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AI Chat Bots Will Change the World

AI Chat Bots Will Change the World

David Wojick David Wojick is an independent policy analyst and senior advisor to CFACT. As a civil engineer with a PhD in logic and analytic philosophy of science, he brings a unique perspective to complex policy issues. His specializes in science and technology intensive issues, especially in energy and environment.

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Teens Report Feeling ‘Peaceful’ Without Smartphones

Teens Report Feeling ‘Peaceful’ Without Smartphones

As I’ve written before, social media companies are the Big Tobacco of the 2000s. Their own research shows that they know their products are extremely harmful to (mental) health, especially for impressionable children and teens, especially girls — but they continue to market to them anyway. And if social media

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A Photo Was Doctored What Is the Big Deal?

T.J. Thomson Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University Rumours and conspiracies have been swirling following the abdominal surgery and long recovery period of Catherine, Princess of Wales, earlier this year. They intensified on Monday when Kensington Palace released a photo of the princess with her

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The Weakest Link for EV’s

cfact.org Federal and state energy policies, now pushing electric vehicles on a reluctant public, are running in conflict with other social and environmental restrictions banning vital materials and component imports. As a consequence, U.S. and European auto companies are racing into Chinese rare earth monopoly and other supply

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Perhaps You Shouldn’t Trust Google

Perhaps You Shouldn’t Trust Google

Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com A significant story in the US about the new Google Gemini AI appears to have received little to no mainstream coverage in NZ’s media. Yet the story raises an important question of whether you should trust Google. They’ve been exposed for being woke and

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Will EVs Become the New Edsels?

cfact.org The year 1957 is memorable for at least two historic launches. The launch by the Soviet Socialist Union of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, prompted the US to create the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) the very next year. Eleven years later, Neil Armstrong stepped

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Swipe Left and Run Away

I have a writer friend who writes erotica of a, shall we say, ‘niche’ variety. Now, just as Agatha Christie didn’t go around murdering people, this writer has no real-life interest in or experience of the things she writes about. Some of her fans, however, seem to assume otherwise.

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The Ministry of AI Truth

CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org Remember HAL, the homicidal Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? Well, if you haven’t had the pleasure yet, let me introduce you to Gemini, Google’s “multimodal large language model.” Gemini hasn’t killed anyone yet – as far as

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The EV Market Hits the Brakes

The EV Market Hits the Brakes

cfact.org Mandating a change to EV ownership and further financial austerity onto those who can least afford it is facing a rebellion from those who need transportation. The problem is that manufacturers are loading up the ‘supply chain’ with EVs on dealer lots, but they’re not seeing the

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An Xtra Headache for the BFD

* I am republishing this article because Xtra’s actions are costing us memberships Readers of the BFD who have signed up for our FREE newsletter with an Xtra e-mail address have been contacting us for months now because Xtra keeps blocking and bouncing our e-mails to them. We have tried

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Your Smart Watch Is Tracking All Your Health Data

Pin Lean Lau Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Bio-Law, Brunel University London For millions of people, smartwatches aren’t just a piece of technology. They can use them to take control of their health in ways never thought possible. As you go on your morning run, a smartwatch can monitor

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Should We Be Concerned About 5G?

Should We Be Concerned About 5G?

Steve R Should we be concerned about 5G? Most people don’t know much about 5G and EMF generally. Let’s learn a bit about it. 5G stands for the 5th generation of technology for transferring information electronically. The first was 1G created in 1979. A common denominator of all

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Tech Talk: Emailing Large Files
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Tech Talk: Emailing Large Files

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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Mr. Bean Was Right About EVs and So Was Toyota

Mr. Bean Was Right About EVs and So Was Toyota

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. cfact.org When

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