Holocaust Denial Article No Longer in Google’s Top Search Results forward
Now, when users search “Did the Holocaust happen?” they must first scroll through articles about the search controversy, two articles by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ushmm.org, and a wikipedia page on Holocaust denial before they arrive at the Stormfront article.
What's interesting about this is the potential ramifications if, say, people started complaining that the top results were "anti-homosexual" or promoted only one Way (John 14:16) or the like. I'm all for Holocaust denial (AKA anti-semetic) sites being treated as the "fake news" they are, but to intervene to control how specific results get sorted up (or down) seems to be a slipperly slope.
Israel
'Arrested Hamas operative reveals Gaza tunnel secrets to Israel' jpost
Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency shabak.gov.il) cleared for publication Wednesday that Bilal Razania, brother of Mustafa Razania, head of the Hamas internal security apparatus, was arrested while crossing the border from Gaza into Israel on November 27, 2016.
"The information collected in this investigation, as well as from other Hamas operatives arrested over the past year, shows the effort Hamas is going though in order to prepare for a military confrontation with Israel."
Benjamin Netanyahu 'warned UN settlement vote a declaration of war' independent.co.uk
Mr Netanyahu has also lashed out at President Barack Obama after Friday's Security Council vote, on which the United States' abstention marked a break with tradition, and called the action a "shameful ambush".
Also see Netanyahu 'told New Zealand backing UN vote would be declaration of war' theguardian
North Korea
Ex-diplomat: N. Korea set for major nuke push cnn v
Political uncertainty in the United States and in South Korea could give North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "an apt time" to develop nuclear weapons "at all costs by the end of 2017," a high-profile North Korean diplomat who recently defected to South Korea said.
Iran
Report: Obama's secret concession to Iran revealed wnd
A United Nations nuclear watchdog has revealed that the Obama administration gave Iran secret exemptions, allowing the terror-sponsoring state to stockpile uranium in larger amounts than the limits imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal.
The International Atomic Energy Agency iaea.org posted documents on Dec. 23 indicating that Iran was given the concessions in January, according to the Weekly Standard’s Jenna Lifhits.
China
China eyes 2018 for moon landing, 2020 for Mars mission redorbit
Though they lack the experience of the Russian, European or US space programs, the AP noted that China has “made steady progress in a comparatively short time,” having conducted the first crewed space mission in the nation’s history just 13 years ago, then performing a spacewalk and soft landing a rover on the lunar surface in 2013 – the first such landing in decades.
Space
Europe has launched a new satellite navigation system that will be precise down to a few centimeters quartz
Europe has decided it can do better [than current GPS technology]. After 17 years of development and billions spent, on Dec. 15, the European Union flipped the switch and turned on Galileo, its own satellite navigation system. Right now, it includes 18 live satellites, but by 2020 there will be 24—and when the system is at 100%, it should be accurate to within three feet, AFP reports. There will also be a sort of “professional” version of the system that, the European Space Agency says, will be precise to within centimeters. In large part this is thanks to the mind-boggling precision of the atomic clocks carried on their satellites, which are accurate to one second in 3 million years.
Tech
Behold Method-2, a real 4-meter-tall human-piloted mech robot slashgear v
This mech robot is 13-feet tall (approximately 4-meters) and weighs in at 1.5 tons. This robot shakes the ground as it walks. Method-2 is being tested in Gunpo, South Korea – just south of Seoul.
Yang said that this robot will be available for sale by the end of the year 2017. Whether the robot will be shipping then – or well past that due date – is not yet confirmed. The robot’s current target price is set for approximately 10-billion won (around $8.3-million USD). This price does not likely include shipping costs.
Crime
Police want an Echo's data to prove a murder case, but how much does it really know? theverge
James Andrew Bates was charged with first-degree murder after a man named Victor Collins was found dead in Bates’ hot tub in November 2015. Bates owned a few connected devices, including a Nest thermostat, a Honeywell alarm system, and an Amazon Echo. During the course of their investigation, police issued a warrant to Amazon requesting data in the form of audio recordings, transcribed records, and other text records from Bates’ Echo. The police also sought more personal information on Bates, including his subscriber information, and his purchase and billing history.
