Chilean lawmakers are expected to pass a constitutional reform making it illegal for technology to mess with people’s brains without their consent. I wonder if these lawmakers know about Facebook’s experiment manipulating people’s emotional state? How can you trust a company that has admitted to…
Mark Zuckerberg was already putting tape over his computer’s webcam and microphone years ago. Now he may want to put double tape over the microphone and block the speakers. Daily Mail : A smartphone equipped with a new ‘bat-sense’ technology allows the scientists who created…
Once again, we see that the most accurate of any of the classic sci-fi writers – more accurate than either George Orwell or Aldous Huxley – was Philip K. Dick. Dick was the only one who really understood how much corporations and the advertising industry…
Previously on “The Robot Question”:Â Police Now Actively Using Boston Dynamics Robot Dogs We’re going to need to talk about the Robot Question (RQ). There are implications here that are not being discussed at all. RT : Spot, the four-legged robo-canine built by Boston Dynamics,…
I already wrote an article about emerging technology today, but I did think you should know that Elon Musk released footage of his monkey playing video games with its thoughts. RT : Muskâs mind-machine interface company, Neuralink, has released startling footage that purports to show…
Bill Gates is making big money on the coronavirus hoax, which he personally invented. But let’s not forget, he’s also making big money on Microsoft, a criminal organization he founded. The US military is not going to use “augmented reality” headsets in any situation, but…
Earlier this month, Mountain Dew released an advertisement featuring the dead celebrity painter Bob Ross shilling Mountain Dew. Ross was a famous television personality who hosted a painting show. He died in 1995, but his show has played in syndication since his death and brought…
Apparently, some people believed this viral TikTok Tom Cruise deepfake video was real, despite the fact that the author didn’t intend it. Furthermore, he couldn’t help himself, coming out and taking credit for it. Or maybe this was his plan, to build a career on…
Brave is run by Brendan Eich, who is a Christian. He is the inventor of Javascript, and he was working at Mozilla developing Firefox until he was fired for donating to an organization devoted to protecting traditional marriage. After being fired, he launched Brave, which…
A creepy video of a fake Tom Cruise made with “deep fake” technology has gone viral. It is truly incredible, and has satanic undertones. Fake Cruise says “if you like this, wait til what comes next.” This seems to be a slogan for our time.…
This problem could have been solved by simply hiring more black people at Boeing. It’s a lack of diversity that is holding back the American aviation industry. Reuters : Showers of jet engine parts over residential areas on both sides of the Atlantic have caught…
Japan has figured out a way to turn cockroaches into useful house servants. Researchers from the University of Tsukuba envision a future where an army of tiny cockroaches inhabit people’s homes, performing all kinds of helpful tasks and then hiding away until their services are…
Human facial expressions and other non-verbal communication cues are being replaced by the arrangement of dots on a screen. Daily Mail : Full stops intimidate young people when used in social media communication as they are interpreted as a sign of anger, according to linguistic…
Pictured: “Tux,” the brand character of the Linux kernel. It didn’t take long after Linus was forced out of the project for being white for the project to turn anti-white. At this point, Linux is even more anti-white than Apple or Windows. The Register :…
Counting votes should be a simple process, but the Democrat Party wants to make it as complex and difficult as possible. Democrats are raising concerns that next weekend’s caucuses in Nevada could be another disaster in the making. Like with Iowa, the state party is…
The age of droids is coming faster and faster. While most of our attention is focused on industrial robots used to replace human workers, various companies are still working on robotic companions for humans. At the recent CES fair, Samsung has shown some of what…
Humans in general have a hard time guessing the gender of blacks. Teaching artificial intelligence systems how to tell if blacks are male or female just by looking at their faces has proved to be quite a challenge. AFP : Facial recognition systems can produce…
Blood can tell you lots of things if you have the means to listen. Japan Today : Toshiba Corp said Monday it has developed a technology to detect 13 types of cancer from a single drop of blood with 99 percent accuracy . Toshiba, which…
If deepfakes became popular and widely known, people would start distrusting video, and the overlords don’t want people to stop trusting what they see displayed on screens. Now their move appears to be “but we’ll be able to detect the fakes and tell you what…
Next step: eye-controlled turret. Daily Mail : This is the action packed moment a British inventor successfully mounts an airsoft gun to a jet pack and sets it to fire in whichever direction he looks . The Iron Man-esque jet suit was created by maverick…
