Month: November 2021
Google Maps Avoid Crowd Feature
Google Maps is adding new features to help avoid – or find – other people. Google has long offered similar features for particular train lines or locations. But the new tool makes it easier to spot if a particular neighbourhood or area is going to be particularly busy at the moment. The new tool is
Bitcoin Price slide continues
After a brief surge in bitcoin’s value at the start of the week following a major upgrade to its network, the cryptocurrency has plunged to below $60,000 on Thursday.Bitcoin’s price has hel d firm above $58,000, bolstered by the rollout of the long-awaited Taproot update over the weekend, which improves both the privacy and security
Alleged Spying on Amazon Employees
Amazon gave numerous employees ‘free for all’ access to customer information which allowed low-level workers to see personal shopping history of celebrities and people they were romantically involved with, a new report alleges. It has been claimed that customer service representatives were given the ability to look up any user’s purchase history on command to
Control Over Facebook News Feed
The social network has been under intense scrutiny in recent years for how its algorithms promote content. Now, it says it is testing controls to “adjust people’s ranking preferences” and customise the feed. The company says it is introducing new features to give people more control over what appears in their news feeds e.g. increasing
Piracy: NFT art as free downloads
NFTs are digital tokens that proponents say can prove ownership of digital items – including artwork. Many have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, even though anybody can view the attached artwork. The NFT Bay purports to offer “all NFTs from Ethereum and Solana” – two cryptocurrency networks – in a whopping 17 terabyte
Seminole Wars
The Seminole Wars were fought in Florida in the 19th century and are commonly known as the longest, most costly, and deadliest conflicts of the “Indian Wars” period of United States history. At the time the US, and the world at large, were vastly different places territorially, and these conflicts took place against a backdrop
Older People Engagement
Nearly 700 million people are over the age of 60 in the world. A growing number of people of this demographic are reporting to feel socially isolated and feeling increasingly lonely, a mental state which is thought to be linked to both physical and mental decline in the elderly, and especially conditions such as Alzheimer’s.
COVID vaccines to children
Despite large proportions of the population in most developed nations being vaccinated against COVID-19, the virus is still being spread and even on the rise in many countries internationally. Scientists remain divided on the subject of spread amongst children, who have thus far remained unvaccinated with vaccine rollout targeting the most vulnerable first, i.e. immune
Russia a satellite shoot down
In November 2021, Russia destroyed one of their own satellites, Kosmos 1408, using an anti-satellite missile, and were subsequently criticised by the international community for recklessly causing a debris field that will orbit Earth and could endanger the International Space Station. The United States condemned Russia’s actions and the lack of any sort of announcement
assassination of Malcolm X
Outspoken human and civil rights activist Malcolm X was murdered in February 1965 while preparing for a speech in Manhattan, New York; three men were arrested for his assassination and spent the next few decades in prison. However, two of those men always maintained their innocence, and the third man who pleaded guilty admitted the