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Artificial Intelligence Can Now Turn Your Brain Activity into Text

Scientists using artificial intelligence have made it possible to translate your thoughts into text by analyzing your brain activity. According to researchers at the University of California in San Francisco, artificial intelligence, commonly known as AI, can now decipher words from your train of thoughts in real-time. This journey started…

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Full Text of French President Macron’s “Make Our Planet Great Again” Speech

Oh Internet video, the bane of those Internet citizens who prefer to read text. If you, like many others, have been searching the world over (quite literally) for the full text of French president Emmanuel Macron’s speech following the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement (more formally known as the Paris Climate Accord), we have it for you! What is most unusual is that following Macron’s speech on the subject in French (he is the president of France after all), he gave a speech in English, clearly for Americans and other English speakers. It is in this English address that he uttered the potshot heard round the world: “Make our planet great again.”

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Security Expert Dan Geer: We Are All Intelligence Officers Now (Full Text Here)

Last month, at the RSA Conference, computer security expert Dan Geer told the assembled security and cryptography experts “We are all intelligence officers now.” (RSA stands for Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman – Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman together developed the RSA crypto algorithm.)

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Full Text of Obama’s Speech on NSA Phone Metadata Collection Program, January 17, 2014

In his speech regarding changes to the NSA’s Section 215 phone metadata collection and surveillance program, President Barack Obama stated outright, “I am ordering a transition that will end the section 215 bulk metadata program as it currently exists.” During his speech (full transcript below), President Obama also announced that the federal government will need to go to the the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) every time that they want to search data, rather than relying on previous orders.

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Full Text of President Obama’s February 24 2009 Speech to Congress

People are looking all over online for it – so here it is: the full text of President Obama’s address (it’s not a “State of the Union Address” as that officially happens after his first year in office, although for all intents and purposes it was a State of the Union – or, rather, a State of the Economy or State of the Economic Recovery address) that he gave on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009