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Linda Yaccarino. Tech’s Biggest Loser in 2023

Remember Ted Turner? He was the media darling of the seventies, eighties and early nineties. He created the revolutionary TV news concept called CNN. Then he bought the Atlanta Braves baseball franchise and turned it into a World Series champion. He even skippered an America’s Cup victory – then, the highest profile yacht race in […]

The Inaugural Dialogue Between Humans and Whales

The noteworthy conversation in the original whale dialect may pave the way for forthcoming whale-human communication. In a recent publication in Peer Magazine, scientists from the University of California Davis, Alaska Whale Foundation, and SETI collaborated to engage in communication with whales. Conversing with a Humpback Whale The team’s historic 20-minute discussion with Twain, a […]

When and Why Did Conservatism Become Extremism?

Social Media App Parler Returns Today’s announcement about the unshuttering of controversial conservative social media platform Parler has raised some fairly profound social questions. The first question being how on earth can you write ‘conservative’ immediately after ‘controversial’. The app, which was thrown out of Google and Apple Online stores, became a megaphone for everything […]

Don't Be Too Sure About Deepfake Influencing 2024 Elections

It’s late December and the media are amping up pre-election chatter. The United States, the United Kingdom and India are all going to the polls. It’s the biggest election year in the history of the democratic process. The dominant narrative is, of course, AI. Deepfake video and audio content are threatening to laugh in the […]