The social media platform Gab will carry on despite all efforts by what it called the “Silicon Valley Oligarchy” to shut it down following the attack by former user Robert Bowers on a synagogue in Pittsburgh. In a statement released on Gab’s holding page—set up while the company arranges new hosting after all its accounts were cancelled following the shooting—company CEO Andrew Torba said... 

Internal research commissioned by Google confirms Orwellian-scale censorship powers enjoyed by tech giants. It says free speech is a “utopian idea,” and creating “ordered spaces for safety and civility” is Google’s new mission. The name of the briefing, leaked to Breitbart, says it all. ‘The Good Censor,’ prepared by a host of prominent industry researchers and “cultural leaders,”... 

Video of an internal Google meeting shows the company’s top officials talking about using AI to fight populism and “low-information voters” in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 US presidential election. The 1-hour “confidential, for internal use only” video was posted by Breitbart on Wednesday. It has gained traction online, and is cited by pro-Trump commentators as yet another... 

Years of doomsday talk at Silicon Valley dinner parties has turned to action. In recent months, two 150-ton survival bunkers journeyed by land and sea from a Texas warehouse to the shores of New Zealand, where they’re buried 11 feet underground. Seven Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have purchased bunkers from Rising S Co. and planted them in New Zealand in the past two years, said Gary Lynch, the... 

Behind the guards, the blast doors and down corridors of reinforced concrete, sit the encrypted computer servers — connected to nothing — that hold keys to a vast digital fortune. Argentine entrepreneur Wences Casares has spent the past several years persuading Silicon Valley millionaires and billionaires that Bitcoin is the global currency of the future, that they need to buy some, and that he’s... 

Project Veritas’ exposure of Twitter’s alleged bias added to the controversy over potential censorship by major social media platforms. Speaking to Sputnik, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel threw the sustainability of Silicon Valley titans’ business models into doubt and offered ways to hold Facebook, Google, Twitter and others accountable. “It seems Silicon Valley has become... 

UK police want artificial intelligence to assume the upsetting task of intercepting child-abuse images on suspects’ phones and computers. However, existing software can’t distinguish between a naked body and a desert landscape. London Metropolitan Police Head of Digital and Electronic Forensics Mark Stokes told The Telegraph that although the force, which examined 53,000 devices last year, already... 

Some 25 years ago when I made the move from the political left to the political right, I took with me three liberal ideals: I remained an extremist on the issues of free speech and the rights of the accused, and have held on to my loathing for Big Business. A quick glance at today’s headlines proves that those ideals no longer belong to the left. From President Trump to George Zimmerman to Antifa,... 

California in particular is worst state in America. The millions of Mexicans who invaded California throughout the years are now calling for “Calexit” After illegally invading that state, they now call for it to secede so they can later unite it with Mexico. These people must think the Americans are stupid. This is the definition of classical conquering. Mexico getting its hands on Silicon... 

Billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal founder, Peter Thiel spoke at the National Press Club today on his support for Donald Trump. Most of the media ignored the groundbreaking presser today. They don’t want Americans to know about this pro-Trump gay conservative from Silicon Valley. FOX Business Network carried much of the speech live. Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel took his pro-Trump... 

Gawker’s outgoing CEO Nick Denton announced on Thursday after fourteen years Gawker.com will shut down next week. Gawker reported: After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week. The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media’s six other websites, and four months after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter... 

Tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel ignited a thunderous applause on Thursday night when he became the first openly gay man to address the Republican National Convention and tout his sexuality onstage. “I am proud to be gay,” Thiel declared. “I am proud to be Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.” The line prompted the crowd at the GOP convention in Cleveland to roar with applause... 

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is meeting with several conservatives this week to address the alleged suppression of conservative news stories on Facebook. The list of attendees is a who’s who of Trump bashers: Glenn Beck, Dana Perino, S. E. Cupp, Arthur Brooks from American Enterprise Institute and Zac Moffatt, Mitt Romney’s former digital director. This is how Drudge Report put it: Glenn Beck... 

At least 14 people have been injured, four of them seriously, after a commuter train traveling from Silicon Valley to Stockton derailed and two of its cars crashed into a local creek in California. The incident took place in a rural area some 72km east of San Francisco on Monday night, Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) train officials told KCBS radio, adding that there were at least 214 passengers on... 

North Korea’s controversial satellite is “tumbling in orbit,” CBS News reports, citing US officials. Meanwhile, South Korea confirmed that the satellite has been successfully launched into orbit, but could not verify if it is functioning. Experts are yet to validate any signals from the newly launched satellite, but CBS News correspondent David Martin quoted US officials as saying that the satellite...