Trump is spouting while Ford and Tesla are shouting, but first: a cartoon about when data collection gets personal.
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Trump’s Ukraine server delusion is spreading.
On a recent call to Fox and Friends, President Trump outlined his belief that after the DNC was hacked in 2016, the DNC gave a physical server to a Ukrainian cybersecurity company called Crowdstrike while refusing to let the FBI see it. All of this is demonstrably wrong. Crowdstrike is a company based in Sunnyvale, California; the company never took a physical copy of the server (as is standard practice); and it has been previously confirmed that the information it had about the hard drives was already handed over to the FBI.
Tesla Cybertruck vs. Ford F-150: It’s all about the friction.
Over the weekend, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted a video of his all-electric Tesla Cybertruck pulling a Ford F-150 up a hill. But the video brought up more questions than answers. What kind of Ford truck did he use? And what version of the Cybertruck? Ford clapped back, challenging Musk to an “apples to apples” rematch. A test that Musk readily accepted. How will the winner be decided? Well, it will be all about the friction.
Fast Fact: 2078
That’s the year teen climate activist Greta Thunberg will turn 75, and when she speaks, she often wonders how she’ll feel about the state of the world then. Listen to the kids, she says: Input from the next generation won’t just be crucial to save our warming planet, but for navigating new technologies too.
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