much more than you think… “The goal of this new regulation is to give citizens back control over their personal data and to simplify the relevant regulatory environment for businesses. …
Death is inevitable (for cyborgs and humans)
4 February 2018, Austin, Texas, final day of the annual BDYXAX summit (Human Augmentation, Transhumanism, and Biohacking conference). A canonical rendezvous for biohacking believers and advocates of “post-humanism.” On stage …
Robotic justice
In 2013, the state of Michigan replaced the 25-year-old computerized system of the unemployment insurance agency (equivalent to OAED in Greece) with a modern automated system called MiDAS (Michigan Integrated …
Αway from bad thoughts!
While some researchers are looking for what will, after all, eventually allow techno-science to help those taking exams to “remember all the material” (p. 56), others want to provide social …
cyber warfare exercise
Killer robots are not only iron machines with lethal specifications, but also ethereal entities on the internet. Bots (a “pet-name” abbreviation of robot) are robotic programs – software robot devices …
Electric memories
A group of researchers from the University of Southern California and the Wake Forest School of Medicine announced that they experimentally confirmed the positive contribution of electrode implantation in the …
Metabolism?
“Metamaterials” are artificial materials with not only a designed composition but also a designed molecular structure. As such, they display behaviors that are completely unknown (at least to common experience), …
Artificial mice
No, however, from what you thought! Biomedical engineers from Duke University in North Carolina announced via a paper in Nature that they created (for the first time) functional human muscle …
Dopamine
The “scientific” approach analyzes it as follows: Thanks to neuroscience, we are beginning to understand that achieving a goal or receiving a reward because one has completed a task can …
the spectrum of control: a social theory for the smart city
What is a “smart city”? The sum of various “smart” devices and applications? Or the technological shaping of a large-scale unified and controllable “shell” for social relations, which composes technology …
Police glasses
What Google didn’t achieve with its “glasses,” the Chinese state will achieve – by putting the glasses on the American “giant.” Because being able to monitor each other so openly …
the invasion of killer robots
A microscopic quadcopter with a diameter of just three centimeters can carry one to two grams of explosive material. You can easily order as many as you want from various …