On Friday, iRobot accepted Amazon's $1.7 billion offer to purchase the robot vacuum company. If the deal goes through, pending shareholder and regulatory approval, the technology giant will receive a plethora of personal data, including the floor plans of millions of users' homes.
In 2021, iRobot reported that over 40 million Roombas had been sold worldwide since the release of its first model in 2002. The small automated vacuum uses sensors to map out each room in a home. If the Federal Trade Commission approves the deal, this stored personal data will be handed over to Amazon. The company has yet to comment on how it plans to use this data.
"British cities have been deteriorating for years into ghastly hellholes, but now the countryside is falling prey to the same influences which have caused urban areas to become so uninviting to many ordinary people."
"...The 20 GOP senators joining Democrats to confirm Garland were:
Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capitol of West Virginia, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, John Cornyn of Texas, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, John Thune of South Dakota, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina. Where are these Republicans now that the FBI has raided Mar-A-Lago on Garland's watch? Seemingly missing in action and conspicuously quiet about the search of Trump's "Southern White House."In the wake of the DOJ's escalating offensive against Donald Trump, a question is begged: Do these Republicans who supported Garland's nomination and voted to make him Biden's attorney general still support him and what his department is doing?..."
"100 Percent Fed Up reports – On July 21, Vox published a poll showing Republican candidate for Attorney General Matt DePerno with a +1 advantage against Michigan’s lawless Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel.
So what does Michigan’s lawless Attorney General Dana Nessel do to level the playing field?
She manufactures a case against Matt DePerno, a brilliant legal mind who respects the law and weaponizes her position to smear him.
Because Nessel can’t make it obvious that she’s using her position as a tool to harm Matt DePerno, she’s allegedly shopping for a special prosecutor in Oakland County to do her bidding..."
Still, many believe that, for too long, the rights of transgender inmates have been prioritized over the rights of biological women.
“The safety of female prisoners is being put at risk, and their dignity and privacy undermined, by being incarcerated with biological males, some of whom are known sex offenders,” one report about transgender prisoners in the U.K. reads.
There has been no temperature warming for at least 17 years across the United States, according to results from a rarely referenced dataset that was designed to remove all urban heat distortions.
The dataset, compiled by the Natural Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the U.S., shows oscillating temperature changes, but very little evidence to indicate a warming trend.
In fact, the above graph clearly shows the United States to be cooler in May 2022 compared to May 2005.
He also tweeted a report claiming that the laptop story was being investigated as a possible Russian disinformation campaign.
Stelter did not respond to a request for a comment from Fox News about his reversal, but many on social media had plenty to say about it.
"Drivers could face $9 to $23 in fees to drive into parts of Manhattan as soon as late 2023, according to the MTA’s congestion pricing plan that’ll be unveiled Wednesday. The amounts and timeline were detailed in a 34-page summary of the project’s much-delayed environmental review, which was provided to reporters by the cash-strapped agency Tuesday. “The tremendous detail included in this assessment makes clear the widespread benefits that would result from central business district tolling,” said MTA chief Janno Lieber in a statement. “Bottom line: this is good for the environment, good for public transit and good for New York and the region..."
The embattled airline has put an HQ SOS out, asking for volunteers.
The temporary work placements will run for 90 days on a five-day-a-week basis, although there is no suggestion the executives will receive the same low weekly wage as the permanent ground handling crews..."
Swimmer Riley Gaines responds to claims she ‘dodged a kiss’ from Trump at CPAC "Riley Gaines called claims that she “dodged a kiss” from former President Donald Trump onstage at CPAC“propaganda.” Gaines, a former college swimmer for the University of Kentucky who has gained national attention after speaking out against transgender athletes competing in female sports, took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday night in Dallas and was welcomed by Trump as he leaned in near her cheek, appearing to some as an attempt to give her a kiss.
“In no way, shape, or form did I ‘dodge a kiss’ from Trump nor was I uncomfortable on that stage with him at any point in time,” Gaines wrote on Instagram. “I slightly turned my head so I could hear what he was saying to me. Proof that not everything you read is factual. But keep clutching at straws, it's almost comical.”
ESPN analyst Jalen Rose is attempting to cancel the term "Mount Rushmore" because he believes it is "offensive." However, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is fighting back
1921 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio.
1927 - Mount Rushmore was formally dedicated. The individual faces of the presidents were dedicated later.
1945 - The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor Hirohito would remain unchanged.
1948 - On ABC, "Candid Camera" made its TV debut. The original title was "Candid Microphone."
1954 - Construction began on the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones.
1995 - Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
Even more important, Dershowitz emphasized the government's action against Trump has the optics of using a different standard of justice against Trump from the standards levied against other individuals — like Hillary Clinton — who have also been accused of possessing classified information outside the proper channels.
"You must have a single standard of justice," Dershowitz said. "I'm a friend of both Sandy Berger, who was the former national security adviser ... and a friend of Hillary Clinton. What they were accused of was exactly comparable. And there were no searches of their houses."
A video clip has gone viral of U.S. Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine calling for laws to "support and empower" youths by not limiting their "participation in activities or sports" or "their ability to get gender affirmation treatment" in their state.
Half the nightmare bill, some $369 billion, will be dedicated to green new deal boondoggles, subsidies for the rich, and crony shovel-outs of the kind that brought us Solyndra.
The other half, some $300 billion, will be dedicated to IRS enforcement, surveillance upgrades, and audits against small businesses, who have now been re-labeled "the rich."
Could this be "the tipping point" we hear about all the time? Food for thought.
This has never happened in American history:
"BREAKING: PRESIDENT TRUMP’S MAR-A-LAGO HOME RAIDED BY JOE BIDEN’S FBI — BREAK INTO HIS SAFE! Question: if you were trying to foment a Second Civil War in America, what would you do different from what these street thugs are doing right now?..."
On August 5, the Department of Defense denied D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's request for the National Guard to help her with the thousands of illegal aliens that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bused into the city since April.
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