The Trump 2020 app is a voter surveillance tool of extraordinary power
A member of our research team discovered that the app was compiled with an older version of Android, which does not include some of the latest privacy improvements, and uses software provided by a company called Phunware, well known for collecting people's location information and relations with the Trump campaign, a role highlighted by a Wall Street Journal investigation last year. Phunware has come under major scrutiny recently for accepting millions of dollars in federal loans intended to help small businesses cope with the coronavirus…
‘China uses border issue as tool to build pressure on India’
As India and China are engaged in a stand-off in the Galwan Valley, Maj Gen GG Dwivedi (retd) shares his insight into the current situation. He has commanded 16 JAT in Siachen (Durbuk Pangong Tso area), a brigade in the Kashmir Valley and Mountain Division in the North East and also served as India's defence attaché in China and North Korea from 1997 to 99. He is currently a professor of strategic and global affairs. China considers it opportune to push its agenda regarding…
Singer Akon Is Launching a Cryptocurrency Building Senegal City
(Bloomberg) -- When Grammy Award-nominated singer Akon tried to convert some of Senegal's currency to euros during a trip from Dakar to Paris a few years back, he was met with resistance. An employee at the currency exchange counter in France told him, "Unfortunately, we don't take those." "I'm like, 'What?'" Akon recalled in a recent phone interview with Bloomberg News. He hadn't had time to convert one currency to the other before he left for his trip and was stuck with a pocketful of CFA …
Zoom classes for seniors help build ‘a church without walls’
Shirley Burgher begins each day by getting closer to God. She starts with centering prayer, a type of meditation developed by three Trappist monks in the 1970s, and Lectio Divina, a monastic practice of reading Scripture and reflection. It's a source of strength and solace, which she has shared for the past 20 years with members of her Episcopal church, St. John the Divine. She had been leading weekly…
Last Remnants Of KMart Being Removed From Vernon Building
VERNON, CT — The last remnants of a retail icon — KMart — were being removed from a Vernon commercial building Thursday. The work is part of the building's conversion to an Ocean State Job Lot. The remaining signs reflected both the old KMart garden shop and brands popularized corporate owner Sears Holdings. At lunchtime, the Die Hard battery sign had already been killed and was at a lifeltess rest against the building. The Craftsman tools sign was nearby alfter it, too, was taken down. By 1 p.m., just the garden shop and Kenmore appliance…
eleven-x and Pinchin Partner to Provide Indoor Environment Monitoring and Risk Management Solutions for COVID-19 Building Re-Occupancy
LoRaWAN® Based Solutions Offer Remote, Real-Time Air Quality Monitoring and Management Capabilities WATERLOO, Ontario, June 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- eleven-x, a global leader providing complete, wireless, full-service low power IoT solutions, and Pinchin, one of Canada's largest building science, environmental and health & safety consulting firms, are pleased to announce a partnership to deploy innovative new building and indoor environment monitoring as part of a comprehensive solution to help minimize the spread of COVID-19 in …
Adobe Creative Cloud updates add more AI and learning tools
While Adobe's major update to its Creative Cloud applications includes several feature improvements—for example, an AI-powered, improved Smart Subject feature for Photoshop—the main focus is explanatory: showing how to use its tools, as much as providing new one. Adobe said Tuesday that it's doubling the amount of content available on Adobe Live, its source for instructional videos and other tutorials. Adobe Live is also going mobile. Similarly, over 21 million people are now members of Behance, …
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