A new approach to health care is cutting a wide divide between doctors and their patients, putting Big tech, Big Government, Big Business in charge — all the while sending America’s medical system down a path that mirrors that used by the former U.S.S.R.

Employees with the Wisconsin-based technology firm Three Square Market have been quietly, steadily inserting microchips into their own hands as a means of making it easier to pay for the likes of snacks from company vending machines or drinks from the cafeteria. Subtitle this: When Convenience Becomes Downright Creepy. Roughly 80 of the firm’s 250…Continue reading Microchipping employees, the next terrible technology wave

Artificial intelligence is now being used to gaze into a person’s eyes, track their eye movements and spit back a personality assessment.

Scientists and researchers have been busily engaged in racing to discover the artificial intelligence clues that can read human minds — and what’s a bit frightening is they’re actually making gains.

Technology giants in droves have signed a pledge that says they won’t pursue lethal autonomous weapons development. But this may be a bit naive, and premature.