Could your smartphone detect earthquakes?(First column, 11th story, link)
The world"s number one search engine has been known for some curious odes, homages and tributes in recent years, and viewers with a shrewd eye seldom find Google"s political subtlety difficult to interpret. On Day 1 of the government shutdown, which furloughs untold thousands of "nonessential" government employees, and shuts down services such as National Parks, Google elected to celebrate the 123rd anniversary of Yosemite National Park in its prominently-featured "Doodle" art work…
Visibly angry and at times raising their voices, House Democrats slammed Republicans for sending Washington into shutdown mode. A last-minute move by the House GOP to seek a conference with the Senate on a continuing resolution ensured that the government shut down early Tuesday. “What the speaker is doing is doubling and tripling down [on] a path that it was always intended to take us to shutting down government,” Pelosi said…
Regardless of whether a person was targeted by the National Security Agency, the agency has been storing the online metadata “of millions of internet users for up to a year,” The Guardian reports. While the Obama administration has made statements that the NSA’s surveillance program only targets individuals connected with foreign intelligence or terrorism, top secret documents revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden demonstrate the contrary…
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