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A Twitter employee and other reliable sources have confirmed that the social media giant is quietly censoring accounts using what's called Shadow Banning, (also called Ghost Banning, Stealth Banning, or Hell Banning) which is a method to prevent users' posts from showing up on others' timelines, all the while the person being censored usually doesn't notice. It's the Memory Hole from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which is why many are tweeting the hashtag

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At least three major internet service providers have said they will raise prices beginning in January 2018 — a move that comes after the FCC’s recent vote to roll back net neutrality, Digital Music News reports. Comcast, Cox and Frontier Communications are increasing charges on either internet packages or across all services including cable. DirecTV and Dish are expected to follow suit. No changes have been seen thus far from Charter, Verizon, and AT&T’s U-verse. “The increase in prices comes as more and more subscribers are cutting the cord and opting to plunge into the increasingly diverse streaming marketplace. Options like Sling, Hulu Live TV and YouTube TV are ex…

The Wall Street Journal reports. While still a relatively small percentage of work fatalities, on-the-job deaths from unintentional drug and alcohol overdoses rose more than 30% in 2016. They’ve nearly tripled since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking in 2011. Opioid abuse in particular continues to significantly impact the US economy, costing an estimated $78.5 billion per year, according to a 2013 CDC study. President Trump declared opioid addiction a national public health emergency in October

It means the company must comply with tough European transportation rules in up to 28 member states — which could make expansion in the region more complicated and costly. The landmark case could set a precedent for other Uber-esque companies operating in Europe; lawmakers across the globe have struggled to respond to changes in the nature of work represented by the “hazily regulated world of the gig economy.” Uber has called itself an “information society service" linking drivers and passengers rather than a transportation business.

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Analysts for Wall Street research and brokerage firm, Bernstein, expect Tesla to unveil an all-electric Class 8 truck that will have 300 to 450 miles of driving range and mid-2019 availability. Toni Sacconaghi Jr. and David Vernon, who maintain a $265 price target for shares of Tesla, note that the Silicon Valley-based company will face a significant uphill battle as it looks to enter the commercial trucking sector. Even with battery range as high as 450 miles (724 kilometers) per single charge, Tesla’s Semi would fall short of the 500-600 miles driven per day traveled by long-haul trucks. Tesla’s addressable market size with its initial truck would be less than half of …

Employers have begun taking matters of higher education into their own hands “at a time when Americans’ faith in higher education is declining,” Wired writes. Some companies like Microsoft (LinkedIn’s parent), “impatient with the speed of change,” have created their own courses and brought them to universities and online programs like edX to help churn out workers with the skills needed to thrive in an ever-changing workplace. In particular, those with data and computer science skills are in demand — colleges are only producing roughly 28,000 computer science graduates per year (per 2015 data from Deloitte), but it’s predicted that 1.8 million jobs requiring data and comp…

China's largest cities have been transformed by dock-less bike share schemes, while most big US cities still feature systems with docking ports. That may be about to change as dock-less bikes become more prominent in America, Slate reports. New York City is looking into the idea (per Curbed), while Seattle has already allowed thousands of dock-less bikes in its streets. The expansion of the service could change how we get around our biggest cities, but, like in China, could also clutter pedestrian areas — not to mention go bankrupt.

Estonia is planning to launch the Estcoin in a bid to become a global ICO hub, VentureBeat reports. If it achieves this goal, Estonia would be the first nation to launch a cryptocurrency. Kaspar Korjus, managing director of Estonia’s e-residency program, which allows individuals to obtain Estonian citizenship without living in the country, detailed the proposal for the e-tokens in a blog post on Monday. “By not embracing crypto, governments are failing to unlock a powerful driver of economic growth and risk losing relevance entirely,” Korjus wrote in the post.

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PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. - A southbound Amtrak train plunged off a bridge onto Interstate 5 south of Tacoma Monday morning, killing an unknown number of people and injuring others.

Market quotes are powered by TradingView.com In this final episode of the Keiser Report from Freedom Fest in Las Vegas, Max and Stacy encounter Peter Schiff in the halls of the convention center and challenge him on bitcoin. Max continues his interview with bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem to discuss the latest drama and innovation in the cryptocurrency space.

Bitcoin's blockchain distributed ledger has a limit of 7 transactions being written to it per second. This is obviously not enough to handle global commerce. How do bitcoin fans defend this major flaw? Has anyone made a decent workaround yet?

In the past I remember that certain RSA keys had 256k encryption and the higher the number the tighter the encryption. Later I would learn that RSA itself was cracked. How strong is bitcoin encryption?

I was asked today by a colleague whether it was possible to just create a copy of one of the existing bitcoins and introduce it into the blockchain like any of the other ledger changes. Bringing up the question of whether bitcoin is "hackable" or not.

Google said today that it’ll be shutting down Project Tango next year, on March 1st. Project Tango was an early effort from Google to bring augmented reality to phones, but it never really panned out. The system was introduced in 2014 and made it into developer kits and even a couple consumer devices as recently as last year. But those devices required special sensors. And in the meantime, Google (and competitors, like Apple) figured out ways to bring AR features to phones with just the hardware that’s already on board. Google introduced a new augmented reality system, known as ARCore, in late August. It just brought that system to the Pixel and Pixel 2 in the form o…

Announced today that they are opening a subsidiary that will mine all of the crypto currencies like bitcoin and lite coin. South Korea recently authorized some exchanges to trade bitcoin. Â Interesting times we are living in.Â