Imagining how a deepfake video could quickly create a very scary real-world scenario is not hard, and the people at DARPA on working on it around the clock....
Both Google and Facebook suffered outages Wednesday, with both of them denying that it was a DDoS attack though refused to say exactly what caused it. ...
Huawei Technologies in China is beating America to the punch in the battle for who will control the massive undersea global Internet data grid. ...
All these faces are fake. They have been synthesized by NVIDIA’s new AI algorithm, a generative adversarial network capable of automagically creating humans, cats, and even cars....
UK firm BioTeq offers the implants to businesses and individuals, has already fitted 150 in the UK. The tiny microchips are implanted between the thumb and forefinger...
Chinese scientists are planning to launch an artificial moon into orbit by 2020 to illuminate city streets after dark in China. ...
It was the first time a non-human has been invited to speak to Parliament in its 700-year history. Pepper, who spoke in an American accent, is a humanoid robot based at the University of Middlesex....
As the technology advances, “real-time” facial recognition, which involves the constant scanning of live video feeds to match faces, is starting to spread....
Today, DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is selecting teams to develop a “neural interface” that would both allow troops to connect to military systems using their brainwaves and let those systems transmit back information directly to users’ brains....
Citibank investment bank could automate using robots as many as 10,000 jobs within the next five years, a chilling technology forecast warns. NTEB....
A flying car project 'Kitty Hawk' backed by Google co-founder Larry Page was closer to take-off on Wednesday, with a model for test flights by aspiring buyers....
Chatbots that help people have conversations about their funeral plans, wills and spiritual matters is set to be trialled in Boston over the next two years....
Apple's new smartphone, iPhone X, uses a recognition system called FaceID to unlock your device and authorize payments. Leading to the Mark Of The Beast?...
A team of scientists has just built the first robot that looks and flies like a bat. They named it, of course, Bat Bot....
Regular 3D printers are just 2D printers on repeat, according to Californian chemist Jason Rolland. So his company, Carbon3D, created a machine that works up to 100 times faster than standard machines by "growing" objects out of a pool of resin....
Forbes reports today that the movement into an era of implantables is already in full swing with wearables and attachables like FitBit. These are just the first generation of gadgets that go beyond monitoring and measuring your body movements....
The truth is, the major cellphone company carriers are more than happy to sell your information to advertisers and serve you targeted ads over their networks. I'm going to tell you how to stop them...
Start by discarding all mobile phones, as this technology was developed in Israel, where the first mobile phones were manufactured. Mobile chip technology from a single Israeli company has now been installed in over 100 million devices. ...
When White House trip director Marvin Nicholson handed the president his personal iPhone, Mr. Obama couldn't get it to work. A reporter who witnessed the scene said the president looked "befuddled."...
Surveillance cameras are now so powerful they are able to zoom in and read your text messages - leading to fears of further privacy intrusion by a 'Big Brother' style state. As well as being advanced enough to close in on an individual’s phone screen, security cameras will soon...
Japanese researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence. Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University, developed a portable "SpeechJammer" gun that can silence people more than 30 meters away. ...
Contact lenses which focus 3D screens directly into people's eyeballs could be on sale as early as 2014, says U.S. company Innovega. The tiny 'screens' sit directly on users' eyeballs and work with a pair of lightweight glasses with a built-in translucent screen....
The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov. The federal government is embarking on a multiyear, $1 billion dollar overhaul of the FBI's existing fingerprint database to more...
At the heart of the concern is intelligence indicating that Egypt has quietly carried out research and development on weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical, biological and missile technology. The research and development has continued virtually without pause over the past three decades, according to interviews with U.S....
Imagining how a deepfake video could quickly create a very scary real-world scenario is not hard, and the people at DARPA on working on it around the clock....
