Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?

We increasingly rely on GPS to get from A to B. But what happens if we’re led catastrophically astray – and are we losing our sense of direction?
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/25/gps-horror-stories-driving-satnav-greg-milner?source=Snapzu

Covid lab leak theory cannot be ruled out, China's former top scientist admits

Beijing officially investigated Wuhan lab, former head of China's Centre for Disease Control suggests...
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/30/covid-lab-leak-wuhan-china-not-rule-out-prof-george-gao/?source=Snapzu

The Disturbing CIA Iceberg - Part 2

The CIA certainty has committed their share of naughty no-nos over the years, this iceberg contains basically all of them...that they allow us to know about
Read more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9sZ8EWGogA?source=Snapzu

AI Software to Eavesdrop on Prisoner Phone Calls in Florida

A company that uses surveillance software to monitor U.S. prisoners' phone calls is on the verge of deploying its technology across the Sunshine State. LEO Technologies, a Los Angeles-based company that transcribes inmate communications in real time using an artificial intelligence speech-to-text feature, is marketed as a way to monitor inmate health, improve prison security, and thwart crime. Despite spawning concerns over overzealous surveillance and potential misuse, the software — known as Verus — has been sold and deployed across nearly a dozen states.
Read more: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/ai-software-to-monitor-florida-prisoners-phone-calls-16874626?source=Snapzu

Elizabeth Holmes' prison life a drastic lifestyle shift from Theranos

The disgraced Theranos founder is expected to have to get used to her new prison cell's four walls starting Tuesday.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-prison-drastic-change-from-luxury-life-2023-5?amp?source=Snapzu

These bracelets survived tomb robbers and time — now they're helping us understand the 'beginnings of the globalised world'

An analysis of bracelets owned by ancient Egyptian royalty more than 4,500 years ago has found Egypt and Greece were involved in long-distance trade much earlier than realised.
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-05-30/researchers-analyse-queen-hetepheres-tomb-bracelets/102376846?source=Snapzu

Long-lost Einstein telescope found, restored

Albert Einstein's long-lost telescope, forgotten for decades in a Jerusalem storage shed, goes on display this week after three years and $10,000 spent restoring the relic.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna26857144?source=Snapzu

Ukraine built more onshore wind turbines in past year than England

Revelation about war-torn country is ‘terrible indictment’ of UK government, says Ed Miliband
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/28/ukraine-built-more-onshore-wind-turbines-last-year-than-england?source=Snapzu

Hugely Profitable And Consolidated Streaming Platforms Suddenly Too Cheap To Pay Residuals And Writers, Or Keep Niche Shows Online

We’ve noted repeatedly that as the streaming sector grows and consolidates, it’s revealing many of the same problems we saw inherent in traditional, shitty, cable TV. As in the need to …
Read more: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/26/hugely-profitable-and-consolidated-streaming-platforms-suddenly-too-cheap-to-pay-residuals-and-writers-or-keep-niche-shows-online/?source=Snapzu

Plastic waste puts millions of world’s poorest at higher risk from floods

More than 200 million face more intense and frequent floods due to plastic pollution blocking drainage systems, report finds
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/24/plastic-waste-puts-millions-of-worlds-poorest-at-higher-risk-from-floods?source=Snapzu

Netflix Hires Arnold Schwarzenegger as Chief Action Officer

Netflix has hired Terminator, Predator, and Jingle All the Way star Arnold Schwarzenegger as its chief action officer. Announced in a promotional video on Netflix's YouTube, Schwarzenegger can be seen arriving at the streaming giant's headquarters in a tank. "No one loves action as much as I do," he said in the video. "That's why I've accepted the big new job as Netflix's chief action officer."
Read more: https://www.ign.com/articles/netflix-hires-arnold-schwarzenegger-as-chief-action-officer?source=Snapzu

Most wanted Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in South Africa after decades on the run | CNN

