Hands-on with Apple's newest and most expensive headphones ever. How much of that $549 price tag is based on quality, or hype?
Video courtesy of CNet
Teachers And School Admin Begin A New Aggressive Online Safety Program, Learning How To Track Down Bullies, and Stop Cyber Attacks...
The Partner Schools Global Network (PSGN) are giving schools support by training teacher and administrative the importance online child protection awareness and cyber well-being. They provide services such as the Online Safety Program, which helps schools to prepare for and respond to cyber crime attacks and identify risk indicators.
For the first time ever, a school has a secure portal to identify and respond to cyber attacks. Letting all online bullies and trolls to stay far away, we know who you are.
Communicating online is a great way for children to build social connections, share thoughts and ideas, while learning about their interests. With this pandemic, children's social life have been set to a halt , while online harassment, bullying and cyber harassment are increasing at an alarming pace. Their goal is to create a safe place for kids, which allows parents to keep track of their kids' online activities.
Without over bearing control over the content of online media, kids would be exposed to even more damaging cyber threats.
Parents have found it challenging to suprvise their children online while keeping the idea of privacy alive, since there are numerous ways to harass and stalk kids online. Tragic incidents in the world have made us more aware of how real this online, "make believe" world full of trolls, catfishes, even some scammers is, more alive than it ever has been in the world before.
Truth is, as time continue to go, it will only become more and more present, even apart of ever aspect of daily life task, with inventions like AR, VR, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Watching the amount of our children's friends dwelling away from sleep over to, text them at the dinner table, online chat rooms.
Technology surely isn't going anywhere. If anything, we will become totally dependent on these technologies, which are only becoming more and more powerful. With enlightened knowledge , we can truly feel connected. Be sure you take advantage of all the ways to protect your child online. Overall, we need to adapt technology to our lives in a manner that is both secure and sustainable.
SpaceX Has Made NASA 'Cool' Again For A Whole New Generation....
NASA reached peak cool on July 20th, 1969 when it sent the first men to the moon. However, the agency's impact on society goes far beyond space.
That's why until recently, for teens any exciting first hand stories about what NASA had accomplished, were stories told by their grandparents.
That's why until recently, for teens any exciting first hand stories about what NASA had accomplished, were stories told by their grandparents.
. But Neil deGrasse Tyson, the famous astrophysicist, says NASA partnering with Elon Musk's SpaceX is one of the biggest advancements the agency has made since the moon landing.
Video courtesy of CNBC
Video courtesy of CNBC
New Tech Gives New Meaning To 'Personalized Healthcare'...
Pravene Nath, Global Head for Digital Health Strategy at Roche joins us at WIRED Health:Tech 2020 to share the challenges and opportunities with digital health at this point, what we might learn from prior work and how we're thinking about the role of a pharmaceutical company in contributing to the future of digital health.
Video courtesy of Wired UK
Apple Releases New 'Homepod Mini' Just In Time For The Holidays...
The entry-level smart speakers from Apple, Amazon and Google each make for a good smart home starting point. We pit them head to head to head to find out which one is the best for your household.
We compare sound quality, smart home capabilities, general knowledge, extras and value. The hardware is important, but you're also getting a smart home platform and a voice-enabled digital assistant. So Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant battle it out in the video as well.
Video courtesy of CNET
Video courtesy of CNET
The Fastest Car In Production Today Comes From A Company You Probably Haven't Heard Of...
SSC North America is an American automobile manufacturer founded in 1998, and their new 'Tuatara hypercar' just smashed the world record after it reached an average speed of 509 km/h during a test drive outside of Las Vegas. The Tuatara’s design was inspired by fighter jets and produces 1,750 horsepower using a turbocharged V8 engine.
Video Courtesy of Mashable
Video Courtesy of Mashable
Tesla's Position As The #1 Electric Car Faces It's First Real Threat, As Competitors Develop New Solar Powered EVs...
80 million cars powered by fossil fuels were sold last year.
Many Tesla owners charge their cars at home, often unknowingly thanks to a coal burning power plant.
