Day's Headlines: Cooked News; Lying Lily; CO's Aborted Bills; The North Korea Option; Elevated Russia; Oroville; and Passenger Drones

Monday, February 13, 2017

Cooked News; Lying Lily; CO's Aborted Bills; The North Korea Option; Elevated Russia; Oroville; and Passenger Drones

Fake News

Fake news is killing people's minds, says Apple boss Tim Cook telegraph.co.uk

In an impassioned plea, Mr Cook, boss of the world’s largest company, says that the epidemic of false reports “is a big problem in a lot of the world” and necessitates a crackdown by the authorities and technology firms.

But he is optimistic. “In some ways kids will be the easiest to educate. At least before a certain age, they are very much in listen and understand [mode], and they then push their parents to act. We saw this with environmental issues: kids learning at school and coming home and saying why do you have this plastic bottle? Why are you throwing it away?”

Depravity

What went seriously wrong with Lily Robotics venturebeat

Emails had been exchanged between CEO Balaresque and the third-party filmmaker they’d tapped to help make the promotional film. The emails leave little to the imagination. Wrote Balaresque: “I am worried that a lens geek could study our images up close and detect the unique GoPro lens format … I think we should be extremely careful it we decide to lie publicly.”

Abortion

House committee kills 3 abortion bills, including one that would have made practitioners felons thedenverchannel

The outcome was to be expected in the Democrat-majority committee chaired by Rep. Joann Ginal, Ph.D., a Fort Collins Democrat who is also a reproductive endocrinologist.

North Korea

Trump Faces Limited Options After North Korea Missile Test newsweek

Despite his campaign vows to take a tougher line with North Korea, President Donald Trump's restrained public reaction to Pyongyang's first ballistic missile launch on his watch underscores that he has few good options to curb its missile and nuclear programs.

While no one can rule out that Trump might still take to Twitter with harsh rhetoric as he often does, some analysts said his relatively subdued initial statement could show that aides have convinced him not to be baited by Pyongyang into issuing threats that would be hard to carry out, especially while his North Korea strategy is still being formulated.

Russia

[OPINION] What’s behind Russia’s jaunty mood? Way more than Trump, says this bank CEO marketwatch

“There’s an expectation — which I hope is going to be fulfilled — that under the Trump regime, there’ll be a sea change in relations towards Russia,” Hughes said. “However: (a.) That remains to be seen, and (b.) I don’t think it will make a huge difference to business sentiment in general.” [Oliver Hughes, chief executive of Russian Tinkoff Bank]

Environmental

What is the Oroville Dam and why is it so terrible if it fails usatoday

The Oroville Dam is the tallest dam in the United States, and is a critical piece of the state’s water system. Oroville Dam is located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada east of the Sacramento Valley. The dam, which was completed in 1968, has risen rapidly this winter as the Feather River and its tributaries have gushed down swollen after storms that brought heavy rain and snow. The storms, which came after more than five years of severe drought, have led officials to release water from various dams across Northern California.

Also see 188,000 evacuated, emergency declared as California’s massive Oroville Dam threatens floods washingtonpost

Drones

Up, up and away: Passenger-carrying drone to fly in Dubai phys.org

Dubai hopes to have a passenger-carrying drone regularly buzzing through the skyline of this futuristic city-state in July. Mattar al-Tayer, the head of Dubai's Roads & Transportation Agency, made the announcement on Monday at the World Government Summit worldgovernmentsummit.org.

Others...

No comments :

Post a Comment