Bizarre Real Encounters with Fairy Tale Creatures
Amongst the many alleged monsters, creatures, phantoms, beasts, and assorted entities within the world of the weird are often those that stand out as being particularly bizarre. These are the creatures...
View ArticleFlashback: PayPal wants to implant passwords in your stomach and your brain
PayPal is working on a new generation of embeddable, injectable and ingestible devices that could replace passwords as a means of identification. Jonathan LeBlanc, PayPal’s global head of developer...
View ArticleVenezuela the next country to use Orwellian social credit score?
When Reuters revealed in November 2018 that the Venezuelan government had contracted with the Chinese company ZTE to develop a national biometric identification system, public reactions were mixed. The...
View ArticleGoogle’s New Patents Aim to Make Your Home a Data Mine: they want to scan...
It’s a familiar feeling: Type something into Google’s search bar, and then start seeing ads for it everywhere. Sometimes you don’t even need to search—Google’s already triangulated your desires based...
View ArticleNew York City cops will fly a drone over the New Year’s Eve celebration at...
For the first time ever, a police drone will keep a watchful eye on the New Year’s Eve ball drop in New York’s Times Square, as first reported by the Associated Press. The New York City Police...
View ArticleZuckerberg working on a implantable brain devices…
Mark Zuckerberg has sold close to 30 million shares of Facebook to fund an ambitious biomedical-research project, called the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, with the alleged goal of curing all disease...
View ArticleBeijing uses face-detecting smart locks to curb public housing abuses
Beijing is speeding up the adoption of facial recognition-enabled smart locks in its public housing programmes as part of efforts to clamp down on tenancy abuse, such as illegal subletting. The...
View ArticleGoogle Wins Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition Technology: Tech companies may...
After weeks of notoriety and backlash, Google has scored a legal victory allowing it to keep a close watch on users of Google products. On Saturday, a U.S. District Judge in Chicago dismissed a lawsuit...
View ArticleFacebook tracks Android users even if they don’t have a Facebook account
Facebook‘s data collecting practices have once again been called into question, after a new report revealed that it “routinely tracked” people who do not use the app. Privacy International analysed 34...
View ArticleHospitals systematically populate a global DNA database
Theory: so I’m mid 30’s and just had a kid. In the hospital there were consent forms to sign that we didn’t read fully given the circumstances, and I suspect no parent reads. I remember finding the...
View ArticleAmazon reports over 100 million Alexa spy devices sold
Amazon is notoriously reluctant to share how well Alexa is doing in the marketplace — at best, you get vague boasts about its devices being the “most gifted.” Now, however, it’s providing more...
View ArticleFacebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens
Facebook has long said that it doesn’t use location data to make friend suggestions, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t thought about using it. In 2014, Facebook filed a patent application for a technique...
View ArticleInside Facebook’s suicide algorithm: Here’s how the company uses artificial...
In March 2017, Facebook launched an ambitious project to prevent suicide with artificial intelligence. Following a string of suicides that were live-streamed on the platform, the effort to use an...
View ArticleORWELLIAN: How Apple and Google obliterated the First Amendment with the...
A common, and completely absurd, argument often given by Leftist hypocrites who support the censorship of conservative voices online is that megalith corporations like Apple and Google should be...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence tool used to catch people who lie to the police
British scientists have developed a new computer programme that can spot if someone has lied to police about being robbed. The groundbreaking software analyses the wording of a victim’s statement in...
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