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Pakistan’s National Assembly (NA) has approved a draconian cybercrime bill named “Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015” that will make it illegal for anybody to criticize the government on social media.  The controversial bill punishes those “sending text messages without notifying the receiver” or “criticizing government actions on social media.” The proposed bill would criminalize internet activity, stifle its growth and damage the economy while inducing an atmosphere of fear. Adios internet. Hello intranet.

Advancements in human cloning will lead to a scary black market problem, leading scientists warn. According to a report in the UK Express: While it remains illegal in most countries, including the UK, scientists have reached a point where they are able to clone human embryos on a grand scale. However, it is legal for scientists to follow certain therapeutic cloning procedures, if the sole purpose of it is to study cells.

Ask people which is the most important structure that keeps the US capital markets humming day after day, and most will likely erroneously say the New York Stock Exchange, which however over the past decade has transformed from its historic role into nothing more than a TV studio for financial cable networks. Some might be closer to the truth and say that the most important building is the true New York Stock Exchange located in Mahwah, New Jersey however that also is not true as the NYSE now accounts for just a small fraction of total traded volume.

A different kind of fiction-peddling...

Source: Investors.com

Billionaire Russian philanthropist Yuri Milner with the help of Professor Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook are planning to send a tiny spacecraft to Alpha Centauri. The light-propelled ‘nanocraft’ will travel to our closest neighboring star system at 20% the speed of light ‘sailing’ on laser rays.