How The US Dominates Tech: The Untold Story December 10, 2020 How The US Dominates Tech: The Untold Story2020-12-102020-12-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/tech-e1607639651566.jpg200px200px This is the untold story of how the US uses its hegemony and mass surveillance system to weaponize its laws and take down non-US tech giants. On May 27, 2020, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada finally ruled that Ms. Meng met the “double criminality” standard. […]
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National interests will outweigh public’s pro-Palestinian views if Sudan ends up signing a peace pact with Israel, believes a Khartoum-based journalist. But an agreement is still remote, given the fact that the current transitional government doesn’t have the authority to decide on such paramount issues. As Israel boosts its ties with two Gulf countries, a report has emerged stipulating that another nation is on its way […]
DLT is among 20 “critical and emerging” technologies in the Trump Administration’s new strategy for preserving the U.S.’ technological edge. Source link
Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey has blamed “bad communication” and a “lack of context” in response to public outcry over his platform’s censorship of a New York Post story on alleged backroom dealings of the Biden family. “Our communication around our actions on the [New York Post] article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: […]
Scheer Intelligence: Wrestling Back Privacy From The Jaws Of Big Tech By Robert Scheer, ScheerPost.com. October 13, 2020 Scheer Intelligence: Wrestling Back Privacy From The Jaws Of Big Tech2020-10-132020-10-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/privacy-scaled-1-e1602620355792.jpg200px200px Above image: By Mr. Fish. The Common Sense Media founder is taking on Mark Zuckerberg and other tech barons. He wants to empower the rest of us to do the same. Over the course of just a […]
The rapidly growing city of Shenzhen will be giving away 10 million yuan (US$1.47 million) of China’s new sovereign digital money via lottery, as China seeks to test out and stimulate the usage of the digital funds, according to a report in the South China Morning Post. Source link
Newly-filed financial disclosures show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband have invested up to $1 million in CrowdStrike, American cybersecurity technology company and the originator of ‘Russian hacking’ claims. Financial disclosures show Pelosi (D-California) and her husband Paul buying CrowdStrike shares on September 3, according to a RealClearInvestigations report by journalist Aaron Mate. Since then, the stock went from $129.25 a share to $142.97. New […]
Chinese tech companies were once seen as copycats of their Western peers: Alibaba was a knockoff of eBay and Baidu imitated Google. More recently, Chinese firms like TikTok and Huawei have established such dominant international positions that U.S. authorities have tried to hold them back. Now, the technological arms race is playing out in the cryptocurrency industry, where one Chinese company is taking on Ethereum, the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/04/1080658595_0:47:3106:1795_1200x675_80_0_0_eca76e73f8f60bd0e4287a75074276a4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202010041080658569-elon-musk-to-visit-two-spacex-launch-sites-in-florida-following-tech-scrubs/ After the second recent cancellation of a Falcon 9 rocket launch, Musk apparently wants to see for himself what is going wrong, as his goal is to increase the total number of launch missions to 48 in 2021. Elon Musk will visit two SpaceX launch sites soon – one at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and the other at Kennedy […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010011080632380-google-facebook-and-twitter-ceos-to-be-subpoenaed/ The US Senate Commerce Committee has unanimously voted to subpoena the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, and Google for a hearing on a key law protecting tech companies. MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
Amy Webb, a quantitative futurist and founder of the strategic foresight firm Future Today Institute, thinks the world can, indeed, get worse. In her most recent book “2020 Tech Trend Report: Strategic Trends that Will Influence Business, Government, Education, Media and Society in the Coming Year,” Webb examines the companies – and the people who run them – that will make the future either a utopia […]
The news comes as the Trump administration continues to pressure Germany to block Huawei from the nation’s 5G networks, despite failing to receive guarantees Berlin would cancel its business with the Chinese telecoms giant, German and US media reported on Monday. Berlin has allegedly launched plans to help Deutsche Telekom enter the Chinese telecom market as part of a deal on the nation’s 5G strategy, it […]
Privacy tech company Aleo has launched a data privacy-oriented blockchain and developer kit to make writing zero-knowledge proofs in web applications easy and scalable. The startup is releasing its first round of software tools to let developers write private applications for the web using a new programming language called Leo, as well as integrate these tools into pre-existing browsers’ functions. “I think it’s become very clear […]
Parity Technologies has released the second version of its blockchain building kit, Substrate 2.0, according to a blog post shared Wednesday with CoinDesk. The new release gives developers additional tools to customize a blockchain “precisely for your application or business logic,” the post reads. Parity Technologies is the developer of the Polkadot blockchain with ambitions for developing a Web 3.0, undergirded by a meshing of various […]
Through its main investors, SoftBank and Lockheed Martin, Cybereason not only has ties to the Trump administration but has its software running on some of the U.S. government’s most classified and secretive networks. – Originally published on VT 15 January 2020 – by Whitney Webb, Mint Press If the networks of the U.S. military, the U.S. intelligence community and a slew of other U.S. federal agencies were […]
The Spanish government has come up with a new way of taxing tech giants by seeking to classify the likes of Facebook, Telegram, and Google’s parent company, Alphabet, as telecom providers. Telecommunications Secretary Roberto Sanchez introduced a new bill on Friday, requiring all companies providing telecommunications services to register as telecommunications operators – even if they do not provide any phone numbers. The legislation is set […]
