Apple Sued for ‘Slowing Down’ Older iPhones Intentionally
My personal belief is that they will likely find out later on that other phone manufacturers also did (or do) this. I can’t mention the name of another prominent phone maker for legal reasons but it is my opinion others probably also do this. via RT: A lawsuit has been filed in California against US technology giant Apple after the … Continue reading
DARPA Believes Bioengineered Spy Plants Are “The Future Of Intelligence Gathering”
If any organization embodies our idea of the classic mad inventors, just running amock with crazy ideas, it’s DARPA. A jumping dog robot? Sure. Self-guiding bullets? What can go wrong? Vertical take-off plane? Well, why not? Bioengineered spy plants? Wait, what? Yes, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – DARPA – the part of the US Department of Defense responsible … Continue reading
Within 20 Years Man & Machine Will be Melded into One, Says IBM Expert
A senior IBM inventor has predicted that within 20 years humans will be injected with nanomachines that will be able to repair and enhance our bodies and augment our thoughts. In a submission to the Artificial Intelligence Committee of the UK’s House of Lords, John McNamara, who works at IBM’s Hursley Innovation Centre, said that the tiny robots will have … Continue reading
U.S. Begins Testing Mood Modification Brain Implants on Humans
Or is it mind control in disguise? via sputniknews: Two scientific teams from the University of California and Massachusetts General Hospital, funded by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), are using “closed-loop” implants to create algorithms to detect various mood disorders and “shake” the brain back to a healthy state, Nature wrote. The neural implants, which generate electrical … Continue reading
More than Workplace Surveillance, Big Brother Can Track Your Every Move
How can an employer make sure its remote workers aren’t slacking off? In the case of talent management company Crossover, the answer is to take photos of them every 10 minutes through their webcam. The pictures are taken by Crossover’s productivity tool, WorkSmart, and combine with screenshots of their workstations along with other data – including app use and keystrokes … Continue reading
Can Humans Keep the Upper Hand on AI?
In artificial intelligence (AI), machines carry out specific actions, observe the outcome, adapt their behavior accordingly, observe the new outcome, adapt their behavior once again, and so on, learning from this iterative process. But could this process spin out of control? Possibly. “AI will always seek to avoid human intervention and create a situation where it can’t be stopped,” says … Continue reading
Space ‘Nation’ Asgardia Deploys First Low Earth Orbit Satellite
The first of its kind, the Space Kingdom of Asgardia has placed a tiny satellite into low Earth orbit making it the first “nation” to have its territory in space, despite legal disputes. Asgardia is a nonprofit non-governmental organization based in Vienna, Austria. It is the brainchild of the Russian aerospace engineer and billionaire Igor Ashurbeyli. Its leaders want to … Continue reading
Scientists Believe “Digisexuals” Will be a Certainty as Sexbots Become Better and More Popular
The times they are a changin’ ? via RT: Academics are arguing that many people will soon be identifying as “digisexuals” and taking their sexual identity from having sex with robots. While sex robots are currently quite primitive, a new report published in the Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy argues that before long they will be able to look, … Continue reading
World’s First Man-made Meteor Shower to Take Place in 2019
Interesting concept but I sure hope this only mimics the natural meteor showers in regard to the light show and not the potential for object crashing to Earth nor the damaging sonics that can be associated with natural meteor fireballs. I guess this could one day be like an expensive more elaborate type of fireworks show. via BGR: Meteor showers … Continue reading
Death Meets Technology as Australian Doctor Makes a High-Tech Suicide Machine
I’m guessing the reaction to this doctor and his invention might be very polarized. Death is a universal inevitability to every single person that is living now and that has every lived, as for the future well I cannot say it with all confidence that death will remain an inevitability but it is highly likely to remain that way, although, … Continue reading
