Climate denial: Donald Trump mimics criminal behaviour when justifying his stance

Climate deniers recently gathered to talk shop at Donald Trump's hotel in Washington DC. There's more to their links with the president than a reservation, though.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/climate-denial-donald-trump-mimics-criminal-behaviour-when-justifying-his-stance-120741?source=Snapzu

Lori Loughlin's daughters break silence on her birthday

Lori Loughlin's daughter Bella Giannulli broke her social media silence to wish her mother a happy birthday. Loughlin turned 55 on Sunday and has been keeping a low profile ever since she and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were among dozens of wealthy parents charged in a college admissions cheating scheme.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/entertainment/lori-loughlin-daughters-birthday/index.html?source=Snapzu

Huawei smartphone sales up 24 percent despite US crackdown

Huawei made 221.6 billion yuan ($32.2 billion) in revenue in the April-June quarter, a 23 percent increase over the previous quarter despite the escalation of the US-China trade war cutting off its business with American companies. Net profit margin was 8.7 percent on 401.3 billion yuan ($58.3 billion) of revenue for the first six months of 2019.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/30/20746693/huawei-earnings-h1-2019-smartphone-sales?source=Snapzu

Katy Perry’s ‘Dark Horse’ Handed Defeat in Trial

Katy Perry’s 2013 hit “Dark Horse” infringed on the song “Joyful Noise” by Christian rap artist Marcus Gray, aka Flame, a Los Angeles jury found on July 29.
Read more: https://variety.com/2019/music/news/katy-perry-dark-horse-trial-jury-copyright-infringement-defeat-1203284355/?source=Snapzu

Brazil jail riot leaves more than 50 dead

A fight between rival gangs in a northern Brazilian prison went on for five hours, officials say.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49157858?source=Snapzu

Sites could be liable for helping Facebook secretly track your web browsing, says EU court

The European Union’s top court says website owners could face legal risk over Facebook’s ubiquitous “Like” buttons. The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled today that site owners could be held liable for transmitting data to Facebook without users’ consent — which appears to be exactly what happens when users visit a site with a Like button, whether or not they click it.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/29/8934924/facebook-like-buttons-court-justice-eu-ruling-privacy-data-protection-tracking?source=Snapzu

We can't expand airports after declaring a climate emergency – let's shift to low-carbon transport instead

The world may finally be waking to the reality of the climate and ecological crisis, after 30 years of inaction. But while the UK government has declared a climate and ecological emergency, ongoing plans for airport expansions suggest we’re flying full-speed towards crisis rather than away from it.
Read more: http://theconversation.com/we-cant-expand-airports-after-declaring-a-climate-emergency-lets-shift-to-low-carbon-transport-instead-120740?source=Snapzu

Greta Thunberg to sail across Atlantic for UN climate summits

Greta Thunberg is to sail across the Atlantic in a high-speed racing yacht next month to attend UN climate summits in the US and Chile as part of a sabbatical year the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist will spend in the US.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/29/greta-thunberg-to-sail-across-atlantic-for-un-climate-summits?source=Snapzu

Trump signs bill ensuring 9/11 victims fund will never run out of money

President Donald Trump on Monday signed a bill ensuring that a fund to compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks never runs out of money. "Today we come together as one nation to support our Sept. 11 heroes, to care for their families and to renew our eternal vow, never ever forget,” Trump said before signing the bill.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-signs-bill-ensuring-9-11-victims-fund-will-never-n1035656?source=Snapzu

Deforestation in the Amazon is shooting up, but Brazil's president calls the data 'a lie'

Deforestation is shooting up again in the Brazilian Amazon, according to satellite monitoring data. But Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, whom many blame for the uptick, has disputed the trend and attacked the credibility of Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), which produced the data. Bolsonaro called the numbers “a lie” during a 19 July breakfast talk with journalists, and suggested INPE Director Ricardo Galvão was “at the service of some [nongovernmental organization].”
Read more: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/deforestation-amazon-shooting-brazils-president-calls-data-lie?source=Snapzu

'No men, no meat, no machines': How a band of women tried to forge a female utopia on a remote mountaintop

In the 1970s a group of determined women set out to put the theory of women's liberation into practice.
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-30/history-of-amazon-acres-nsw-community-female-only/11095974?source=Snapzu

We Don't Mine Enough Rare Earth Metals to Replace Fossil Fuels With Renewable Energy

