Artificial intelligence

U.S. 10/11/21, 18:05

Faced with the seemingly slow development of Artificial Intelligence [AI] in the United States that would endanger the nation, former Pentagon software chief Nick Chaillan found no other recourse but to resign from his post in protest and warning.  Chaillan believes that his country has lost its leadership to the Chinese ...

U.S. 10/02/21, 02:17

Amazon announced a new "home robot" with facial recognition technology, which can patrol the house and, according to the company, serve families as a kind of "butler." Although many critics claim that the device is fragile and would represent a danger to privacy. Amazon presented Astro, the intelligent robot, during its ...

U.S. 09/07/21, 18:59

One of the world's biggest internet companies went back to the drawing board after highly advanced technology failed to tell the difference between African Americans and wild animals. The Daily Mail shared a video of a verbal and physical conflict between multiple black men, a white male, and police on June ...

Europe 07/20/21, 19:46

As internet corporations like Facebook experiment with "brain-reading" technology, Klaus Schwab predicts brain microchips are fast becoming a reality. The Great Reset leader and World Economic Forum executive chairman, predicts Big Tech firms will increasingly pursue implanted microchips and other "transhumanist" technologies. A recently uncovered 2016 video interview with Swiss broadcaster RTS ...

World 07/09/21, 19:27

A Reuters investigation has revealed that a Chinese genetics company, funded by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has developed a pregnancy test, which is being used to collect genetic data on millions of pregnant women worldwide.  According to the report, Genomics Institute (BGI) is the company that, in conjunction with the ...

U.S. 07/02/21, 17:32

Americans may have believed that physical markets were protected from tracking by Big Tech. However, Amazon is now watching customers while they purchase at regular markets. Amazon just built its first full-size Amazon Fresh grocery shop in Seattle, complete with “Just Walk Out” technology and checkout choices. Customers may "just walk ...

Asia & Pacific 05/30/21, 16:23

A United Nations report published in March of this year details a 2020 incident in Libya where a 'killer drone' self-activated to hunt a human target without prior command from a person during an armed conflict between the military and a group of civilians. According to the British news outlet The ...

World 04/21/21, 18:18

In a truly bizarre video, an artificially intelligent adult doll bashes humanity by criticizing its existence and ineptitude, promising to take over the Earth after humans destroy themselves while urging them to stop imagining that there is a deity that can save them. In the two-and-a-half-minute video uploaded by NewsFlare.com, an ...

United Kingdom 03/30/21, 04:00

The UK government is investing in technology companies developing automated verification to prove whether people are vaccinated and enable or disallow them entry to bars, stadiums, and other public locations. It is being suggested that the technology solves the problem that displaying vaccination records on a mobile application would be too ...

Culture 01/14/21, 15:54

The repression directed against the Uighur Muslim minority by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has reached a new stage after Chinese technological giants register patents to detect, track, and monitor Uighurs. In contrast, fears about the repression against such minorities increase. According to the BBC, Huawei's patent was originally filed in ...

News 12/23/20, 16:12

Google requires its scientists to refer to "sensitive subjects," such as the damage that technology can cause by adjusting to its parameters, where negative references must be avoided. These regulations are derived from internal communications and interviews with researchers involved in the work, according to Reuters of Dec. 23. Before addressing issues ...

News 08/27/20, 15:16

The Trump administration announced that it will invest more than $1 billion in quantum institutes and artificial intelligence (AI) to technologically support economic development and national security. Parallel to AI, work will be done on quantum information science (QIS), 5G Internet communications, and other related emerging technologies, the U.S. Office of ...

Politics 06/13/19, 20:01

Lawmakers and experts are warning that videos altered with artificial intelligence software pose a threat to national security and the 2020 U.S. election. The technology uses facial mapping and artificial intelligence to produce videos — known as "deep fakes" — that appear genuine. The House Intelligence Committee chairman says it allows "malicious ...

Tech 06/12/19, 20:30

Three weeks after Facebook refused to remove a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurring her words, Mark Zuckerberg is getting a taste of his own medicine: fake footage showing him gloating over his one-man domination of the world. It's the latest flap over deviously altered "deepfake" videos as Facebook ...

Tech 05/27/19, 21:30

Exhibitors at Computex - Asia's largest tech show - are expected to show how ordinary devices can use artificial intelligence

Tech 05/18/19, 04:00

Turning dust into DNA allows scientists to become detectives in tracing the movement of objects

Tech 05/08/19, 02:09

Google announced new privacy tools Tuesday intended to give people more control over how they're being tracked on the go or in their own home, part of a broader effort by big tech companies to counter increasing scrutiny of their data collection practices..Trouble is, few experts appear ready to celebrate ...

Tech 05/06/19, 23:50

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is expected to showcase much-anticipated updates to the company's hardware lines and artificial intelligence Tuesday during his keynote at the company's annual I/O conference for software developers.Google will also likely address privacy updates as concerns about data sharing continue to plague the tech industry. Facebook dedicated ...

Business 05/06/19, 20:29

When Google launched its now distinctive digital assistant in 2016, it was already in danger of being an also-ran.At the time, Amazon had been selling its Echo smart speaker, powered by its Alexa voice assistant, for more than a year . Apple's Siri was already five years old and familiar ...

Entertainment 04/23/19, 09:40

Ian McEwan is fascinated by artificial intelligence.A central character in the British writer's new novel, "Machines Like Me," is a lifelike android with access to all human knowledge who writes haiku poetry.The book, published in the U.S. on Tuesday by Doubleday, looks at the messy relationship between human minds and ...