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Yahoo has awarded a researcher $7,000 for disclosing a Flickr security flaw which enabled attackers to hijack user accounts without limit.

The issue, patched on April 10, permitted attackers to intercept and grab access tokens by circumventing Flickr protections.

According to security researcher Michael Reizelman who privately disclosed the bug to Yahoo-owned photo and video-sharing website Flickr before making the details public, the problem was caused by the way Flickr handled access tokens.

When a user wants to login to Flickr.com, they click a sign-in button which redirects them to a Yahoo account login page. After being prompted to enter their credentials and completing the form to login, the user is directed first to a Yahoo endpoint where the credentials are verified. If valid, they are then redirected back to a Flickr URL.

However, if the user is already logged into Yahoo and clicks the initial sign-in Flickr link, then only one click is needed for verification. With this in mind, Reizelman investigated and found that the .done parameter, which controls where login tokens are sent, can be manipulated.

While Flickr already has some endpoint protections in place to prevent tokens from being leaked to external servers, tweaking an URL and adding a backslash bypasses these protections through the Flickr forum.

The researcher then discovered a way to leak user account tokens to his own server by posting crafted images which forced the Flickr service to relinquish the tokens on forum pages which did not have Content Security Policy protections in place.

See also: IBM admits it sent malware-infected USB sticks to customers (TechRepublic)

Should a user click on a malicious link posted within the forum, the redirection code would then send the authentication token to an attacker's server and allow the threat actor to browse the site using the victim's account.

"An attacker had a complete access to the victim's account," Reizelman told ThreatPost. "He actually was logged in to the site with the victim's account, so he could do any action on the victim's behalf: uploading content, deleting it, or any other thing he wants."

Once disclosed through Yahoo's bug bounty program hosted on HackerOne's platform on April 2, the issue was investigated within 24 hours. It took the Flickr team a further week to resolve the issue and prepare for public disclosure. The researcher was then awarded his bounty.

Bug bounties are becoming a popular way to entice skilled security researchers to ferret out security flaws in products and services before attackers do. Last week, the US Air Force invited hackers to do their worst and find security vulnerabilities in the military's websites.

