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09Nov/16

Donald Trump in charge of the NSA

November 9, 2016SecurityArtificial intelligence, Bill, Collective intelligence, Company: GCHQ, Company: Google, Company: Open Rights Group, Country: United Kingdom, Country: United States, Creative works, Cybernetics, Doomsday scenarios, Edward Snowden, Films, Future, Global catastrophic risk, Global surveillance, Global surveillance disclosures, Hazards, Human extinction, Search Engines, Snowden, Superorganisms, Technology/Internet, Time, Trump government, United Kingdom, United States, Will Trump, Worldsmbale

Press Release (Open Rights Group) – “If there were a crisis in the relationship between the UK and the US, what risks would our shared intelligence arrangements pose?”
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26Jan/16

Doomsday Clock remains at three minutes to midnight

January 26, 2016ScienceBulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Chicago, Clocks, Countdown, Countries, Doomsday, Doomsday Clock, Doomsday scenarios, Eschatology, Fear, Global catastrophic risk, India, Iran, Law by country, Lawrence Krauss, Minutes to Midnight, North Korea, Nuclear warfare, Nuclear weapon, Pakistan, Paris, Protest songs, Russia, Seven Minutes to Midnight, United States, Washington D.C.smbale

Scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, keep the clock at three minutes to midnight.

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