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Whilst doing some Spring cleaning back in 2013, a man threw his old PC hard drive into the trash, which quickly joined the mountain of rubbish at his local landfill site in Newport, Wales, UK. Little did he know at the time, that same hard drive contained a wallet filled with 7,500 Bitcoin, worth a cool £500,000 ($665,000) in the early crypto days. Now? That wallet is worth $357 million. Once he realized, the man began a desperate search for the hard drive and has been searching ever since. Over the past eight years, James Howells has been crawling through...

If you wanted to create an army of conspiracy theorists who don’t trust the medical establishment and increase vaccine hesitancy in the populace, what would you do? You’d suggest using microchips to store vaccine status, of course! And a Swedish company is doing just that—it has developed a subdural microchip implant that can be used to store vaccine passports. The company, called Epicenter, which specializes in subdermal microchips, says the implants, which are the size of a grain of rice, use near-field communications (NFC) technology, which can be easily read by common devices like cell phones. Similar to a QR...

I am sharing this because I purchased a bit and a friend sent me a vid explaining what it really is. the domain spoken of in this vid re crypto currency is .io, apparently in on Diego Garcia and run by CIA The REAL Creator of Bitcoin ,, Excellent vid below. – Philip J. Venables This week we reported on “The Reveal” that was released by Ivy McLemore, a sophomoric website claiming that Bitcoin was started by a man named James Bilal Kahil Caan. We called a PROPAGANDA ALERT and informed our audience that this is just more CIA disinformation...

In addition to the usual control gate (red) there is also a program gate (blue). Credit: TU Wien Revolutionary new electronic components can be adapted to perform very different tasks – a technology perfectly suited for artificial intelligence. Normally, computer chips consist of electronic components that always do the same thing. In the future, however, more flexibility will be possible: New types of adaptive transistors can be dynamically switched during run-time to perform different logical tasks. This fundamentally changes the possibilities of chip design and opens up completely new opportunities in the field of artificial intelligence, neural networks or even...

Facebook (FB), operated by the CEO Mark Zuckerberg under the parent company Meta, has been voted as the ‘worst company of the year’ on Yahoo Finance’s annual survey of 2021 that shortlists the ‘Company of the Year’ based on the performance and achievements of the firms worldwide. While Microsoft (MSFT) aced the race by shattering the $2 trillion market capitalization this year and up to 53% surge in its stock price as of December, social media giant Facebook rebranding this year to Metaverse, has seemingly irked and upset its users, according to the polling for Yahoo survey. Facebook's connection with...

She is positively certifiable.

When Patch Tuesday rolls around, we can usually expect a series of Windows problems to be fixed (and perhaps to see some new ones introduced), as well as new features added. But Microsoft also uses such updates to take things away -- and this is precisely what has happened with the latest updates for Windows 10 and 11.Microsoft, quite understandably, would like everyone to use its Edge browser, and has taken endless steps to ensure that it stays the default browser on as many computers as possible. With the latest operating system updates -- specifically the KB5008212 and KB5008215 updates...

Last week, Meta (the umbrella company formerly known as Facebook) opened up access to its virtual-reality social media platform, Horizon Worlds. Early descriptions of the platform make it seem fun and wholesome, drawing comparisons to Minecraft. In Horizon Worlds, up to 20 avatars can get together at a time to explore, hang out, and build within the virtual space. But not everything has been warm and fuzzy. According to Meta, on November 26, a beta tester reported something deeply troubling: she had been groped by a stranger on Horizon Worlds. On December 1, Meta revealed that she’d posted her experience...

I'm not posting them and dont think anyone should but does anyone else find it disgraceful their using/leaking private text messages to smear Trump? This is surely a new low? The media are going to town on it and trying to smear Trump and frame it as some kind of new scandal. Never mind holding the Biden administration accountable for their lamentable record the main news is seemingly Donald Trump who isn't even in office! Frustrating!

Apache has patched the vulnerability in its Log4j 2 library, but attackers are searching for unprotected servers on which they can remotely execute malicious code. A serious security vulnerability in a popular product from Apache has opened the floodgates for cybercriminals to try to attack susceptible servers. On Thursday, a flaw was revealed in Apache's Log4j 2, a utility used by millions of people to log requests for Java applications. Named Log4Shell, the vulnerability could allow attackers to take control of affected servers, a situation that has already prompted hackers to scan for unpatched systems on which they can remotely...

