President Trump said today that Oracle Corp is a “good company” and could take over popular mega-app TikTok’s operations in the United States.
The remarks came after Oracle officially joined the bidding contest for the app’s business in North …
Continue ReadingResearchers at the University of Delaware have developed a new “cyborg-like technology” that will allow electronic devices to merge with human tissue without causing scarring that impedes health monitoring.
Professor David Martin, the group’s head researcher, said the idea came …
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The county of Lincolnshire in the UK has received funding to test pilot new surveillance technology that can search for and identify people wearing hats or glasses, among other characteristics.
The technology can also identify certain moods and facial …
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Facebook has announced it will begin censoring posts that make reference to Jewish global control.
The idea reportedly came up a year ago in a meeting with several Jewish groups convened by Facebook, and was pushed by the World …
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A bald eagle attacked a Phantom 4 Pro Advanced quodcopter drone, Michigan state officials said yesterday, sending it crashing to Lake Michigan below. The incident took place on July 21, officials said.
The eagle attacked the machine, “tearing off …
Continue ReadingChipmaker Qualcomm is lobbying the U.S. government to revoke restrictions on the sale of technology components to Huawei. The Chinese telecomm giant was blacklisted by the United Sates last year because of what the administration deemed to be national …
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A Reuters investigation has found that the Rite Aid pharmacy chain deployed facial recognition systems to 200 stores across the country over a period of about eight years. It was one of the largest rollouts of such technology in the …
Continue Readingfacebook actively protects child predators#savethechildren pic.twitter.com/2gRdcvNjTu
— Amber – BLACK LIVES MATTER (@AmberIsAQT) August 6, 2020
Social media giant Facebook temporarily blocked posts that included the hashtag #savethechildren for several hours that lasted from Wednesday night into the early …
Data collected from our smartphones is being used to score us on a variety of things from creditworthiness to driving style.
The analysis can have real-life impacts.
Auto insurers can raise premiums on individuals based on information from smartphone apps …
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Starting August 11, the city-state of Singapore will require incoming travelers to wear electronic monitoring devices in an effort to enforce Covid19 quarantines.
The requirement, which covers both citizens and visitors, will allow individuals to quarantine in their homes as …
Continue ReadingBill Binney, the former Technical Director of the National Security Agency, in a lengthy press conference, lays out evidence he says shows Russia could not have been behind the hacks of the Democratic National Committee in 2016.
Binney points …
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In a curious comments with Bloomberg, Simon Potter, who led the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s markets group and Julia Coronado, who spent eight years as an economist for the Fed’s Board of Governors, forecasted an official, separate …
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As the nation’s “coin shortage” continues it’s becoming clearer that powerful forces are trying to end paper (and metal) currency to completely digitize the economy.
Your digital representation is quickly becoming your complete representation: What you can post on social …
Continue ReadingA top Google executive wrote in a blog post on Friday that 20 U.S. states (covering approximately 45% of the country’s population) are “exploring” using new Google contact-tracing technology in the fight against Covid19.
Google has partnered with Apple …
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A new energy-efficient microchip currently being developed could revolutionize America’s defense technology.
Tachyum, a Silicon Valley semiconductor startup, says it’s breakthrough, a microchip called Prodigy, combines 3 types of chips into one: a central processing unit, a graphics processing …
Continue ReadingThe Ford Motor Company is set to phase out traditional human surveyors for their plants, opting instead to user robot dogs to laser map production plants.
Ford partnered with Boston Dynamics to use one such “dog,” nicknamed Fluffy, to digitally …
Continue ReadingIn an effort to salvage the company’s business, TikTok parent company ByteDance is pursuing a deal that would see the Beijing-based company relinquish 100% control of the app to U.S. tech giant Microsoft.
President Trump told reporters his administration …
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