News & Articles By David Williams
05/15/2018
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By David Williams
Amazon workers forced to use pee bottles out of fear of being punished for going to the restroom
Amazon is one of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley. Its founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is one of the most successful businessmen of all time, and is currently the richest person in the world with a net worth of more than $110 billion. So it’s no surprise why many people want to work for the […]
04/28/2018
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By David Williams
Big brother sees you! Chinese jaywalkers receive their fine immediately through SMS
Facial recognition technology is really starting to become a big deal in China. It wasn’t that long ago when Chinese traffic police began using facial recognition to nab those who were violating traffic laws. Now they’ve taken things one step further with artificial intelligence (AI): When the facial recognition cameras catch someone jaywalking, not only will […]
04/26/2018
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By David Williams
That’s TOO far to the Left: MIT backs away from startup that wants to upload your brain to the cloud after killing you first
There was an ambitious new startup, called Nectome, that promised to help people evade death through brain uploading at some point in the future. It received backing from the Silicon Valley startup incubator YCombinator as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and it seemed to have a solid plan all around. The only […]
04/19/2018
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By David Williams
People with bad “social credit” in China now banned from using trains, airplanes
China has already thought of a couple of ways of applying their unique “Social Credit System” in order to punish deserving citizens. According to online reports, the country plans to ban certain individuals from boarding airplanes and trains if they are among those who are deemed unworthy based on the Social Credit System. People who […]
04/14/2018
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By David Williams
China readying Social Credit System where citizens receive scores based on their online obedience to the state
China is planning to implement a system wherein its citizens will be ranked and given ratings based on a certain set of specified criteria, like social media activity and online obedience to the state. The system, called the Social Credit System, is said to be in place for a country-wide launch some time in 2020. […]
04/03/2018
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By David Williams
Mark of the FEAST: Researchers invent edible graphene, paving the way for food that can be tracked through embedded RFID patterns
Do you think you will ever be able to eat your electronics? It’s a strange concept, but it depicts a very real future situation wherein you’ll have to decide whether or not it’s okay to partake in edible electronics. This is because of a new development created by a team of scientists from Rice University, […]
03/23/2018
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By David Williams
Proven guilty before the crime? China using big data to detain “suspicious” individuals before any crime is even committed
Chinese citizens are already under an enormous amount of pressure to “fall in line” as it is, what with all of the surveillance going on inside of the country’s borders, but now the Chinese government have taken things one step further yet again. Based on a report unearthed by Human Rights Watch, China now has […]
03/08/2018
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By David Williams
Animal organ HARVESTING farms coming soon? Researchers develop method to “refurbish” harvested animal organs for human transplant
There is an organ-transplant crisis going on. There are far too many people on various organ transplant waiting lists, and not enough organ donors. As such, scientists have thought of various solutions for the problem. One new example is organ refurbishing, which is as straightforward as it sounds – scientists take organs and refurbish them […]
02/10/2018
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By David Williams
Self-driving cars could easily turn into self-crashing cars that deliberately target and kill humans, expert warns
There has been a lot of hype surrounding self-driving cars and their potential to change the way humans use roads for a very long time. However, with all of the hope that they can change things for the better, there are also some reasons to fear for your safety while you’re in them. This is […]
02/09/2018
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By David Williams
Japanese ban on creating human organs in animals to be lifted; “transplant farms” to mass produce organs for disease-ridden humans?
The process of donating human organs can be somewhat tricky, and you will often have to wait quite a while before getting approval that your organs can indeed be donated. Meanwhile, being on the receiving end of an organ transplant can be just as troublesome. The waiting list is even longer than the one for […]
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