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01/31/2018 / By David Williams

Smart contact lenses could serve as window to the future and offer Augmented Reality applications

If you thought that the pinnacle of contact lens technology has already been reached, think again. A group of researchers from South Korea has now shown — through a new paper published recently in the journal Science Advances— that it may be possible to bestow simple augmented reality (AR) functionality and other neat little tricks […]

01/31/2018 / By David Williams

Andrew Keen: Mark Zuckerberg’s latest effort at making Facebook better is like “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic”

It’s quite clear that there will always be room for social media in people’s lives. What’s not clear is whether or not the current crop of social media sites will be around much longer. Andrew Keen, a British-American author and entrepreneur, has called out the biggest one of all: Facebook. In an interview with Recode.net, […]

01/29/2018 / By David Williams

Study finds Minority Report-style AI used by courts for the last 20 years to predict criminal repeat offenders is no more accurate than untrained people guessing

A new research paper, which studies the effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) in determining the likelihood of a convicted felon committing a crime, shows quite clearly that the software-based solutions available might not be so intelligent after all. To be more specific, research shows that dedicated AI programs designed to make certain risk calculations about […]

01/24/2018 / By David Williams

Black Mirror-style digital afterlife could become real much sooner than you expect, experts say

While it may be impossible to create a fully-working and self-aware digital version of yourself with current technology, you are most likely — and unknowingly — creating all of the necessary ingredients for it simply through the use of your various digital devices. Unless you have very little or no access to phones, computers, and […]

01/24/2018 / By David Williams

Entire generation may never leave the bedroom when VR porn hits mainstream, expert warns

Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to become many things as the technology behind it becomes more and more advanced. With greater processing power in computers, it’s possible to render more realistic graphics for next-generation games. The number of VR gaming enthusiasts has grown steadily over the last couple of years, and now many people […]

01/23/2018 / By David Williams

U.S. Department of Energy finally decides to develop quantum computers after years of delay and avoidance

There can be only one winner in the battle for “quantum supremacy.” And the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has now, finally, made moves to ensure that it becomes that special one. According to a recent report on ScienceMag, the DOE has joined the quest to develop quantum computers in a bit to solve the […]

01/22/2018 / By David Williams

Bitcoin warning from billionaire Warren Buffett: Cryptocurrencies are a toxic bubble that will most likely ”come to a bad ending”

Billionaire investor and all-around financial genius Warren Buffett has once again shared his thoughts on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. To no one’s surprise, he still doesn’t care for them, not one bit. In a recent interview with CNBC, Buffett does his best to make it absolutely clear that he doesn’t see a good outcome for […]

01/17/2018 / By David Williams

Chinese dating app revealed to be filled with robots instead of real women, ordered to shut down

While online dating is known to be highly lucrative, it is also open to many pitfalls, most of which involve the loss of both time and money for its most active users. The most recent example can be found in China, where a report said that a total of 12 different Chinese dating apps had […]

01/02/2018 / By David Williams

Facebook’s internal filter failed to catch political ads that were actually malware and scams: report

Facebook has been shown to have a propensity to remove, hide, or outright ban content that it doesn’t find acceptable for its pages. But it’s not uncommon to find stuff that’s not supposed to be on the site from time to time. Case in point: a political ad that first appeared on Facebook back in […]

01/01/2018 / By David Williams

“Big Data” police-state surveillance the new norm: Information from multiple sources (on any citizen) now being combined to generate a “criminal risk assessment algorithm”

The emergence of “big data” has been quite the revelation for many different industries. Whereas information used to be sparse and relatively hard to obtain, now it is available in such large quantities that specialized equipment and algorithms are needed to process them. The police industry is just one of the many industries that are […]

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