Rare earth metals are used in solar panels and wind turbines—as well as electric cars and consumer electronics. We don't recycle them, and there's not enough to meet growing demand.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mavb/we-dont-mine-enough-rare-earth-metals-to-replace-fossil-fuels-with-renewable-energy?source=Snapzu

Amazon Told Police It Has Partnered With 200 Law Enforcement Agencies

At least 200 law enforcement agencies around the country have entered into partnerships with Amazon’s home surveillance company Ring, according to an email obtained by Motherboard via public record request. Ring has never disclosed the exact number of partnerships that it maintains with law enforcement.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wyjy/amazon-told-police-it-has-partnered-with-200-law-enforcement-agencies?source=Snapzu

The world’s five most dangerous countries for women 2018

Thomson Reuters Foundation Annual Poll
Read more: http://poll2018.trust.org/?et_rid=593069104?source=Snapzu

Canalboat owners on life afloat: 'It forces you to be green'

This is a 70ft tug-style boat and I’ve lived on it for the past six years. The furniture is antique, campaign style mainly. Everything is solid oak and I hand-finished the floor. I like my desk area; I can sit there with the side door open and read and write songs.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/28/canalboat-owners-on-life-afloat-it-forces-you-to-be-green?source=Snapzu

How to block (or at least cut down on) robocalls

You can't block all the spam phone calls, but blocking some is better than blocking none.
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-block-robocalls/?source=Snapzu

Santillan, 23, is second boxer to die this week

Boxer Hugo Alfredo "Dinamita" Santillan, a super lightweight for Argentina, died of cardiac arrest resulting from injuries suffered in the ring Saturday in Buenos Aires. He was 23.
Read more: https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/27255784/santillan-23-second-boxer-die-week?source=Snapzu

Lil Wayne Fans Demand Refunds After Last-Minute Concert Cancellation

Lil Wayne fans aren't happy. The 36-year-old rapper was scheduled to take the stage Friday night at the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida; but just several hours before the concert was set to begin Wayne announced he had to pull out of the gig due to an illness.
Read more: https://www.complex.com/music/2019/07/lil-wayne-cancels-florida-concert-fans-demand-refund?source=Snapzu

India is now home to 2,967 tigers, numbers up by 741 in fourth cycle

New Delhi, July 29: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released the much-awaited All India Tiger Estimation for the year 2018. The report shows a rise of 33 per cent increase in population over the 2014 number of 2,226. Read more at: https://www.oneindia.com/india/2018-tiger-census-report-2018-released-2925659.html
Read more: https://www.oneindia.com/india/2018-tiger-census-report-2018-released-2925659.html?source=Snapzu

Gas plant construction makes WA history by moving 30,000 native animals to safety

Other mining companies urged to follow suit after contractors at Chevron’s Wheatstone LNG plant spend seven years relocating fauna
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jul/26/gas-plant-construction-makes-wa-history-by-moving-30000-native-animals-to-safety?source=Snapzu

Why we should be very scared by the intrusive menace of facial recognition

On 18 July, the House of Commons select committee on science and technology published an assessment of the work of the biometrics commissioner and the forensic science regulator. My guess is that most citizens have never heard of these two public servants, which is a pity because what they do is important for the maintenance of justice and the protection of liberty and human rights.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/28/why-we-should-be-scared-by-intrusive-menace-of-facial-recognition?source=Snapzu

Plant-based eggs join meatless options at Tim Hortons

Tim Hortons is testing an eggless, vegan omelette with customers. If it's a hit, the product will join the growing number of plant-based fast food items being served up to meet a demand for less meat.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-hortons-a-w-beyond-meat-egg-plant-based-1.5227188?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar?source=Snapzu

The true toll of the Chernobyl disaster

Covered up by a secretive Soviet Union at the time, the true number of deaths and illnesses caused by the nuclear accident are only now becoming clear.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190725-will-we-ever-know-chernobyls-true-death-toll?source=Snapzu

Russi Taylor Dies: Voice Of Minnie Mouse Was 75

Voice actor and Disney Legend Russi Taylor, the official voice of Minnie Mouse for many years, died in Glendale, Calif. Friday. She was 75 years old and her death was announced by the Walt Disney C…
Read more: https://deadline.com/2019/07/russi-taylor-dies-voice-of-minnie-mouse-was-75-1202655753/?source=Snapzu

Did Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Intend To Deceive?

