Unlike biotech tools adapted from nature, the invention was entirely conceived by humans and represents one of the few proteins made from scratch in the lab. Nicoletta Lanese | The Scientist | Source URL Scientists have invented a synthetic protein designed to control the inner workings of cells. In a […]
Alex Herb | The Guardian | Source URL: Apple contractors regularly hear confidential medical information, drug deals, and recordings of couples having sex, as part of their job providing quality control, or “grading”, the company’s Siri voice assistant, the Guardian has learned. Although Apple does not explicitly disclose it in its […]
Arjun Walia | Collective Evolution | Source URL Even to this day, if you tell people there is an ‘invisible government,’ or a shadow government that’s international in scope, they may call you a conspiracy theorist or give you a funny look. This is in large part due to the […]
Daisy Luther | The Organic Prepper | Source URL Just in case we haven’t provided you with enough creepy dystopian news lately, the nation’s leader in Creepy Dystopia, California, has a brand new program. The “Cradle to Career Data System” will study and document everything about a child born in […]
Futurism | Source URL Firing Back In June, Iran’s military shot down one of the U.S. Navy’s $130 million Global Hawk drones, claiming it had veered out of international airspace and into the nation’s territory. Now, the U.S. Navy has returned the favor, using a new directed-energy weapon to disable an Iranian […]
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Andrew Liptak | The Verge | Source URL On Thursday, a US Navy ship in the Persian Gulf reportedly used a new, anti-drone system to take down an Iranian drone that came within a thousand yards, according to Military.com. In a statement, the Department of Defense confirmed that the USS Boxer was […]
James Pero | The Daily Mail | Source URL A police department in Orlando has terminated its trial of Amazon’s AI-powered facial recognition for the second time, citing costs and complexity. According to a report from Orlando Weekly, the department ended its trial of the technology, called Rekognition, after 15 […]
Associated Press | Source URL The woodsy community of Wolcott, Connecticut, doesn’t see a lot of crime. But when the police chief heard about an opportunity to distribute doorbell cameras to some homes, he didn’t hesitate. The police who keep watch over the town of 16,000 raffled off free cameras […]
Sam Blanchard | The Daily Mail | Source URL Deaf people could get ‘almost perfect’ quality hearing from a cochlear implant which deconstructs sounds as it hears them. Researchers are developing a device which they say could significantly improve the quality of what people hear through the hearing aids. In […]
Joe Pinkstone | The Daily Mail | Source URL Pampers has worked with Google’s sister firm to release a ‘smart nappy’ that monitors babies’ sleeping, eating and changing patterns amid growing concerns about privacy. ‘Lumi’ comes with two packs of nappies, two reusable detachable sensors and a WiFi-connected video monitor. The […]
David Szondy | New Atlas | Source URL The UK’s Ministry of Defence has ordered three laser and radio-frequency weapons demonstrators for the country’s Armed Forces. Today’s announcement promises £130 million (US$162 million) to test and evaluate the next generation of Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) with field trials expected to […]
William Harding | Tom’s Dispatch | Source URL Note for TomDispatch Readers: If you’re already a TD subscriber, then yesterday you got my biannual email asking you for $$$ (my least favorite part of the TomDispatch year and undoubtedly yours, too). But since this site doesn’t take advertising dollars and […]