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It's not a Bruins patriots Celtics. Talk about them all now. 24/7. Sports continues. Network. Or the show me until 4 o'clock. Taking a phone call 61777979837. 61777979837. Special thanks to Phil Perry from Comcast. What's that doing on a joined me last dollar we talked. NFL draft I'll take NFL draft calls if you have reaction to any thing that happened now all. I watched Thursday night I was also watching Red Sox yankees. Odd patriots as you know did not have a first round pick or second round pick. And if there was anything that kept my interest in the first round Thursday night in prime time it was the possibility that Jimmy grapple is still gonna get traded to Cleveland. In I had Adam chef to continue to pound is just about to report that he came up with a one time a balance at the patriots not won't. He continue with that thought with that report. Through Thursday night and looked you looked to be right. However urged them not eight. You know Mary Kay habit who'd been covering the Cleveland Browns. She's been obviously she has sources in the browns organization at a given her stuff. The browns organization is leak and to Mary Kay Cabot had the Mary Kay Cabot that. They would interesting to rubble they wanted to trade for Jimmy grew up right. And drama. When the browns made another trade during the first round Thursday all right. It was Mary Kay Cabot who came up with a tweet and report that a lot the browns have even mix even in a mall now. The triangle after Jimmy drop and that some people picket. I don't myself that maybe I can't speak for everybody else I only speak for myself as somebody who looks at. The annoying on patriots and what you Tom Brady has been a guy who is not done after next season. And go rob a law not want and to continue to be a backup quarterback for the next 34 years. And going to last year of his deal common sense in my opinion would be if you get right deal from the Cleveland Browns. You should make that triggered. So would that common sense in my mind. IC these tweets from Mary Kay Cabot Daryn Thursday night around one Ana FL draft and I'm thinking to myself why it is a possibility or at least. If the browns got to keep going after this which is obviously. The browns of bigness of the that reporter Mary Kay Cabot. They got to keep going after Barack or you wonder if there's an extra second round pick in the future that will make the patriots pulled the trigger on the steel cell. I was paying attention for that. What I decided Thursday night I'm not one of these guys it's gonna sit there and watched FL draft. You know for a couple reasons one I don't have the interest. And all these play is now after the top play is I don't really know about. You know it's a bloodshed projections. Of guys that nobody truly really knows I mean especially if we've learned anything in this town it's that you can take a guy in the fourth fifth sixth seventh round and tournament to a Pro Bowl player and act. Gentlemen did the greatest quarterback of all time so I mean. In is that the patriots. Picks in recent history that have been their best picks. Had been fourth round is for crying a lot when it comes to Malcolm Mitchell when it comes to trade flowers Bolten make an impact in the recent Super Bowl. So I mean. Somebody that really gets too worked up. About not have an early round picks but I also not gonna sit there and watched the third to seventh round. And tell you that I'm on this guy and an act I don't. Arnold Benny UN NFL draft junkie. I am not right Sione. Certain campaign that Hillary has yet there's the question has come up you see the crowds in Philly. It only moved the draft to fill. I was actually I was I know a lot of people do what I have friends who do the mock drafts. And you know they don't they won't get much right but. You know loaded and no one pick right there might get the fourth and a fifth overall pick right. Other than that it's crapshoot. I don't charge you. I know people do get into it analog to I was shocked to see how many people at the draft. Would you ever goal. To NFL draft or if it was around him. As a fan now I don't think so I the Alec you see those guys that was a 70000 people it was insane. It was insane you know. But many other on person asked him I mean you're there on it as big as wind got into the NFL draft. Obviously let it did you pay attention Thursday night around one did you have any interest in that. Yeah I felt I paid attention I wasn't. Watching it stricter or socialist on bun a telltale my phone checking our where this guy go as. I would interest to see where like quarterbacks went in these guys that they were talking about you were first announced that they would get into the first round yeah. Yeah and don't even have the Red Sox stunned. Even if the Celtics wore in the playoffs. Among. I still wouldn't be in to date Chiu and debris which is now Friday Saturday of the NFL draft and third tonight prime time. Amend the summit image of story lines I was surprised that. Robiskie got taken when he got got drafted by them three Chicago moved up a surprise but that. Not vied. I mean it's just it's not it's not made data they'll draft does not Mae and certainly if they had the NFL draft are going on I would not be dull I what are you don't. You stand around and they've gone on art maybe I can see the first round and there's not. Well what do you do when on Friday and Saturday it is standard around all day. Like what else is or not. What year you wanna listen and I actually won the mall and detaining pots of the draft I did see but now on Twitter. You can see this stuff untoward. The guy from the jets stolen jets are. JE TEE. Jets jets jets. That's. What he said we have the audio this. Mon JE TE. Jets jets jets. Man that was one of the ball and detaining. Things of the draft that I sought knighted him wide eyes are on two and obviously I actually edit and retreated video last night. But that's unbelievable I get a kick out of that every single time I see it here. Thought non yeah like it's I don't consider myself an NFL draft guru or an NFL draft junkie. Sell that said I mean I like Mubarak like and that's why I think that the major store at odds with the patriots. It's that are uploading a move. And now what letting him. And you know to me goes those added the top two things to talk to take aways which when I would inoperable. Unloved and eating at move because Null he's got to play the three point 91 male anybody who has this idea that he's not gonna show up. And not gonna try. Or he's gonna you know just know it's just gonna happen. You understand what he was Macon before three point 91 bill. I get when you look at the landscape of professional sports. And even NFL. When it comes to guarantee money for a guy to a top colon is not just a replay is a deposition. Three point 91 bill. Is laughable I get. If you don't know about those mega before. And you look what he's going to be making and one year of the three point 91 male that's a lot of money that's money he's not gonna pass up money he's gonna turn down. Especially where he's someone we talk about the draft guys get taken right. Getting it taken all everybody a bulletin. Pictured picked up Malcolm both up the street. Hey you're bagging groceries and how we make it three point 91 milk. And so pretty hefty pay increases and not. If not they edited based on what he does on the field and how he plays and pol goodies Ben objectionable 49 not Ernie you remind you that. What is registers rocked solid since he deserves the monster contract. As a stock opponent and eight top quarterback and it's legal call. It deserves more than three point 91 Miller sees. But I restricted free agent rule. That's been on the patriots got a play by that on the patriots are all well value that's a great value for a great plan. And that to me is the best thing second half of the patriots. When it comes to what happened. During this draft this past weekend. They did not give up now the ball and he is gonna play for three point 91 mil. Next season that is the biggest Boggan and all the NFL and it's. Sell on those two things that's the top story with patriots and the draft. Don't you got thoughts on that and what the patriots did it didn't do maybe you shot somebody that you want the patriots take and they didn't say they overlooked. Are they made and made another move I don't. If you have that dot I'll take it on the hit a 4 o'clock 61777979837. Outside of that. And some regular season Major League Baseball cubs and Red Sox and their rubber match of Fenway tonight we are playoff basketball league playoff hockey Celtics currently. Playing game one against the wizards at the TD got end of the Eastern Conference semifinal series and the Celtics currently lead it. Right now one O three and 98. And Isiah Thomas had a big day 33 points for Isiah Thomas. You got. Let's see a 12345. Celtics players in double figures. You have crowd would seventeenth lines fought for Edwards sixteen what it's gonna finish with a triple double what that would sixteen points. Nine rebounds and nine assists right now. You get. Avery Bradley to thirteen point two Dick Kelley alike. With twelve points off the bench played eighteen minutes market's modest played 31 minutes in this game. Smock essentially needs above Gerald Green real quick Gerald brain. Was in the stop line out but they brought snot and after only two minutes and it was clear it's been evident in the Celtics wizards game one that the wizards back court. Deal. And wall they want no pot of the all right ya face right yellow mug physical defense. That guys like smog and Bradley playing the Celtics noticed that right away they stuck with that cell I think one thing you got to see him moving forward. In this series is a spot lineup and this is my opinion. Based on watching today but I think moving forward yet to see stock lineup of Isiah Thomas. Avery Bradley. Markets not. Jake brown at an Al Horford and I think green Gerald green was only played seven minutes in this game. And has zero points in fact he has even taken a shot. That in seven minutes you are gonna Siemens hotline economy and I'd it's not going to be out there. They got to rely on his physical presence defensively to try and give this wizards team some fits the united. You that you got some bad blood with these these two teams the wizards and Celtics got some bad blood yeah that's a push and shove it in ads on you know finger point. Yeah it had some are doing it adds some Bob. You know this is going to be a physical series and where. It booked flights from the tickle the wizards with court pot big body underneath the basket. Is a physical player Celtics. You know art. They can't get pushed around by go to pot but I don't really think they can match that physical presence underneath with what time. So here's what you do you put all the physicality. In the backcourt and you say you know odd. We're going to be just a physical with god God's. With you all stock gods with Walt would peel we're gonna get their face would give them fits and what I've seen so far in this game one. As the Celtics lead at 1069 on the fourth quarter with five and a half minutes left. I have seen. The Liz aides want no pot the wizards' backcourt they want no plot of that physical play. That Bradley and smock a providing defensively they want no part of that. Sell all the Celtics need to continue to ride with that. It's not played 31 minutes. You've got some good production off the bench trouble and it rosy as four points and Brazil are now he's a rebound and got his eight rebounds in fourteen minutes. The Celtics right now I think what you're gonna see a move forward in this series is greens going to be out of the rotation Gerald Green yes she should not stop lineup. Which honest Bradley's not Crowder for over five. And you're gonna