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WEF Wants to Microchip Your Children

WEF Wants to Microchip Your Children

Brian Bradley newsbusters.org Brian Bradley is the Associate Editor for Media Research Center’s Free Speech America and MRC Business. Prior to this position, Brian covered several business topics in our nation’s capital, including education, trade and defense. The World Economic Forum is trying to set guardrails for

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Tech Talk: I’m over Accepting Cookies on Websites
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Tech Talk: I’m over Accepting Cookies on Websites

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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Innovation Is Driving the Growth of Alternative Learning Models

Kerry McDonald fee.org Kerry McDonald is a senior education fellow at FEE and host of the weekly LiberatED podcast. She is also the author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019), an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a regular Forbes

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Is it Ethical to Create ‘Synthetic Embryos’?

Is it Ethical to Create ‘Synthetic Embryos’?

Michael Cook Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Israeli scientists have created the world’s first “synthetic embryos”. They used mouse stem cells to create embryos, nurtured them in an artificial womb and grew them for 8½ days – roughly the equivalent of three weeks

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Tech Talk: The App Google Doesn’t Want You to Know About?
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Tech Talk: The App Google Doesn’t Want You to Know About?

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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Tech Talk: Tidying My Messy Android Phone
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Tech Talk: Tidying My Messy Android Phone

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 using

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Data Theft and Government Power

John Mac Ghlionn brownstone.org With a doctorate in psychosocial studies, John Mac Ghlionn works as both a researcher and essayist. His writing has been published by the likes of Newsweek, NY Post and The American Conservative. What’s the most valuable commodity in the world? Grain, coffee, precious metals?

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How Do Dating Apps Choose Your Mr or Ms Right?

How Do Dating Apps Choose Your Mr or Ms Right?

Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie particle.scitech.org.au In an age when disruption is the new normal, curiosity is the becomes the key 21st century skill. This is why Dr. Kate is an advocate for curiosity, through her work as a designer, speaker, writer and researcher. She’s written for variety

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A Closer Look at the AI Hype Machine: Who Really Benefits?

A Closer Look at the AI Hype Machine: Who Really Benefits?

Tom Valovic mercatornet.com Tom Valovic is a journalist and the author of Digital Mythologies (Rutgers University Press), a series of essays that explored emerging social and political issues raised by the advent of the internet. He has served as a consultant to the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.

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Sexual Assault in the Metaverse

lens.monash.edu As Meta (formerly Facebook) expands access to its virtual reality (VR) platform, disturbing accounts of women being sexually assaulted and harassed in its metaverse are also racking up. From a vice-president of research for another metaverse company who claims she was groped by a group of male

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The Case for Technological Pessimism Is Lazy and Wrong

Saul Zimet fee.org Saul Zimet was a Hazlitt Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and a graduate student in economics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. The debate over whether technological progress is ultimately good or bad for humanity

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Musk Declines to Save Twitter from Itself

Musk Declines to Save Twitter from Itself

Jeffrey A Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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Govt Urged to Take Urgent Action

New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) Existing government measures won’t stop one of our fastest-growing sectors moving to Australia.“Existing government policies won’t stop New Zealand gaming and interactive media companies from choosing to expand in Australia instead of New Zealand,” New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) Chairman

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How Private Is TikTok Really?
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How Private Is TikTok Really?

David Tuffley Griffith University David is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity at Griffith University’s School of Information & Communication Technology in Brisbane/Gold Coast. When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said “knowledge is power”, he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous social media

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Banning TikTok Would Be a Mistake

Banning TikTok Would Be a Mistake

Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an editorial fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. For millions of people in the US and around the world, TikTok has become the latest craze. Creating your own videos and

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The iPhone Turns Fifteen

Ismini Vasileiou De Montfort University Paul Haskell-Dowland Edith Cowan University Dr Ismini Vasileiou is an Associate Professor in Information Systems (FBCS, SFHEA) and Associate Head of School (Deputy) at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, Leicester. Professor Paul Haskell-Dowland is the Professor of Cyber Security Practice

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