A university in China has installed facial recognition cameras in classrooms that monitor students’ behavior such as nodding off or playing with their cellphones. China Pharmaceutical University in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu Province, is piloting the system in two classrooms and eventually plans to install it in every classroom. “The system can access every student’s […]
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Who Invented the Internet?…A Full History…
The internet has become a staple of modern life. We use it to shop for what we need and want, talk to friends and family, run businesses, meet new people, watch movies and TV, and pretty much everything else you can think of. In short, it has given birth to a new age in human […]
‘He’s full of shit’: How Elon Musk Fooled Investors, Bilked Taxpayers and Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity…
It was a Saturday night last March in Buffalo, and Dennis Scott was sitting at home. A stocky veteran with salt-and-pepper hair and a close-cropped beard, Scott had been laid off from Tesla’s factory in Buffalo two months earlier as part of a global reduction in the company’s workforce. Since then, he had taken to […]
Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from “Dangerous” Medical Advice…
In Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451, firemen don’t put out fires; they create fires to burn books. The totalitarians claim noble goals for book burning. They want to spare citizens unhappiness caused by having to sort through conflicting theories. The real aim of censorship, in Bradbury’s dystopia, is to control the population. Captain Beatty […]
Errors in Cellphone Location Evidence Force Denmark to Review 10k Verdicts…
Errors in cellphone location data have prompted authorities in Denmark to review 10,700 court cases to see if flawed evidence lead to incorrect convictions. The New York Times reports that the issues date back in 2012, and consist of two bugs. The first relates to how raw data from phone companies is converted into evidence […]
X-37B Military Space Plane Breaks Record on Latest Mystery Mission…
The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane just broke its spaceflight-duration record. At 6:43 a.m. EDT (1043 GMT) today (Aug. 26), the robotic X-37B sailed past the program mark of 717 days, 20 hours and 42 minutes, which was set by the previous mission, known as Orbital Test Vehicle 4 (OTV-4). The current mission, OTV-5, […]
‘Silicon Valley is not the Wild West’: Former Google Exec Charged with Stealing, Selling Self-Driving Tech…
A former Google executive is facing dozens of counts of theft after allegedly selling the tech giant’s self-driving technology to Uber. Federal prosecutors charged Anthony Levandowski with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets on Tuesday, according to the Department of Justice. The 39-year-old engineer was one of the leading members of […]
Silicon Valley Is Busy, Busy, Busy Building an American Style Social Credit System Just Like China’s…
Companies in the United States, and more specifically, Silicon Valley, are building a social credit system for individuals. Much like the social credit system communist China uses to control its population, this authoritarian control is different in one way: it is being done by corporations as opposed to the government. Make no mistake though, the […]
Former FCC Bureau Chief: Masters of the Universe ‘Abused’ Section 230 to Censor Conservatives…
Former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Wireless Bureau Chief Fred Campbell told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Tuesday that America’s largest technology companies have “abused” Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to censor conservatives. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Josh Hawley (R-MO), and other conservatives have often contended that the “predicate” for enacting Section 230 […]
Customers Handed Over Their DNA. The Company Let the FBI Take a Look…
The trouble started when the Federal Bureau of Investigation attorney made a personal appeal to Bennett Greenspan. Mr. Greenspan, president of FamilyTreeDNA, was used to fielding requests from genealogists, customers, even friends of friends, seeking help with DNA testing. The FBI’s Steve Kramer wasn’t among them. The company’s database of over 1.5 million customers could […]
Turn Off Your Bluetooth, Warn Security Experts…
Your Bluetooth connection is unsafe. Very unsafe. That’s the message from the largest hacker convention. Bluetooth, which is a wireless technology for connecting everything from wireless earphones to car entertainment systems, is hacker heaven. It’s bad enough that attendees at the hacker convention DEF CON are advising to turn it off when not in use, […]
Walmart Sues Tesla Over Solar-Panel Rooftop Fires…
Walmart Inc. is suing Tesla Inc. over a spate of roof fires at several Walmart stores that the retailer alleges were caused by Tesla solar panels. Walmart WMT, -0.03% is suing for breach of contract and alleges “gross negligence” on Tesla’s TSLA, -2.23% part for the fires, which it says all started on the rooftops […]
Your New Heart Could Be Made in China…
Recently, a Chinese startup named Qihan Biotech raised $20 million to develop replacement organs for humans. The smallish deal would hardly have rated a headline, except for the fact that the Hangzhou-based gene-editing company is aiming to grow those organs in pigs and other animals. If successful, such transplants could well transform medicine. And, thanks […]
Secretary Ross Adds 46 Subsidiaries to Huawei “Entity List” – Grants 90-Day Window for U.S. Companies to Withdraw…
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross appears with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the security concerns around Chinese company Huawei and technology products designed to extract intelligence and data. Secretary Ross explains the Commerce Department decision to add 46 new Huawei subsidiaries to the restricted entity list requiring U.S. companies to apply for temporary licenses for Huawei purchases. […]
Trump Administration Asks Congress to Reauthorize N.S.A.’s Deactivated Call Program…
The White House is seeking reauthorization of a law that lets the N.S.A. gain access to logs of Americans’ phone and text records — while acknowledging that the program has been indefinitely halted. Breaking a long silence about a high-profile National Security Agency program that sifts records of Americans’ telephone calls and text messages in […]
The Weird, Repeating Signals from Deep Space Just Tripled…
Scientists suddenly have a whole lot more data on one of the strangest and most recent mysteries in the cosmos, so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs). First discovered in 2007, these fleeting blasts of radio waves originate thousands, millions or even billions of light years from Earth. FRBs have influenced the design of new radio telescopes […]
Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech…
On a bright Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employees—horrified, alarmed, and a little giddy—began pouring out of the company’s offices in Mountain View, California. They packed themselves into a cheerful courtyard outside the main campus café, a parklike area dotted with picnic tables and a shade structure […]
‘The Code’ Busts Silicon Valley’s Favorite Myths About Itself…
The swath of the South Bay once so prized for its orchards and all-round Edenic charm that it was dubbed “the Valley of Heart’s Delight” has spawned myriad imitators. Reflecting local topography, there’s Silicon Glen, Silicon Fen, Silicon Roundabout, Silicon Steppe and, most egregiously, Philicon Valley (take a bow Philadelphia), among other wannabes. But there’s […]
Facial Recognition Software Mistook 1 in 5 California Lawmakers for Criminals…
California Assemblyman Phil Ting has never been arrested, but he was recently mistaken for a criminal. He’s not surprised. Ting (D-San Francisco), who authored a bill to ban facial recognition software from being used on police body cameras, was one of 26 California legislators who was incorrectly matched with a mug shot in a recent […]
Study Blames Disturbing Rise in Teens Who Need Glasses on Excessive Screen Time…
So many people, especially young people and teenagers, spend a significant period of time each day staring at a screen of some kind, whether that be a computer, smartphone, tablet, or the regular old TV. Now, a new study is warning parents that all that screen time may be behind a stunning rise in children […]
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