SpaceX and teams led by Dynetics and Blue Origin won NASA contracts Thursday totaling nearly $1 billion to develop lunar landers that could carry astronauts back to the moon as early as 2024 and support sustained, long-term operations by 2028 under the space agency’s Artemis program. “With these contract awards, America is moving forward with […]
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USC, Emory Creating Coronavirus Surveillance System Similar to China’s Social Credit Scoring…
China launched its notorious social credit system last year to watch over its own citizens and mete out punishment based on personal behavior and loyalty to the Communist Party. Now three prominent U.S. universities are using taxpayer money to create a similar type of surveillance network designed to monitor Americans and assign them scores based […]
U.S. Patent Office Rules That Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be a Legal Inventor…
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ruled that artificial intelligence systems cannot be credited as an inventor in a patent, the agency announced earlier this week. The decision came in response to two patents — one for a food container and the other for a flashing light — that were created by an […]
Lawmakers Threaten to Subpoena Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos As Antitrust Probe Heats Up…
House lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee are threatening to subpoena Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos after The Wall Street Journal reported that the company used data from independent sellers to develop competing products. The House panel is engaged in an antitrust investigation targeting Amazon and other major tech companies. Probes against the company come as […]
In “Decision He’ll Come to Regret,” Judge Allows Warrantless Aerial Surveillance of Baltimore…
For many years we’ve been documenting the developments surrounding spy planes over the skies of the Baltimore metro area, monitoring residents as the region has become the testing ground for the surveillance state. In early April, under cover of the coronavirus pandemic, Baltimore City’s Board of Estimates approved the contract to resurrect the spy plane […]
Apple Aims to Sell Macs with Its Own Chips Starting in 2021…
Bloomberg’s daily technology newsletter is chronicling the impact of Covid-19 on the global tech industry. Sign up here. Apple Inc. is planning to start selling Mac computers with its own main processors by next year, relying on designs that helped popularize the iPhone and iPad, according to people familiar with the matter. The Cupertino, California-based […]
Flaw in iPhone, iPads May Have Allowed Hackers to Steal Data for Years…
Apple Inc is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers. The bug, which also exists on iPads, was discovered by ZecOps, a San Francisco-based mobile security forensics company, while it was investigating a sophisticated cyberattack against a client that took […]
The FCC Ratifies Wi-Fi 6E…
During the Federal Communications Commission’s monthly meeting today, it ratified unlicensed use of the 6GHz radio frequency spectrum in the USA. This decision opens the way for the proposed Wi-Fi 6E standard to move forward. Industry giants Intel and Broadcom began planning for this move two years ago. Broadcom released its first Wi-Fi 6E chipset […]
Amazon Used Data from its Own Sellers to Then Launch Competing Products…
Amazon employees have used data about the vast number of independent sellers on its platform to create competing products — in violation of its own policies and statements to Congress, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The retail giant, which has felt a surge of goodwill for providing essential goods nationwide amid the coronavirus […]
Palantir Tapped for White House Coronavirus Data Analysis…
Data-mining company Palantir will contribute to a US government program that helps top officials make recommendations to President Donald Trump, according to a Daily Beast report Tuesday. The program, reportedly called HHS Protect Now, crunches data to help officials understand the coronavirus pandemic, in which more than 850,000 people in the states have been diagnosed […]
Zero-Day Warning: It’s Possible to Hack iPhones Just by Sending Emails…
Watch out Apple users! The default mailing app pre-installed on millions of iPhones and iPads has been found vulnerable to two critical flaws that attackers are exploiting in the wild, at least, from the last two years to spy on high-profile victims. The flaws could eventually let remote hackers secretly take complete control over Apple […]
NASA’s Plan to Turn the ISS Into a Quantum Laser Lab…
Later this summer, physicists at the Argonne and Fermi national laboratories will exchange quantum information across 30 miles of optical fiber running beneath the suburbs of Chicago. One lab will generate a pair of entangled photons—particles that have identical states and are linked in such a way that what happens to one happens to the […]
Drones from China Company Cause Spying Concerns…
Drones being used around the country to enforce coronavirus lockdowns were donated by a company with ties to the Chinese government, raising concerns that the nation many blame for allowing the virus to become a pandemic has sneaked a powerful espionage tool into the skies above its economic rival. Drones from Da Jiang Innovations (DJI) […]
UNFRIGGINBELIEVABLE: Facebook Wuhan Coronavirus ‘Fact Checker’ Worked with Wuhan Virus Lab…
Facebook is relying on a “fact checker” that uses “expert opinion” from a researcher who conducted projects with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the biolab next to the wet market in Wuhan where the Chinese virus originated. An article from the “expert,” Danielle E. Anderson, an assistant professor at Duke-NUS medical school, was used by […]
Facebook’s Digital Currency Project Just Got a Lot Less Audacious…
Remember Libra, Facebook’s plan to create a global digital currency? Unveiled last June, it was immediately met with resistance from policymakers and central bankers around the world. So, the team went back to the drawing board, and today it re-emerged with a new vision—one that is a lot less audacious than the original. Here are […]
U.S. Senator Says Apple, Google Need to Show Contact Tracing Will Not Violate Privacy…
Smartphone software makers Alphabet’s Google and Apple will have to convince the public that any apps to help track who has been exposed to the new coronavirus will not lead to a violation of their privacy, Senator Richard Blumenthal said on Wednesday. “Apple and Google have a lot of work to do to convince a […]
Inside China’s Huawei D.C. Influence Campaign…
Former Florida congressman Cliff Stearns once spearheaded Congress’s response to the risks that plague the nation’s information infrastructure, using his influence to warn Americans about the “increased possibility of a devastating cyberattack.” Now, he is among the growing number of former U.S. cyber and national security officials who have worked for a Chinese tech giant […]
China’s Tech Totalitarianism…
The media tell us China “beat coronavirus.” I don’t believe it. The Chinese government lies. AEI’s Derrek Scissors argues that they’ve underreported the number of COVID-19 cases by millions. Still, it’s possible that China has the virus under control. But at what cost Most of us in America now practice “social distancing.” I’ve barely left […]
Amazon Is Placing New Online Grocery Customers on a Waiting List…
Amazon is placing new grocery delivery customers on a waitlist as it pushes social distancing and grapples with the onslaught of digital orders placed during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The e-commerce giant is focusing on orders placed by existing Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market delivery customers, for the time being, the company said in […]
Snowden: Governments Using Pandemic to Build “Architecture of Oppression” Surveillance…
In addition to quarantines and lockdowns, some governments like those in China, Taiwan, and South Korea have been using a surveillance strategy called “contact tracing” to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. While each country’s contact tracing program has slight variations, all of them are essentially cell phone apps that keep a running record […]
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