she'll lick the number one guy have the bench Rosie are also coming off the bench and I guess Amir Johnson in some situations may be. Donna stretch. I shot him with a couple attempts underneath the basket and he got rejected he got stock now. If you'll look at that. Anything that happened in this game that is gonna help sell itself from an injury perspective. My Keith Morris got injured in the second quarter. And he has not returned. I'm not marquee Morris. Move in this game not only played eleven minutes. I don't know we don't know all the extent of this injury we know he did not return and his game after a second quarter injury it didn't look good. He was down in some Cheney had a little collision with Al Horford Al Horford went over and sort of apologized to Morris. But that's going to be a big loss for the wizards. Move. If you artist series now we try to match up with physicality. A lot I think that morris' absence here is going to be big and take the Celtics. Salon that's that's the way this game on large walls got eighteen points deals get nineteen points. Isaiah Thomas would 33. And the Celtics are five players in double figures and markets not stepping into a role here. Where's plan vary on mats he plans got to manage and he being physical defensively and you combine that with what Avery Bradley is doing at the same time defensively. To this wizards' backcourt. The Celtics a benefited from that may lead 1092102. Late in the fourth quarter saw the Celtics can hold on take game one when. And this will be a you know the story really of this game itself can hold on win is going to be. How they began to. I mean look there's one player on either side that wanted to see him 1 o'clock Stockton there's one player on that this is a big game. It's it's a playoff game you know stop at 1 o'clock idol what Andy is doing. I mean negative seven. Between the clip is and the jazz afternoons it's the only other game of the day. And it's game seven of the first round and it's. In LA and tip off at 330. And stroke 31 o'clock. On the let's go as to why you do and like good. Is something going on I bet I don't know vote. The NBA is saying hey we can't compete with this night's going afternoon. All day Sunday afternoon game seven dis Obama's. Not that I know because this show up his game should've started at 334. And then it should stop the clippers game at at 730. I I just got that would be logical. Self appearance at my my point is that there's one player on the Celtics and wizards that. Once the tip off at 1 o'clock and that's the thought process before again. When they actually tipped off at 1 o'clock and it looked like there was only one team and it did wanna play at 1 o'clock announces Celtics they want harm. They trailed by as much as I think seventeen. Pushed it they would come close to twenty points early on. It was true honest and eleven not an idol to stop. Stoppage was sloppy they were turning it over ice our cup I shore up all these whatever I saw a couple bricks. Much Dave would not be allowed to go tot was owner and I'm underneath the basket. You know did Isiah Thomas goes to knocked out. Yeah this was a sloppy spot as sloppy ravaged body as you can add for the Celtics a huge game. What they turned around there were down as much as seventeen early. And hit now late in the fourth quarter and it's what I Uga and Jalen brown in his game one in 5050 balls. When and rattles written balls on a guy's name yeah Jalen Bre in their win and panels salt. If this is gonna hold on the store's going to be how they spotted this game. And it's rich Gerald Green and stop lineup he played two minutes court the end on the court to get slot in the stock lineup and added that's we gonna see. Moving forward. I think I told to go on into the series and it the Celtics. Can win I think you know there's no reason why they can't win this series I picked the Celtics won in seven. Come on down some home court advantage in that game seven. And I did that kind of set the Celtics up for an Eastern Conference final series. Against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers that was my. That was my prediction before the playoffs and stick it where that even see in his match up with the wizards and you know ultimately I do games that we're going to be looking at Isiah Thomas speed and someone that's gonna put up thirty points again in this series. That hopefully you would think. Is gonna get the credit he deserves when you match him up against some of the top point dogs and dogs in this league. Sell. I think it's going to be Celtics cavaliers and Eastern Conference finals. And if that's the case let. I don't I don't expect. I don't expect the Celtics who. Beat Cleveland. But. If you do. Want to name the un. If you do wanna. But some money there on a team and we're all right now at this point the Celtics. What what's what are front runner right now. Best Dodd's bill and its average. But don't they gonna do it does none at best bang for your buck. You wanna get knots. I'd like to judge you can you're doubt you can make your decisions on just talent but the odds are. But the Celtics I think this is set up for Celtics. Cavaliers Eastern Conference finals that's going to be exciting. And if Isiah Thomas continues to play the way his client. And the routes maybe you really get some national guys to get on blood. With the Celtics and that potential Eastern Conference finals series with the cavaliers right now the Celtics lead the wizards 116105. Two and a half minutes left in the fourth. And the story is how the Celtics began which was horrible at 1 o'clock tipoff and how they finished this game. Which what are looks to be a big game on when if they can hold on for next two and a half minutes which it and they should. Be able to do given away they've been playing this game defensively 617. 77979837. Have you got phone calls I'll take on it till 4 o'clock Sports Radio WEEI. Her card talks about Paul's new England sports on Sports Radio. I'd this Celtics. Will win the game on them in the final minute timer on and down season later at 1183 go on eleven. The Celtics will take game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. And if you look at what transpired in the last couple minutes. During the commercial break I mentioned that they threw Jalen brown in the game. And he won a 5050 ball regulated rip and out of someone's hands. And also buried a three Aegon Jalen brown submitted sorts like the reason for that was mark is not right as I was really praise and saying he was going to be in Scott lineup the next game. Playing spot minutes in the plane 31 minutes in his game. Not a lost his mind a little bit towards the end and that's the one thing you can't have with markets ma. Is that. You know it's one thing for him to get into the heads of guys like below wall arrested wizards it's another thing. For him to let other people did is had a let him get his own hand and many times the ball over and Annie gets upset and frustrated at himself. And he storms off the optic chord to the bench they shut them out obviously but there was a moment Palin. You know look like Marcus not was not to lose it and sell they had they monitor game but I still think. A credit to Jalen brown to step men and six minutes five points he had a 32 victory from the field. Can weaponized play when a 5050 battle. But I still think you know what that the Celtics gonna need markets not gonna need him and Avery Bradley for the rest of the series to play some ferocious defense. Against this wizards' backcourt. And the Celtics though they went at 123. To 111. I'm Morris Markey Moore as got hurt for the wizards in the second quarter he didn't proper times and answered at the big loss for the wizards. But Isaiah Thomas a 33 points. Jae Crowder with 24 points. Al Horford. Anyone points ten assists and one rebound shy of a triple double he had nine rebounds. They gentle elephant in 35 minutes. Avery Bradley and 39 minutes eighteen points. And off the bench Kelly elect had a nice first half he finished with. Twelve points in eighteen minutes I mention markets not 31 man it's coming off the bench came in right away. As Gerald Green it was in the Scott lineup but he only played two managed and he was yanked. Gerald Green only played seven minutes in the game had no points to Neiman drop shot. Sol so Mott played. 31 man it's got to minutes off the bench I would guess that he's going to be in the Scott lineup moving forward but there was a situation a late in the game which mock tunnel lost his mind. And that you need to become down on the bench by his own teammates bill. I think this team needs much defense here moving forward very huge land for the Celtics in game one. Against the Washington Wizards and now as you look at the schedule for the rest of his series. You gotta get game two on Tuesday night. Apple got an 8 o'clock tipoff. Then you gotta get game three on Thursday. In Washington and in DC and 8 o'clock tip off. Game four. Is not going to be until. Next Sunday. A week from today so you gotta get two games this week I noted game for a week from today at Washington. In DC at 630 next Sunday. I only there's going to be any sweep for the Celtics I do expect the wizards to win the one you know one or maybe even two games before that I think the Celtics aren't predictable as the Celtics when this 17. I could see danced Clinton at the god and I could see them split them. In DC. And then game five if necessary in a will be necessary is going to be a week from Wednesday she gets some good some times spread out in between game three. And game five. Saul yeah about a week and a. So they gotta stretch this thing all a game two is going to be Tuesday night the Celtics are a big win today. All that the wizards on taking your phone calls if you have any thoughts on his game 61777979837617. 77979837. I told about the other game coming up next. It's about to tip off it's a game seven of the first round between the clip is and the jazz. But around the rest of the NBA playoffs. You got the rap is and the cavaliers did play game one. Neck and going to be in Cleveland tomorrow night at 7 o'clock. Then Western Conference you got the spurs and rockets to recede spurs post in the Houston Rockets the three C a rockets. Big and won in San Antonio has to Barton tomorrow night at 930. Golden State is sort of sit back wait to see you that a play it LA or Utah. And so Golden State still does not know they swept Portland it just sort of sit back and much like. Cleveland has been sit back in the Eastern Conference. I mean if you project that it out right now all I was saying this before the Celtics when game one over the wizards. I've read this I had the Celtics against the cavaliers. In the east finals. And there. The Golden State Warriors and the San Antonio Spurs. In the west finals I mean does. NBA and the NBA playoffs this has to be the most predictable lead. When it comes to playoff matchups mean to the Stanley Cup Playoffs and an NHL. And it's not so predictable like you got auto and now up two games than non over the New York ranges. In this second round series then last night Pittsburgh took a two dams on the over the Washington Capitals that upon my capitals of Paula hopefully. Sidney Crosby is playing out of his mind he's blocking shots lead to goals he put in parts there was legs in the neutral zone. And just dish and I Phil Kessel sniper in any. The penguins look like that team right now don't think they look like that team. But. In a daily the capitals two games than on in the Western Conference in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. You have the threat it is in the blues. That's series tied at one Vick played this game three today. And then you have the ducks and the oil as the Oilers lead that series two games on. And the ducks just wrecked Calgary deal is. Delicate team of why put my money