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California Considering Taxing Residents for Text Messages
December 13, 2018
California Considering Taxing Residents for Text Messages
(The AEGIS Alliance) – The Public Utilities Commission in California wants to consider a plan which would charge a fee for mobile users when they send text messages. This is…
Twitter CEO “@Jack” Wants You to Visit Myanmar – Social Media Assists Genocide
December 10, 2018
Twitter CEO “@Jack” Wants You to Visit Myanmar – Social Media Assists Genocide
(The AEGIS Alliance) – Jack Dorsey started taking a break from twitter in late November. Although it might not look good for Press Release (P.R.), he went on vacation for…
Google Personalizes Search Results even when Logged Out / Incognito
December 7, 2018
Google Personalizes Search Results even when Logged Out / Incognito
(The AEGIS Alliance) – It is expected that when you perform a search on Google while logged in to your Google account that results will be personalized according to what…
Poland saved Europe from ACTA: can they save us from ACTA2?
December 5, 2018
Poland saved Europe from ACTA: can they save us from ACTA2?
(EFF) – Six years ago, Polish activists flooded the streets to oppose ACTA, an incredibly damaging, secretly negotiated Internet treaty hatched in the US to push both America and its European trading partners…
Buyer Beware – Facebook Scam & Spam Alert: Advertisements
December 1, 2018
Buyer Beware – Facebook Scam & Spam Alert: Advertisements
Kyle James Lee – The AEGIS Alliance – This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Let this be a warning to all consumers on Facebook, especially those being targeted…
NASA’s InSight Lander Touches Ground on Mars
November 26, 2018
NASA’s InSight Lander Touches Ground on Mars
(The AEGIS Alliance) – NASA’s InSight Lander has been flying through outer space towards Mars for the majority of 2018. It finally touched ground on Mars today, after it passed…
Government of China’s Own ‘Independent Media Purge’
November 17, 2018
Government of China’s Own ‘Independent Media Purge’
(The AEGIS Alliance) – 9,800 independent news providing social media accounts in China were purged and deleted due to being deemed to have been posting vulgar, sensational, or politically harmful…
Facebook Reportedly Wants to Purchase “Major” Cyber-Security Company
October 21, 2018
Facebook Reportedly Wants to Purchase “Major” Cyber-Security Company
Facebook’s plan is to both prevent breaches in the future; and to improve the company’s reputation.(The AEGIS Alliance) – Facebook has still been reeling from the recent breach where hackers…
Robot Takes “Snakes and Ladders” Quite Literally (VIDEO)
October 15, 2018
Robot Takes “Snakes and Ladders” Quite Literally (VIDEO)
(The AEGIS Alliance) – Scary looking, but may assist disaster rescuers to access tight spaces.Robots are not yet able to think for themselves, but if someday they do, you would…
Air Force: Two New Weapons for F-22 – What They Do
October 15, 2018
Air Force: Two New Weapons for F-22 – What They Do
(The AEGIS Alliance) – The US Air Force along with Lockheed Martin validated several new weapons for the F-22 Raptor. It equips the stealth fighter with additional long-range precision attack…