21WIRE’s Week in Review: 9 APR 2016 Edition
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A review of all the Top Stories from this week – for your consideration.
21st Century Wire says…
A review of all the Top Stories from this week – for your consideration.
21st Century Wire says…
We’ve heard a lot of not so nice things about Microsoft’s latest spawn of MS DOS. Aside from the built-in trojan horse back door access uncovered earlier, this is probably the most insidious little side effect ever included in a software OS.
Gary Kamiya
SF Chronicle
On an elegant dead-end block on the north side of Telegraph Hill is 225 Chestnut St., a swanky modernist building with panoramic bay views. It’s about the last place you would have expected to find a clandestine CIA program during the Cold War.
Chris Weller
Tech Insider
Amid Cairo’s brick buildings and heaping piles of trash is a sprawling work of art, which, at first, looks messy and incoherent.
But when you stand on the nearby hillside and read the spray-painted Arabic “calligraffiti,” as its creator Tunisian-French artist eL Seed calls it, the message reads loud and clear: “If one wants to see the light of the sun, he must wipe his eyes.”
Real Farmacy
With unfavorable winter temperatures of a 27 degree January average, living in Stockholm, Sweden let alone growing food in the wintertime would be unimaginable without some form of heat.
Well, what better way than to harness the free energy of the sun without having to worry about solar panels and high voltage electronics.
Microsoft Pulls Robot After Posted Tweets Like ‘Hitler Was Right I Hate the Jews’
Haaretz
Microsoft put the brakes on its artificial intelligence tweeting robot after it posted several offensive comments, including “Hitler was right I hate the jews.”
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New study reveals that is wasn’t all ‘fruit & nuts’ back then…
RT
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A review of all the Top Stories from this week – for your consideration.
21st Century Wire says…
In the 21st century, the ‘free energy’ sweepstakes have never been higher.
As the establishment wage wars over hydrocarbon energy resources, and bureaucrats and scientists alike argue over abstracts like “peak oil” and man-made global warming (aka ‘climate change’), there are a number of other readily available energy sources that exist which have the potential to revolutionize our modern dependence on expensive, dirty and geopolitically divisive fuels.
Jay Dyer
21st Century Wire
Before there was Back to the Future, there was the early phase of science fiction propaganda embodied in Fabian H.G. Wells’ 1895 novella, The Time Machine. Wells’ work is both entertaining and important for the course of modern literature, yet also calls for an analysis given the prevalence of propaganda functioning at many levels within the novel.