on somebody. Don't have a cup finals. From the Western Conference out of a full Western Conference teams left the threaded as the blues the ducks and the oil is. Right all the Oilers look like that team that could be get not a west and that would be exciting finals if it was. Pittsburg. And Edmonton. But I think the story right now in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Is. Going to be the capitals once again look like. In all they're going to be his regular season residents got. If presidents trophy team that's looking for Stanley Cup and the favorite to win the cup Bonin. And yet they are now ridiculous gift from Toronto in the first round don't forget. What you had to skip from Toronto in the first round and are now down to Dan's done to Pittsburgh. I mean. Is anybody put money on on Pittsburgh lose in a series right now the way this one has gone and I wouldn't. So I mean as just another era marked with the Bruins out of it. If I had to pick some some reform. I actually might conceal badge can make that serious cup run and voice acting all over his head. But I mean it's just not look like that's gonna be the case right now. And perhaps it's just know once again they run into Sid the kid may run and the penguins and and Sidney Crosby is gonna write his own legacy and write his own Stanley Cup history. That's unfortunate for Ovechkin and the capitals because I'd like that I'd like to see the capitals went at all. But right now down two games and onto a Pittsburgh team that looks like they are the best team in hockey I don't see how you can pick Washington to come back and and come back and win this series. And sell. And on the other hand in the Eastern Conference in Ottawa team that beat the Bruins day or two games out of New York like I didn't expect New York in the series. I expected this to be Bruins Kennedy adds second round. Are at least if there's one over the other in the second round I could see put Montreal up of any. 'cause they have Carey Price and I just looked at Montreal and not going to be the Rangers. But they didn't and it's not ranges senators and senators added two games to none lead so. This Stanley Cup Playoffs and not as predictable as the NBA playoffs and bring him back to the NBA playoffs and bring a packet locally. What the Boston Celtics just did. They beat the wizards in game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals 123. To 111 at Petit got an. The Celtics distorted this one. They got off to waits terrible spot. They fell behind right off the bat eleven and not him. And that they trailed by seventeen. Early in this game. You know there was some drama. Yeah had early on markets not put his elbow wanted. Gore tots wrote. Hansen made the exchange where all of a good though small was talking to go talk to the official. And then you have Isiah Thomas getting elbowed in the face. And he lost the truth egos have managed he came back. Mikki Moore is goes down with the injury sort collide and leg to leg with Al located. And more steady comeback. And on top of it all I thought in the first half. No he'll live presidents was something that was beneficial to the salvage he had twelve points. I hope there are all the first natural points and eighteen minutes. And of course we but the Celtics stopped lineup coming into the scanned. It had Gerald Green and it once again why would you get away from that stick out what's work and stick with what worked. In that pulls series image that adjust the adjustment in the first round. But green got yanked real quick. You put Marcus slaughter and got physical with debt wizards' backcourt and I think he's saying hey we might not win the physicality battled down wall in the paint against what Todd. But how we got to come to that is which some ferocious up in your face defense which. You know I'm I'm doing a show where while trying to watch the game but from what I saw. That wizards' backcourt doesn't want any part of that physical in your face defense. From what I saw. And if you are gonna give markets not those bottom and it's 31. I think what you'll see moving forward is just my opinion but I think you'll see animals stopped a lot of did you guys used online opinion too. Of Isiah Thomas Avery Bradley markets not Jae Crowder Al Horford. And Obama. With political not to bench help Rosie air at eight rebounds in the scam four points and eight rebounds. Right and did they get. And and they put on the bench and add teammates calm him down he traveled all over a couple times. So you got iso Pringle on whit Celtics right now with the game one went all the wizards. Going and I did feel like it's his series the Celtics went at the scene in the stand today seeing Ali fell about behind early. I think with a 1 o'clock tipoff you fall behind early you know that watched that early. I think this would've been an easy game to may be. You know just. Collapse folded up in and bring it to game two down one and up and in the series but they didn't they battled back. And overall for the most thought 531 team the number one seed what's the what's the number one thing we know about the Celtics team. It's that they didn't hit it to battle big and it continued the fight. And also Alia Isiah Thomas. Another 33 point game in 38 minutes he was five for eleven from behind the three point line. Eleven of 23. From the field so Isiah Thomas 33 points nine assists. And Celtics with a big game one went on to take your phone call 61777979837. One segment left that I Christian hockey and we'll take over so get the calls Rolen and yup thoughts on the Celtics game one went. At this time out patriots talk. Exxon see it's all fair game. For card. On Sports Radio WEEI. 617779. 979837. 61777979837. Watching game seven. Put this in the jazz right now I have no idea what the NBA chose to. Go 1 o'clock o'clock 330. Tip off. I just figured it would be 337. But the tonight dot com. And the lack like to. Pop it seemed affected the Celtics more than it did the wizards Celtics fell behind big early that didn't matter. Celtics went 1183111. And win game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. I've taken your calls on this game it Fiat and 6177797937. If you don't have infamy Christian icann is coming up next. Leading into Red Sox clubs Sunday night baseball and Juana Rodriguez. Version ready Kyle Hendrix. I'm seeing in the cubs' lineup. Came all about 51 minutes ago it says Iran to what I've not seen any Red Sox lineup. I'm sure Christa we'll get bacteria. But I don't see right now. But what I'm in Arizona watching tonight in this game with the water Rodriguez. Is. You know I would I would get this season with a lot of Rodriguez I think to myself OK it's time to put it all to get right. Yeah yea you spent now a couple seasons in the majors. And net it wasn't too long at all that you're a top prospect of one of the top prospects in this league. Yeah polished off. You know your big lefty that can throw 9596. Mile per hour fastball a nice change an 8889. You know it's time to put it all together we've seen flashes of it. You know you saw last Sunday in Baltimore. And water every guzzling did walk five guys. You know he had. And nice performance against the very good Orioles team what six scoreless innings. A lot only one hit and we've entered a no hitter into the fifth that it was Chris Davis broke out. And that you know you might see him string a couple of these dots. Together in a role but tonight is against the cubs lineup that can break I mean we've seen that we know all what is cubs' lineup can do. You look at shall although Bryant result. Zobrist I mean. Yeah they got it all there and it's right away so I mean they can break they can hit the long ball. What should water Rodriguez is gonna look like against an offense like this night. At Fenway now there is a little bit of extra layoff for Rodriguez because of money off because and ran out on Tuesday against the Yankees pushed them back a couple days. But. Look. I mean Rodriguez has the type of stuff. We there are a lot of guys are normally get look at that. At that look at what he has in the toolbox and say well if I had that idea number one or number two and asleep so it's time for Rodriguez hit it consistently. Get. That mom and prove that and I think right now the Red Sox are really asking for him to what. One price gets back you're asking Rodriguez to be in a before. But if Rodriguez can pitch like he showed against Baltimore last week and it did give you 67 innings consistently. All of you know smallest. One run ball then not talking about a pretty dangerous rotation. Of still. What cello when price gets back and then Rodriguez Vietnam before. And did you read all the friends that I I don't bomber rams is not somebody did you ever wanna put your money on putt. He was an all star last year and I think you take right out of the rotation per if you're Tony price has come back tomorrow. Which are not telling years but he is closer today than it was two days ago but he did pitch a bullpen. A skinny pitch day. Simulated game joining simulated game yesterday before the game if you told me he was coming back tomorrow. Then I would say rights to guy out right as an eight point 25 ERA he got lit up again yesterday I'd but up may be a strong. But you allowed two more home runs and it just doesn't seem to be working out the Steven Wright the knuckleball like it was last year it's all. That would be the guy that I take on the rotation and if you did put in priced. What will would Wear what I wanna Rodriguez beat he Beano before and if you you know before I started to pitch like he did last week against Baltimore in Baltimore. That's that that's as dangerous as it comes in this league which irritation shall it be good to see Rodriguez up against this lineup. Now lights on and I baseball against the Chicago Cubs at Fenway. I can't wait to the cubs are out of town this love fest. Idol I'll light the cubs. I'm stuck it becomes. I think a lot of that has to do with. People the last couple days trying to force me to like the cubs I don't I don't like to god and. I didn't grow from before I was just you know what it's not my team ever for a didn't dislike it didn't hit them. Now it's like they come to Fenway and everybody's trying to tell me I should love this team. I'd like Theo Epstein likely give that a Red Sox Michael Lackey did for Red Sox. Mike what was that for the Red Sox like what Koji did for the Red Sox. But they're not on the Red Sox in there on the cubs edge because they come to Fenway edge because they. You know reversed the curse like a Red Sox did an old Ford does it mean I have to like it just seems like a circus. And I can't wait till the circus is over medical it's leads and that. The Orioles coming to town tomorrow for a series against the Red Sox will the bad blood these two teams. I continue that glad. It'll have the and then when it comes to retaliation I mean if there is retaliation who's gonna retaliate. I cradle I'd seen someone thrown at at the ahead. Shot hasn't hit yet I don't know if you wanna read that every would you go what. I think that I think that's all we'll show that in this series I don't know but I still think these two teams the Orioles in the Red Sox as long as. This whole battle on for that top spot. And that AL east I don't think either side's gonna forget. What happened. In the last series so it'll be interesting to see the Orioles come to town after his cubs series is over tonight. But you can hear the cubs Red Sox game right here on WEEI Christian I can is next. Make sure you get my podcast Danny to Todd showed dated Todd dot com iTunes Google play anywhere podcasts are available also on the podcast one. Network. Have a great rest of your Sunday it again Christian I can't is nice to get the phone calls in from. Tell you get a stoppage win in game one all the way is it 617779. 79837. About Syria.

