{"id":8983,"date":"2021-04-25T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8983"},"modified":"2021-04-25T10:34:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T16:34:56","slug":"4-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8983","title":{"rendered":"4.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-and-technology\/2021\/04\/14\/taking-selfies-with-a-liquid-lens\">smartphone<\/a> with a fluid lens<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/wbna12752868\">Qwest reportedly balked<\/a> at NSA records sweep (2006)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/cad45ac2-3778-4db6-a43c-96b83b195516\">Coalition<\/a> of big investors pushes banks to defund carbon emitters<\/p>\n<p>All the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndss-symposium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ndss2021_1C-3_23159_paper.pdf\">Numbers are US<\/a>: Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers<\/p>\n<p>Facebook Wants to &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/7kvp7y\/facebook-normalize-mass-scraping-personal-data\">Normalize<\/a>&#8216; the Mass Scraping of Personal Data<\/p>\n<p>Life after Merkel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3130307\/life-after-merkel-germanys-ties-china-head-unknown\">Germany\u2019s<\/a> ties with China head into the unknown<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2021\/04\/chinas-digital-yuan-displaces-the-dollar\/\">China\u2019s<\/a> digital yuan displaces the dollar<\/p>\n<p>Eye in the Sky: <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=Eye+in+the+Sky%3A+Private+Satellites+and+Government+Macro+Data&#038;t=brave&#038;ia=web\">Private Satellites<\/a> and Government Macro Data<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spinstrangenesscharm.wordpress.com\/2021\/04\/18\/capitalism-needs-a-new-martin-luther-to-call-out-the-woke-indulgence-sellers\/\">Capitalism<\/a> needs a new Martin Luther to call out the \u201cwoke indulgence sellers\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bill to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/government-and-politics-9084bbdac922f93117326e707931d914\">reveal names<\/a> of California recall signers won\u2019t move ahead<\/p>\n<p>The Florida House has resoundingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/technology\/articles\/2021-04-21\/florida-house-overwhelmingly-approves-consumer-privacy-bill\">approved a consumer privacy bill<\/a> that gives the public an opportunity to regain ownership of the personal data collected by companies.<\/p>\n<p>How a <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/04\/22\/oracle-digital-china-resellers-brokers-surveillance\/\">Chinese Surveillance Broker<\/a> Became Oracle\u2019s \u201cPartner of the Year\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2021\/04\/21\/this-manitoba-couple-lived-in-xinjiang-for-10-years-they-can-no-longer-stay-silent-about-what-they-saw.html\">speaking out about the horrors they witnessed<\/a>, when around them, an estimated million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities were forcibly taken to internment camps for \u201cre-education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality the hearing\u2019s climate alarmist statements and claims represented nothing but conjecture and speculation driven by the political ambitions of politicians and scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2021\/04\/22\/history-confirms-democrats-1988-senate-global-warming-hearing-got-everything-wrong-from-start-to-finish\/\">seeking fame and additional government funding<\/a>. The hearing failed to address scientifically proven and verifiable climate evidence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/mlb\/2021\/4\/13\/22372364\/billy-beane-brian-cashman-yankees-oakland-as-legacy\">Moneyball With Money<\/a>: How Billy Beane and Brian Cashman Became Friends, Won Games, and Influenced People<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one thing when activists lie in furtherance of their goals. But when <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewholden360\/status\/1385354583904509952?s=12\">the media is deliberately misleading their audience for the sake of a narrative<\/a>, it\u2019s an enormous, malignant problem.<\/p>\n<p>With the low-cost, reusable Falcon 9 rocket, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2021\/04\/five-reasons-why-nasas-starship-award-is-a-watershed-moment-in-spaceflight\/\">SpaceX has already badly damaged the commercial launch industries in Europe, Russia, and Japan<\/a>. For the Artemis Program, Europe is contributing the Service Module for the Orion spacecraft. How would these officials react if NASA now says, &#8220;non merci&#8221; to that contribution because of SpaceX?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/04\/23\/mit-researchers-say-youre-no-safer-from-covid-indoors-at-6-feet-or-60-feet-in-new-study.html\">risk of being exposed to Covid-19 indoors is as great at 60 feet as it is at 6 feet<\/a> \u2014 even when wearing a mask, according to a new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers who challenge social distancing guidelines adopted across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Diess <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/fda38e53-c045-49d7-9909-c4b92604dfe9\">infamously complained to reporters that these workers\u2019 bargaining power meant<\/a> that a one-litre pot of coffee for a meeting at the plant costs the company roughly \u20ac60.<\/p>\n<p>Navalny Has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/04\/alexei-navalny-showing-russians-what-courage\/618666\/\">Lesson for the World<\/a>. The Russian opposition leader is showing what courage means.<\/p>\n<p>Lockdown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/04\/24\/lockdown-proponents-cant-escape-blame-biggest-public-health\/\">proponents<\/a> can\u2019t escape the blame for the biggest public health fiasco in history<\/p>\n<p>Want to Resist? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrbutler.com\/want-to-resist-delete-your-facebook-account\">Delete<\/a> Your Facebook Account<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A smartphone with a fluid lens Qwest reportedly balked at NSA records sweep (2006) Coalition of big investors pushes banks to defund carbon emitters All the Numbers are US: Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers Facebook Wants to &#8216;Normalize&#8216; the Mass Scraping of Personal Data Life after Merkel: Germany\u2019s ties with China head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8983"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9009,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions\/9009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}