Ubiquitous, mobile supercomputing. Artificially-intelligent robots. Self-driving cars. Self-driving cars. Genetic editing. The evidence of dramatic change is all around us and it’s happening at exponential speed. Previous industrial revolutions liberated humankind from animal power, made mass production possible and brought digital capabilities to billions of people. This Fourth […]
US Military chiefs have been ordered to reveal whether they used diseased TICKS in sick biological warfare experiments. A bill passed in the House of Representatives requires the Pentagon to investigate whether researches infected the insects in the 1970s – and if any were let loose. It comes after […]
What has 90 Advocacy Groups screaming to the Tech Titans of Google, Amazon and Microsoft to ‘not sell this’ to the U.S. Government or they will use it to exploit us all. It is racist, it is discriminatory it is an Orwellian device beyond any measure. Once released […]
This is how blockchain and tokens will be used in the very near future. How will you avoid this? Not travel??? This is coming soon.
A US military program dubbed ‘Insect Allies’ could be used as a biological weapon, a group of European scientists warns. The Pentagon’s research arm claims they are intended to defend crops, but doesn’t deny ‘dual-use’ potential. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and the University […]
Artificial human reproduction appears to be on the horizon with Japanese scientists’ claim to have created immature human eggs from stem cells, but the technique could result in power that would cross the bounds of ethics and serve as a “profound violation” of marriage and marital love, a […]
Prepared sashimi products are where you’re likely to find genetically modified salmon, the CEO of AquaBounty Technologies, a Massachusetts-based biotechnology company that produces the fish, told investors, but they won’t say who they’re selling to. Aquaculture, once a fledgling industry, now accounts for 50 percent of the fish consumed […]
TERRORISTS could weaponise highly infectious diseases to infect civilian populations across borders “very quickly”, an expert has revealed to Daily Star Online. Black Death plague cases return in potentially large outbreak. The warning comes as the US published its new bio-defence policy in an attempt to protect against […]
New technologies are helping to tackle one of the great scourges of air travel – airport queues. But at what cost to our privacy? Queues to check-in and drop your bags, at security, at passport control and finally queues at your boarding gate. Air travel can be a frustrating business, […]
NEW DELHI—India’s highest court ruled that the world’s largest biometric identification database doesn’t infringe on citizens’ privacy rights—but needs some new limitations. The country’s controversial Aadhaar program uses photos, finger and eye scans and has already signed up more than 1 billion people. It has sparked an intense global […]