Now meet "Lightyear" - a startup developing a truly green electric vehicle, solar-powered.
Video Courtesy of Vice News
Video Courtesy of Vice News
Amazon's Echo Dot *4TH GENERATION* Reviewed...
Amazon may get more attention for its higher-end Echo speakers, like the Echo Studio and therefore the new 4th Gen Echo, but the standard Echo Dot is far and away the foremost popular speaker within the lineup. The 3rd Gen model was released in 2018, and has proven to be a superb little smart speaker, and with Amazon’s frequent and aggressive sales, you'll pick one up for a song, making it easy to place the Alexa voice assistant in every room of your home.
Video Courtesy of CNET
Apple's Chief Of Security ARRESTED After Trying To Bribe Police With iPads, for Concealed Weapons Permits....
Apple's chief security officer has been charged with bribery for allegedly offering to donate many iPads to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office in exchange for concealed carry weapons permits for Apple employees.
Thomas Moyer, Apple's head of worldwide security, was indicted last week as a part of a two-year investigation into the sheriff's office, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said Monday. Moyer allegedly agreed to donate 200 iPads worth $70,000 to the Sheriff's Office in exchange for four permits that had been withheld from Apple employees, the District Attorney's Office said during a statement.
The deal was scuttled in August 2019 when Sheriff's Department officials involved within the scheme learned of the District Attorney's investigation into the department's concealed carry licenses, the DA's office said.
Also indicted within the scheme were Santa Clara Undersheriff Rick Sung and Capt. James Jensen, who allegedly requested the bribes, the DA's office said.
Apple is headquartered in Santa Clara County, the guts of the Silicon Valley .
Earlier this year, Apple was granted a short lived restraining order against a San Francisco man who allegedly showed up at Tim Cook's house with a bottle of champagne and flowers, on another occasion entered the Apple CEO's property without permission and made threatening statements.
Neither Apple nor Moyer skilled requests for comment.
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Martin Tello
Silicon Valley News Team
Elon Musk Takes Over Earth's Orbit - Inside The Plan To Launch 10,000 Satellites Providing Internet Access To The World...
Starlink is SpaceX's attempt to provide internet access to the world by deploying more than 10,000 satellites. We explain what to expect from Starlink's early internet services, and what the massive increase in number of satellites might mean for the future of stargazing and space traffic.
Video courtesy of CNet
Thanks To Silicon Valley, Trump May Be Getting An Unexpected BOOST - Putting A Re-Election WIN Within Reach...
But first, given today's political climate and bias seemingly everywhere, you should where I approach these topics from.
This Isn't Another Report From An Outsider, Looking At Silicon Valley Like It's Some Kind Of Alien World or Magical Land...
I was born and raised here, worked in tech since I was 15 and photoshopped a drivers license to say I was 18 (remote work at what was the biggest ISP at the time) - I'm in my 30's now so I can publicly confess this.
The goal isn't to make you think less of Silicon Valley - my mood is a lot closer to someone confronting a friend who needs to break an addiction, this is an intervention.
Politically, Sorry To Say - I'm Not On Your Team...
I don't get how it works out this way, but somehow conservative friends say I'm too liberal, and liberal friends say I'm too conservative.
A better way of looking it may be to say I'm also not against your team, somehow maintaining friendships with people on both ends of the political spectrum hasn't been a challenge even as the country becomes more divided.
Before they deleted a single tweet, suspended a single account, blocked the sharing of the first URL killed a single YouTube channel, for political reasons.
Alright, that introduction was to properly frame what comes next - for the reasons above I'm uniquely qualified to dive in head first - favoring no one, and sugarcoating nothing.
Let's take a closer look at what is happening now, in a 'cause and effect' format.
What Happened (the Short Version): Silicon Valley Crossed The Line This 2020 Election Year, Censoring Content That Was Neither Hate Speech or False Information - Only Because They Didn't Like It, For Personal Reasons Only.
Note - the tech companies agree with that statement, it isn't just my opinion. In fact, they always end up on the same page as me, following a 'review' of their actions that lasts for a couple days and ends with them reversing their decision.