Regulators missed a chance to find out if deceptive practices at Facebook came from the top when they decided to enter into a settlement with Zuckerberg instead of questioning him, an FTC member says.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/28/745949428/did-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-intend-to-deceive?source=Snapzu

Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe

When Philip Poniz opened Box 105 at his local Wells Fargo, he discovered it was empty — and that he was totally unprotected by federal law.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box-theft.html?source=Snapzu

America is drowning in garbage. Now robots are being put on duty to help solve the recycling crisis

The U.S. is facing a recycling crisis that is burying cities and towns in tens of millions of tons of garbage a day. The problem began last year when China, the world’s largest recyclable processor, stopped accepting most American scrap plastic and cardboard due to contamination problems, and a glut of plastics overwhelming its own processing facilities. Historically, China recycled the bulk of U.S. waste.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/meet-the-robots-being-used-to-help-solve-americas-recycling-crisis.html?source=Snapzu

Tragic final picture of teenager who died after pupil threw cheese

Karanbir Cheema, known as Karan, was 13 when he died in July 2017, ten days after he fell unconscious when cheese was thrown at him during break time at a primary school in West London.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7292231/Heartbroken-mother-releases-image-13-year-old-dying-hospital-pupil-threw-cheese-him.html?source=Snapzu

Amazon warehouse workers say the company isn’t paying them the overtime they deserve

Twenty-three night-shift workers at an Amazon delivery facility in Chicago are accusing the company of not paying them for overtime during Prime Week earlier this month.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/7/26/8931013/amazon-prime-day-workers-chicago-cheated-overtime-hours-workers-amazonians-united-prime-week?source=Snapzu

California Asks US to End Plan to Drop Rat Poison on Islands

Federal wildlife officials were urged Wednesday to withdraw a proposal to drop 1.5 tons of rat poison on remote islands off the coast of California to kill a mice infestation
Read more: https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/national-international/California-Plan-Kill-Farallon-Islands-Mice-512526181.html?source=Snapzu

Elephant Extinction Will Raise Carbon Dioxide Levels in Atmosphere

One of the last remaining megaherbivores, forest elephants shape their environment by serving as seed dispersers and forest bulldozers as they eat over a hundred species of fruit, trample bushes, knock over trees and create trails and clearings. Their ecological impact also affects tree populations and carbon levels in the forest, researchers report, with significant implications for climate and conservation policies.
Read more: https://www.slu.edu/news/2019/july/elephant-extinction-and-carbon-dioxide-levels.php?source=Snapzu

Tree-eating beetle gains ground in US West, raising concerns

Matt Johnson treks along an Arizona riverbank and picks out a patch of yellow-tinged tamarisks. He sweeps a cloth net across the trees, hoping to scoop up beetles that munch on their evergreen-like leaves.
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-tree-eating-beetle-gains-ground-west.html?source=Snapzu

Supreme Court allows Trump wall funding

The US Supreme Court has said that President Donald Trump can use $2.5 billion (£2 billion) of Pentagon funds for a section of wall on the southern border. The court ruled by five votes to four to block a ruling by a federal judge in California that barred the president from spending the money on the wall. The wall, dividing the US and Mexico, was Mr Trump's major campaign promise during the 2016 election.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49135255?source=Snapzu

Meat eaters are officially destroying the planet, report warns

Meat consumption is devastating some of the world’s most valuable and vulnerable regions, due to the vast amount of land needed to produce animal feed, a report has warned. The growing popularity of a Western diet, which contains high levels of meat and dairy, means an area 1.5 times the size of the European Union would be saved if global consumption of animal products was reduced to meet nutritional requirements, according to the WWF.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/meat-eating-destroying-planet-report-warning-a7985071.html?utm_source=reddit.com?source=Snapzu

In-N-Out burger mystery solved: This is how a West Coast burger wound up on the streets of NYC

The mystery of just how, exactly, an In-N-Out burger landed on the streets of New York in such pristine condition has been solved.
Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/In-N-Out-burger-mystery-solved-Queens-New-York-Boe-14122940.php?source=Snapzu

Tokyo unveils 2020 Olympic medals, made from more than 6 million recycled cellphones

The Olympic medals are made from precious metals extracted from recycled electronics and melted down
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tokyo-unveils-2020-olympic-medals-made-from-more-than-6-million-recycled-cell-phones/?source=Snapzu

President Trump Says Apple Mac Pros Will Face Tariffs if Production Moves to China

President Donald Trump has vowed to slap tariffs on Apple’s Mac Pros if the company shifts production of the computer from Texas to China. The pledge made in a Friday tweet rebuffs Apple’s attempt to shield its products from taxes being imposed on goods made in China as part of Trump administration’s trade war with the world’s most populous country.
Read more: https://time.com/5636641/trump-apple-china-tariff/?source=Snapzu

