Trump Accuses Google of Rigging Search Results To Favor ‘Bad’ News About Him. Russia fake news
President Donald Trump says Google search results for “Trump News” show only negative coverage about him.
Tweet this morning on Tuesday 8/28/2018
Trump tweet, “96% of results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media”
He said it’s a “very serious situation” that “will be addressed!”
Google denies the claims and says it’s search engine, “is not used to set a political agenda and we don’t bias our results toward any political ideology”.
Shares of Alphabet fell 0.8% to $1,245.86.
Does google/facebook/twitter alter the way we vote and think about issues
YouTube, Apple and Facebook removed content from Alex Jones’ site Inforwars. Conspiracy theorist. Twitter also temporarily deactivated his account.
Fake News out of Russia? Was mostly pro Trump.
Where do you draw the line? How do you police that?
Xenophobia and automation:
As the Trump administration continues to advance its hardline stance towards immigration, legal or otherwise, businesses are increasingly turning to automation and robotics to fill jobs previously held by humans.
Japan has a notoriously difficult immigration system. You have to do a 6 month course in Japanses culture/language before immigrating.
Their population is getting older. Instead of opening up immigration they are turning to robotics.
Rights groups are demanding that google stops production on their censored search system for china:
More than a dozen tech NGOs and human rights groups have issued an open letter calling on Google to stop work on a censored search engine project in China.
Organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Access Now and others released the letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday,
The tech giant’s plans to release a censored version of its search engine app to users in China represent an “alarming capitulation by Google on human rights.”
LCD 2018 ‘A12’ iPhone expected to dominate sales, two dual-SIM models exclusive to China
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has slightly refined predictions for the 2018 iPhone lineup
reiterated his belief that the two new OLED iPhone models will be available in September. However, the widely anticipated 6.1-inch lower-cost LCD iPhone model will be made available to consumers a bit later.
Kuo continues to maintain that the new 6.1-inch LCD and 6.5-inch OLED iPhone models will have single-SIM and dual-SIM versions. At present, it does not appear that the dual-SIM models will be available in the United States.
The less expensive LCD model is not expected to have the A11 processor as found in the iPhone 8 and iPhone X. Kuo believes that the it will equipped with the “A12,” the same as the OLED model
Will the iphone SE 2 come out too? (I love my iphone SE)
The 6.1-inch LCD phone is expected to cost around $600-700, while the 5.8-inch model slots in at between $800 and 900, with the 6.5-inch model coming in at least $999.
* They might also remove 3D TOUCH: Barclays says it’s “widely understood” that 3D Touch will be removed from iPhones with OLED displays in 2019—aka the third-generation iPhone X and second-generation “iPhone X Plus.” However,