TECHNOLOGY

What's not widely known is that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, helped form the Pentagon's supersecret Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA—renamed DARPA) in 1958. Years later, DARPA developed the internet and spurred breakthroughs in high-speed networking, voice recognition, and internet search. 

One year before Gise died in 1995, Bezos founded Amazon in the garage of his Bellevue, Washington home.

Or so we're told… 

John Greenewald Jr., who operates The Black Vault, a website dedicated to revealing declassified government documents through obtaining Freedom of Information Act requests, posted on X that he went after Gise's "FBI file, but found out if there was one, it has been destroyed." 

News website Leading Report's Patrick Webb commented on Greenewald's findings, (more…)

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news,

Former CNN host Don Lemon’s new show isn’t going too well since his fall out with Elon Musk, with X users noting that more people watched a video of a fireplace than his live (more…)

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has threatened Tesla with "civil penalties" if it does not comply with handing over data in connection with its December recall of Autopilot. Since then, the automaker has pushed out an over-the-air software update to prevent Autopilot misuse. However, last month, the federal agency launched a query into whether the update was sufficient. 

According to Bloomberg, NHTSA published a letter on its website – addressed to Tesla (more…)