Nightingale project: why did Google collect millions of medical data?
Nightingale project: Google has secretly collected millions of medical and sensitive data, including full names and birth dates. To do what? Is it legal?
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The future is an omniscient eye that traces every object on Earth
Companies point to a database that tracks virtually every terrestrial object in real time. An omniscient eye from which nothing escapes.
What will happen next decade? 11 predictions about the future
In summary, the 20s will present a mix of very good, very bad and very strange things: here are 11 predictions about the future of the next decade.
A smart city in the forest, surrounded by 7 million trees
Architect Stefano Boeri creates a Smart City project that can become a paradigm of the techno-ecological communities of the future.
Japanese hotel in trouble: the robots hacked into the rooms spied on the guests
Robot at reception, robot on bedside table, no humans around. There's a lot of privacy in this Japanese hotel, isn't there? Mistake.
Brain fusing with AI will be like doing plastic surgery for intelligence
Electrodes that enhance the brain will soon be like "plastic surgery of intelligence" and will allow us to obtain cybernetic powers: in fact we will be cyborgs, scientists will implant artificial intelligence directly into our heads. Today, electrodes that deliver impulses to the brain are able to stabilize patients with seizures: the results are surprisingly promising. Soon the brain-computer interface will allow radical treatments even for psychological disorders such as depression. Raising the mind Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, couple at work and in life… Read more
Piaggio returns to the future with the Gita cargo robot
Gita is a spherical robot that can be considered an "intelligent mobile luggage": it transports up to 20kg of personal effects following the owner.
Facebook Horizon, and the virtual world is served
CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced the construction of Facebook Horizon, his VR universe. The launch is expected by the first quarter of 2020.
500 megapixels: super camera captures thousands of people with one shot
The 500-megapixel super camera has five times the resolution of the human eye and can capture extremely detailed images.
How to protect your iPhones
Here is how we can take some steps to increase the protection of our data on the iPhone and not incur privacy leaks.
In Saudi Arabia the air-conditioning district
In an area of 60 square kilometres, the Al Khobar air conditioning district will offer living, commercial and work areas in a naturally cooler climate.
Operation sympathy, Facebook Cafés open
It's not enough to speed up privacy adjustments. It's Facebook Café time! The first of the Facebook Cafeterias will open in London on August 28th.
Facebook listens and transcribes our conversations
Facebook employees interviewed under the guarantee of anonymity confirmed that they did not know where these conversations were recorded or how.
Facebook finances thought-writing devices
At Menlo Park they say they are ready to present by December a functional and wearable prototype of a device for writing with thoughts
Google quietly invested in cold fusion
The cold fusion experiments had been classified to avoid expectations and repercussions on the image of the Mountain View company. Here's how it went.
Libra, cryptocurrency of a private state towards global domination
The entry into the financial industry of Libra, Facebook's cryptocurrency, is a threat to democracy and world citizens, such as fake news and manipulation
The consequences of Splinternet
The Internet is becoming a patchwork of different webs for each nation. It is a reality, and it will characterize the coming years, whether we like it or not. A very sad circumstance to suffer limits in the only place in the world that virtually had none.
Tell me what voice you have and the AI will tell you who you are
An incredible system based on artificial intelligence describes (already quite well) a person's physical appearance based solely on their voice.
Computers, 2017 begins with viruses and attacks
New year, but old life for computers: 2017 began in the wake of recent months, with a strong incidence of viruses and attacks by computer pirates. But part of the responsibility lies with the users themselves, who often overlook the importance of a secure password. What happens when the laziness of computer users is combined with the "ability" of cyber pirates, capable of creating ever new and more numerous threats? As can be imagined, the final result is the increase in… Read more
To go to the USA you will need our social profiles
Fellow travellers, a passport, visa or a clean criminal record will not be enough. From now on, in fact, those who want to travel to the United States will also have to be analyzed via their glittering social profiles. The US Customs and Border Protection (the agency that controls the American borders) has committed itself to developing a new control system. All those who wish to enter the United States will be asked for information on their online activities. A mechanism to evaluate a rate from one's own utterances... Read more
Telegram expands and launches many new features
The famous instant messaging app #Telegram, which has always been a rival of WhatsApp, is growing and always adding new features within it. Telegram, founded in 2013, today also launches Instant View, the equivalent of Facebook's Instant Articles, and Telegraph, a platform for the rapid (and also anonymous) publication of articles on the web. A sort of anonymous blog open to everyone. Telegram's strong points have been many over the years: completely free, great respect for privacy, some features... Read more
