SHANGHAI, China (PNN) - December 12, 2017 - Yitu Technology has made an AI algorithm that can connect to millions of surveillance cameras and instantly recognize people.
The company - based in Shanghai, China - developed Dragonfly Eye to scan through millions of photographs that have been logged in the country’s national database.
This means it has a collection of 1.8 billion photos on file, including visitors to the country and those taken at ports and airports.
VIENNA, Austria (PNN) - December 9, 2017 - Asgardia, the little space nation that could, placed a tiny satellite into low Earth orbit on Thursday. This makes it the first independent “nation” to have 100% of its territory in outer space.
The Space Kingdom of Asgardia isn’t technically a nation yet - it’s a non-profit non-governmental organization based out of Vienna, Austria, and bankrolled by Russian billionaire Igor Ashurbeyli. But if you’re trying to start a whole space nation from scratch, you have to start somewhere.
Towns all over Europe are experimenting with eliminating road signs in order to encourage driver’s to think about road conditions. The experiment has shown that eliminating road signs actually makes the streets safer.
MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - November 28, 2017 - The Russian government will build an “independent Internet” for use by itself, Brazil, India, China, and South Africa - the BRICS nations - “in the event of global Internet malfunctions,” the Russian news site RT reported on Tuesday. More precisely, Moscow intends to create an alternative to the global Domain Name System, or DNS, the directory that helps the browser on your computer or smart phone connect to the website server or other computer that you’re trying to reach. The Russians cited national security concerns as their reason for taking this step.
Two-factor authentication can make your online accounts practically impossible to hack.
November 24, 2017 - Having a strong, unique password might not be enough if hackers trick you into giving it away or steal it from your email provider or bank.
That’s why for your most sensitive accounts - think your email or banking accounts - you should set up two-factor authentication (2FA). This simply means adding a second step to log into your accounts. First, the password. Second: either a code sent to your cell phone via text message, or created by a special app on your phone. Even better, the second step can be inserting a physical token such as a security key.
Highly decorated Fire Captain John Lord speaks out about the possible directed energy weapons used to start over 16 major fires that began in the middle of the night in Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino Counties. To date, some three weeks after the fires, officials have not gone on record as to the origins of these fires.
CHINCOTEAGUE, Virginia (PNN) - November 20, 2017 - Space nation Asgardia has launched its first satellite a year after Russian billionaire Dr, Igor Ashurbeyli proposed the plans.
More than 500,000 people applied to become citizens of Asgardia, the first space nation that will orbit the Earth and be free from politics and laws.
BEIJING, China (PNN) - November 16, 2017 - China is building the world’s fastest wind tunnel to simulate hypersonic flight at speeds of up to 12 kilometers per second.
A hypersonic vehicle flying at this speed from China could reach the west coast of the Fascist Police States of Amerika in less than 14 minutes.
ECUADOREAN EMBASSY, England (PNN) - November 9, 2017 - WikiLeaks began publishing the source code of Amerikan Gestapo Central Intelligence Agency division hacking tools Thursday in a new series dubbed Vault 8.
The source code, according to a press release from the anti-secrecy organization, is intended to “enable investigative journalists, forensic experts, and the general public to better identify and understand covert CIA infrastructure components.”
CANBERRA, Australia (PNN) - November 8, 2017 - The idea of small groups of humans having control over some of the most powerful weapons ever to be built is scary, but it’s the reality we live in. In the not-so-distant future, that incredible power and responsibility could be handed over to artificial intelligence and robotic systems, which are already in active development. In a pair of open letters to the prime ministers of bother Australia and Canada, hundreds of AI researchers and scientists are pleading for that not to happen.
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