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03/06/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Hackers could shut down satellites – or turn them into weapons

There are currently around 2,000 satellites orbiting the earth, each one beaming down signals which allow us to enjoy our favorite television shows, movies and even connect to the internet. Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. or SpaceX, which launched 242 satellites as of the end of January, plans to deploy about 42,000 more over […]

02/28/2020 / By Lance D Johnson

New Mexico takes on parasitic Google for collecting and using sensitive behavioral data gathered from SCHOOLCHILDREN

The State of New Mexico is taking a stand against Google. New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is filing a lawsuit against parasitic Google, alleging that the data-mining juggernaut is collecting sensitive data from schoolchildren and using it against them. What Google is doing is a gross violation of the children’s Online Privacy Protection Act […]

02/25/2020 / By Michael Alexander

The human brain is constantly starving for information: What happens when the brain gorges on useless data?

Just like how it gets easily addicted to junk food and its empty nutrients, the human brain can also get addicted to empty information, say researchers from the University of California (UC), Berkeley. The study, published in the journal PNAS, revealed how the brain becomes addicted to empty information — a phenomenon people could be creating themselves […]

02/13/2020 / By Tracey Watson

How to stop Google Chrome from mining your personal information

We spend hours each day locked into technology. Many of us spend more time with our smartphones than any actual live human beings, and in some respects, we might almost view our devices as our best friends. But would you continue to trust a friend that betrayed you over and over again? Would you blindly […]

02/13/2020 / By Isabelle Z.

Factory workers can use this smartphone app to program robots… but so could hackers

A new smartphone app that will allow users to program any robot to perform a particular task is getting a lot of attention, but not all of it is positive. While the program may lower the cost of building and programming robots for businesses, there could be some serious drawbacks. Researchers from Purdue University have […]

02/12/2020 / By Lance D Johnson

It’s time to disconnect: Researchers warn about personal data collection by smart products

Data has become more valuable than oil, and technology companies are constantly coming up with new ways to extract personal information out of your home. The reason smart TVs are so cheap on black Friday is because the data they will eventually collect on every consumer is far more valuable than the cheap sticker price […]

02/04/2020 / By Lance D Johnson

This uncanny AI can guess what you look like by analyzing voice recordings

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working on an AI project that can accurately map what people look like just by analyzing voice recordings from the internet. The researchers published their first paper on the project: “Speech2Face: Learning the Face behind a Voice.” The researchers trained the AI neural networks using millions of YouTube […]

01/25/2020 / By JD Heyes

Privacy no more: Google, which censors conservative voices, now mining tens of millions of health records without your permission

Like the other tech giants, Google has a very bad attitude towards conservative voices and, as studies have shown, uses its massive market domination as a search engine and media company to silence anyone with whom its Left-wing managers disagree. Now, the tech behemoth will have additional ‘leverage’ over conservatives and other Americans with whom […]

01/01/2020 / By Ethan Huff

Mystery drone sightings in Colorado, Nebraska have many experts baffled

Local residents in northeast Colorado and southwest Nebraska are scratching their heads in confusion about a series of ongoing mystery drone sightings that nobody seems able to explain. Multiple counties in that particular corner of Colorado, as well as at least one abutting county in Nebraska, continue to receive calls from folks concerned about these […]

12/17/2019 / By Ethan Huff

The top 10 scariest robotics and drone stories of 2019

The replacement of actual human beings with the new robot economy is now in full swing, and much of what’s being introduced in the name of “progress” suggests that it won’t be too much longer until artificial intelligence (AI) controls everything. Here are 10 of the most disturbing stories from this past year that illustrate […]

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