If you think that this tractor-like-rubber object among the (Chinese) policemen has been arrested, you are mistaken. It is their newest tech-colleague! The police robot (built by Zhejiang University) was …
life at the butcher’s counter
After years of confrontations and interstate disagreements, the majority of member states of the “assembly” of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (Convention on Biodiversity / COB) adopted [last November] …
Hunting cloned sheep and other postmodern biotechnological absurdities
Sheep have been domesticated for about 12,000 years. Sheep have also been cloned since 1996 – Dolly was the first mammal to undergo this procedure. But this news appeared in …
the devil’s deal: usa, japan and biological warfare weapons
The Soviet Union had publicized the fact that Japan’s microbial warfare unit in World War II, Unit 731, had used American prisoners of war as experimental subjects. But the United …
Symmetrical life
Those who worship modern technology, the most capitalist kind, will increasingly struggle to keep up with it; yet they will only consume its dust. One of the most recent “achievements” …
at the factories of artificial intelligence
We have every right to sleepor maybe not?think about it if sleep belonged to the statethings would be difficultwould we buy sleep with a voucher? or freely? and how much?and …
To arms, to arms!!!
The stock market “value” hype of various american “giants” related to so-called AI has just intensified (across most of the planet) enthusiasm for the chinese deepseek, you know. Stock market …
the president and the cryptocurrency: playing hide and seek behind algorithms
Mythologized both positively and negatively, the American president Trump (henceforth referred to as: stinky weed…) has ensured that he will attract attention all the more intensely the more he shows …
Science; Of whom;
When in 1942, during the Second World War, a good portion of the Western physicists’ elite gathered in the US to transform their until-then theoretical knowledge and ideas into something …
Rewards…
It had a somewhat loose form (it was, after all, a trial…) but a fairly tight grasp: if you behave in an environmentally friendly way, then you will be rewarded. …
token: the capitalism of representations
…A cryptocurrency coin is simply a digital currency, created to facilitate payments. Coins are created to function as money, in other words, they represent a unit of account, a store …
Free “punishments”
The amount, 1.4 billion dollars, may seem large. But it is insignificant: just 1/10 of the company’s profits in the second quarter of 2024… Consequently, Meta Platforms (reminder: the parent …