Technology

Japan is aiming to regain the edge in technology innovation which it lost to China and South Korea, by building the world’s fastest computer. The Japanese government is to spend 19.5 billion yen ($173 million) on creating the fastest supercomputer known to man with a 130 petaflops processing power that would propel the country into a new technological era. Currently China’s Sunway TaihuLight holds the record with 93 petaflops capacity, churning calculations at the rate of 93 quadrillion per second.

A National Public Radio investigation has uncovered evidence that the majority of ‘fake news’ websites are run by a Democratic organization in California called “Disinfomedia”. The NPR investigation found that the “godfather” of fake news is a Democrat based in Culver City, California, who runs a multitude of the most prominent fake news sites on the web, aimed at discrediting the alternative media.

Several Facebook employees have reportedly quit the social media company amid criticism that it has developed a special software to suppress posts in China in concession for re-entering the Chinese market. Facebook has been banned in the country since 2009 and the new censorship tool could allow China to monitor and suppress content in news feeds based on user’s location. WCCF Tech reports: New York Times reports that Mark Zuckerberg has created a software to suppress posts from appearing in people’s news feeds in specific geographic areas.

By EconMatters

We discuss game theory and the idea that cooperative game theory suggests here that both Iran and Russia would be better served to cut oil production as opposed to merely freezing oil production. We could easily be talking about losing an extra 20 to 50 plus Billion in annual Oil Revenues for these two countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBMSJp-Wkek

"noise" and "imprudence" indeed...

Source: MichaelPRamirez.com