The more this happened the more impulsive and emotional they began to appear. While eventually reversing their poor decisions, after the review takes a couple days the damage is already done, and you see how sloppy some of these companies are from the first step to the clean-up that follows.
This is where everything went to hell - when it is now commonplace for these companies to say 'oops, looks like our staff made some irrational choices after losing control of their emotions - we are reversing the actions taken' - I hope the companies involved discuss this in more honest terms privately than they do publicly, because they seem to pull the same trick every time, pretending some new bit of information they didn't have before just came to light, and now they see where they went wrong. This is never really the case.
The best example happens to be the most recent as well - the story about Hunter Biden's laptop data published by the NY Post, twitter deleted all tweets about it, suspended the publication's account, and added the URL to the story to their official blacklist. typically reserved for virus infected links.
But here's where it gets REAL CREEPY - Twitter staff began creating their own stories about the data, apparently so emotionally attached to the Joe Biden family that they invented a story about the data being obtained illegally, via hacking.
Problem is - not even the Bidens' were saying this!
Even worse - the NY Post article included that their source was a legally obtained laptop (left behind for months with bills unpaid at a computer repair shop.)
Let that sink in - Twitter ignored the real story of how the data was obtained, which was already right in front of them, and instead went with an excuse they created themselves - believing their version would help the Biden campaign the most.
While Twitter boldly scolded anyone attempting to share the story, giving them an error that they are not allowed to post it, Facebook also helped in the cover-up, but with a more covert 'throttling' method - where people can post it, but virtually no one sees it.
Another recent incident involves Twitter suspending Mitch McConnel's campaign account for "posting threats"... except the video he posted highlighted threats made against him.
If An Employee Anywhere Else Made A Mistake That Brought A Company This Much Bad PR, They Would Be Terminated...
Has anyone been terminated? None we know of, and honestly I picture these situations ending with a final pat on the back between allies working towards the same political goals.
The Hunter Biden/NY Post decision was reversed with what should be an embarrassing explanation that from now on the 'hacked content guidelines' will only apply to hacked content.
They gave an equally cringeworthy response when reversing Mitch McConnel's ban, basically saying "Upon review we determined he was not posting threats from himself, to himself, which would be against the rules - but rather discussing the topic of threats, which is allowed." - I'm paraphrasing, but it truly is that ridiculous.
This is where things get scary, because you realize that none of the companies mentioned here have someone who offers raw, emotionless, rational opinions at the highest levels of leadership. Because the fact is, this clearly isn't worth doing, and somehow they still haven't caught on.
We Are Adults Capable Of Reading Anything Posted By Anyone, and Coming To Our Own Conclusions...
These tech giants have the power to do things that mankind has never done before. The tools they have at their fingertips would have been the ultimate fantasy of the world's past dictators and authorities.
Note - the tech companies agree with that statement, it isn't just my opinion. In fact, they always end up on the same page as me, following a 'review' of their actions that lasts for a couple days and ends with them reversing their decision.
The more this happened the more impulsive and emotional they began to appear. While eventually reversing their poor decisions, after the review takes a couple days the damage is already done, and you see how sloppy some of these companies are from the first step to the clean-up that follows.
This is where everything went to hell - when it is now commonplace for these companies to say 'oops, looks like our staff made some irrational choices after losing control of their emotions - we are reversing the actions taken' - I hope the companies involved discuss this in more honest terms privately than they do publicly, because they seem to pull the same trick every time, pretending some new bit of information they didn't have before just came to light, and now they see where they went wrong. This is never really the case.
The best example happens to be the most recent as well - the story about Hunter Biden's laptop data published by the NY Post, twitter deleted all tweets about it, suspended the publication's account, and added the URL to the story to their official blacklist. typically reserved for virus infected links.
But here's where it gets REAL CREEPY - Twitter staff began creating their own stories about the data, apparently so emotionally attached to the Joe Biden family that they invented a story about the data being obtained illegally, via hacking.
Problem is - not even the Bidens' were saying this!