Asteroid 2019 OK just missed Earth, surprising scientists

Alan Duffy was confused. On Thursday, the astronomer’s phone was suddenly flooded with calls from reporters wanting to know about a large asteroid that had just whizzed past Earth, and he couldn’t figure out “why everyone was so alarmed.”
Read more: https://beta.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/26/it-snuck-up-us-city-killer-asteroid-just-missed-earth-scientists-almost-didnt-detect-it-time/?outputType=amp?source=Snapzu

Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Sues Google

The candidate claims Google shut down her ad account after the first debate in June, preventing her from capitalizing on new interest.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/technology/tulsi-gabbard-sues-google.html?source=Snapzu

Interior whistleblowers say agency has sidelined scientists under Trump

Former Interior Department employees who say they experienced retaliation at the agency for their work on scientific endeavors appeared before lawmakers Thursday, sparking political wrangling over the role of scientists in the Trump administration.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/454805-interior-whistleblowers-say-agency-has-sidelined-scientists-under?source=Snapzu

Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress

Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are introducing competing bills that aim to put a tax on carbon. The push to regulate greenhouse gas emissions come as both Democrats and Republicans face pressure from their constituents, and in some cases the fossil fuel industry itself, to regulate carbon emissions that lead to climate change.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/454819-carbon-tax-shows-new-signs-of-life-in-congress?source=Snapzu

After Mueller, Senate Intel Reports on Russian Election Hacks

Now we have the Senate Intel Committee’s report on how Russia sought to influence the 2016 elections and how it might do it again in 2020.
Read more: https://securityboulevard.com/2019/07/after-mueller-senate-intel-reports-on-russian-election-hacks/?source=Snapzu

Facebook Knows More About You Than the CIA

Facebook hired Yael Eisenstat, a CIA veteran, to help it address election meddling. Now she's deeply worried about the company's sway over our lives.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-knows-more-about-you-than-cia/?source=Snapzu

'Go Back Where You Came From': The Long Rhetorical Roots Of Trump's Racist Tweets

When President Trump tweeted his racist remarks Sunday, asking why certain Democratic congresswomen don't just "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came," he did not just take aim at the four women of color — three of whom were born in the U.S.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/741827580/go-back-where-you-came-from-the-long-rhetorical-roots-of-trump-s-racist-tweets?source=Snapzu

Cop Claims His Shooting Of An Unarmed Man Gave Him PTSD, Walks Off With A Medical Pension

Very few law enforcement agencies take accountability seriously. Even when officers are held responsible for wrongdoing, their employers find ways to soften the blow. Powerful police unions make the situation worse. The gap between officers and...
Read more: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190721/13375942627/cop-claims-his-shooting-unarmed-man-gave-him-ptsd-walks-off-with-medical-pension.shtml?source=Snapzu

Residents slam 'shameful' church for refusing to hold dying man's funeral because of gay son

A Tennessee man, who is gay, says that a church will not hold a funeral service for his father because of his sexuality. Now, local residents are criticizing the church for its “sinful” discrimination. “They’re punishing my dad for a lifestyle choice that I’ve made. It’s not me laying up there in a casket, it’s him,” Jessie Goodman told Chattanooga, Tenn. news station WTVC.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/shamefule-church-refuses-dying-man-funeral-service-son-gay-205937109.html?source=Snapzu

Hate crimes drop in Canada for first time in years

Anti-crime campaigners advise scepticism since most hate crimes are not reported to police.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49078558?source=Snapzu

U.S. Suicide Rates Are the Highest They've Been Since World War II

U.S. suicide rates are at their highest since World War II, according to federal data—and the opioid crisis, widespread social media use and high rates of stress may be among the myriad contributing factors.
Read more: https://time.com/5609124/us-suicide-rate-increase/?source=Snapzu

Fury as Equifax gets $4.76-per-victim slap on wrist

The moral of the story: Try to avoid being inept and negligent, OK?
Read more: https://techbeacon.com/security/fury-equifax-gets-476-victim-slap-wrist?source=Snapzu

If Islam Is a Religion of Violence, So Is Christianity

The world’s oldest religions all have troubling histories of bloodshed. Singling out Islam is just Trump’s latest, hateful hypocrisy.
Read more: https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/14/if-islam-is-a-religion-of-violence-so-is-christianity/?source=Snapzu