LAS VEGAS — Ask legal opioid users if they’d toss their prescriptions if their pain could be managed another way and their answers would most assuredly be yes. Right? So maybe technology can help. One of the showcased products at CES 2019 in Las Vegas was Quell 2.0 from NeuroMetrix, a wearable neurostimulator that delivers…Continue reading Chronic pain sufferers have technological option to opioids
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Biggest tech threat? An unaware America
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in a December interview with a small group of columnists in New York that one of the largest threats facing America was cyber warfare. A handful of House members suggested in a September letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats that “deepfakes” — videos that…Continue reading Biggest tech threat? An unaware America
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Amazon busted for ‘immoral’ Alexa eavesdropping ‘error’
Imagine having all your conversations in your home recorded, all your comings-and-goings, all your private chats with visitors — all without your knowledge, all without your permission. That’s what happened to one guy who learned the hard way that his Alexa wasn’t exactly his privacy friend.
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A.I. experts warn of loss of free will, need for morality
Hundreds of technology experts were asked their opinions about the state of artificial intelligence on humanity — and more than a third issued some dire warnings for the future. Specifically, a third said humans are at risk of losing free will.
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Red-light cameras, move over: Government gunning for your face
As if red-light cameras aren’t bad enough — now the government is implementing facial scanning in public.
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A.I. robots good for Walmart — not so much for space station
In the world of retail, A.I.-infused robots are making a splash. So, too, at the International Space Station — but with far less successful results.
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Google, how about some online security, please?
Google, fresh off the farm of defending last month’s leak of 500,000 or so users’ sensitive information, has just been hit by another Internet hijacking — the “worst ever,” according to the company that caught the hack.
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Google’s patent pursuits send shivers of Big Brother
Good golly, miss Molly. Granted, safety and security, especially at home, is important. But do we have to go all Big Brotherly to get it?
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America, think before you chip
Let Sweden have the human microchip. America has the Constitution.
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Science’s godless problem
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking was pretty clear in his views — that there is no God. And the field of science is filled with like-minded thinkers. What about Christianity, you say? What of those who believe in God? Good question.