Even worse - the NY Post article included that their source was a legally obtained laptop (left behind for months with bills unpaid at a computer repair shop.)
Let that sink in - Twitter ignored the real story of how the data was obtained, which was already right in front of them, and instead went with an excuse they created themselves - believing their version would help the Biden campaign the most.
While Twitter boldly scolded anyone attempting to share the story, giving them an error that they are not allowed to post it, Facebook also helped in the cover-up, but with a more covert 'throttling' method - where people can post it, but virtually no one sees it.
Another recent incident involves Twitter suspending Mitch McConnel's campaign account for "posting threats"... except the video he posted highlighted threats made against him.
If An Employee Anywhere Else Made A Mistake That Brought A Company This Much Bad PR, They Would Be Terminated...
Has anyone been terminated? None we know of, and honestly I picture these situations ending with a final pat on the back between allies working towards the same political goals.
The Hunter Biden/NY Post decision was reversed with what should be an embarrassing explanation that from now on the 'hacked content guidelines' will only apply to hacked content.
They gave an equally cringeworthy response when reversing Mitch McConnel's ban, basically saying "Upon review we determined he was not posting threats from himself, to himself, which would be against the rules - but rather discussing the topic of threats, which is allowed." - I'm paraphrasing, but it truly is that ridiculous.
This is where things get scary, because you realize that none of the companies mentioned here have someone who offers raw, emotionless, rational opinions at the highest levels of leadership. Because the fact is, this clearly isn't worth doing, and somehow they still haven't caught on.
We Are Adults Capable Of Reading Anything Posted By Anyone, and Coming To Our Own Conclusions...
These tech giants have the power to do things that mankind has never done before. The tools they have at their fingertips would have been the ultimate fantasy of the world's past dictators and authorities.
For the first time in human history, those with this power can focus on a group or individual of their choosing, specifically selecting them among millions of people participating in the exchange and debate of ideas and opinions, and silence them instantly.
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| Senator Ted Cruz asks Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey "who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the American people are allowed to hear?" at Senate Commerce Committee hearing last week. |
Imagine a rep from your phone company interrupting a call between you and a friend to let you know they find some of what you said to be very offensive and if it happens again, your phone number will be revoked.
Imagine you're watching Netflix, then the picture freezes - a voice begins speaking, saying that the staff at Netflix decided this would be a good moment to encourage you to read, you've watched enough reality tv trash.
The actions of these tech companies are equally disturbing!
Feeling entitled to this level of control over other adult's access to information feels like someone playing the role of a self-appointed god... but nobody prayed for this.
Is the power so intoxicating they're truly unable to see how ridiculous they look?
The Consequences: There is Now A New Block Of Voters Created By The Blacklash Silicon Valley Brought Upon Themselves. The New Issue Of Tech Companies Ruining The Internet And Violating Free Speech is Their #1 Issue.
"I'm as Liberal as it comes but it's clear the tech overloads have lost their minds. What liberals were saying they can't handle seeing some stupid republicans opinion online? I get excited when I see it and follow many of them just so I can reply to their posts it and tell them they're idiots" a user on Reddit says, summing things up perfectly.
This is how it's supposed to work no matter which side you are on.
Imagine you're watching Netflix, then the picture freezes - a voice begins speaking, saying that the staff at Netflix decided this would be a good moment to encourage you to read, you've watched enough reality tv trash.
The actions of these tech companies are equally disturbing!
Feeling entitled to this level of control over other adult's access to information feels like someone playing the role of a self-appointed god... but nobody prayed for this.
Is the power so intoxicating they're truly unable to see how ridiculous they look?
The Consequences: There is Now A New Block Of Voters Created By The Blacklash Silicon Valley Brought Upon Themselves. The New Issue Of Tech Companies Ruining The Internet And Violating Free Speech is Their #1 Issue.
"I'm as Liberal as it comes but it's clear the tech overloads have lost their minds. What liberals were saying they can't handle seeing some stupid republicans opinion online? I get excited when I see it and follow many of them just so I can reply to their posts it and tell them they're idiots" a user on Reddit says, summing things up perfectly.
