A Japanese startup, Donut Robotics, has developed a face mask that can transcribe speech into text messages, make phone calls and even amplify the wearer’s voice.
The “smart mask,” which fits over standard face masks, can also translate from …
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Singapore’s biggest telecomm companies have selected Nokia and Ericsson to build it’s next-generation 5G network. China’s Huawei had also been in the running to land the project.
Singapore didn’t exclude any company from consideration but had rather clarified its …
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The U.S. government could begin loaning billions of dollars to companies in a bid to get them to return supply chain manufacturing to the United States.
The U.S. International Development Finance Corp. is talking to companies about bringing manufacturing back …
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