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 …
Networking everywhere!
Do you think that the “internet of bodies” is a fantastic and far-fetched idea-for-the-future? You’re wrong! Look at how many hands wear smart watches: they record various kinds of personal …
Open sesame!
Some people thought that by wearing surgical masks they become unrecognizable. Maybe even invisible. To their friends maybe. But not to biometric technologies! The well-known Japanese NEC group developed and …
The filing
“It’s not what you think, my love”… The digital certificate, the “health passport” and the (health) apartheid are neither a digital certificate, nor a “passport”, nor apartheid. So what are …
It falls into the police!
Are you (we are) tired / from the hammering of the hygiene terror campaign? The demagogues say it and say it again… Did they get caught by kindness, sensitivity, compassion? …
Smart Policing…
The report is titled From this summer 1,000 portable devices of ELAS will scan citizens’ faces during patrols; signed by Korina Petridi; date January 28, 2021; from the site “reporters …
“Biometrics”
When one “locks and unlocks” one’s mobile phone with one’s finger feels safe… isn’t that right? That if it is lost or stolen it will not be able to be …
From small…
It’s a tiny, microscopic principality; its area is just a little more than 1/20 of Athens. A population of barely 40,000. Yet it has a capital called Vaduz. It’s mountainous, …
DIYbio: self-improvement in the 21st century
One would assume that biohackers are a marginal cosmopolitan phenomenon, some “geeks” here and there. Indeed, numerically speaking, biohackers may be few in number, for now. Ideologically, however, biohacking indicates …
portable, wearable, subcutaneous: the body as a motherboard
When the Swedish Epicenter (“incubator / greenhouse” for more than 100 startups in Stockholm) began planting passive microchips (RFID: Radio Frequency IDentification) in its employees at the beginning of 2017, …