“In turning to greater use of emigration controls, the US is embracing ever greater control of its domestic population and its resources. Such oversight of US citizens, however, was almost completely unknown in the nineteenth century.”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/you-now-cant-leave-us-unless-irs-lets-you
“A future full of always-listening devices will have its own complications, of course.”
“The disputed projects span a range, from building facial-recognition technology that could be deployed on unsuspecting people in public to providing computer services that a few years ago would have been run on a machine inside the Pentagon.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/why-tech-worker-dissent-is-going-viral/
“Seven years after its secretive launch, X is starting to spawn mind-blowing companies—and show us what an ever expanding Google means for the world.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/alphabet-google-x-innovation-loon-wing-graduation/
“In the only human tests, mitochondrial transplants appear to revive and restore heart muscle in infants that was injured in operations to repair congenital heart defects.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/health/mitochondria-transplant-heart-attack.html
“Treatment with engineered white cells, called immunotherapy, has been limited because of the difficulty of making viruses to carry the genetic material and the time needed to create them. But researchers now say they have a found a way to use electrical fields, not viruses, to deliver both gene-editing tools and new genetic material into the cell. By speeding the process, in theory a treatment could be available to patients with almost any type of cancer.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/health/gene-editing-cancer.html
“The Commerce Department’s order should allow ZTE to at least partially resume operations, though it appears to be narrowly targeted to really only allow for maintenance and the benefit of customers, and not deployment of new products. By and large, the trade ban is still in place.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17532508/zte-ban-us-temporarily-lifts-security-updates
“More than 20 percent of college students use their financial aid money to invest in cryptocurrencies, according to new findings by The Student Loan Report, a website for student loan information.”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/college-students-use-financial-aid-money-to-invest-in-bitcoin.html
“It turns out that advertising to the world that you believe in racial segregation and obedience to the loudest common denominator turns out not to be good for business.”
Read more: https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/the-true-cost-of-the-stepford-student/
“No research was done and no panel formed by the banking regulator before coming down heavily on the exchanges.”
Read more: https://qz.com/1321076/bitcoin-ban-how-rbi-choked-indias-cryptocurrency-ecosystem/