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Brain-enhancing technologies like Elon Musks neural lace and neural activity transference have raised both excitement and concern about the possibility of uploading human consciousness to the cloud. Doing so would, in theory, free us from Shakespeares mortal coil, allowing us to exist indefinitely in digitized form. This idea presupposes that our bodies and consciousness can be separated, which, if you ask neuroscientist Anil Seth, Ph.D., is bunk.

In a TED Talk in Vancouver on Wednesday, Seth, a co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and professor at the University of Sussex, explained why doing so was impossible.

What it means to be me cannot be reduced to or uploaded to a software program running on a robot, however smart or sophisticated, Seth said.

Our conscious experiences are shaped at all levels, he continued, referring to the idea that consciousness does not exist solely in the mind.

Seths work has shown compelling evidence that consciousness doesnt just consist of information about the world traveling via our senses as signals into our brains. Instead, hes found that consciousness is a two-way street, in which the brain constantly uses those incoming signals to make guesses about what is actually out there. The end result of that interplay between reality and the brain, he says, is the conscious experience of perception.

What we perceive is [the brain's] best guess of whats out there in the world, he said, explaining that these guesses are constantly in flux. To illustrate, he played for the crowd a high-pitched series of electronic beeps, which wavered in tone like a robotic birds warble. When they couldnt identify what it was, he played it again. Still, it just sounded like a bunch of beeps. Then, he played a recording of a mechanized voice saying I think Brexit is a really terrible idea with natural human intonation.

When he played the exact same robotic warble again, everyone could suddenly hear the words within the sounds.

This and the other sensory illusions he used as examples were meant to illustrate what he calls the controlled hallucinations that make up our conscious experience; in this case, people hallucinated the words in the sounds because their brains predictive ability had changed. We dont passively see the world, he said, we actively generate it. And because our bodies are complicit in the generation of our conscious experience, its impossible to upload consciousness to some external place without somehow taking the body with it.

While his theories may be reassuring to anyone who fears that their digitized consciousness may be as susceptible to cloud hackers as nude celebrity photos, they may cause some anxiety about the nature of reality. If an individuals experience of consciousness is particular to their own bodys interaction with whats actually out there, then will anyone ever know what reality truly, objectively is?

Seth suggests that it doesnt matter because the most important experience of consciousness is the one we all share. [When] we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality, he said.

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Nearly every single day, we find a new video in our Instagram feed from Bernie Rosowpart-time cat driver at Mammoth, part time die-hard skier. And these arent half-assed posts that are uploaded just for the sake of uploading something. Instead, theyre amazing POV lines, typically filmed at Mammoth or in the California backcountry. This daily dosage of gnar has turned us into major Rosow fans; hes the king of Instagram POV videos, without a doubt.

Rosow is getting some recognition in the ski world; hes currently sponsored by Oakley and, as of late, Black Crows. But, hes still relatively little-known, so weve gathered a bunch of his recent posts for you to check out, below. Keep in mind, these are just from the past month; the posts go on and on and on if you check out his feed.

So, without further ado, scroll below to see some of Rosows latest offerings, then give the man a follow for goodness sake.

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Heres what happens. You are lying on an operating table, fully conscious, but rendered otherwise insensible, otherwise incapable of movement. A humanoid machine appears at your side, bowing to its task with ceremonial formality. With a brisk sequence of motions, the machine removes a large panel of bone from the rear of your cranium, before carefully laying its fingers, fine and delicate as a spiders legs, on the viscid surface of your brain. You may be experiencing some misgivings about the procedure at this point. Put them aside, if you can.

Youre in pretty deep with this thing; theres no backing out now. With their high-resolution microscopic receptors, the machine fingers scan the chemical structure of your brain, transferring the data to a powerful computer on the other side of the operating table. They are sinking further into your cerebral matter now, these fingers, scanning deeper and deeper layers of neurons, building a three-dimensional map of their endlessly complex interrelations, all the while creating code to model this activity in the computers hardware. As the work proceeds, another mechanical appendage less delicate, less careful removes the scanned material to a biological waste container for later disposal. This is material you will no longer be needing.

At some point, you become aware that you are no longer present in your body. You observe with sadness, or horror, or detached curiosity the diminishing spasms of that body on the operating table, the last useless convulsions of a discontinued meat.

The animal life is over now. The machine life has begun.

This, more or less, is the scenario outlined by Hans Moravec, a professor of cognitive robotics at Carnegie Mellon, in his 1988 bookMind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence. It is Moravecs conviction that the future of the human species will involve a mass-scale desertion of our biological bodies, effected by procedures of this kind. Its a belief shared by many transhumanists, a movement whose aim is to improve our bodies and minds to the point where we become something other and better than the animals we are. Ray Kurzweil, for one, is a prominent advocate of the idea of mind-uploading. An emulation of the human brain running on an electronic system, he writes in The Singularity Is Near, would run much faster than our biological brains. Although human brains benefit from massive parallelism (on the order of 100 trillion interneuronal connections, all potentially operating simultaneously), the rest time of the connections is extremely slow compared to contemporary electronics. The technologies required for such an emulation sufficiently powerful and capacious computers and sufficiently advanced brainscanning techniques will be available, he announces, by the early 2030s.

And this, obviously, is no small claim. We are talking about not just radically extended life spans, but also radically expanded cognitive abilities. We are talking about endless copies and iterations of the self. Having undergone a procedure like this, you would exist to the extent you could meaningfully be said to exist at all as an entity of unbounded possibilities.