Quirky China news: man uses sleeping woman’s irises to access Alipay app and a new blogger who films himself doing mundane activities is a hit. South China Morning Post artwork A man was found guilty of having stolen 150,000 yuan (S$32,000) from his ex-girlfriend by lifting her eyelids while she slept to use her irises to get past the facial recognition check on the Alipay app. A court in Nanning, in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, southern China, sentenced the man, surnamed Huang, to three and a half years in jail recently, the Beijing Evening News reported. At the end of...

The Pennsylvania Turnpike will install overhead tolling gantries on nine bridges that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is considering for tolls. The work will be part of the turnpike’s $125 million project to install open-road tolling to replace the former toll booths along its 450-mile system. The possibility of PennDOT adding tolls to bridges — including the Interstate 79 bridge near Bridgeville — to raise money for their replacement is still under consideration, but the agency is finalizing an agreement with the turnpike to collect tolls. The turnpike is an obvious choice to operate the collection system — something PennDOT...

The vulnerability is in Java-based software known as "Log4j" that large organizations, including some of the world's biggest tech firms, use to configure their applications. Apple's cloud computing service, security firm Cloudflare and one of the world's most popular video games, Minecraft, are among the organizations that run Log4j, according to security researchers. The vulnerability can offer a hacker a relatively easy way to access an organization's computer server. From there, an attacker could devise other ways to access systems on an organization's network. Security experts say that the fallout from the software flaw could continue for days and weeks...

There’s an ad out right now for Google’s Chromebook laptop with a slogan that says, “Switch to a new way to laptop.” While I’m hesitant to disparage any of our digital overlords for fear of being stricken from search results, I feel obligated to take a stand. You can’t “laptop” something; “laptop” isn’t a verb.While I try my hardest to keep things positive here at Grammar Guy H.Q., certain things grate my grammar gears. While I’ve touched on the “verbification” of nouns before, I haven’t explored how marketers and company names have verbified nouns ad nauseam.I know I’ve seen other...

You probably don’t know me, but like you I am one of those .01%ers, a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, co-founded and funded more than 30 companies across a range of industries—from itsy-bitsy ones like the night club I started in my 20s to giant ones like Amazon.com, for which I was the first nonfamily investor. Then I founded aQuantive, an Internet advertising company that was sold to Microsoft in 2007 for $6.4 billion. In cash. My friends and I own a bank. I tell you all this to demonstrate that in many ways I’m no different from...

“You must now present your identity papers to have the right to watch the video of my declaration of candidacy. The thought police are no longer even hiding: they are showing off their tyrannical nature. The real fight begins,” a Google translation of Zemmour’s tweet in reaction to the censorship reads. The video, which was posted on Tuesday and has accumulated more than 2.5 million views, features the French journalist explaining why he chose to run for president overlayed with clips from the news and clips showing the European country. “For decades, the left and the right have led us...

The salt-grain-sized camera. (Princeton University) Scientific ingenuity means cameras keep on getting smaller and smaller, and the latest to appear is not only incredibly tiny – the same size as a grain of salt – it's also able to produce images of much better quality than a lot of other ultra-compact cameras. Using a technology known as a metasurface, which is covered with 1.6 million cylindrical posts, the camera is able to capture full-color photos that are as good as images snapped by conventional lenses some half a million times bigger than this particular camera. And the super-small contraption has...

Illustration of Earth's Black Box. (Earth's Black Box) At a distant end of the Earth – hidden somewhere on the remote Australian island of Tasmania – a strange structure is about to witness and record the end of the world as we know it. The project, called Earth's Black Box, is a giant steel installation, soon to be filled with hard drives powered by solar panels, each of them documenting and preserving a stream of real-time scientific updates and analysis on the gloomiest issues the world faces. Information related to climate change, species extinction, environmental pollution, and impacts on health...

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I've setup an account on twitter for politics only. I feel it's important that our views are represented there and I dont care if they ban or sanction me! Check it out and give me a follow if you're on twitter: https://twitter.com/free_republicanI'm not going to be controversial or rude on purpose. We'll see how it goes....