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 …
Police glasses
What Google didn’t achieve with its “glasses,” the Chinese state will achieve – by putting the glasses on the American “giant.” Because being able to monitor each other so openly …
Unchain my heart, baby let me go!
Pacemaker: a small medical device implanted under the skin (or, if it’s the latest model, inside the heart) in a cardiac patient, whose mission is to send rhythmic electrical signals …
Public order and safety
The technology festival in Hanover is one of the largest in the world. And probably the largest in Europe. It plays the role that the legendary “Great Exhibition of the …
the great panoptic is (now) also esoptic
“Every time someone uses Google’s services, they participate in at least a dozen experiments.” This statement was made in 2012 by Google’s chief economist during a conference organized by the …
Web footprints
Those who believe that cyberspace is the great opportunity to “disappear” (hiding their identity) are sorely mistaken. The conscription of providers (i.e., the data of their customers) is a well-known …