Hong Kong’s ATM network has been hit with a surge in withdrawals by customers using China UnionPay bank cards in the wake of facial recognition technology being introduced at cash dispensing machines in Macau. Monetary chiefs in Hong Kong have declined to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dow Jones Industrial Average The Dow Jones Industrial Average is currently trending bearish after yet another series of dramatic developments in the White House. By Friday, 18 August 2017, the knives were out for White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Afghan officials said on Friday that American warplanes killed 16 civilians as they tried to flee an area in eastern Afghanistan controlled by Islamic State militants, but the United States military insisted the dead had been extremist fighters. Hajji Saz[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fired Google engineer James Damore has penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal explaining how his good-faith effort to discuss differences between men and women in tech couldn’t be tolerated in the company’s “ideological echo chamber,” adding that self-segregation with similar-minded people has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Behind the Curtain, there seems to be no government going completely nuts more so than Australia. They are doubling taxes on all foreigners who own property, which is a violation of international law, and then they made it a crime[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Editor’s note: This technology could be used for good or evil…certainly an area that requires investigation and an open debate/discussion. Researchers in Portland, Oregon have, for the first time, edited a human embryo in the U.S. This work adds to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Blueberries, quinoa, goji berries and flax seeds are just some of things that have been labelled superfoods in recent years. But whilst there is little doubt that consuming fresh fruit and vegetables is good for us, some scientific studies have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ravages of a Brexit have failed to dissuade investors from plowing money into the UK’s burgeoning FinTech sector. Foreign investment levels in the United Kingdom’s FinTech arena are soaring, in spite of the exodus of European Union migrant workers,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Brexiters’ notion that the UK can become a global trading nation after it emerges from the yoke of EU regulation was given some credence recently thanks to the FTSE 100. As China prepares to scale back its mining output during the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By Julian Assange of WikiLeaks. Mike Pompeo, in his first speech as director of the CIA, chose to declare war on free speech rather than on the United States’ actual adversaries. He went after WikiLeaks, where I serve as editor, as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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