News Link NEW YORK – An extremely humanlike robot made a public appearance June 15 at the Global Futures 2045 International Congress, a futuristic conference focused on the technological singularity. Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory… Read More ›
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Report: School District Scanned Children’s Eyes For Bus Program Without Parent’s Permission
A series of behind-the-scenes mistakes by educators in a Florida school district led to children’s biometric information being culled without their parents’ permission, TheLedger.com reported. In May, parents of students in the Polk County School District received a letter stating… Read More ›
AT&T issues Wireless Emergency Alerts update to iPhone 4S, 5
By Mariella Moon posted Jun 15th, 2013 at 10:07 AM | NEWS LINK AT&T has begun rolling out Wireless Emergency Alerts updates for iPhone 4S and 5, so you won’t be the last folks to know if… Read More ›
Firefox plug-in warns users of NSA surveillance
RT News Published time: June 14, 2013 19:43 Edited time: June 15, 2013 02:23 Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day? The government is likely logging even the most mundane day-to-day computer habits of millions of Americans,… Read More ›
No Need To Force 666 – Consumers Ready For Biometric Payments Now
NEWS LINK Paying for goods and services through fingerprint, palm and iris scanners is the most popular future technology choice for security-conscious shoppers, according to new research* from WorldPay, a global leader in payments processing. One in two people surveyed… Read More ›
Space, Galaxies, and Many Black Holes
Bonanza of Black Holes Discovered in Nearby Andromeda Galaxy by NASA NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has made a new discovery. It’s found a veritable bonanza of black holes in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the nearest galaxies to our own… Read More ›
Drones: What are they and how do they work?
Continue reading the main story BBC News President Barack Obama has confirmed the US is using unmanned aircraft to target suspected militants in tribal areas of Pakistan. He defended the drone attacks, saying they made precision strikes and were kept… Read More ›
Invisible Kids? Hmm, tempting.
This ‘invisibility cloak’ could conceal satellites — or hide your kids By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Scientists have been slaving over the development of exotic materials that can serve as invisibility cloaks for small objects in specific wavelengths,… Read More ›
RFID tracking armbands forced on all residents near California music festival
(NaturalNews) Local residents living within a one-mile radius of the venue for the popular Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, which takes place annually in Indio, California, got an advanced preview of the emerging American police state this year. According… Read More ›
Home-Grown Blood Cells
Man with kidney disease receives first bioengineered vein Published June 07, 2013 FoxNews.com A man suffering from end-stage kidney disease became the first U.S. patient to receive a bioengineered blood vessel, Nature World News reported. The 62-year-old from Danville, Va.,… Read More ›
“Big Brother Is Watching” New World Order 666
Published on Jun 7, 2013 Pastor “Blues Brother” calls Verizon and wants explanations http://www.paulbegleyprophecy.com also NSA and CIA and the entire technology of the Beast 666 The one world religion has arrived, and along with it, one exceedingly sinister man–the soul… Read More ›
Top-Secret NSA Internet Spying Program ‘PRISM’ Uncovered
NowTheEndBegins.Com PRISM spy program harvests Internet information The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian. Top secret PRISM program claims direct access… Read More ›
Zeus Virus Found on Facebook Can Drain Your Bank Account
Susanne Posel | News Link June 6, 2013 The Zeus virus (ZBOT), once it is downloaded to a computer, will remain dormant until the user logs into their bank account online. The virus scans the computer for private data to… Read More ›
How Do You Pay For Your Pizza Delivery
Domino’s carries out world’s first pizza drone delivery By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News | TacoCopter turned out to be a fake. So did the Burrito Bomber. But now, the skies, at least in the U.K., have finally opened up to… Read More ›
Motorola Working on Digital Tattoos, Password Pill
SOURCE Besides releasing in October 2013 the Moto X smartphone, Motorola Mobility’s first handset since it was acquired by Google, the company is working on new methods that would make remembering passwords unnecessary. Motorola Advanced Technology and Projects Group Chief… Read More ›
Sophisticated Crime
