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Facebook: the new social control paradigm

Facebook: the new social control paradigm

Facebook has been cited as the prime reason for the recent American recession.  Facebook has spread faster than the ebola virus infecting even users without computers.  Children grow up in a world defined by Facebook.  This aggressive strain F1B1 is reprogramming human beings down to the last strand in their DNA.  As the previous generation had television programming, now we have Facebook programming.  

WhatsApp To Be Free Forever With No Ads

The popular messaging app, WhatsApp, has announced that it is now a completely free service, and has ditched subscription fees for end users. The Daily Dot reports: The decision is a reversal of the annual subscription model that WhatsApp previously employed. Under that model, the first year of service was free, but each additional year cost 99 cents. The company is now eliminating that fee, in part because it learned that some of its more than one billion users don’t have access to a debit or credit card.

Cosmic Particles Could Reveal Secrets Of The Pyramids

Cosmic particles gathered inside Egypt’s famed pyramids could help experts learn about the structure of the ancient monuments. Cosmic ray muon radiography imaging, is one of the methods used by scientists searching for hidden chambers within the pyramids. News.com reports: For the past three months a team of researchers from Egypt, France, Canada and Japan have been scanning four pyramids with thermal cameras to see if they contain unknown structures or cavities.

Blockchain In a Zombie Apocalypse

By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at

With a strong focus on investing in game changing trends, whether in private or public markets, it's not surprising that the technology underpinning the Bitcoin digital currency has been more interesting to us than a gaggle of suntanned string bikinis.

I wrote about the technology recently, first here and then again here, and received lots of really interesting feedback.

At the same time I received lots of detractors of the blockchain technology emailing me. As far as I can tell, they fit into two main groups.

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