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Smartphone: Great Emancipator or a ‘Terrorist in Your Pocket’?
Ina Fired
All Things Digital
July 12, 2012
For all the good that smartphones can do, they can also cause us to be disconnected workaholics incapable of living in the moment.
“Somebody called the…
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Government Will Soon Be Able to Know What You’re Thinking
Washington’s Blog
July 12, 2012
You might have heard that police are deploying scanners – not only in airports – but also on…
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Your Cell Phone Makes You A Prisoner Of A Digital World Where Virtually Anyone Can Hack You…And Track You
The American Dream
Friday, April 6, 2012
If you own a cell phone, you might as well kiss your privacy goodbye. Cell phone companies know more about us than most of us would ever dare to imagine. Your cell phone company is tracking everywhere that you go and it is making a record of everything that you…
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IBM predicts it will be making ‘mind-controlled’ PC’s within five years
Rob Waugh
Daily Mail
December 23, 2011
Apple, Google and Microsoft are already investigating voice-controlled gadgets – or gadgets controlled by moving your body in front of a camera.
But IBM…
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Could a computer virus infect the human mind?
Rob Waugh
Mail Online
December 16, 2011
The field of ‘synthetic biology’ is in its infancy. We can ‘tweak’ the genetics of life forms – but billionaire entrepreneur Craig Venter only created…
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A Pacemaker For Your Brain; Or, How They Will Control Us
Posted by Michael_Byrne
While you’re still thinking hard about just how much your unconscious brain is…
Added by UnLearn on August 19, 2011 at 11:19am — No Comments
Google making app that would identify people’s faces
Mark Milian
CNN
March 31, 2011
Santa Monica, California (CNN) — Google plans to introduce a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people’s faces in order to access their personal information, a director for the project said this…
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Hypnosis by LCD Becoming Increasingly Rampant
Matt Ryan
Infowars.com
January 5, 2011
Recently, several videos of people falling as the result of staring in to the glow of their electronic mobile devices have become the focus of media attention. This trend is becoming more and more prevalent as texting while walking is a major safety concern in…
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Do ‘Unplugged’ Teens Get Better Grades & Develop Skills?
Source: Associated Press
- Susan Maushart unplugged her teens for six months and the dearth of technology led to family bonding in the form of board games, books and family meals together.
What happens when mom unplugs teens for 6 months?…
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The New York Police Department Starts Using Iris Scans on Suspects
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Bill Gates: Register Every Birth by Cellphone To Ensure Vaccination, Control Population Growth
PreventDisease
November 19, 2010
On the tails of a recent TED conference where Bill Gates stated that vaccines need to be used to reduce world population figures, he added more to this insanity last week with a keynote address at the mHealth Summit, an…
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'Mind-reading machine' can convert thoughts into speech
London TelegraphResearchers have been able to translate brain signals into speech using sensors attached to the surface of the brain for the first time.
The breakthrough, which is up to 90 per cent accurate, offers a way to communicate for paralysed patients who cannot speak…
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Facial Profiling
Will face-recognition technology get an accused killer off the hook?
The science of biometrics is exactly what it sounds like — measurement of the living body, including quantification of such physical characteristics as fingerprints, eyes, and voice.…
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Ten Ways We Are Being Tracked, Traced, and Databased
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Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price
Added by UnLearn on June 8, 2010 at 9:12am — No Comments
Device turns thoughts into speech
MSNBCScientists have successfully tested a system that translates brain waves into speech, raising the prospect that people left mute by stroke, Lou Gehrig's disease and other afflictions will one day be able to communicate by synthetic voice.
The system was tested on a 26-year-old man left paralyzed by a brain stem stroke, but with his consciousness and cognitive abilities intact. The condition is known as "locked-in syndrome." In this condition,… Continue
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