Tips to Minimize Your Risks From Cybercrime Mil Arcega May 31, 2013 Cybercrime strikes an estimated 1.5 million people every day. That’s about 18 victims every second, 556 million people around the world, every year. While experts say the people… Read More ›
Mission Impossible-style contact lenses that can take pictures and scan data are a step closer to reality as scientists develop LED soft lenses
South Korean researchers develop futuristic electrode Thin, transparent material has widespread possibilities, scientists say By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 22:37 EST, 31 May 2013 | UPDATED: 23:12 EST, 31 May 2013 South Korean scientists have created soft contact lenses fitted… Read More ›
Obama to confront Chinese president over spate of cyber-attacks on US
SOURCE US president to meet with Xi Jinping over latest allegation that Chinese hackers gained access to US weapons systems Ewen MacAskill in New York The Guardian, Tuesday 28 May 2013 14.02 EDT The California summit will be the first… Read More ›
Technology: Strap On the Feed Bag Folks
Burger King Creates A Burger Holder That Lets You Eat Your Burger Hands-Free By Anthea Quay, 30 May 2013 As part of its 50th anniversary in Puerto Rico, fast-food chain Burger King teamed up with DLC/Ogilvy & Mather to create… Read More ›
The Electronic Front in Global Conflicts
How will we face digitized mass destruction? By Nicholas White on May 30, 2013 For a few moments on April 23, the U.S. suffered an attack of 9/11 proportions—at least economically. The Syrian Electronic Army got the password for the… Read More ›
New Spin On the “Automatic” Automobile
At High Speed, on the Road to a Driverless Future By JOHN MARKOFF Published: May 27, 2013 JERUSALEM — Last month, on a freeway from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea, I sat in the driver’s seat of… Read More ›
The Future of the Internet “They better brace themselves”
The next great Internet revolution is coming, AOL founder says By Blake Snow Published May 29, 2013 The second great Internet revolution is coming, and it will be bigger than the first, one man says. He should know: He… Read More ›
The $1.3B Quest to Build a Supercomputer Replica of a Human Brain : The Beast?
By Jonathon Keats 05.14.13 6:30 AM Even by the standards of the TED conference, Henry Markram’s 2009 TEDGlobal talk was a mind-bender. He took the stage of the Oxford Playhouse, clad in the requisite dress shirt and blue jeans, and… Read More ›
Alleged ‘PayPal 14′ Hackers Seek Deal To Stay Out Of Prison After Nearly 2 Years In Limbo
Huffington Post Posted: 05/18/2013 6:26 pm EDT Before he was charged in July 2011 with aiding the hacker group Anonymous, Josh Covelli lived what he considered the life of an ordinary 26-year-old. He spent countless hours on the Internet…. Read More ›
“Big Brother” Is Big Business?
CBS News The odds are you are not just a face in the crowd any longer. Even if your picture isn’t plastered all over social networking and photo-sharing sites, facial recognition technology in public places is making it harder if… Read More ›
News, Ethics
Reblogged from Revive: Survey Finds Cheating Via Text is Worse Than Cheating in Real Life By HowAboutWe | Love + Sex – 1 hour 49 minutes ago By Melissa Wall for HowAboutWe When it comes to the definition of cheating, just about… Read More ›
How Facebook Might Buy Your Location for $1 Billion
Photo: Michelle Ress/Flickr SOURCE Multiple reports have Facebook in talks to buy Waze, a mobile traffic map constantly updated by users, for roughly $1 billion. Why is Facebook so interested in a map? It’s not. Facebook is almost certainly interested… Read More ›
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
By David Kravets 05.10.13 6:30 AM Illustration: National Institutes of Health | Wired News The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups… Read More ›
Groundbreaking New Bilderberg Revelations Coming Soon
Key intelligence uncovered: Transformation of Bilderberg into new breed of technocratic elite Paul Joseph Watson May 11, 2013 Major new revelations concerning the secretive Bilderberg Group have been uncovered by Infowars reporters who visited the Grove Hotel in Watford, UK… Read More ›
Star Trek gadgets: Are they science fiction or could they be science fact?
10 May 2013 With Star Trek Into Darkness opening in cinemas, how close are we to turning its science fiction tech into science fact? As they boldly went where no man had gone before, Captain Kirk and his crew got… Read More ›
PayPal exec aims to “obliterate passwords from the face of the planet”
y 9 2013, 3:27pm EDT PayPal‘s security chief wants to kill the password—without forcing you to carry around one of these. DAMEON WELCH-ABEMATHY Forget passwords—let your phone scan your fingerprints or eyes. by Jon Brodkin – May 9 2013, 3:27pm… Read More ›
PROPHECY WATCH: Are you ready for RFID chips built into your money and documents?