DNA
College Students Show How Easy It Is to Use Terrifying Genetic Engineering Technology gizmodo
The gene drive is quickly becoming one of the most controversial technologies of our time. Its possibilities are at once spectacular and alarming: by using genetic engineering to override natural selection during reproduction, a gene drive could allow scientists to alter the genetic makeup of an entire species. This could be used to eliminate diseases and protect natural habitats—but could also go horribly wrong in the wrong hands.
Which is why the scientific community is freaking out over a group of undergraduate students that just came very close to creating a gene drive as part of a science competition.
Research
Researchers Use World's Smallest Diamonds to Make Wires Three Atoms Wide www6.slac.stanford.edu t
By grabbing various types of atoms and putting them together LEGO-style, the new technique could potentially be used to build tiny wires for a wide range of applications, including fabrics that generate electricity, optoelectronic devices that employ both electricity and light, and superconducting materials that conduct electricity without any loss.
Human Motion Powered Nanotechnology Devices electronics-lab t
This device called FENG, biocompatible ferroelectret nanogenerator, consists of several thin layers of silicon wafer made of environmentally friendly substances like silver, polyimide, and polypropylene ferroelectret – which is introduced here as the active material of this device. To add the electrical powering feature, researchers added ions to each layer to make sure that each layer has its own charged particles. Finally the circuit works only once some pressure or mechanical energy is performed on the device. For example, by using this technology you will be able to power the LED lights with the pressure of your palm, while the pressure of your finger is enough to power the LCD screen.
Economy
Artificial intelligence could cost millions of jobs. The White House says we need more of it. gazette
To reconcile the benefits of the technology with its expected toll, the report states, the federal government should expand both access to education in technical fields and the scope of unemployment benefits. Those policy recommendations, which the Obama administration has made in the past, could head off some of those job losses and support those who find themselves out of work due to the coming economic shift, according to the report.
A 2016 study from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates that 9 percent of jobs would be completely displaced in the next two decades. Many more jobs will be transformed, if not eliminated. Two academics from Oxford University, however, put that number at 47 percent in a study conducted in 2013. The staggering difference illustrates how much the impact of artificial intelligence remains speculative.
Society
Christian student sues college for limits on preaching trunews
In the complaint, Uzuegbunam took issue with GGC's "Freedom of Expression Policy," which the suit says "restricts all types of student speech to two small speech zones that occupy less than 0.0015 percent of campus." as reported by the Christian Post.
Apostasy
Megachurch Pastor Andy Stanley Claims Christianity Doesn't Hinge on Birth of Jesus, Sparking Controversy christiantoday
"Christianity doesn't hinge on the truth or even the stories around the birth of Jesus. It hinges on the resurrection of Jesus," he told his congregation at the North Point Community Church, a non-denominational, evangelical Christian megachurch located in Alpharetta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.
"The fact is that biblical Christianity and ultimately the Gospel of Christ cannot survive the denial of the virgin birth," [Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert] Mohler said. "Because without the virgin birth, you end up with a very different Jesus than the fully human, fully divine saviour revealed in scripture."
In addition to Mohler's point, our salvation hinges on more than Jesus' death/resurrection (though not less than). God poured out His wrath against the sin of the believer by making Jesus sin on our behalf (crediting our sin as if Jesus had committed it when He dies on the cross), which provides justification because the entire penalty for that sin has been dealt with. However, the other side of the salvation coin is righteousness, without which we would still be unable to stand before God even with our sins forgiven. Having no sin credited against you (justification) is not the same as being made righteous, but must happen so that you can be made righteous. It's Jesus' perfect, righteous life on earth (from birth to death) that is credited to the believer (justified then made righteous) so that they are not only free from the guilt of sin, but ALSO seen as righteous (ex: Romans 3:21-22, 2 Cor 5:21). For more on this, see Why does Christ's righteousness need to be imputed to us? gotquestions
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