The Daily Populous

One device that the lab is making is an energy weapon that can use lasers to create the Laser-Induced Plasma Effect, which allows it to alter atoms and create words out of thin air.

For now, it makes strange human-like sounds, but intelligible words are coming within the next three years.

The goal is to have the weapon being able to create particular noises or heat at particular distant points in space. »

FILE PHOTO: Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage during the annual Facebook F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., April 18, 2017.

SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON (Reuters) - Opinion polls published on Sunday in the United States and Germany cast doubt over the level of trust people have in Facebook over privacy, as the firm ran advertisements in British and U.S. newspapers apologizing to users.

Zuckerberg acknowledged that an app built by a university researcher had “leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014”. »

“It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.

It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet.

(Zachary Baker will read a brief selection by Maks Erik that he translated for the book, in Yiddish and English. »

TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to repeal a Japanese law requiring broadcasters to show impartiality, a step critics fear will lead to sensational reporting and polarize views, just as a similar move has been blamed for doing in the United States.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission decided to repeal the doctrine in 1987 after criticism that it restricted broadcasters’ freedom.

“What Prime Minister Abe wants to do is to advertise his views,” said lawmaker Soichiro Okuno from the opposition Party of Hope. »