You Tube ends impeachment livestreams of Conservative organizations.

News Busters: YouTube Stops Impeachment Trial Livestreams from Conservative Organizations:

Two conservative outlets have complained that their livestreams of the Senate impeachment trial have been taken down —for no apparent reason.

Judicial Watch’s president, Tom Fitton, noted that the organization’s livestream of the impeachment trial was halted mid-stream. YouTube claimed that the stream was “violating ‘community standards,’” according to Fitton’s Jan. 21 tweet. While the stream still remains on Judicial Watch’s feed, it was not allowed to continue.
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Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) also tweeted that its livestream had been interrupted as well. At 3:54:41 in the video, the content ceased to stream.

Both of these streams simply followed the Jan. 21 Senate Impeachment Trial as it was happening.

YouTube’s “Restrictions on live streaming” states that “live streaming ability” would be shut off if a channel had a “Community Guidelines” strike, if the content had been blocked around the world, if there was a copyright takedown notice, or if it matched another copyrighted live broadcast. But none of these rules appear to have applied to the simple livestream of impeachment.

Find an alternative video host other than You Tube. There are many choices.
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New study confirms Google algorithm manipulates search results favoring liberal sources.

Life Site News: Google prioritizes left-wing media sites in search results, new study finds.

A new study by researchers at Northwestern University “presents an algorithm audit of the Google Top Stories box,” examining the results’ variety and ideological leanings, the Daily Mail reports. The researchers looked at the 6,302 articles that appeared in Google’s Top Stories box in November 2017, and found that CNN had the largest percentage of articles at 10%, followed by the New York Times at 6.5% and the Washington Post at 5.6%. From there, Fox News was fourth at just 3%.

The rest of the top twenty sources were all left-leaning organizations or publications, such as Politico, NPR, ABC News, NBC News, and the Huffington Post. No openly conservative news publisher, such as the Daily Caller, made the list.
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The findings are only the latest revelations to undermine Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s repeated insistence that the company’s ubiquitous services are ideologically neutral. In April, documents revealed that Google manually manipulates search results and even maintains a blcaklist of conservative sites including The American Spectator and Conservative Tribune.

This new Northwestern University pdf is located here. If the direct link to the pdf goes glitchy, here's the link to the ACM Digital Library and after "Full Text" select either HTML or PDF version for the study.

Google Mourns Trump Election

Awwwwwwwww...The Google gathered and mourned the election of President Donald Trump. World Tribune:

A leaked video of Google’s internal “all hands meeting” following the 2016 presidential election shows the tech giant’s leadership mourning the outcome, inviting hugs of comfort all around, and vowing efforts correct misinformation [sic] on the Internet that could have contributed to  the success of Donald Trump and the rising populist movement worldwide.

Google Post-Presidential Election Mourning Meeting November 9, 2016

The Google objects being described as mourning the election of Trump and seeks to contextualize their meeting wake bereavement Heaven's Gate moment collective self-pity party.

Oh...the humanity and Tears of Unfathomable Sadness...

On behalf of Google, I've started a GoFundMe page.

Tech News

Long Island Tech News: Red Bull heir still evading police arrest. Appears to be living life just fine.
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From "The Department of Why?" - ArsTechnia: Logitech releases the first trackball mouse in almost ten years.
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C|Net: Mazda's next gen high tech, 2020 and beyond.

...the Skyactiv-X technology works by making a gasoline engine operate something like a diesel engine under certain conditions. At low engine speeds, traditional gas combustion is used, igniting the air-fuel mixture with spark plugs in the combustion chamber. As the revs climb, Skyactiv-X switches off the plugs and relies solely on the high pressure in the combustion chamber to ignite the gasoline without the need for a spark.

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Tech Crunch: Facebook sold political ads to a Russian company in 2016.
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Tech News World: Vivaldi CEO alleges Google retaliated for privacy criticism.

Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner, the brains behind both the new Vivaldi browser and the early Opera browser, on Monday accused Google of retaliating against his company after he questioned its customer privacy practices.

Vivaldi's Google Adwords campaigns mysteriously were suspended just two days after von Tetzchner's criticisms of Google's handling of customer data appeared in a Wired article this spring, he said.
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[It] That was the second time that Google suspended Vivaldi's AdWords campaign in 12 months[.]

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Gizmodo: The "inventor" of Email had his lawsuit tossed out of court.

...Shiva Ayyadurai, the self-identified “inventor of email,” was tossed out by a Massachusetts judge today, concluding a baseless suit filed against Techdirt back in January. According to the site, the judge also “rejected Ayyadurai’s request to file an amended complaint.” 

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Tech nostalgia. BetaNews: It was eleven years ago today that TDK developed Blu-Ray. 
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Whoa! BGR: Epson unveils a 130-inch screen-free TV. Price: $ 3 Grand.
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Webopedia: Do you know the five generations of computers? Six if you include the abacus.  😎
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What is this, you ask?

Image credit: Dinara Kasko

It's a cake. New Atlas: A 3-D cake at that.

[Dinara] Kasko initially created a series of different 3D-printed geometric molds comprised of six different models based on simple geometrical figures. The result was a set of several small, concrete-like objects, that when cut open revealed a complex and delicious cake.

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MIT Tech Review: Shoplifting; in the autonomous, self-check out age.
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You know IPO stands for Initial Public Offering. MIT Tech Review: What is an ICO? Initial Coin Offering.

...an ICO does indeed work similarly to an initial public offering. Instead of offering shares in a company, though, a firm is instead offering digital assets called “tokens.”

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Live Science: A virtual tour inside of a volcano.
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Science News: Machines are learning "fairness."

Machine-learning programs can introduce biases that may harm job seekers, loan applicants and more[.]
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... the inner workings of an algorithm could make the difference between someone getting parole, an executive position, a mortgage or even a scholarship. So computer and data scientists are coming up with creative ways to work around the black box status of machine-learning algorithms.

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Science Magazine: Why people are willing to die fighting for a cause.

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Image: straightfromthea.com

ZD Net: Here come the flying taxis. (The story itself is a 46 second video. The bad news...you have to sit through a 30 second ad before the story starts).

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Extreme Tech: Hurricane Irma is LARGER than the state of Ohio.