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04/26/2018 / 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 / 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 […]

04/03/2018 / 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 / 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 […]

02/05/2018 / By David Williams

NASA scientists: People are born “creative geniuses” but get dumbed down by the U.S. education system

Would you consider yourself a creative genius? If you asked other people that question, perhaps some might answer in the affirmative. But the vast majority of individuals, when confronted with that question, might say no. It’s not that they don’t really think they are the type of person to be considered creative or a genius. […]

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