Public order above all

At the beginning of last December, the Australian parliament passed a law requiring telecommunications companies to provide the security apparatus (police, intelligence services, etc.) with access to encrypted information; in …

Dragonfly

In Greek, this harmless (but impressive) insect is called a dragonfly. In English, it’s called a dragonfly. This name was given by Google engineers to a search engine (on Android) …

Deep fakes

If you have been alarmed (or angered) by how easily “fake news” spreads through social media networks, hold on to your seat. Technological advances in managing moving images, combined with …

Monitoring details

It’s not just “facial recognition” from a distance that captures the interest of law enforcement mechanisms (and perhaps others). With the title “Eyes in the sky: real-time surveillance system via …

Live tests

It is the largest open-air prison in the world, yet there is no reason for it to be left out of technological developments! The Gaza Strip—meaning its Palestinian captives—is a …

Eyes on the back!

It is called “intelligent classroom behavior management system”. And it is – strangely enough – an experimental application that was implemented in a Chinese high school. A camera with facial …

Drones

The flying machines of the big brother! For the police, they are the ideal complement to the generalized surveillance, but for a photographer they become the wedding videography tool and …

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 …