The mystery buyers of $1billion-worth of undeveloped land near a California air force base have been unmasked as tech titans – and not a network of Chinese spies as some had feared…
The 15-Minute City: A Climate Solution? Or Just an ‘Excuse for More Control’?…
Proponents of the “15-minute city” say it will reduce emissions and improve residents’ quality of life, but critics say the concept, supported by the World Economic Forum, is discriminatory and will lead to “climate lockdowns.”…
The Corbett Report: The 5G Network…
Telecom companies are currently scrambling to implement fifth-generation cellular network technology. But the world of 5G is a world where all objects are wired and constantly communicating data to one another. The dark truth is that the development of 5G networks and the various networked products that they will give rise to in the global […]
Google’s “Smart City of Surveillance” Faces New Resistance in Toronto…
The world’s most ambitious “smart city,” known as Quayside, in Toronto, has faced fierce public criticism since last fall, when the plans to build a neighborhood “from the internet up” were first revealed. Quayside represents a joint effort by the Canadian government agency Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs, which is owned by Google’s parent company […]
‘City of Surveillance’: Google-Backed Smart City Sounds Like a Dystopian Nightmare…
A Google-backed project to build the interconnected, data-driven ‘city of the future’ sounds like all George Orwell’s nightmares come true, and is now in the spotlight after a privacy expert resigned from the project in protest. Toronto’s Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs – a sister company of Google – […]