By Jake Anderson Swiss multinational bank, Credit Suisse, will collaborate with data analysis firm, Palantir, to launch a trader surveillance program. According to Bloomberg’s Jeffrey…
By Jake Anderson We’ve seen quite a bit of NASA in the news recently. The latest photos of Pluto rattled up considerable excitement — and…
By Jake Anderson North Korea has sentenced 21-year-old University of Virginia student Otto Frederick Warmbier to 15 years of prison and hard labor. Otto has been in…
By Jake Anderson A few year ago, the Center for Disease Control launched a zombie preparedness initiative that drew significant attention. The Department of Defense followed…
By Jake Anderson Private genetic databases like 23andMe and Ancestry.com are increasingly used by people for genealogy tracing and medical diagnostic tests. With a million customers…
By Jake Anderson Recently, Anti-Media covered the revelation that Samsung transmits audio commands recorded by their Smart TVs to a third party company, which raises…
By Jake Anderson The FBI versus Apple Inc. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object — the feverish momentum of American technocracy accelerating into the…
By Jake Anderson In June, a team of programmers will release a ground-breaking new video game called No Man’s Sky, which uses artificial intelligence and…
By Jake Anderson Nicknamed the “Superman memory crystal,” a new storage device made of nanostructured glass can archive 360 terabytes worth of information for billions…
By Jake Anderson Job loss is blamed on many factors. Illegal immigration (though this argument is dubious at best), outsourcing, regulatory overreach, and automation are…
By Jake Anderson In many ways, DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the engine of the military-industrial complex, the heart at the center…
By Jake Anderson In a troubling new development in the domestic consumer surveillance debate, an investigation into Samsung Smart TVs has revealed that user voice…
By Jake Anderson First, let me define my terms. When I use the word ‘robot,’ I am not referring only to automated machines or cybernetic…
By Jake Anderson It can be argued that police departments across the country practice a form of legal extortion, in which victimless misdemeanors and infractions…