Watching The World Change
The German government urged the public on Tuesday to temporarily stop using Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer following discovery of a yet-to-be repaired bug in the Web browser that the software maker said makes PCs vulnerable hacker attacks. It issued the warning as a researcher said he found evidence that suggests the hackers who exploited the…
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Facebook really is watching your every move online. In testing out a new diagnostic tool called Abine DNT+, we noticed that Facebook has more than 200 “trackers” watching our internet activity. Abine defines trackers as “a request that a webpage tries to make your browser perform that will share information intended to record, profile, or…
Apple was granted a patent last week that will enable it to wirelessly disable the camera on iPhones in certain locations, sparking fears that such techniques could be used to prevent citizens from communicating with each other or taking video during protests or events such as political conventions and gatherings. The camera phone has revolutionized…
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They beat like real heart cells, but the rat cardiomyocytes in a dish at Harvard University are different in one crucial way. Snaking through them are wires and transistors that spy on each cell’s electrical impulses. In the future, the wires might control their behavior too. Versions of this suped-up, “cyborg” tissue have been created…
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Can police access the GPS data on your phone? According to a recent court ruling, they can not only access it, but activate GPS location tracking if it’s disabled. Consumers currently enjoy little privacy protection from the GPS location information broadcast by their smartphones or automatically added by latest-generation cameras to their digital photographs. But…
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In as little as two years, a terminator like robot might be asking you, “Come with me if you want to live.” The Department of Defense has awarded a lucrative contract to an engineering and robotics design company to develop and build humanoid robots that can act intelligently without supervision. Boston Dynamics Inc. has been…
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“Hold on to your butts.” If you’ve seen the movie Jurassic Park, then you remember that line made by Samuel L. Jackson’s character after the mainframe was about to restarted. But in a twisted turn of events, it seems that life is about to intimidate art. Clive Palmer, an Australian billionaire who’s made roughly…
If the Apocalypse had a choice on how to exterminate the human race, then it looks like death by machine has just moved to the head of the class. Japanese electronics company Suidobashi Heavy Industry in Tokyo unveiled this past weekend the ”˜Kuratas’, a 13 foot tall, 4 ton super-robot that has the capability…
Technology has provided us with many facsimiles for human life. Computer simulations, artificial intelligence programs, and automated chat-bots all give us the illusion of a communicating thinking being. But what is intelligence? Is it the ability to take pre-programmed information and run through a series of responses in a predictable but human manner? Many believe…
Cryogenics in science fiction is a process that allows people to pass through long periods of time in what seems to be the blink of an eye. After weeks or sometimes years of being cryogenically frozen, subjects then emerge into a world unfamiliar to them and interesting. The process has been a staple in science…