Britain is prepared to develop a new generation “killer robots” to protect troops on the battlefield, a minister has said. By Steven Swinford, Senior Political Correspondent 10:00PM BST 18 Jun 2013 | TELEGRAPH Alistair Burt, a Conservative foreign minister, said… Read More ›
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Profanation
The Lord be with y’all: Texas gets its own Bible By Audra Schroeder on June 10, 2013 Email Texas’s dreams of secession may have been crushed, but John Dyer, the director of Web development at the Dallas Theological Seminary,… 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 ›
A WiFi Brain? Mind Control?
Tiny Helicopter Piloted By Human Thoughts By Elizabeth Palermo, TechNewsDaily Contributor You may have had remote controlled airplanes growing up, but they probably weren’t as cool as the quadcopter. This tiny helicopter looks a lot like a toy, but it’s… 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 ›
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 ›
Private-Sector Investment, West Bank
Tech, prosperity and peace on West Bank Sun Jun 2, 2013 1:58am IST By David Rohde May 31 (Reuters) – At first glance, it is a tech utopian’s dream. For the last two years, several dozen Palestinian entrepreneurs have been… Read More ›
Surveillance Drones in New Jersey
Drones: Coming Soon To The New Jersey Turnpike? New Jersey legislators have introduced four different bills addressing surveillance drones. By Dave Smith | May 13 2013 6:24 PM The Federal Aviation Administration predicts that 30,000 drones will patrol U.S. skies by 2020,… 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 ›
‘Missiles fired at’ Russian plane with 159 passengers onboard flying over Syria
Published time: April 29, 2013 16:14 Edited time: April 29, 2013 19:26 Two missiles were reportedly fired at a Russian plane with at least 159 passengers on board that was flying over Syrian territory. Russian officials admit the jet… Read More ›
Biocryptology Is The Future Of Cashless Transactions
SOURCE RELATED STORY: The Mark of the Beast RAPID CITY, S.D. — Futurists have long proclaimed the coming of a cashless society, where dollar bills and plastic cards are replaced by fingerprint and retina scanners smart enough to distinguish a… Read More ›
Activists launch campaign against ‘autonomous weapons’: Killer robots must be stopped
SOURCE Autonomous weapons’, which could be ready within a decade, pose grave risk to international law, claim activists A new global campaign to persuade nations to ban “killer robots” before they reach the production stage is to be launched… Read More ›
The Changing Face of Mars–What Went Wrong?
Related articles Millionaire wants to send humans to Mars (and back) in 2018 (dvice.com) Human mission to Mars may be planned for 2018 (lightyears.blogs.cnn.com) Silicon Alley Insider: This Millionaire Is Reportedly Planning A Trip To Mars Within Five Years (businessinsider.com)… Read More ›
The Black Hole-Video
Related articles Black Holes: Warping Time & Space | Video (livescience.com) Black Projects: The Hole where 400 Billion of US Tax Dollars Goes Every Year (2012thebigpicture.wordpress.com) Brightcove eyes iPad’s Flash void with HTML5 (reviews.cnet.com) NASA May Have Discovered Youngest Black… Read More ›
5 ways to keep your phone charged in a power outage
By Doug Gross, CNN updated 8:23 AM EST, Sat February 9, 2013 | Filed under: Mobile Laptops and backup chargers are just two ways to keep your mobile phone viable during power outages. STORY HIGHLIGHTS As winter storms approach, be… Read More ›
Aereo to bring streaming TV to 22 U.S. cities
By Laurie Segall @CNNMoneyTech January 9, 2013: 10:10 AM E NEW YORK (CNNMoney) One of the boldest startups in the streaming media market, Aereo, is preparing a nationwide rollout of its controversial streaming TV service. Aereo lets users live-stream or… Read More ›
Hacker-Proof Your Password
From: Yahoo News How to create one you’ll remember, and computers won’t guess By Jennifer Waters | MarketWatch – Fri, Dec 21, 2012 1:34 PM EST Yahoo! Finance/Thinkstock – Don’t believe proclamations that the password is dead. Even with increasingly… Read More ›
What does it mean to be a digital native?
By Oliver Joy, CNN updated 11:58 AM EST, Tue December 4, 2012 U.S. author Marc Presnky says that at no time in history has technology moved so fast. STORY HIGHLIGHTS U.S. author Marc Prensky says that at no time in… Read More ›