The most-wanted fugitive accused of involvement in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has been arrested in Paarl, South Africa after decades on the run, authorities say.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/africa/rwandan-genocide-suspect-south-africa-intl/index.html?source=Snapzu

Cooler Master’s bizarre gaming shoe costs a cool $6,000

People who love PCs and people who love sneakers are both deeply enthusiastic about their chosen passions, but what if you’re into both? Well, Cooler Master thinks it has the answer in the form of its Sneaker X custom PC, an utterly bizarre computer that is shaped like a chunky, garish piece of premium footwear.
Read more: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/cooler-master-sneaker-x-price/?source=Snapzu

Book Publishers Are Trying to Destroy Public E-Book Access in Order to Increase Profits

A recent ruling against the Internet Archive for copyright infringement threatens a treasured and critical public institution: our libraries.
Read more: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/05/book-publishers-are-trying-to-destroy-public-e-book-access-in-order-to-increase-profits/?source=Snapzu

The Great Rebundling: Who Will Figure Out How to Rebuild Pay TV First?

At this point in the streaming wars, bundling, rather than M&A, is back in the spotlight. During a May 18 investor conference, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was asked whether he would be interested in exploring a sports- and news-led “skinnier bundle” with content from the streamers.
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/cord-cutting-bundle-max-disney-netflix-paramount-1235499213/?source=Snapzu

New Zealand announces its biggest emissions reduction project in history

Move to power Glenbrook steel plant with electricity from renewables rather than coal will reduce emissions by 1% – or the equivalent of taking 300,000 cars off the road
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/22/new-zealand-announces-its-biggest-emissions-reduction-project-in-history?source=Snapzu

Meta hit with a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine over data privacy breaches

Meta failed to comply with the EU's warning about transferring users' data to US servers, and the fine eclipses Amazon's $807 million fine in 2021.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-fined-record-13-billion-for-data-privacy-breaches-2023-5?source=Snapzu

China bans major chip maker Micron from key infrastructure projects

It is China's first major move against a US chip maker, as tensions increase between Beijing and Washington.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65667746?source=Snapzu

Greece recovers hundreds of stolen artefacts

Among the 351 objects being repatriated is a 2nd-Century statue of Alexander the Great.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65657620?source=Snapzu

Vice and BuzzFeed were meant to be the future of news. What happened?

After Rupert Murdoch invested tens of millions of pounds in his digital publishing company in 2013, Shane Smith, boss of Vice Media, laughed at how much old media companies wanted his sexy young business. Acknowledging that they were being left behind, they would offer billions: “And we keep saying ‘no, no, no’”.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/20/vice-and-buzzfeed-were-meant-to-be-the-future-of-news-what-happened?source=Snapzu

Stacey Abrams on Writing and Her Future in Politics

Stacey Abrams talked to TIME about the role fiction has played in her life, voting rights and whether she will run for office again.
Read more: https://time.com/6275642/stacey-abrams-interview/?source=Snapzu

Sick of sewage, Britons protest at water companies' pollution

Thousands of Britons took to the sea and rivers on Saturday to demand an end to sewage pollution by water companies, highlighting a topic that is likely to be an issue at the next general election. A national "paddle-out" at 12 locations across the United Kingdom, including Brighton in the south, Windermere in the Lake District, Plymouth in the south west and Edinburgh in Scotland, was organised by campaign groups Surfers Against Sewage and Ocean Activists.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/sick-sewage-britons-protest-water-companies-pollution-2023-05-20/?source=Snapzu

The Disturbing CIA Iceberg

The CIA certainty has committed their share of naughty no-nos over the years, this iceberg contains basically all of them...that they allow us to know about
Read more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G_JQRQ_wOA?source=Snapzu

Wisconsin man charged with hacking sports betting accounts

A Wisconsin man has been charged in a plot to hack and steal from thousands of sports betting accounts, court documents show.
Read more: https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-wisconsin-hacking-sports-accounts.html?source=Snapzu

This little-known rule shapes parking in America. Cities are reversing it

Approximately 2 billion parking spots cover this country, enough to pave over the entire state of Connecticut. Cities are cracking down.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/us/this-little-known-rule-shapes-parking-in-america-cities-are-reversing-it/ar-AA1brcvl?source=Snapzu

Buffy's 20 Best Episodes, Ranked!

