Tech Giants Race To Create An Alternate Reality Submitted by Michael Scott for SafeHaven Virtual reality, augmented reality, immersive reality, mixed reality and finally merged reality … Welcome to the world of digital layering, awash with cutting-edge technologies that are mostly powered by rather dorky and clunky hardware, but fascinating nonetheless. The digital reality industry …

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Israel Announces Deal To Resettle African Migrants In Western Countries; Hours Later Netanyahu Walks Back Hours after Israel announced the planned resettlement of 16,250 African migrants to Canada, Italy and Germany – which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was a “good agreement” which “protects the interests of the state of Israel,” – Netanyahu reversed course …

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London Murder Rate Overtakes New York Amid Spike In Stabbings, Shootings London has surpassed New York City’s murder rate for the second month in a row, due mostly to a spike in knife crime and shootings which left 15 Londoners dead in February – nine of whom were age 30 or younger, and 22 dead in March vs. …

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Lockheed Martin Patents Nuclear Fusion-Powered Fighter Jet Lockheed Martin has secretly been developing a game-changing compact nuclear fusion reactor that could potentially fit into a fighter jet. The Maryland-based defense contractor recently obtained a patent associated with its design for a fully compact fusion reactor, after filing for the patent in 2014. If the latest patent from …

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California Woman Refuses To Sell Home To Trump Supporters A Sacramento woman selling a house which has been in her family for half a century will sell to just about anyone – unless they’re a Trump supporter. The homeowner, who has declined to give her name, told CBS Sacramento “I told her [the realtor] that I didn’t …

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20 More Questions That Journalists Should Be Asking About The Skripal Case Authored by Rob Slane via TheBlogMire.com, To my knowledge, none of the questions I wrote in my previous piece – 30 questions That Journalists Should be Asking About the Skripal Case – has been answered satisfactorily, at least not in the public domain. …

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Venezuela Tries To Pay Russian Debt With Cryptocurrency Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, If crisis-hit Venezuela was hoping to pay off its US$3.15-billion debt to Russia with its new cryptocurrency, those hopes have been shattered as the Russian Finance Ministry announces that it won’t be accepting digital coin. Venezuela will not be paying any part of …

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Visualizing The 50 Most Important Life-Saving Breakthroughs In History For most of civilized history, life expectancy fluctuated in the 30 to 40 year range. Child mortality was all too common, and even for those that made it to adulthood, a long and healthy life was anything but guaranteed. Sanitation was poor, disease was rampant, and …

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ECB Finds €10 Billion In European Bank Loan "Miscalculations" By now it is, or should be, well-understood that the biggest deflationary virus at the heart of the European financial system is the ~€1 trillion mountain of bad loans  (of which which over €230 billion is found in Germany and France) and which casts a giant …

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91% Of Cypriots See 'Fake News' As A Problem (And They're Not Alone In The EU) According to a recent Eurobarometer survey, at least seven in ten respondents in all 28 EU member states perceive fake news to be a problem in their country. You will find more infographics at Statista The share was highest in …

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