I was introduced to Randal Koene at a Bay Area transhumanist conference. He wasnt speaking at the conference, but had come along out of personal interest. A cheerfully reserved man in his early 40s, he spoke in the punctilious staccato of a non-native English speaker who had long mastered the language. As we parted, he handed me his business card and much later that evening Iremoved it from my wallet and had a proper look at it. The card was illustrated with a picture of a laptop, on whose screen was displayed a stylised image of a brain. Underneath was printed what seemed to me an attractively mysterious message: Carboncopies: Realistic Routes to Substrate Independent Minds. Randal A Koene, founder.

I took out my laptop and went to the website of Carboncopies, which I learned was a nonprofit organisation with a goal of advancing the reverse engineering of neural tissue and complete brains, Whole Brain Emulation and development of neuroprostheses that reproduce functions of mind, creating what we call Substrate Independent Minds. This latter term, I read, was the objective to be able to sustain person-specific functions of mind and experience in many different operational substrates besides the biological brain. And this, I further learned, was a process analogous to that by which platform independent code can be compiled and run on many different computing platforms.

It seemed that I had met, without realising it, a person who was actively working toward the kind of brain-uploading scenario that Kurzweil had outlined in The Singularity Is Near. And this was a person I needed to get to know.

Koene was an affable and precisely eloquent man and his conversation was unusually engaging for someone so forbiddingly intelligent and who worked in so rarefied a field as computational neuroscience; so, in his company, I often found myself momentarily forgetting about the nearly unthinkable implications of the work he was doing, the profound metaphysical weirdness of the things he was explaining to me. Hed be talking about some tangential topic his happily cordial relationship with his ex-wife, say, or the cultural differences between European and American scientific communities and Id remember with a slow, uncanny suffusion of unease that his work, were it to yield the kind of results he is aiming for, would amount to the most significant event since the evolution of Homo sapiens. The odds seemed pretty long from where I was standing, but then again, I reminded myself, the history of science was in many ways an almanac of highly unlikely victories.

One evening in early spring, Koene drove down to San Francisco from the North Bay, where he lived and worked in a rented ranch house surrounded by rabbits, to meet me for dinner in a small Argentinian restaurant on Columbus Avenue. The faint trace of an accent turned out to be Dutch. Koene was born in Groningen and had spent most of his early childhood in Haarlem. His father was a particle physicist and there were frequent moves, including a two-year stint in Winnipeg, as he followed his work from one experimental nuclear facility to the next.

Now a boyish 43, he had lived in California only for the past five years, but had come to think of it as home, or the closest thing to home hed encountered in the course of a nomadic life. And much of this had to do with the culture of techno-progressivism that had spread outward from its concentrated origins in Silicon Valley and come to encompass the entire Bay Area, with its historically high turnover of radical ideas. It had been a while now, he said, since hed described his work to someone, only for them to react as though he were making a misjudged joke or simply to walk off mid-conversation.

In his early teens, Koene began to conceive of the major problem with the human brain in computational terms: it was not, like a computer, readable and rewritable. You couldnt get in there and enhance it, make it run more efficiently, like you could with lines of code. You couldnt just speed up a neuron like you could with a computer processor.

Around this time, he read Arthur C Clarkes The City and the Stars, a novel set a billion years from now, in which the enclosed city of Diaspar is ruled by a superintelligent Central Computer, which creates bodies for the citys posthuman citizens and stores their minds in its memory banks at the end of their lives, for purposes of reincarnation. Koene saw nothing in this idea of reducing human beings to data that seemed to him implausible and felt nothing in himself that prevented him from working to bring it about. His parents encouraged him in this peculiar interest and the scientific prospect of preserving human minds in hardware became a regular topic of dinnertime conversation.

Computational neuroscience, which drew its practitioners not from biology but from the fields of mathematics and physics, seemed to offer the most promising approach to the problem of mapping and uploading the mind. It wasnt until he began using the internet in the mid-1990s, though, that he discovered a loose community of people with an interest in the same area.

As a PhD student in computational neuroscience at Montreals McGill University, Koene was initially cautious about revealing the underlying motivation for his studies, for fear of being taken for a fantasist or an eccentric.

I didnt hide it, as such, he said, but it wasnt like I was walking into labs, telling people I wanted to upload human minds to computers either. Id work with people on some related area, like the encoding of memory, with a view to figuring out how that might fit into an overall road map for whole brain emulation.

Having worked for a while at Halcyon Molecular, a Silicon Valley gene-sequencing and nanotechnology startup funded by Peter Thiel, he decided to stay in the Bay Area and start his own nonprofit company aimed at advancing the cause to which hed long been dedicated: carboncopies

Koenes decision was rooted in the very reason he began pursuing that work in the first place: an anxious awareness of the small and diminishing store of days that remained to him. If hed gone the university route, hed have had to devote most of his time, at least until securing tenure, to projects that were at best tangentially relevant to his central enterprise. The path he had chosen was a difficult one for a scientist and he lived and worked from one small infusion of private funding to the next.

But Silicon Valleys culture of radical techno-optimism had been its own sustaining force for him, and a source of financial backing for a project that took its place within the wildly aspirational ethic of that cultural context. There were people there or thereabouts, wealthy and influential, for whom a future in which human minds might be uploaded to computers was one to be actively sought, a problem to be solved, disruptively innovated, by the application of money.

One such person was Dmitry Itskov, a 36-year-old Russian tech multimillionaire and founder of the 2045 Initiative, an organisationwhose stated aim was to create technologies enabling the transfer of an individuals personality to a more advanced nonbiological carrier, and extending life, including to the point of immortality. One of Itskovs projects was the creation of avatars artificial humanoid bodies that would be controlled through brain-computer interface, technologies that would be complementary with uploaded minds. He had funded Koenes work with Carboncopies and in 2013 they organised a conference in New York called Global Futures 2045, aimed, according to its promotional blurb, at the discussion of a new evolutionary strategy for humanity.

When we spoke, Koene was working with another tech entrepreneur named Bryan Johnson, who had sold his automated payment company to PayPal a couple of years back for $800m and who now controlled a venture capital concern called the OS Fund, which, I learned from its website, invests in entrepreneurs working towards quantum leap discoveries that promise to rewrite the operating systems of life. This language struck me as strange and unsettling in a way that revealed something crucial about the attitude toward human experience that was spreading outward from its Bay Area centre a cluster of software metaphors that had metastasised into a way of thinking about what it meant to be a human being.

And it was the sameessential metaphor that lay at the heart of Koenes project: the mind as a piece of software, an application running on the platform of flesh. When he used the term emulation, he was using it explicitly to evoke the sense in which a PCs operating system could be emulated on a Mac, as what he called platform independent code.

The relevant science for whole brain emulation is, as youd expect, hideously complicated, and its interpretation deeply ambiguous, but if I can risk a gross oversimplification here, I will say that it is possible to conceive of the idea as something like this: first, you scan the pertinent information in a persons brain the neurons, the endlessly ramifying connections between them, the information-processing activity of which consciousness is seen as a byproduct through whatever technology, or combination of technologies, becomes feasible first (nanobots, electron microscopy, etc). That scan then becomes a blueprint for the reconstruction of the subject brains neural networks, which is then converted into a computational model. Finally, you emulate all of this on a third-party non-flesh-based substrate: some kind of supercomputer or a humanoid machine designed to reproduce and extend the experience of embodiment something, perhaps, like Natasha Vita-Mores Primo Posthuman.

