Digital ID social credit system by the back door UK iPhone and iPad owners updating to the latest iOS 26.4 are now confronted with a stark choice: verify you are an adult by providing a credit card or scanning your ID, or accept automatic web content filters that restrict access. […]
Seabed 2030 is a global initiative launched in 2017 by the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO, operating under the International Hydrographic Organization and UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, with the stated goal of mapping the entire ocean floor by 2030 and compiling that data into a single global grid, drawing on governments, […]
DARPA’s O-Circuit program looks to build a new class of biologically inspired computer equipped with odorant sensing systems that would allow drones to smell danger, such as explosives and chemical agents, using olfactory receptor neurons. This week, US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced it will hold proposers workshop on April 10 for its Organoid […]
Ohio has become the new destination for Big Tech data centers and AI infrastructure. The state owes much of its rapid transformation into the so-called “Silicon Heartland” to the now vast array of public-private partnerships pioneered by the state’s richest man, Leslie Wexner, and his former money manager and fixer, […]
We have all experienced it, you’re scrolling through social media and a post catches your eye, it makes a claim or shows you something that makes you say to yourself, “there is no way that’s true,” or it invokes an immediate emotional response and before you know it, you have […]
As the 89th Banking Convention wraps up in Cancún today, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau share the stage with Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, and the BIS—amid a focus on ending cash that ties perfectly into Mexico’s ongoing biometric ID rollout. On Wednesday, the 89th Banking […]
World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab tells Swiss media he’s exploring ways to choose his successor, that he won’t comment further on Borge Brende’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and that board members like interim co-chairs Larry Fink and Andre Hoffmann shouldn’t have conflicts of interests. In the past year, […]
In the spring of 1812, British textile workers smashed power looms across Nottinghamshire, convinced that the machines would make their skills worthless and their families destitute. They were right about the disruption. Mills did displace hand-weavers. Communities that had organized themselves around a particular kind of skilled labor were genuinely […]
DARPA GO could be used for human performance enhancement & bioengineered super-soldiers, along with the ability for total mind control by reading, writing into the brain: perspective DARPA’s Generative Optogenetics (GO) program is gathering advisers across three working groups who will address the biosecurity risks and regulatory hurdles for the […]
Sam Altman Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud: “Intelligence Is a Utility” – And We’re the Cattle Who’ll Pay for It Sam Altman dropped this bomb this week at the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy […]