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Thanksgiving and Things We Can Be Thankful For

Thanksgiving and Things We Can Be Thankful For

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Thanksgiving is upon us in the US, and personally, it’s our favorite holiday. Get together with family and/or friends and eat. What could be better!

As a result of the recent Presidential election here in this country, many people are leaving or threatening to leave the country. Which is Why the Cotswolds is bracing itself for an American invasion. “From Ellen DeGeneres to Barbra Streisand, Trump’s victory has prompted the rich and famous to threaten self-imposed exile,” The Telegraph reported.

Things to keep in mind, if you’re considering that route, or anywhere in Great Britain: taxes are considerably higher and Britain now has the highest industrial energy prices in the world. The dollar is stronger against the pound, true, although do keep in mind that power outages are not a rare occurrence there across the pond. But if it’s socialism you want, it’s socialism you will get. Nor will you have the same freedoms. Of speech, for example and “Think before you post”: The U.K. is now jailing people for social media comments. Read More...

On Apples, Oranges and Mangos: An End of Summer Compote

On Apples, Oranges and Mangos: An End of Summer Compote

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This week is the last hurrah of summer, so something different this time: a look at what’s been happening in Big Tech at large, primarily with  a number of the FAANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google, for those playing the home version – or more appropriately now MAANG, since Facebook is now Meta – and for our purposes here, MAANGO, as we’re including Oracle and some information that recently came to light. Plus, mangos are very much a summer fruit, after all.

Oracle

Speaking of just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water (not!):  Class-Action Lawsuit Accuses Oracle of Tracking 5 Billion People. “Oracle stands accused of collecting detailed dossiers on 5 billion people, with the information gathered including names, home addresses, emails, purchases online and in the real world, physical movements in the real world, income, interests and political views, and a detailed account of online activity,” PC Mag reported.

“This claim is backed up by a video on the ICCL website(Opens in a new window) of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison describing how the company’s real-time machine learning system collects this information and confirms the 5 billion profiles stored in the “Oracle Data Cloud.” The profiles are referred to as a “Consumers Identity Graph.”” Read More...