Margie Pritchard
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Russia’s parliament has approved a law that might allow the country to cordon off its internet from the rest of the world, creating an unprecedented “sovereign” internet. If Russia is able to pull this off, it will be the most tangible step yet towards fracturing the web. It could also be a harbinger of things…
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Last month, 19-year-old Santiago Lopez became the first person to earn $1m US as an “ethical” hacker. Santiago is the most successful professional hacker in the world. In his 4-year-long career, he’s exploited 1,748 vulnerabilities — and last year, his skills earned him more than forty times Argentina’s annual median salary. Hackers used to live…
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I’m boarding a plane today back home to LA after a very successful trip to Australia. Last week I wrote a newsletter about six IPOs this year producing a potential $230 billion market windfall and creating about 6,000 millionaires. I always get a lot of responses to emails but I received an excellent email for Dain…
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The World Health Organization has issued its first-ever guidance for how much screen time children under 5 should get: maximum one hour per day of quality programing and the less time the better, and none at all for those under one. The younger your child is the more screen time might be harming them, says the World…
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Warmer temperatures caused by climate change will have the biggest impact on the world’s poorest, most vulnerable people. Research shows that’s already happened over the last several decades. A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found that in most poor countries, higher temperatures are more than 90% likely to have resulted in decreased economic output, compared…