End Time Headlines. North Dakota State University. researchers have developed a new way of embedding traceable chips within “smart” paper — raising the possibility of banks and governments guarding against counterfeiting and even tracking the usage of paper money, IEEE Spectrumreports…. Read More ›
NBC Warns Of Coming Singularity Explosion
NowTheEndBegins.Com Are you prepared to meet your robot overlords? The idea of super-intelligent machines may sound like the plot of “The Terminator” or “The Matrix,” but many experts say the idea isn’t far-fetched. Some even think the singularity — the point at which artificial… Read More ›
Syria goes dark again in widespread Internet blackout
Google Transparency Report Google’s traffic data shows a total loss of connectivity with Syria beginning just before 3PM Eastern time. War-torn Syria has gone almost completely offline in what appears to be an Internet blackout, according to traffic readouts by… Read More ›
The Micro-Drone Revolution: Roachbots, Ravens, Mosquitos, and More
April 15, 2013 By John W. Whitehead | SOURCE “[Drones are a] game-changing technology, akin to gunpowder, the steam engine, the atomic bomb-opening up possibilities that were fiction a generation earlier but also opening up perils that were unknown a… Read More ›
This Is The World’s First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos)
The 3D-printed gun that Cody Wilson calls the “Liberator.” Click to enlarge. (Credit: Michael Thad Carter for Forbes) Eight months ago, Cody Wilson set out to create the world’s first entirely 3D-printable handgun. Now he has. Early next week, Wilson,… Read More ›
Aircraft speeds to more than 3,000 mph in test flight.
End Times Headlines LOS ANGELES — A lightning-quick experimental aircraft made history when it sped more than 3,000 mph above the Pacific Ocean in a test flight, reigniting decades-long efforts to develop a vehicle that could travel faster than a speeding… Read More ›
4K TV promises to be four times clearer than high-def
By Larry Frum, Special to CNN updated 2:25 PM EDT, Thu May 2, 2013 | A man talks on his phone with Sony Bravia W900 LED HDTV televisions in the background during a press event at the Consumer Electronics… Read More ›
Crazy scientists develop implantable microchip that supposedly induces appetite suppression
Ethan A. Huff, staff writer, Natural News (NaturalNews) Pretty soon every bodily function will be capable of regulation and control by futuristic, man-made technologies, and this bionic insurgence is apparently starting with the human appetite. As reported by BBC News,… Read More ›
Scientists Turn Corn Husks Into Dinner
Elizabeth Palermo, TechNewsDaily Contributor April 17 2013 11:55 AM ET Professor Y.H. Percival Zhang led a team researchers that transformed cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally… Read More ›
Article: Humans Show Empathy for Robots
Humans are increasingly exposed to robots in their daily lives, and new research shows people feel the same empathy for the bots as they would for another person. CREDIT: photobank.kiev.ua | Shutterstock View full size image Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff… Read More ›
Tiny wireless LED activates neurons to release dopamine
April 15, 2013 | Click Here To View Source [+] This implantable LED light can activate brain cells to release dopamine and is smaller than the eye of a needle (credit: John A Rogers and Michael R. Bruchas/Washington University) Researchers… Read More ›
Turn Your Daily Commute into Epic Roadtrip Video
Elizabeth Palermo, TechNewsDaily Contributor April 12 2013 01:34 PM ET Tired of your daily commute? Bored of looking at the same streets and buildings day in and day out? Google Street View Hyperlapse might be the cure for what ails… Read More ›
Breaking: Microsoft Security Update May Break Windows 7
by Marshall Honorof, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer April 12 2013 02:03 PM ET CREDIT: Microsoft View full size image A security update that Microsoft pushed out earlier this week crashes some Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista machines, forcing… Read More ›
5 reasons you want Google Fiber in your city
SOURCE CNN.com By Sam Gustin, Time updated 5:49 AM EDT, Fri April 12, 2013 | Filed under: Innovations Tech entrepreneurs occupy the Capital Factory workspace in downtown Austin, Texas. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Google said this week that its ultra-fast Internet service,… Read More ›
Israel releases Biometric Matching System tender
The Israeli Ministry of the Interior has announced a tender for its national-scale Biometric Matching System. The tender – No. 82/2012 – released by the country’s Biometric Database Management Authority – should be submitted by June 20, 2013. Israel’s biometric… Read More ›