Tom Luongo: Peak Facebook, Peak Soros or Just Peak Globalism?
"...Zuckerberg is a pawn. He’s neither the problem nor the solution. Soros is the problem..."
8 February 2020 - 22:48
One AI-Powered Simulation Predicts that the Coronavirus Will Kill up to Fifty-Two Million People
"Fortunately, however, conditions of infection and detection are changing, which in turn changes incredibly important factors that the AI isn’t aware of. And that probably means we’re safer than we think."
7 February 2020 - 10:48
George Soros’s Hypocrisy about Facebook and Much Else
"It’s what one would expect from a country that’s controlled by its billionaires."
6 February 2020 - 04:48
Google Whistleblower Raises Questions about His Wife’s Sudden Death, Declares “I’m Not Suicidal”
"I AM STILL NOT SUICIDAL. Hear that, Google? Hear that, Hillary?"
23 January 2020 - 01:48
Rentable Facial Recognition Robots Coming to a Conference Near You
"No amount of trust, can hide the fact that biometric identification is about knowing who you are and where you are at all times. It is not too late to tell corporations and governments that we no longer believe their lies."
16 January 2020 - 19:48
Fishing, Dodgy Warrants, and the Status of Electronic Privacy in Hong Kong: An Exclusive Interview with Charles Mok
"Reflecting on the scale of police evidence collection, and the manner in which a warrant was obtained and phones were searched, Mok is in no doubt that it amounted to a ‘fishing’ operation, and that failure of legal protection in this instance may well point to broader abuse of existing legal protections."
16 January 2020 - 13:40
The Robots Are Coming, and They Are Going to Take Over Millions of Jobs
"The good news is that the full extent of this ominous scenario is not likely to completely play out. The bad news is that this is because our society is rapidly moving toward complete and utter collapse."
14 January 2020 - 19:48
The Sum of Its Parts: The Smartphone Multiplier Market
"There’s a 60% chance you’re reading this article on a smartphone right now..."
11 January 2020 - 10:48
Covington Catholic Students Suing Elizabeth Warren, Kathy Griffin, Journalists for Defamation
"These boys have been through hell and back after having their names smeared by leftist talking heads. The only way to get these people to stop and think about the power their words have is to hit them where it hurts—their wallets."
11 January 2020 - 01:48
How Chinese Financing is Fueling the World’s Megaprojects
This is particularly evident in its capital, Addis Ababa, where a slew of transportation projects — from new ring roads to Sub-Saharan Africa’s first metro system — transformed the city.
8 January 2020 - 14:27
Michael Snyder: 2020 Just Began and Weird Things Are Already Starting to Happen All Over the World
They come in the night: Drones — lots of them — flying in precise formations over the Colorado and Nebraska prairie. Why are they there?
3 January 2020 - 01:48
Video: Totalitarian Technological Population Control
The idea is that we're going to have technocrats tell us what we can and can't eat, and what we can and can't think.
26 December 2019 - 16:23
Ranking the Top 100 Websites in the World
The internet may be a global network, but many of the gatekeepers are still located in the United States. If international domain suffixes of companies like Amazon and Google are counted, 60 of the 100 websites in the ranking are American.
21 December 2019 - 23:55
Mother Spends a Week Posing as an 11-Year-Old Girl Online: What She Found Was Sickening
In 2018 alone, Bark alerted the FBI to 99 child predators. In 2019? That number is more than 300... and counting.
20 December 2019 - 10:48
Visualizing Moore’s Law in Action (1971-2019)
Earlier in 2019, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared that Moore’s Law is no longer possible. For what it’s worth, Intel still says technology in chipmaking always finds a way to advance — while TSMC has recently said the law is actually alive and well.
12 December 2019 - 01:48
Michael Lebowitz and Jack Scott: Beware of Those Selling ‘Technology’
The allure of jumping aboard a speculative circus is as irresistible as ever, especially with interest rates at near-record lows.
6 December 2019 - 07:48
Wired World: 35 Years of Submarine Cables in One Map
At the same time, more aging cables will be taken offline. Even though signals are no longer traveling through this network of “dark fiber”, it’s still being put to productive use. It turns out that undersea telecom cables make a very effective seismic network, helping researchers study offshore earthquakes and the geologic structures on the ocean floor.
4 December 2019 - 04:48
Asia-Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe Excel in Economic Complexity Ranking
A low level of economic complexity isn’t necessarily a problem. Many countries with middle-to-low scores in the ranking have great standards of living and a high level of wealth. Countries like Canada, Norway, and Australia were all well down the list.
21 November 2019 - 19:48
New Home “Amazon Experience Centers” Are Really Amazon Home Surveillance Centers
As a recent Amazon press release warns, "today customers can choose from more than 85,000 Alexa-compatible products designed for every room and outdoor space around their homes, with new brands and devices being added every week."
18 November 2019 - 13:48
Sidewalk Labs’ Smart Cities Will Create a For-Profit Social Credit System that Controls Judges and Police
People could literally be arrested by Sidewalk Lab's police and and sentenced by their judges. Sidewalk Lab's police could use "unique data identifiers" to track anyone they want.
11 November 2019 - 22:48
A Visual Timeline of AI Predictions in Sci-Fi
The resolution considered granting “personhood” to sophisticated, autonomous robots. However, over 150 AI experts strongly warned against this proposal, arguing it would “blur the relation between man and machine” in a way that is too unethical.
7 November 2019 - 22:48
They Live, We Sleep: Beware the Growing Evil in Our Midst
Researchers found that “almost immediately after turning on the TV, subjects reported feeling more relaxed, and because this occurs so quickly and the tension returns so rapidly after the TV is turned off, people are conditioned to associate TV viewing with a lack of tension.”
5 November 2019 - 04:48
Visualising the Stages of Startup Funding
In a study of over 1,110 U.S. seed tech companies, only 30% exited through an IPO, merger, or acquisition (M&A).
5 November 2019 - 01:48
Aruba’s Facial Recognition Will Identify Two Million Tourists at Car Rental Stations, Hotels and the Airport
Surveillance cameras run 24/7 and are not designed to distinguish between those who have signed up for Aruba Happy Flow and those who have not. In other words, they will capture everyone's faces.
30 October 2019 - 21:48