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  • Whole Foods Takes First Step Toward Unionizing

    Photo: Chris O’Meara (AP) The workers of Whole Foods, the health-focused grocery chain purchased by Amazon just over one year ago, are beginning to organize. An email—first reported on this morning by the Wall Street Journal, then obtained with one redaction by New Food Economy—proposes collective action by the store’s rank-and-file employees to obtain an…

  • Alex Jones Permanently Suspended From Twitter

    WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 5: Alex Jones of InfoWars talks to reporters outside a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing concerning foreign influence operations’ use of social media platforms, on Capitol Hill, September 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg faced questions about how foreign operatives use their…

  • British Airways Hack Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of Customer Payments

    Photo: Getty British Airways revealed on Thursday that hackers managed to lurk in its systems for two weeks, exposing around 380,000 card payments. The company released a statement through its parent company, IAG, saying that the attack on its website (ba.com) and mobile app began late on August 21 and was interrupted on Wednesday evening.…

  • Deteriorating Kepler Space Telescope Refuses to Die

    Artist’s conception of Kepler-186f, one of 2,327 confirmed exoplanets discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope. Image: NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech Unwilling to go quietly into that good night, the Kepler Space Telescope is once again gathering scientific data—despite a malfunctioning thruster and painfully low levels of fuel. With the $600 million Kepler Space Telescope high atop…

  • Quarantined Passengers on Flight From Dubai Were Sick With the Flu and Common Cold: Officials

    Above, passengers from an Emirates airplane having their temperature taken Wednesday. Photo: Larry Coben (AP) The initially mysterious illness that prompted Emirates Airlines Flight 203 to be quarantined upon its arrival to JFK International Airport in New York Wednesday is likely just a bad case of the flu and cold, health officials said Thursday. As…

  • Passengers Aboard Two More Planes Quarantined After Falling Ill

    Photo: Getty Following a quarantine at JFK airport on Wednesday that found around 100 passengers complaining that they felt ill, two flights into Philadelphia International Airport sparked an investigation by the CDC on Thursday afternoon after passengers reported experiencing flu-like symptoms. NBC Philadelphia reports that two American Airlines flights, one arriving from Paris the other…

  • This Alleged Nokia Leak Has Me Eager for Five-Lens Smartphones

    Photo: Getty Based on all the recent Pixel 3 leaks, we’ve gotten a pretty clear picture of Google’s next phone. And with Apple’s big fall launch event scheduled for next week, we’ll finally have official details about the rumored iPhone Xs family as well. But today a leaked image appearing to show Nokia’s next phone…

  • Lawmakers Urge California’s Governor to Sign S.B. 822, Enacting the Nation’s Strongest Net Neutrality Law

    Assemblyman Miguel Santiago and Senator Scott Wiener urge California Governor Jerry Brown to sign Senate Bill 822 at a press conference on Thursday, Sept. 30, at the Ronald Reagan State Building in Los Angeles.Photo: Miguel Santiago After securing votes in the California legislature last week, coauthors of the state’s comprehensive net neutrality bill gathered on…

  • Colorful iPhone 9 appeared in the photo

    In a network there was a selection of photos showing the cheapest version of the iPhone 2018. Photos published relevant resource SlashLeaks that specializes in the collection of a variety of leaks. Of course, pictures with models, not working devices, nevertheless, they give a good idea of the design of the smartphone. The model can…

  • The Internet worldwide will receive a temporary prevention

    Non-profit, public benefit Corporation, ICANN (Corporation for assigned names and IP addresses) have warned about possible failures of the Internet around the world October 11, 2018. This is due to the first change of cryptographic keys that protect the DNS (Internet domain name). Change of keys is assigned just on October 11. The process named…