Buffy‘s monsters were always a metaphor for growing pains, but in “The Body,” life’s truest and most inescapable horror is death itself. And what a devastating blow it was when Buffy came home to find her poor mother Joyce dead on the couch. Joyce’s natural passing rendered Buffy completely powerless, which is one thing our hero was not accustomed to. With its long silences and even longer takes, the episode fully captured the shock and numbness that a loved one’s death brings, setting up Sarah Michelle Gellar for her series’ best performance. (Her being shunned by the Emmys for this episode was a gross oversight.)
Read more: https://tvline.com/lists/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-best-episodes-ranked-photos/the-body/?source=Snapzu

TV Writer David Simon Says Industry Is Going to “Infantilize Itself” if AI Is the Future for Scripts

"When I sold all the scripts I sold ... I didn't sell them so that they could be thrown into a computer with other people's and be used again by a corporation," 'The Wire' writer said.
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-writer-david-simon-negative-impact-future-ai-scripts-1235496804/?source=Snapzu

Future wars are going to be catastrophic and robotic, and militaries have to 'come to grips' with that, former general says

The new novel "White Sun War" describes a horrific fight in the Western Pacific over Taiwan and a "new era" in warfare. Robotics and AI
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.nl/future-wars-are-going-to-be-catastrophic-and-robotic-and-militaries-have-to-come-to-grips-with-that-former-general-says/?source=Snapzu

Argentina raises interest rate to 97% as it struggles to tackle inflation

The Central Bank of Argentina raised its key interest rate Monday by six percentage points to 97% in an effort to tackle soaring inflation that has reached 30-year highs.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/15/business/argentina-interest-rates-inflation/index.html?source=Snapzu

Record number of U.S. workers test positive for cannabis, study shows

The number of general employees testing positive for marijuana following an on-the-job accident has hit a 25-year high.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marijuana-workplace-tests-25-year-high-quest/?source=Snapzu

Canada's Competition Bureau sues Cineplex for allegedly advertising misleading ticket prices | CBC News

The bureau alleged in a Thursday media release that Cineplex is breaking the law after an investigation found consumers can't buy movie tickets online at advertised prices because there is an additional mandatory fee of $1.50 for booking online.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/competition-bureau-sues-cineplex-1.6848477?source=Snapzu

Zelenskyy to attend G7 summit Sunday as world leaders tighten sanctions against Russia over Ukraine

Leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies vowed Friday to tighten punishments on Russia for its 15-month invasion of Ukraine, days before President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joins the Group of Seven summit in person on Sunday.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/g7-japan-hiroshima-ukraine-biden-kishida-3ac64076f63786490a1b062f9a408408?source=Snapzu

Italy’s disasters suggest the climate crisis is at the gates of Europe

This week’s floods are latest weather disaster to hit country, as policymakers finally begin to respond to crescendo
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/18/italy-disasters-floods-europe-climate-crisis?source=Snapzu

The IRS is building its own online tax filing system. Tax-prep companies aren't happy

The IRS is working to develop its own free electronic tax-filing system in a potential challenge to commercial products such as TurboTax. The agency plans a pilot test of the program next year.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1176417594/irs-taxes-filing-turbotax-intuit-tax-prep?source=Snapzu

Graham Nash on writing political songs: “I have a right to speak my mind”

Graham Nash’s new album, Now, comes out Friday, May 19, and he isn’t afraid to sing about what’s bothering him about the current political climate in America.
Read more: https://kslx.com/graham-nash-on-writing-political-songs-i-have-a-right-to-speak-my-mind/?source=Snapzu