The whole point of substrate independence, as Koene pointed out to me whenever I asked him what it would be like to exist outside of a human body, and I asked him many times, in various ways was that it would be like no one thing, because there would be no one substrate, no one medium of being. This was the concept transhumanists referred to as morphological freedom the liberty to take any bodily form technology permits.

You can be anything you like, as an article about uploading in Extropy magazine put it in the mid-90s. You can be big or small; you can be lighter than air and fly; you can teleport and walk through walls. You can be a lion or an antelope, a frog or a fly, a tree, a pool, the coat of paint on a ceiling.

What really interested me about this idea was not how strange and far-fetched it seemed (though it ticked those boxes resolutely enough), but rather how fundamentally identifiable it was, how universal. When talking to Koene, I was mostly trying to get to grips with the feasibility of the project and with what it was he envisioned as a desirable outcome. But then we would part company I would hang up the call, or I would take my leave and start walking toward the nearest station and I would find myself feeling strangely affected by the whole project, strangely moved.

Because there was something, in the end, paradoxically and definitively human in this desire for liberation from human form. I found myself thinking often of WB Yeatss Sailing to Byzantium, in which the ageing poet writes of his burning to be free of the weakening body, the sickening heart to abandon the dying animal for the manmade and immortal form of a mechanical bird. Once out of nature, he writes, I shall never take/ My bodily form from any natural thing/ But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make.

One evening, we were sitting outside a combination bar/laundromat/standup comedy venue in Folsom Street a place with the fortuitous name of BrainWash when I confessed that the idea of having my mind uploaded to some technological substrate was deeply unappealing to me, horrifying even. The effects of technology on my life, even now, were something about which I was profoundly ambivalent; for all I had gained in convenience and connectedness, I was increasingly aware of the extent to which my movements in the world were mediated and circumscribed by corporations whose only real interest was in reducing the lives of human beings to data, as a means to further reducing us to profit.

The content we consumed, the people with whom we had romantic encounters, the news we read about the outside world: all these movements were coming increasingly under the influence of unseen algorithms, the creations of these corporations, whose complicity with government, moreover, had come to seem like the great submerged narrative of our time. Given the world we were living in, where the fragile liberal ideal of the autonomous self was already receding like a half-remembered dream into the doubtful haze of history, wouldnt a radical fusion of ourselves with technology amount, in the end, to a final capitulation of the very idea of personhood?

Koene nodded again and took a sip of his beer.

Hearing you say that, he said, makes it clear that theres a major hurdle there for people. Im more comfortable than you are with the idea, but thats because Ive been exposed to it for so long that Ive just got used to it.

In the weeks and months after I returned from San Francisco, I thought obsessively about the idea of whole brain emulation. One morning, I was at home in Dublin, suffering from both a head cold and a hangover. I lay there, idly considering hauling myself out of bed to join my wife and my son, who were in his bedroom next door enjoying a raucous game of Buckaroo. I realised that these conditions (head cold, hangover) had imposed upon me a regime of mild bodily estrangement. As often happens when Im feeling under the weather, I had a sense of myself as an irreducibly biological thing, an assemblage of flesh and blood and gristle. I felt myself to be an organism with blocked nasal passages, a bacteria-ravaged throat, a sorrowful ache deep within its skull, its cephalon. I was aware of my substrate, in short, because my substrate felt like shit.

And I was gripped by a sudden curiosity as to what, precisely, that substrate consisted of, as to what I myself happened, technically speaking, to be. I reached across for the phone on my nightstand and entered into Google the words What is the human The first three autocomplete suggestions offered What is The Human Centipede about, and then: What is the human body made of, and then: What is the human condition.

It was the second question I wanted answered at this particular time, as perhaps a back door into the third. It turned out that I was 65% oxygen, which is to say that I was mostly air, mostly nothing. After that, I was composed of diminishing quantities of carbon and hydrogen, of calcium and sulphur and chlorine, and so on down the elemental table. I was also mildly surprised to learn that, like the iPhone I was extracting this information from, I also contained trace elements of copper and iron and silicon.

What a piece of work is a man, I thought, what a quintessence of dust.

Some minutes later, my wife entered the bedroom on her hands and knees, our son on her back, gripping the collar of her shirt tight in his little fists. She was making clip-clop noises as she crawled forward, he was laughing giddily and shouting: Dont buck! Dont buck!

With a loud neighing sound, she arched her back and sent him tumbling gently into a row of shoes by the wall and he screamed in delighted outrage, before climbing up again. None of this, I felt, could be rendered in code. None of this, I felt, could be run on any other substrate. Their beauty was bodily, in the most profound sense, in the saddest and most wonderful sense.

I never loved my wife and our little boy more, I realised, than when I thought of them as mammals. I dragged myself, my animal body, out of bed to join them.

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As release date forGratefulpresumably moves closer and closer, DJ Khaled makes it more and more clear the project will feature his most star-studded line-up yet. Yesterday(April 23), the charismatic DJ used his Instagram account to hint at one more enormous collab for the project, uploading an image of himself and the great Nicki Minaj.

AYO JUAN! Turn @nickiminaj vocals up ! #GRATEFUL THE ALBUM ITS COMING ! @wethebestmusic @epicrecords @rocnation please keep EveryTING Top Secret! FAN LUV #GRATEFUL ITS COMING, Khaled wrote in the post, continuing to joke about his album being a top secret project even as he lets loose all the secrets.

Khaled didnt offer up any details surrounding Nickis contribution to the project, but given Khaleds history of summer time anthems, theres no doubt its going to be a banger. Well just have to wait and see.

Khaleds been what you could call a marquee name in the rap industry for about a decade now, but over the last year or so, the DJs combination of humor and outright charisma have boosted his profile even more. The catalyst of that? Well, no one thing is ever singularly responsible for anything, but Khaleds antics on Snapchat have helped make him into an Internet legend. With that in mind, its fitting he was chosen to write the bio for thecompanysCEO Evan Spiegel inTimes list of theworlds 100 most influential people of 2017.

So much of social media is used to tear people down, which I dont respect or believe in. But Snapchat is motivating and inspiring, Khaled wrote in the entry. It shows people that there are better ways to express yourself and to entertain other people. Everyone who knows me knows Im all about spreading love and inspiration. And with Snapchat, Im not a secret anymore. Im not just for the people around me. I can open up my life and connect with my fans worldwide, in real time.

Theres no word on when, exactly, Khaled is droppingGrateful, but considering that summer is rapidly approaching, probably not too long from now. For now, you can peep Khaleds Nicki Minaj tease below.

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I am going out on a limb here trying to better understand our future and those who now have a hand in changing our lives to make it better or worse depending on your personal bent.

In almost every informational email I receive, there is reference to robotics in the workplace and our daily lives. As I mentioned in last month's articles attesting to the coming explosion of robotics in the workplace including in those places least expected the possibility of sitting side-by-side with a robot intrigues me or maybe soon it will be the robot who sits here instead of me!

