You likely have never heard of Babel Street or Location X, but chances are good that they know a lot about you and anyone else you know who keeps a phone nearby around the clock.
Sometimes its useful for you — like when making a 911 call, for example, or plotting a route on a map.
Other times it's just useful for them,
"If you think you’re going to open a witch shop in Salem and sell only to witches, you’ll be out of business quickly.”…when tourists, mostly muggles, mob Salem, MA.
Financial-technology firms…tend to have in-depth data on your transactions and shopping habits. Banks typically don’t, though they can piece together your financial life across products like credit cards, checking accounts and mortgages. Federal law allows all of them to share vast amounts of customer data with outside parties for marketing, as long as they disclose the practice and give customers the ability to opt out.*
According to Forbes magazine, 17 of the 20 highest paying occupations in the U.S. are medical.
The three exceptions are athletes (9), chief executives (15), and airline pilots (17).
“We think there’s $30 billion in remodeling spending just sitting on the sidelines today, waiting to be spent,” said Matthew Saunders, senior vice president of building products research at John Burns.
Or sell construction supplies?
[Someone once said a successful society needs both good philosophers and good plumbers, or neither their theories nor their pipes will hold water.]
Mr. Gates’s donation went specifically to Future Forward’s nonprofit arm, Future Forward USA Action, which as a 501(c)(4) “dark money” organization does not disclose its donors, according to the people briefed. So any contribution by Mr. Gates will never appear on any public filing.“I support candidates who demonstrate a clear commitment to improving health care, reducing poverty and fighting climate change in the U.S. and around the world,” [Gates] told The New York Times.
A CBP spokesperson acknowledged that the Remote Video Surveillance Systems used along the border are outdated, requiring significant maintenance and upgrades after more than 15 years of use. The systems, which the agency is working to replace, are also expensive to operate because they require manpower to monitor the images.
Ooops.
Ukraine drones bombed four different distilleries in Russia early Tuesday, in what has been reported by a Telegram outlet as the largest attack on alcohol production lines that are now potentially being used to fuel Moscow's war effort."Alcohol factories in Russia are being used to make fuel for military needs…as well as for the production of alcohol," Newsweek redundantly reports.
It's about spltting them up into ever more specific groups.
Both campaigns are digging through troves of data to find these crucial Americans. They both think many are younger, Black or Latino. The Harris team is also eyeing white, college-educated women.
(Meanwhile, at least as far as race is concerned, real people are becoming more "mixed".)
If a Waffle House stays open in town, even in a limited capacity, neighbors are reassured that the coming storm is unlikely to cause devastation. A closed location of the dependable diner chain has come to indicate impending disaster.
The rookies’ device was developed in the backyard of one of the student’s parents, using an old car speaker.
Apparently the device works in the parents' living room but maybe not so well in the field…yet.
Still, the invention was worth a $270,000 prize, which Boeing will probably not miss…yet.
A couple of other big defense industry players were also runners-up.
