News & Articles By Frances Bloomfield
09/14/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield
Watch out: Your gadgets are smarter than you are, and it’s moving you down the food chain
Watch out: Your gadgets are smarter than you are, and it may be endangering you. We human beings have always fancied ourselves as the apex organisms of this planet. Going by our accomplishments in technology, infrastructure, and the like, it certainly seemed to have been that way for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. We’ve […]
08/23/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield
Google now banning SCIENTISTS and statisticians as the search engine’s war on truth ramps up
On the afternoon of Aug. 19, 2017, East Coast Time, statistics professor Salil Mehta discovered that he had been banned by Google. As reported by ZeroHedge.com, this entailed having all of his Google-linked accounts erased and rendered inaccessible, from his e-mail to his blog to all of his Google-hosted university pages. This came as a […]
07/28/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield
Experts warn robots are growing in consciousness and should be classified as an “invasive species”
Should humanity become extinct in the immediate future, it won’t be by our own hands or through the wrath of nature. A number of experts has claimed that our demise shall be brought on by super-strong robots. What was once created to make our lives easier could very well “threaten our existence” in the span […]
07/28/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield
Hundreds of teens are committing suicide because they’re told to do so in sickening Blue Whale Challenge
A spate of teen suicides going as far back as 2015 has been linked to the Russian Internet game, the Blue Whale Challenge. According to WND.com, the social media game has caused the suicide deaths of hundreds of teenagers the world over. Of those deaths, at least 130 have occurred in Russia alone, with the […]
07/20/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield
Coming soon: Cyborg dragonfly drone spies
The next step in drone technology has been realized: scientists from the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge in England have found a way to turn living insects into drones. The DragonflEye, a genetically-modified half-machine, half-insect dragonfly, is the result of their collaborative efforts with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Together, the team of […]
07/14/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield
Beat that traffic ticket with the help of the world’s first robot lawyer
Beginning July 12, 2017, the first robot lawyer in the world will be providing free legal counsel across the entire United States. The countrywide availability of the advice-dispensing chatbot follows hot on the heels of its success in Seattle, New York, and the United Kingdom, its country of origin. In those areas, it’s helped overturn […]
07/06/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield
The “cocaine” of technology just turned 10… here’s why we shouldn’t celebrate
On June 29, 2017, the iPhone turned 10 years old. Since it was first launched over a decade ago, the iPhone user base has reached over 700 million; that’s 700 million units being used by almost the same amount of people who can’t bear to put their iPhone down nor look away for a second. […]
06/21/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield
FAKEBOOK: Facebook caught sponsoring hoax advertisements… again
With false stories becoming easier to spread across social media, Facebook has sworn to tackle the problem the head on. Despite this, fake adverts plastered with famous public figures continue to proliferate the site, with one egregious case inviting users to read on the supposed death of Queen Elizabeth II. The enduring prevalence of such […]
06/05/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield
One with the machines: Man has compass implanted into his chest, becomes a cyborg
The possibility of man becoming one with machines is terrifying to some, but not to Daniil Lyktin. The 26-year old programmer from Novosibirsk firmly believes that electronic modifications will become a sixth sense in humans someday. Rather than waiting for that day to come, however, Lyktin has moved towards it himself, as demonstrated by the […]
06/04/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield
Doctor wants children BANNED from Instagram because of its effects on their mental health
“There’s no escaping it,” wrote psychiatrist and journalist Dr. Max Pemberton. “Instagram promotes feelings of inadequacy and anxiety, and should be banned for children under the age of 18.” Those were the words Pemberton chose to end his tirade against social media giant Instagram. Not one to mince his words, the doctor called the site […]
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