This is how it's supposed to work no matter which side you are on.
So - Zuckerberg and everyone at Facebook, Jack and everyone at Twitter, Sundar and everyone at Google: Time To Take a Deep Breath, and Come To Terms With The Fact You've Been Doing Some Weird Things That No One Wants You To Do. Others in YOUR OWN Political Party Say They Do NOT Want Your Help...
So what could be going on in the minds of people working so hard to do something nobody wants?
“I've decided it's better that you don’t see any of it - for your own good" I can't think of a better example of the mentality of superiority that infects Silicon Valley at it's core.
They really believe their mind can handle seeing everything, but the risk of you not being smart enough to come to the right conclusion is just too high, with this they are revoking the option for you entirely.
Silicon Valley leaders have become so dangerously oblivious to how they appear from outside of their bubble, they don’t get that they now are the creepy person saying that to other adults.
So what could be going on in the minds of people working so hard to do something nobody wants?
“I've decided it's better that you don’t see any of it - for your own good" I can't think of a better example of the mentality of superiority that infects Silicon Valley at it's core.
They really believe their mind can handle seeing everything, but the risk of you not being smart enough to come to the right conclusion is just too high, with this they are revoking the option for you entirely.
Silicon Valley leaders have become so dangerously oblivious to how they appear from outside of their bubble, they don’t get that they now are the creepy person saying that to other adults.
This Resulting In A Massive Final BOOST For The Trump Campaign Is VERY Real Possibility - It's So Real, Biden Campaign Has Changed Their Plans Entirely...
Casual voters who would vote Trump if they made it to the polls, but also had a 50% chance of just not going through the trouble of voting - they're now fully committed to voting today. The idea of telling 'big tech' that they 'do not control freedom of speech in America' is the reason why.
Because the tech companies always favored 1 side in literally every case, they created a situation where voting for Trump is viewed as the only way for the average American to respond to Silicon Valley's latest actions.
Last week every news outlet was sharing data that concluded with something like 'Trump has 1 in 10 chance of winning'. Biden even announced his campaign was over and there would be no more Biden campaign events.
Then as the most recent censorship issue with the NY Post happened, everything started changing. Switching between channels today it seems like every newscast was talking about a 'Trump path to victory' and the statements about 'impossible odds' of a Trump win have seemingly disappeared.
The Biden campaign reacted by completely reversing their decision that the campaign was complete - they now have Biden back out on day 3 of a non-stop blitz of battleground states they considered won - but are now in play again.
In what may be the biggest political plot twist of my lifetime, Trump may win re-election, and Silicon Valley may be the sole factor that brought him across the finish line.
Casual voters who would vote Trump if they made it to the polls, but also had a 50% chance of just not going through the trouble of voting - they're now fully committed to voting today. The idea of telling 'big tech' that they 'do not control freedom of speech in America' is the reason why.
Because the tech companies always favored 1 side in literally every case, they created a situation where voting for Trump is viewed as the only way for the average American to respond to Silicon Valley's latest actions.
Last week every news outlet was sharing data that concluded with something like 'Trump has 1 in 10 chance of winning'. Biden even announced his campaign was over and there would be no more Biden campaign events.
Then as the most recent censorship issue with the NY Post happened, everything started changing. Switching between channels today it seems like every newscast was talking about a 'Trump path to victory' and the statements about 'impossible odds' of a Trump win have seemingly disappeared.
The Biden campaign reacted by completely reversing their decision that the campaign was complete - they now have Biden back out on day 3 of a non-stop blitz of battleground states they considered won - but are now in play again.
In what may be the biggest political plot twist of my lifetime, Trump may win re-election, and Silicon Valley may be the sole factor that brought him across the finish line.
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Author: Ross Davis
Silicon Valley Newsroom / Twitter @RossFM
Ross@TechNews.City
Ross Davis is the Editor In Chief at the Crypto Press Association, and a journalist syndicated via both Apple News and Google News. For stories unrelated to Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency he will also now be found on TechNewsCITY!
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