Giles Brown

Joined: November 24, 2020
Articles: 164

Technology

Welcome to TikTok’s endless cycle of censorship and mistakes

Ziggi Tyler is part of TikTok’s Creator Marketplace, a private platform where brands can connect with the app’s top creators. And last week, he noticed something pretty disturbing about how the creator bios there were being automatically moderated. When he…

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Giles Brown
July 13, 2021

Health

Israel Begins Administering World’s First COVID Booster Shots

Israel has started to give some of its citizens a third Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday. The injections, which Axios notes are the first public-facing COVID-19 booster shots to be administered anywhere in the world, are meant to combat the…

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Giles Brown
July 12, 2021

Money

John McAfee’s Instagram Posted Something After He Died

John McAfee was found dead in his cell shortly after a judge agreed that John should be extradited back to the US.

Giles Brown
June 23, 2021

Money, Technology

Why China’s kicking out the crypto miners

The news: China’s intensifying crackdown has sent cryptocurrency prices tumbling. China has been upping its regulatory squeeze on cryptocurrencies for some time, but it now looks likely that over 90% of Bitcoin mining capacity in the country will shut down,…

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Giles Brown
June 22, 2021

Science

Giant Arc of Galaxies Is Way Too Big to Exist, Scientists Say

Arc of the Universe A team of scientists has found a gigantic structure in space, called the Giant Arc, that’s way too big to exist based on what we thought we knew about the universe. The Giant Arc is a…

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Giles Brown
June 22, 2021

Science, Technology

Watch Dudes Tow a Pickup With a Giant Mecha Suit

Mecha Tow Have you ever seen a giant mech suit pull a pickup truck in the desert? Neither did we. Back in 2019, the folks behind the startup Furrion Exo-Bionics took their fully-functioning, 9,000 pound mechanized suit, called Prosthesis, for…

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Giles Brown
June 22, 2021

Money, Science, Technology

China Orders Banks to Stop Handling Crypto, Bitcoin Plummets

Crackdown Continued Things are not looking good for Bitcoin right now. Chinese officials continued their crackdown on cryptocurrencies this week, the BBC reports, ordering banks to stop supporting any transactions involving the digital currencies. Unsurprisingly, the value of Bitcoin slumped…

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Giles Brown
June 22, 2021

Science, Technology

Four Stages of Intelligent Matter That Will Bring Us Iron Man’s ‘Endgame’ Nanosuit

Imagine clothing that can warm or cool you, depending on how you’re feeling. Or artificial skin that responds to touch, temperature, and wicks away moisture automatically. Or cyborg hands controlled with DNA motors that can adjust based on signals from…

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Giles Brown
June 22, 2021

Health

VIDEO: How Vaccine Misinformation Will Decimate The Human Population And Why It Needs To Stop Immediately

Misinformation about vaccines has led to many becoming confused and frightened. We have the information needed to make an informed decision.

Giles Brown
June 22, 2021

Science, Technology

Video Reportedly Shows Chinese Rocket That Smashed Into Earth

Rocket Crash A video shared by aerospace reporter Andrew Jones on Twitter shows a massive rocket booster, reportedly part of China’s Long March 2F rocket that launched three astronauts into orbit on June 16, lying in the middle of the…

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Giles Brown
June 21, 2021