Just about every comic strip I have seen in the Nevada Appeal this month made some reference to robots. Though I am not particularly a fan of the Dilbert strip, what attracted my attention this month was the love relationship one of the main female characters has with a robot "boyfriend." She wants to break up with the one robot to start a relationship with another robot and is upset that the current robot has taken this news by just saying "OK." She retorts by saying "I need you to feel bad about this, so I'm uploading some code that makes you suffer." Which brings me to the subject of the programmer in charge of programming the "bot." Will there be a code of ethics?

I've been a fan of the author George Orwell since my teenage years and find myself wanting to read his futuristic novel "1984" at least every 10 years to determine how far his predictions published in 1948 have come. So many today do not realize the more "wired" they are, the more their every movement is tracked by a series of "Little Brothers" instead of one Big Brother. Referencing an editorial comic published in this newspaper on April 8, two toddlers look up at a camera and one comments, "Big Mother is watching." That shows how the younger generation is growing up thinking it is normal to be watched and recorded.

I haven't yet read "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley, published in 1931, anticipating how the world will be in 2540; and not sure I want to. The description of the content alone is troubling, "the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to profoundly change society as we know it today. Or, maybe we already are in that brave new world.

It seems so easy to "condition" most of the population as noted in another classic book "A Nation of Sheep" written by William J. Lederer during the time of the Vietnam War. Though the title says it all, it's disturbing to learn just how manipulated we can be by those in government.

If you look around you, there's daily evidence in our news that robots are here and will continue to dominate our lives. Our new cars already are semi-robotic they can park themselves and warn of possible oncoming accidents. Soon, just enter your car and tell it where to go then sit back and relax! The fun of driving and being in control could be a thing of the past, but a boon to older folks who may no longer be able to drive.

Siri, Alexa, Cortana your artificial intelligence assistant, also known as chatbots listen eagerly for a command. What else are "they" listening to? Those "smart" TV's can now record goings on in a home (think George Orwell) and your viewing habits. Your "smart" cell phone tracks your every movement and those "smart" trendy little watches recording your every pulse, heartbeat and movement are monitored by some Little Brother somewhere. Guy Walters, writer for the U.K Daily Mail asserts, "We should stop calling these devices 'smart' and call them what they really are spies." Rather a strong statement, but something to think about.

And, we are buying into all of it willing and perhaps innocently to sacrifice our personal privacy. Google a shopping site and the next time you use Google, the earlier site you viewed will appear as an "ad." Disconcerting. Using the term "cookies" makes it all sound so innocent as your every search is recorded by Big Brother Google. We love all the gadgets and latest technological advances and must have them, or do we?

Your viewing and listening habits are analyzed by companies such as Nielsen's Marketing Cloud. Nielsen no longer needs you to fill out a daily record of viewing habits. Nope, they can get that right off your TV without you even knowing it. Bought a new TV lately? Read the fine print. I always wondered how "they" knew how many millions watched a show like this year's Academy Awards and within a few hours let us know viewership decreased. I didn't watch and Big Brother Nielsen knew it!

According to the Martin Ford, author of "Rise of the Robots," today's focus on Information Technology is "an unprecedented force for disruption." He further asks whether a "tiny elite should be able to, in effect, capture society's accumulated technological capital."

Right now, the cool thing is to encourage our kids to enter the field of robotics. Those with the scientific and mathematical minds can hold our future in their hands. The rest of us who are a bit challenged in this field will have to make certain robots are programmed for the good and not the bad. There have always and will always be those among us who wish to control it all.

Some may have missed the launching of Neuralink, a new venture backed by Elon Musk of the Tesla fame. Seems his new company will be creating and testing the linking of human brains to computers. While the company's initial focus is to develop brain implants to treat neural disorders, he also is concerned humanity may not be able to keep up with future superintelligent computers. While there is always the potential to do good, there is always the potential to do harm. As we have learned through history and still today the human mind knows no bounds when it comes it harming other humans.

Let's reread the famous and oft quoted statement attributed to John Dalberg, Lord of Acton and Member of the British Parliament and prolific author published in 1887, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you add the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority." We quote the first sentence, but are unaware of the rest of the quote equally as strong.

A talented hacker can disrupt the entire wired world. That's not in the future, that's today's reality. That extremely intelligent mind behind the computer can cause incredible damage in seconds.

As the thoughtful Martin Ford writes, "Computers are machines that can in a very limited and specialized sense think." He further goes on to assert that as computers get dramatically better, "it seems very likely that they will soon be poised to outperform many of the people now employed to do these things." For those who want to look a bit into the very near future, Ford's book might be an informative read.

The Chamber's monthly Soup's On luncheon series will feature WNC's Emily Howarth, Professor, Electronics and Industrial Technology, who will provide more insight into tomorrow's world and how today's students are preparing to cope in this "Brave New World." The luncheon will take place at the Gold Dust West beginning at 11:15 a.m. on Tuesday, April 25. Cost is $20 per person. Reservations must be made by Monday, April 24 before noon.

Star Wars may be closer than we think.

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Who doesnt have a broadband connection? Some of us even have a couple of connections or more if we rely on proper Internet to run our businesses. But there are many who are looking to have a broadband connection for the first time. In the guide below, we try to help you by explaining the tips that can help you choose the best broadband service provider in your locality.

Before knowing the various tips to select the best broadband service provider out there let us define Broadband service. Broadly speaking, broadband service is a much faster internet service providing method as compared to the traditional dial-up connections. Broadband service includes multiple services like the following.

How to choose the best broadband service provider?

This is one of those questions many Internet users out there have in their mind. Choosing the best broadband service provider is very important to ensure that you have a continuous and fast connection that helps you to stay connected to the Internet at all times.

Availability: This may seem obvious to quite a lot of readers but it also remains to be one of the most common mistakes being made. Before choosing your broadband service provider, make sure that they provide a healthy service in your area and can provide uninterrupted services to you at all times. To identify them, the best option would be to ask other broadband users in your area or even go online in an Internet Cafe to get the details and comparisons of the various Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in your area.

Download/Upload Rate: If you are going to pay for broadband services, you might as well make sure they have the best download and upload speeds in your area. You need to make this clear and sure because there is nothing that can irritate an internet user more than a slow internet connection!

Special Features: At an extra rate most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide extra features. These features can vary from provider to provider. Most common add-on feature available will be extra speed or extra usage limit by paying more money than the regular plan.

Broadband Plan: Even the best broadband service providers can have some lame plans that are total rip-offs and the worst providers can provide with best plans. Look out for the plans provided by the broadband provider you have chosen and carefully choose an Internet plan that suits you and your usage the best. Also, make sure that the broadband plan is not going to burn a hole in your pocket!

Customer Support: This is very important when you choose your ISP because no matter how good the connection is you will need some help from the provider at some point of time. You have to make sure that they have an excellent customer support and that they will be willing to provide you with assistance at all times.

Reliability: Quite obvious this is. If you spend money on a broadband connection and choose a plan that costs you quite some money, you need to make sure that the connection is reliable. Losing your Internet connection midway of uploading an important work file or while you are downloading or browsing can be very disturbing and irritating at the same time.

Keep these tips in your mind while you choose your ISP next time.

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