Report: China Owns Every Aspect Of EV Production

The New York Times outlines how China controls EV production from mine to manufacturing plant.
Read more: https://jalopnik.com/china-linchpin-worlds-electric-vehicle-production-1850446161?source=Snapzu

New York limousine operator convicted of crash that killed 20

The operator of Prestige Limousine faces 15 years in prison for failing to safety maintain the limo.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65629165?source=Snapzu

Google, Meta, Amazon hire low-paid foreign workers after US layoffs: report

H-1B visas have been a lightning rod in the immigration debate, with critics saying they are used to undercut US citizens and legal residents.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2023/05/16/google-meta-amazon-hire-low-paid-foreign-workers-after-us-layoffs-report/?source=Snapzu

In China, the Police Came for the Consultants. Now the C.E.O.s Are Alarmed.

Foreign businesses, a top Chinese official said in March, “are not foreigners, but family.” Then came a crackdown on firms with foreign ties.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/business/china-anti-espionage-law.html?source=Snapzu

Two poultry workers test positive for bird flu

The cases in England were found during screening and there is no sign of human-to-human transmission.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65615772?source=Snapzu

Russia detains former US embassy employee - report

State-owned TASS reports that Robert Shonov has been arrested by Russian authorities for "conspiracy".
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65605920?source=Snapzu

Bobi, the world's oldest dog, turns 31 years old

His family planned a party with more than 100 guests from around the world.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bobi-the-worlds-oldest-dog-turns-31-years-old/?source=Snapzu

Canada wildfires force shutdown of oil and gas production

Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes and oil production has fallen amid early season wildfires in Canada's Alberta province. Within days, 90 blazes were seen burning across the region, with 23 considered out of control.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/canada-wildfires-force-shutdown-of-oil-and-gas-production-12882020?source=Snapzu

What Jimmy Carter really thought about UFOs — and why he hid it

It was out of this world, y’all.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2023/05/10/jimmy-carter-ufo-sighting-what-he-really-thought/?source=Snapzu

Bone Music: Stephen was intrigued when he found an X-ray record at a Russian market. What he discovered inspired him

During the Cold War, the Soviet government banned jazz, rock 'n' roll and other music. A group of bootleggers came up with an unusual way to distribute the music they loved.  
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-17/stephen-coates-forbidden-bone-music-in-russia-xray-records/102303702?source=Snapzu

Online age verification is coming, and privacy is on the chopping block

The future of the internet could be at stake.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/23721306/online-age-verification-privacy-laws-child-safety?source=Snapzu

Florida teacher under investigation for showing Disney movie speaks out

Jenna Barbee let her class watch Strange World, a PG-rated movie with a eco-positive theme and a gay character
Read more: https://nationalpost.com/news/florida-teacher-under-investigation-for-showing-disney-movie-speaks-out?source=Snapzu

Vice, Decayed Digital Colossus, Files for Bankruptcy

Vice, which had wooed media giants, has struggled to adjust to the punishing realities of digital publishing. A group of creditors could buy Vice for $225 million.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/business/media/vice-bankruptcy.html?source=Snapzu

Meat is crucial for human health, scientists warn

Close to a thousand experts unite behind statement that rejects ‘zealotry’ of plant-based diets and promotes livestock farming
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/29/vegan-diet-meat-scientists-british-beef-livestock-farming/?source=Snapzu

How Zelenskyy got Luke Skywalker and Bear Grylls to fight Russia: The inside story

Everyone in Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office was crying. The Ukrainian president and football legend Andriy Shevchenko fell into each other’s arms, unable to find words for their perilous predicament.
Read more: https://www.politico.eu/article/how-zelenskyy-got-luke-skywalker-and-bear-grylls-to-fight-russia-the-inside-story/?source=Snapzu