Archive for the 'Technology' Category
The One About Screen Time Not Harming Children
February 3rd, 2019And now, tobacco industry grade nonsense is being used to justify the insanity around screen time and children. “…little or no support for harmful links between digital screen use and young people’s psychological well-being.” Well-being. *snort* See what they did there? Try looking at language acquisition or physical development and screen time. The Actual Effects […]
One Of The Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working With The FBI
February 1st, 2019Via: Buzzfeed: Family Tree DNA, one of the largest private genetic testing companies whose home-testing kits enable people to trace their ancestry and locate relatives, is working with the FBI and allowing agents to search its vast genealogy database in an effort to solve violent crime cases, BuzzFeed News has learned. Federal and local law […]
Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries
February 1st, 2019Via: Reuters: Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014, Lori Stroud was in the Middle East working as a hacker for an Arab monarchy. She had joined Project Raven, a clandestine team that included more than a dozen former U.S. intelligence operatives recruited to […]
New Type of 3D Printer Creates an Entire Object at Once
February 1st, 2019Via: Nature: Rather ?than building objects layer by layer, the printer creates whole structures by projecting light into a resin that solidifies. They nicknamed it ‘the replicator’ — in homage to the machines in the Star Trek saga that can materialize virtually any inanimate object. Researchers have unveiled a 3D printer that creates an entire […]
New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People
February 1st, 2019Via: The Optical Society of America: Researchers have demonstrated that a laser can transmit an audible message to a person without any type of receiver equipment. The ability to send highly targeted audio signals over the air could be used to communicate across noisy rooms or warn individuals of a dangerous situation such as an […]
Google Manipulates Users Into Constant Tracking
February 1st, 2019Via: Forbrukerrådet: Google tracks users through “Location History” and “Web & App Activity”, which are settings integrated into all Google accounts. For users of mobile phones with Android, such as Samsung and Huawei phones, this tracking is particularly difficult to avoid. – Google is processing incredibly detailed and extensive personal data without proper legal grounds, […]
The Half Tesla, Half Honda, 100% Electric Hot Rod: Teslonda
January 31st, 2019Via: Vice:
Prisons Across the U.S. Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints
January 31st, 2019Via: The Intercept: In New York and other states across the country, authorities are acquiring technology to extract and digitize the voices of incarcerated people into unique biometric signatures, known as voice prints. Prison authorities have quietly enrolled hundreds of thousands of incarcerated people’s voice prints into large-scale biometric databases. Computer algorithms then draw on […]
Schools Are Locking Students’ Phones Away to Help With Concentration
January 31st, 2019Via: Fortune: Students at a California high school are getting less screen time since the school implemented a ban on cellphone use during the school day. After one teacher at San Lorenzo High School brought pouches, created by the tech start-up Yondr, into her classroom to lock away students’ phones, the entire school began using […]
Jennifer Buscemi Deepfake
January 30th, 2019Via: The Daily Dot: While the nation grapples with concerns over the spread of inaccurate and deceptive information online, deepfakes—videos in which an individual’s face is superimposed onto another—continue to advance at a quickening pace. Now, the new ones are downright terrifying. Also, here is the original video, which was created by @Villain_Guy https://t.co/LrzDLKJVet — […]
