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Privacy and the internet - there's two words that only go together when we are talking about a "lack” of privacy.  The economic model of the internet and social media is based on trading your private information for features and services you want - but don't want to pay for. A new search engine, described by some as the "anti-Google", called Neeva, is now available to use in Canada. It allows people to browse the internet free of web tracking and promises to pay content creators for the use of their work.

TikTok pushes harmful content every 39 seconds, eight social media influencers have been charged in securities fraud scheme and the Department of Energy looks to fund fusion technologies

Will the U.S. ban TikTok? Facebook faces another lawsuit and Apple may let its users download third-party apps on iOS. 

Scientists achieve a nuclear fusion breakthrough with 192 lasers, Tesla’s approval rating plummets fast, and Bahamas government claims back the $256 million spent by FTX on the island’s real estate

Maryland is the most recent state to ban TikTok in government agencies, Amazon accused of stealing delivery driver tips, and the EU sets a deadline for device manufacturers to switch to USB-C for their data and charging ports

Uber files a lawsuit to stop New York City driver pay increase, United Auto Workers win their vote in the first U.S. electric vehicle battery plant, and poor software has potentially cost the U.S. $2.4 trillion.

For years we've made manufacturing cheaper by moving it overseas and that's had some devastating impacts on our economy, on some places where people lived and worked, and on the environment in a world where it's cheaper to cut down a tree, ship the raw wood overseas and bring back chopsticks to be used in a restaurant in a town near you. Something's radically wrong! So in today’s episode we have a chat about what they call manufacturing 4.0 with Eric Whitley of L2L, to find out where that takes us.

Twitter Blue to cost more for iPhone users, big tech companies will share a multi-billion dollar contract from the Pentagon, and the FBI is concerned with Apple's new security features. 

San Francisco reverses the approval of killer robots policy, Congress drops a media bill as Facebook threatens to ban news in the U.S. and Chinese hackers stole at least $20 million in U.S. COVID-19 relief cash

A 77-year-old sues a cop for wrongly targeting her home with the ‘Find my’ App, the FBI investigates attacks on North Carolina, and Amazon will invite users to share their data for $2 per month.