Steve Ambrose It appears that a familiar cyber foe has been caught (again) with his Chinese hand in the digital cookie jar. U.S. officials have determined that Chinese hackers breached the health insurance company Anthem in order to gain insight into the American medical system, Financial Times reports. Anthem noticed the breach February after the hackers accessed the information of…
Steve Ambrose on September 29, 2015 Society just got a little bit closer to making the Minority Report a reality. Hitachi has developed a technology dubbed the Visualization Predictive Crime Analytics (PCA) to anticipate crimes before they are committed, Sean Captain of Fast Company reports. The system is based on machine learning, a technique of…
Robot Ethicist Dr. Kathleen Richardson is calling for a ban on the creation of robots used for sex. “Sex robots seem to be a growing focus in the robotics industry and the models that they draw on – how they will look, what roles they would play – are very disturbing indeed,” she said in…
By Ivan Plis Russia’s Internet oversight agency said Monday that in order to block a contested article about drugs, it would have to block all of Wikipedia. In the announcement, the government body said that if Wikipedia would not willingly block a Russian-language article about charas, a marijuana product, it would have no other choice than…
Bomb Threat At Gamergate Panel Will Only Advance The Dialogue By: Ryan Carrillo A bomb threat this past Saturday at a Society of Professional Journalists event in Miami discussing GamerGate closed down the talk with about thirty minutes remaining. The event began at 10:00 am and was inundated with bomb threats since the beginning, but the SPJ organizers…
This week, the American Conservative Union blasted out an email warning against the Innovation Act, a much-needed patent reform bill proposed by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). Their reasoning wasn’t exactly subtle, as the email screamed: CHINA LOVES IT. INVENTORS FEAR IT. THE FOUNDERS WOULD HAVE HATED IT. Now, I can’t speak for China, and I…
By Lina Bryce According to The Daily Caller, Co-founder and former CEO of PayPal Peter Thiel says if he was still running the company, purchasing firearms legally would be permitted through its online service. Thiel spoke at Freedom Fest at Planet Hollywood Saturday, debating Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. PayPal’s policy currently “prohibits all account holders from buying or selling…
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Reddit bans ‘Fat People Hate,’ other subreddits under new anti-harassment policy By: Ryan Carrillo PODCAST – Subscribe on iTunes Ellen Pao, CEO of Reddit, or Chairman Pao as some users on Reddit have taken to calling her, put her stamp on the popular website as many feared she would. Yesterday Reddit began banning community forums known…
By: Laura Meyers In the wake of California’s four-year long drought, the Placer County Water Agency has created two new smart phone apps to help citizens track and report wasteful water usage. One is a shower timer, which converts time in shower to gallons of water used. The second allows people to tattletale on their neighboring, evil…
Greg Gutfeld on Fox News had harsh words for Rand Paul after the Kentucky senator almost single-handedly caused the PATRIOT act to sunset. Gutfeld launched into Paul, calling him “despicable,” after Paul suggested that some Republicans secretly hoped for a terror attack so they could blame it on him. From Nick Morpus at Rare: “The worst…