‘Technology - Future Trends’ Archives
Face recognition software may reveal one’s social security number
Homeland Security Newswire | August 3, 2011 Researchers demonstrate ability to predict social security numbers from people’s faces; “When we share tagged photos of ourselves online, it becomes possible for others to link our face to our names in situations where [Read More]
Hamburg rejects Facebook facial recognition
FT | August 2, 2011 By Maija Palmer The Hamburg data protection authority on Tuesday ruled that Facebook’s facial recognition feature, which attempts to identify people in photos uploaded to the site, violates German privacy laws. Johannes Caspar, the head of the [Read More]
Dragonfly drones and cyborg moths: Tiny flying robots set to be the future of spying and rescue missions
Daily Mail | August 1, 2011 The next generation of military robots is set to be based on designs inspired by the insect world. The dragonfly drones and cyborg moths, with in-built micro-cameras, could revolutionise spying missions and rescue operations. The advantage of [Read More]
Father of cryonics movement dies at 92, frozen in hopes of resurrection
The Telegraph | July 24, 2011 Ettinger preferred to style himself an “immortalist”, since he argued that whole body or head-only freezing (“neurological suspension”) was only one means of achieving indefinite life. His rationale for pursuing this [Read More]
Caltech Researchers Create the First Artificial Neural Network Out of DNA
Caltech | July 20, 2011 PASADENA, Calif.—Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now taken a [Read More]
Genetic Armageddon: Humanity’s Greatest Threat
AlexJonesChannel | July 27, 2011 A Secret That Can Destroy Us… Pandora’s Box has surely been opened. A dangerous genetic experiment has come out of the shadows, and the human-animal hybrids, chimeras and other transgenic clones has produced now threaten to [Read More]
NSA Admits It Tracks Americans Via Cell Phones
Prisonplanet | July 25, 2011 By Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson The general counsel of the National Security Agency testified to a Senate hearing yesterday that he believes the agency has the authority to track Americans via cell phones. “There are certain [Read More]
Innocent people’s DNA profiles won’t be deleted after all, minister admits
The Telegraph | July 26, 2011 By Christopher Hope, and Robert Winnett Instead the police will retain DNA profiles in anonymised form, leaving open the possibility of connecting them up with people’s names, ministers have admitted. The admission appears to break a [Read More]
How to Hack a Genome
Biopolitical Times | July 20, 2011 By Pete Shanks George Church and 15 co-authors last week published a paper in Science that represents a potentially important step in the direction of massively altering genomes. To use a word-processing metaphor, they did a [Read More]
CIA’s DARPA working on human-brain-mimicking tech
The Register | July 14, 2011 By Lewis Page The company which built the first ever internet nodes back in the 1960s – and which gave the world the “@” symbol in email, among other things – has been hired by the US intelligence community to work on technology [Read More]
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