This development is likely what caused Google's Technocrat/Transhuman Ray Kurzweil to declare that Singularity will be reached in 2029 instead of 2045. Remembering is a dangerous outcome if they are faulty to begin with, or worse, prejudiced agains
When diverse AI programs develop their own languages to communicate with each other, humans may or may not be able to translate, especially if the AI learns how to build its own encryption to 'hide' from humans. ? TN Editor
SoftBank Group Corp.'s Masayoshi Son his belief that computers will exceed humans in intelligence in three decades, and that within this period he expects one computer chip to have the equivalent of a 10,000 IQ.
CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) has just released its report on encryption and it comes to the same conclusions many other reports have: encryption is good for everyone and law enforcement fears are overstated and mostly-unreali
Last October, 11-year-old Evan Spisak wandered down to his father's basement workshop to help out on a weekend project, a time-honored tradition in homes across the country.
The Google Word Lens app is now available in Japanese. You'll never have to worry about taking a wrong turn on a busy Shibuya street or ordering something you wouldn't normally eat.
Sterling Ranch, built to be a sustainable-development laboratory, is a hotbed of research for every Smart City urban planner in the world. Residents have submitted themselves to every conceivable intrusive and invasive monitoring technology, to be po
Now that it's been verified that Tesla Autopilot (Autosteer, to be more precise) has thus far reduced crashes by 40 percent, CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to claim that Autopilot 2.0 (HW2) could hit a 90-percent crash reduction rate. This is Tesla
Yet Analytics is elevating big data, Internet of Things, visualization and analytics to create "intelligence in human capital analytics." Technocrats everywhere drool over stuff like this, as it will enable them to engineer all society on a globa
Technocrats have no sense of ethics or responsibility when using technology. Sure, it sounds good on the surface, but spying on and tracking your children is beyond the pale. No, no, no! ? TN Editor
The REAL3™image sensor chip from Infineon Technologies AG plays a key role in the newest innovative Augmented Reality (AR) smartphone by ASUS. The mobile device was launched yesterday at International CES ® 2017 (International Consumer Electronics
Ruby on Rails is one of the hottest skills in app development right now, with thousands of high-salary jobs available. You can master the framework top to bottom with The Ruby on Rails Super Bundle at New Atlas Deals, and save hundreds of dollars on
The world's largest hedge fund is building a piece of software to automate the day-to-day management of the firm, including hiring, firing and other strategic decision-making.
A Chinese software company called Adups, whose firmware comes pre-installed on some 700 million Android devices, has been found to be able to collect personal information from users without their knowledge or consent.
Amazon is building an app that matches truck drivers with shippers, a new service that would deepen its presence in the $800 billion trucking industry.
A team of researchers from Microsoft, Cray, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) have been working on a project to speed up the use of deep learning algorithms on supercomputers.
Nextbigfuture will have several articles over the next few weeks reviewing developments in 2016 and looking ahead to developments over the next few years. Here we look at 2016 in computers. Later articles will look at medicine, life extension, energy
A team of researchers from Microsoft, Cray, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) have been working on a project to speed up the use of deep learning algorithms on supercomputers.
Virgil Vaduva & Brian Sovryn (Dark Android; host of Soveryn Tech) does a 2 hour podcast with Ernest Hancock to talk about decentralized platforms, future technologies, and many other tech issues...
Technocrats build things because they can, but not with any concern about the impact on other humans. Blippar brings privacy-busting to the public. ? TN Editor
The state has trained us to believe that we are weak, powerless and vulnerable without their monopoly on violence, but this is a lie. Today we are joined by Virgil Vaduva of GetCell411.com to talk about Cell 411, an app that helps to expose that lie.
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