GEO Group Runs Out of Banks as 100% of Banking Partners Say ‘No’ to the Private Prison Sector

All of the existing banking partners to private prison leader GEO Group have now officially committed to ending ties with the private prison and immigrant detention industry. These banks are JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, SunTrust, BNP Paribas, Fifth Third Bancorp, Barclays, and PNC.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/morgansimon/2019/09/30/geo-group-runs-out-of-banks-as-100-of-banking-partners-say-no-to-the-private-prison-sector/amp/?__twitter_impression=true?source=Snapzu

Leaked Zuckerberg Audio Reveals Facebook's Plan to Sue the U.S. Government If Elizabeth Warren Tries to Break Up Big Tech

Mark Zuckerberg is fully prepared to sue the federal government if someone like Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren tries to break up Facebook into smaller companies, according to audio recordings obtained by the Verge. Warren has made breaking up Big Tech a signature promise of her presidential campaign.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/leaked-zuckerberg-audio-reveals-facebooks-plan-to-sue-t-1838658450?source=Snapzu

Lost iPhone works after year in river

An iPhone lost at the bottom of a river still works 15 months later. The handset fell overboard when Erica Bennett and her family went on a tour with Edisto River Adventures in South Carolina, and thanks to a waterproof case it still functions.
Read more: https://www.perthnow.com.au/technology/lost-iphone-lost-at-bottom-of-south-carolina-river-still-functions-after-15-months-underwater-ng-b881336134z.amp?source=Snapzu

Limerick student tricks scammer to give him money

A student from County Kilkenny in the Republic of Ireland has managed to scam money out of an internet scammer. The scammer transferred £25 to the student's account, which he subsequently donated to charity.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-49871448??source=Snapzu

Watch Steve Jobs Assure Americans in 1981 That Computers Wouldn't Be a Privacy Nightmare

From the perspective of the early 21st century, it’s safe to say that computers have been a privacy nightmare. Our world is so interconnected by machines, that corporations, governments, and almost anyone can find out almost anything they want about an average citizen thanks to our digital footprints. But the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs gave an interesting ABC News Nightline interview in 1981 where he assured Americans that privacy wouldn’t be a problem if people became computer literate.
Read more: https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/watch-steve-jobs-assure-americans-in-1981-that-computer-1838624757?source=Snapzu

Napoleon Chagnon, 81, Controversial Anthropologist, Is Dead

Napoleon Chagnon, a cultural anthropologist whose studies of the indigenous Yanomami people of the Amazon rain forest made them famous but whose methods provoked intense disputes among other anthropologists, died on Sept. 21 in Traverse City, Mich. He was 81.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/science/napoleon-chagnon-dead.html?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk, Man of Steel, reveals his stainless Starship

Elon Musk spoke about his vision of a brighter future for humanity on Saturday evening in South Texas. Musk acknowledged that there are a lot of problems here on Earth, and it is important for those to get fixed. But it is also important to give people hope for the future and a sense of optimism. He believes the exploration of space, and human expansion into the Solar System, provides this kind of a hopeful vision.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/features/2019/09/after-starship-unveiling-mars-seems-a-little-closer/?source=Snapzu