Having a real-estate agency send employees to accompany clients (prospective buyers) to every single property they simply want to look at (until, after seeing enough, they decide they want to …
“I can read your thoughts”…
Zuckerberg and Musk impersonate the “Knights of the Apocalypse”: among other things, they invest in the “interface” between human neurons and machines. But they are, in essence, the advertisers of …
Not much freedom
The existence of “likes” on social media may not be beneficial. Its inventors, of course, had the good in mind. The ability of users to express their (positive) taste; or, …
the digital (and not so much) fronts of the fourth world war: the example of Israel
A characterization consistently attributed to the fourth world war, even by those who refuse to recognize it as such, is that of hybrid war. Hybrid, because orthodox and unorthodox methods …
When free software drops bombs… literally!
One of the most persistent myths that techno-fetishism maintains around new technologies has to do with so-called “free software” and “open source software”. The words “free” and “open” create connotations, …
the castration of flies
An important discovery is set to provide new possibilities in dealing with the Mediterranean fruit fly and the olive fruit fly, two insects that are particularly harmful to crops. After …
The insomnia of the mine
We can not verify the accuracy of this table. But it has a value. It shows that what in everyday life is meant as “personal” and “unique” is simply a …
the racist origins of the American high-tech industry
How the tools built for the U.S. census fueled the Nazi genocide, concentration camps, and state racism—and helped launch the digital age. On a frozen December day in 1896, an …
Dude, you trod on me!
The russian-made android robot Fedor is not the first automaton to be found on the International Space Station (ISS). But it is the first one that emitted a “distress signal” …
the ideological management of climate change
“In the event that intense climate change phenomena occur, that is, an average global temperature increase of 2.6 degrees Celsius by 2040, then large-scale non-linear environmental events will cause large-scale …
Look at these mugs!
Why has an application become so popular that we have to wonder about the mental state of the subjugated? The well-known “FaceApp” (of the russian wireless lab) has been available …
neurobehavioral signals: “health” instead of “defense”
The proposal is fitting for its time: by collecting personal data from various sources, suitable algorithms can make a “psychiatric diagnosis” – enough to identify potential mass killers… In the …
- Page 1 of 2
- 1
- 2