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Enlarge / Entrance of Hernan Cortes into Mexico (credit: Kurz & Allison) In the wake of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521, waves of epidemics slammed Mexico. By 1576, the population, which had been more than 20 million before the Spanish arrived, had crashed to two million. One brutal outbreak in 1545 […]
US Department of State ISIS’s control in Syria as of December 13, 2017 is a tiny piece of what it once was in 2014 and 2015, according to a newly released State Department map. The map shows ISIS’s dramatic losses of territory in 2017. While ISIS is on its way to losing all territory in […]
Enlarge / Georgia voters at a voting machine during the US presidential election at the Athens-Clarke County Fleet building in Athens, Georgia on November 8, 2016. (credit: TAMI CHAPPELL/AFP/Getty Images) A server and its backups, believed to be key to a pending federal lawsuit filed against Georgia election officials, was thoroughly deleted according to e-mails […]
There’s something going on in Georgia. First, the state rejected help from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to inspect its voting equipment for potential hacker inroads. Strangely, the man responsible for this and a massive private data leak, Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp, was placed on a DHS election cybersecurity panel. Now the […]
Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP California wildfires have hit the state’s marijuana industry, burning dozens of farms and leaving many more engulfed in smoke. The price of marijuana could spike as much as 20% in the aftermath of the fires. The full extent of the damage will be unclear until growers send crop samples for testing. Marijuana […]
Published time: 6 Oct, 2017 03:58 Saudi Arabia’s security forces have killed two suspected ISIS militants and seized a cache of weapons and explosives in terrorist hideouts in a series of raids conducted in the capital, Riyadh, on Wednesday, official security sources told state TV. The plot to mount an attack on the Defense Ministry […]
US President Donald Trump said that Puerto Rico’s $ 74 billion debt would have to be wiped out to help the island recover from the catastrophic damage caused by Hurricane Maria that he witnessed during his visit. “We’re going to work something out. We have to look at their whole debt structure. You know they […]
Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Vikram Pandit, former CEO of Citigroup, says 30% of banking jobs could disappear within the next five years. In an interview on Bloomberg Television, the 60-year-old Indian-American said threats from artificial intelligence and robots will “change the back office.” “I see a banking world going from large financial institutions to one that’s […]
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE – a type of dementia – could one day be eliminated, along with asthma and high cholesterol, by natural selection and genetics. Daily Express :: Health Feed
Nasdaq/Tintri Tintri held its one-day delayed IPO on Friday and investors responded with a yawn. The stock was priced at $ 7 a share and opened basically flat at $ 7.12. On its first day of trading it has so far stayed well below $ 8. Before going public, Tintri had raised $ 260 million […]
