⚡️TBOT Show Episode #6: Big Tech Power Plays, WiFi Sense Tingling, ICE See You, Going Back IRL
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This week’s stories:
Big Tech Makes Power Plays – Data centers across the US are securing first dibs on energy, consuming massive power and destroying the environment. Learn which companies and where.
Is Your WiFi sense tingling? – Comcast’s new “WiFi-Motion” tracks movement in your home using WiFi signals. It can literally see through walls.
ICE See You – An app that tracks ICE gains 240K users. Now the dev is under political fire. Legal? Moral? You decide.
Going back IRL – Youth in the Netherlands are ditching phones for “Offline Club.” The digital detox movement is here.
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British man attacked for entering a ‘no-go zone’ in London.
A horde of Islamists surrounded him and questioned why he was in ‘their’ neighborhood.
They threatened him and began chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they kicked him out.
A 65-year-old couple retiring in 2025 with average earnings will receive an estimated $1.34 million in lifetime benefits, while contributing only $720,000 in today’s dollars.
That shortfall—more than $600,000 per couple—is being made up by younger workers.
“Most of the growth in spending has gone to retirement and healthcare, while programs that promote upward mobility... have been left behind”
https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-medicare-young-workers-cost-10477619