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 …
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” …
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 …
Consumer mores
An easy, fast and “pleasant” way to get acquainted with biometric data is to employ it for consumption. There is already a past in changing simple daily practices, such as …
From Fallujah to L.A.
Palantir is one of those (american) companies that does not want to attract attention. Its job is to build not just surveillance systems but, among other things, upgraded “crime prediction” …
In how many shots did you play today?
There is a serious (to scary) side to the issue. But there is also the more comical one. The fact that only one european and one american city (London and …
Behind the tweets, the hyenas yawn
… The senior Twitter executive with editorial responsibility for the Middle East is also a part-time officer in the British Army’s psychological warfare unit. Gordon MacMillan, who joined the social …
Your robotic friend
Physiognomists will hang up their boots! If 600 different facial expressions can be engineered in the year 2019, then in 2029 (it is not even in a century, eh?!) how will we distinguish who is who?
Database States
There is now an epidemic of live facial recognition surveillance in the u.k. The fusion of the police and private companies about the construction of these surveillance networks in public …
no libra
Zuckerberg prepares a “cryptocurrency”. To be exact, mr facebook is a kind of “technological front” for the creation of a digital currency by a number of private companies. Unlike bitcoin …
5G
In a rather unexpected development of the affair / spectacle “Huawei and how to stop it”, its founder and owner, Ren Zhengfei, announced 3 days ago in an interview with …
communications as a weapon
Researcher Yasha Levine recently discovered a 40-page brochure from 1944 in the public library of New York, a Western Electric edition, which was then the telephone monopoly in the USA. …