Portland lawmakers unanimously passed a sweeping ban on facial recognition technology, becoming the first city to bar both public and private entities from the controversial software and defeating Amazon’s bid to kill the measure. The Portland City Council adopted the ban in the form of two separate ordinances on Wednesday. The first will block all city agencies, including the police, from using the tech, while the […]
The ambitious multi-million pound project will work along with two major government investment strategies aimed at bolstering domestic technologies amid Washington’s contentious trade war. Chinese tech giants such as Huawei Technologies and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) are set to launch a “domestic replacement” fund by the end of 2020 to boost mainland firms hit by US sanctions, reports revealed. China Europe Capital, a venture capital […]
The recent stock rout has wiped out over $1 trillion from the value of America’s biggest tech corporations, including the world’s most valuable company Apple and online giant Amazon – but it failed to erase all their 2020 gains. US benchmark indices finished lower for the third session in a row on Tuesday amid a massive sell-off in high-flying technology stocks, which were the main drivers […]
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Investors dumped technology shares and drove all US stock market indices sharply down after a previous day’s high note. Oil and gold also dropped, as analysts struggled to explain the cause behind the sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by over 1,000 points before bouncing back on Thursday, closing down 808 points at 28,292.73, for a 2.8 percent loss. The S&P 500 dropped 3.5 percent […]
In their biggest plunge since June, US stocks sank on Thursday amid huge selloffs driven by tech giant losses. At closing bell on Thursday, US stocks had suffered some of their biggest single-day losses in months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 28,292.73, an 807.77-point loss, and the S&P 500 suffered a 125.78-point loss to close at 3,455.06. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite lost 598.34 points, […]
The news comes after the Trump administration extended a ban Chinese firms doing business with US tech companies in May, forcing the world’s largest contract chipmaker to block shipments of processors to the world’s largest IT equipment provider as the measures were due to enter force in September. US restrictions on Huawei Technologies have sparked a massive stockpiling of chips in the global semiconductor industry amid […]
Australian Facebook users may soon find themselves unable to share news, the social media giant has warned, citing a new law which has pitted Big Tech firms against major media outlets demanding a cut of their revenue. The draft regulation, proposed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), would mandate that platforms such as Facebook and Google give news organizations a piece of their digital […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/14/1079935068_0:137:1920:1217_1200x675_80_0_0_58f74e0bda12e2fee0cf0f2022e63805.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Pratibha Sharma. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202008281080304510-now-shots-wont-hurt-indias-top-tech-institute-develops-painless-vaccination-device/ New Delhi (Sputnik): This type of technology has been used in the United States and several other countries. This method involves micro-needles that are too thin to induce a painful reaction, like ordinary needles which touch the nerves in the skin. The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur has developed micro-needles and micro-pumps that enable medications to be […]
Previous Chancellor Philip Hammond slapped a two per cent tax on top digital companies, which are largely American, with concerns having since mounted that the companies could pass on the costs to customers. The move is also understood to have angered Washington, which believes the tax stands in the way of effective trade talks. The Digital Services Tax (DST), dubbed the “Facebook tax” on big tech […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): From social networking to internet browsing and shopping, India has an array of domestically-made apps to help users earlier accustomed to Chinese platforms before they were banned last month over an ongoing border standoff. Developers are exploring newer and trendier services to offer India’s 400 million smartphone users. From providing “early warnings” about floods to “meme and keyboard” apps that allow people to […]
Reports suggesting that the Trump administration is urging Tel Aviv to block China from the development of 5G infrastructure in Israel emerged in late May, falling in line with Washington’s confrontation with Chinese tech giant Huawei over its alleged connections with Beijing intelligence. Israel and the United States are close to signing a so-called Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that suggests Tel Aviv would refrain from using […]
The United Arab Emirates and Israel agreed to normalize relations Thursday following negotiations mediated by the US, with a formal ceremony expected to take place at the White House at a later date. The UAE is just the third Arab state, and the first in the Arabian Peninsula, to recognize the state of Israel since that country’s founding in 1948. Former Obama-era US Ambassador to Israel […]
Top row, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, second from right, and bottom row Google CEO Sundar Pichai, left, and Apple CEO Tim Cook, second from left are sworn in remotely during a House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust on Capitol Hill. Mandel Ngan/AP hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AP Top row, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, second from right, […]
A new study from Bitcoin startup Veriphi finds companies and users sending bitcoin transactions could have saved more than half a billion dollars in fees if all companies, including wallets and exchanges, had used the most up-to-date technology. Each bitcoin transaction has an optional fee tacked on. Users have the ability to choose the amount of this fee. If the Bitcoin blockchain is particularly busy, seeing […]
HUGE! Trump White House Implements Executive Order on Online Censorship: Prevents Tech Giants from Altering Users’ Free Speech – Demands Transparency of Moderation Practices Tap here to add The Western Journal to your home screen. Source link
The infrastructure propping up Bitcoin might become easier for anyone to spin up and run. Lightning creator Tadge Dryja has been working on a new design for a lighter weight Bitcoin full node, about which he first wrote a paper in 2019. Last week, he and a team of coders released a first version of the Utreexo software as a part of MIT Digital Currency Initiative […]