Newsweek - USA (2020-07-03)

JULY 03, 2020

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Newsweek reported that Dr. John Rock, a Catholic, had developed a

new form of birth control: a pill that did not harm the woman

taking it. He hoped this would make it morally-acceptable to the Church.

Newsweek wrote, “Not since the Copernicans suggested in the sixteenth century

that the sun was the center of the planetary system has the Roman Catholic

Church found itself on such a perilous collision with a new body of knowledge.”

However, the Catholic Church is to this day governed by Pope Paul VI’s 1968

encyclical Humanae Vitae prohibiting the use of artificial contraception.

1983

The U.S. and Japan were competing to

build the most powerful computers, said

Newsweek, in a bid for “increased

geopolitical control.” The 74 supercom-

puters in existence then could perform

several hundred million operations per

second. In comparison, the chip in

Apple’s newest iPhones is capable of one

trillion operations per second.

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2005

Newsweek reported on a new kind of

theft, where hackers can steal personal

data and use it to spend others’ money.

“Today the easy money is still in banks—

databanks.” In 2019, credit card fraud

was the most common type of identity

theft out of 650,572 complaints reported

to the Consumer Sentinel Network.