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Facebook confirms that Facebook can be bad for you

Click here: Facebook said on Friday that there are certain use cases of the social network that can be bad for your health.
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Smartphone Addiction Creates Imbalance in Brain

Click here: Researchers have found an imbalance in the brain chemistry of young people addicted to smartphones and the internet.

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Early Facebook investor compares the social network to Nazi propaganda, and claims it is creating a climate of ‘fear and anger’

Click here: Early Facebook investor compares the social network to Nazi propaganda, likens its workers to Goebbels and claims it is creating a climate of ‘fear and anger’ 
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Education Week, “The Case(s) Against Personalized Learning (aka IEPs)”

Click here: “Leading researchers say their work does not support the most enthusiastic claims being made by personalized-learning supporters. Education experts are raising questions about implications for teaching and learning. Tech-industry critics are sounding alarms about Silicon Valley’s growing influence over public schools. And a small but vocal coalition of parents and activists from across the political spectrum deride the term “personalized learning” as an Orwellian misnomer for replacing teachers with digital devices and data-mining software.”
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VIDEO: What Happens When Google Disagrees With You?

Is Google open to a diverse array of viewpoints? Or is it an ideological echo chamber? Just ask former Google software engineer James Damore. He was fired for disagreeing with Google’s (left-wing) orthodoxy.

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Facebook “Exploiting” Human Psychology, says Founding President

Click here: The founding president of Facebook gives a candid insider’s look at how social networks purposely hook and potentially hurt our brains.
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FBI confirms former FBI Director Comey drafted letter on Hillary Clinton email investigation before completing interviews

Click here: The documents proving former FBI Director James Comey  began drafting a letter regarding Hillary Clinton’s email investigation months before conducting several key interviews were first brought to light by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, after they reviewed transcripts of interviews with top Comey aides who alluded to the email’s existence.

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Major WiFi security flaw puts millions of devices at risk

Click here: Every Wi-Fi network at risk of unprecedented ‘Krack’ hacking attack

 

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End of the road? Will automation put an end to the American Trucker?

Click here: From Walcott, Iowa – Will automation put an end to the American Trucker?
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If the FBI Has Your Biometrics, It Doesn’t Have to Tell You

Click here: “The FBI’s Next Generation Identification system stores the biometric records  (fingerprints, iris scans and other biometric information) of people who have undergone background checks for jobs, volunteer positions and military service, as well as of those who have criminal records. Effective Aug. 31, that database will be exempt from certain parts of the Privacy Act, a law that allows people whose records are held by the federal government to request more information about which records those are.”