Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook, America’s most well-known brands and most prosperous firms, are demanding that states and localities provide them ever-larger economic development subsidies to support their data centers. Last year these five tech giants reported nearly $120 billion in pre-tax profits, and yet they told states and localities they needed financial help to build new data centers, …
Lauren McCauley – Alongside New Email Dump, WikiLeaks Releases E-Reader Version of Hillary Clinton’s Speeches
WikiLeaks on Monday dropped its second tranche of the so-called Podesta Emails, laying bare what members of her own inner circle believed were the vulnerabilities of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, from her emails and ties to big money, to her scandal-laden husband and propensity for saying things that are “untrue.” It is the second batch of documents obtained by the …
The Personal Computer Show – 09.28.16
Google Andromeda OS
Running Android Apps on the Chromebook
Dell XPS 13 Misleading Ad ‘Weightless, Borderless, Limitless’
HDD 1 TB vs SSD 1 TB Pricing Differential
OneDrive’s file will return to Windows 10 as On-Demand Sync
IT workers brace for outsourcing, layoffs at Chicago Health Care Service Corporation
University of California’s outsourcing is wrong, says U.S. lawmaker
Court ruling puts future of H-1B lottery in doubt
Rebecca Solnit – Standing Rock Protests: This Is Only the Beginning
pioneer monument and a lot of state troopers with batons and riot helmets stood between the mostly young native activists and the North Dakota state capitol on Friday afternoon. Many of the activists arriving at the capitol’s vast green lawn hadn’t heard that the Washington DC judge had decided against the Standing Rock reservation Sioux lawsuit. That was the lawsuit …
Julian Hattem – Clinton sides with Dem leaders on Iran sanctions
Hillary Clinton is siding with leading Senate Democrats in a looming fight over expiring sanctions on Iran. In a statement to The Hill, a spokesman for Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, called for Congress to renew the expiring Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) without adding additional measures to combat recent aggressive behavior in the wake of the international nuclear deal. “Hillary Clinton …
Oliver Stone links Pokémon Go to totalitarianism during privacy debate
Film director Oliver Stone has branded the popular gaming app Pokémon Go a “new level of invasion” of privacy that could lead to “totalitarianism”. The American reportedly voiced concerns over the game as he promoted his new movie about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden at Comic-Con International. After he was asked about security concerns associated with Pokémon Go, Stone said companies were carrying out …
Steven MacMillan – Pokémon Go, the CIA, “Totalitarianism” and the Future of Surveillance
If anyone doubted that a percentage of the global population are akin to zombies, the incidents following the release of Pokémon Go have surely convinced you. Despite the game only being released in early July, we have already seen a man driving into a tree and a women getting locked in a graveyard whilst chasing these furry little creatures. Pokémon describes the …
Alix O’Neill – The Wolves of Silicon Valley: how megalomaniacs in hoodies became tech’s answer to Wall Street
Free food, sleep pods and graffiti walls. Few places are so enshrined in urban myth as Facebook, Google and other companies of their ilk. Silicon Valley has long been considered the Neverland of corporate life – a place where office slides and oversized Lego figures are as ubiquitous as water coolers. But what’s it really like to work at one …
John Mauldin – Millennials Are Doomed To Face An Existential Crisis That Will Define The Rest Of Their Lives
Psychologists from Sigmund Freud forward have generally agreed: our core attitudes about life are largely locked in by age five or so. Changing those attitudes requires intense effort. Neil Howe and William Strauss took this obvious truth and drew an obvious conclusion: if our attitudes form in early childhood, then the point in history at which we live our childhood must …
John Michael Greer – They Died of Progress
The unspeakable has become the inescapable in today’s world. It’s become a running joke on the internet that the word “upgrade” inevitably means poorer service, fewer benefits, and more annoyances for those who have to deal with the new and allegedly improved product. The same logic can be applied equally well across the entire landscape of modern technology. What’s new, innovative, …










