Transhumanism May Hold Key to Eternal Life, but with Multiple Caveats & Ethical Dilemmas
Some people hope to cheat death by storing their consciousness digitally. Science isn’t quite there yet, but we’ve done enough brain and memory research to have immediate implications – and to start asking uncomfortable questions. The idea of attaining de facto immortality by translating your brain into code and storing your personality as a digital copy online has been captivating … Continue reading
Google’s ‘Nightingale’ Secretly Gathers the Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans
Google has been working with one of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S. to collect and analyze the personal health information of millions of citizens across 21 states, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Tech giant reportedly teamed up with St. Louis-based Ascension, the largest non-profit health system in the country, last year, and the data sharing has accelerated … Continue reading
Mystery Surrounds the Speed of Earth’s Magnetic North Pole’s Drift Towards Russia
Earlier this year, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the British Geological Survey (BGS) were forced to update the World Magnetic Model a year ahead of schedule due to the speed with which the magnetic north pole is shifting out of the Canadian Arctic and toward Russia’s Siberia. The BGS and the US National Centers for Environmental Information has … Continue reading
Huge Unidentified Object Seen Moving Slowly Through the Florida Sky
A mysterious object or unknown phenomenon was seen and captured in the sky over Florida on December 7, 2018 While some claim it is a hole in the clouds or a triangle sundog, it resembles a cloaked arrow head shaped craft which is casting its shadow on the clouds. The “wake” of the craft can actually be seen as it … Continue reading
Asteroid Will Make Close Fly by of Earth on Friday the 13th
NASA has been monitoring an asteroid which maintains an orbit around various bodies in the solar system and consistently passes through Earth’s orbit with the sun. 13 near-Earth objects in total are expected to fly past Earth in December of this year. Earth is set to have a close encounter with an enormous asteroid which is set to fly nearby … Continue reading
Number of Near-Earth Asteroids Grows
People using telescopes to stare at the night sky on December 20 or 26 might see a distant light traversing the heavens, but proclaiming it as a harbinger of a New Testament rerun would be unwise. The European Space Agency’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre advises that on neither night will the Star of Bethlehem be visible, but an asteroid very … Continue reading
‘Giant UFO’ Over California Reportedly Seen ‘by More Than 100 Witnesses’
The object could have been taken for a drone or a skydiving vehicle, if not for a combination of facts: it didn’t move and emitted no sound whatsoever. The internet has of late been in a frenzy over a weird object hovering above the small California town of Menifee. Footage that first emerged on YouTube on 3 December, despite originally … Continue reading
New Zealand Volcano Eruption Leaves Survivors with Ghastly Burns, Hospitals at Full Capacity
At least 27 of the 31 people injured in the volcanic blast that rocked the island on Monday suffered severe burns covering over two-thirds of their skin, the government said in a statement, noting the possibility that some of the injured will not survive. Burn centers across New Zealand are full to capacity as more than two dozen victims are … Continue reading
Swarm of Unknown Objects Recorded Passing by the ISS
Footage taken from the International Space Station live feed on December 5, 2019 appears to show a swarm of mysterious, unidentified objects near by. The actual footage shows a large group of what looks to be semi-cloaked objects, with only the powered sources shining and reflecting in front the light from the stars, disappear and reappear while passing by the … Continue reading
‘Short Window’ to Stop AI Taking Control of Society, ex-Google Employee Warns
Meredith Whittaker warns we are becoming lab animals in a giant tech experiment. The big news in tech this week is the announcement that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down as executives of parent company Alphabet, founded in 2015 with the goal of making it “cleaner and more accountable”. Page and Brin said it was time … Continue reading
