Articles by Motherboard
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How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
Joseph Cox | Vice/Motherboard - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
16 Nov 2020 – The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people’s personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.
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The Seafloor Is Dissolving Because of Climate Change
Caroline Haskins | Motherboard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
1 Nov 2018 – According to a new study, ocean acidification is setting off a dangerous feedback loop that’s dissolving the very bottom of the ocean. Carbon emissions are acidifying the ocean so quickly that the seafloor is disintegrating.
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What Does a Nuclear Bomb Explosion Feel Like?
Motherboard | Vice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – On the International Day against Nuclear Tests, August 29, we met up British atomic veterans who were present at test sites in Australia and the Pacific, to find out what it’s like to experience a nuclear bomb explosion up close.
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Nafeez Ahmed | Vice Motherboard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
The Norwegian professor at the University of Hawaii and Transcend Peace University is recognized as the ‘founding father’ of peace and conflict studies as a scientific discipline. He has made numerous accurate predictions of major world events, most notably the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
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