BEIJING, China (PNN) - September 19, 2019 - China has developed the world’s first portable sonic gun for riot control, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said.
The rifle-shaped instrument, which was jointly developed with military and law enforcement, is designed to disperse crowds using focused waves of low frequency sound, the academy's Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry website said on Wednesday.
BERN, Switzerland (PNN) - September 18, 2019 - Switzerland was among the first countries to begin deploying 5G, but health fears over radiation from the antennas that carry the next-generation mobile technology have sparked a nationwide revolt.
Demonstrators against the technology are due to fill the streets of Bern later this month, but already a number of cantons have been pressured to put planned constructions of 5G-compatible antennae on ice.
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (PNN) - September 18, 2019 - It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone’s conversations, but that is just what Delta Faucet and Kohler have done.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Kalifornia (PNN) - September 18, 2019 - Tired of leaking data across the Web? The Firefox browser and its privacy tools can help protect you and your data as you visit websites. Among the threats Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser for Windows and MacOS can protect you from are trackers that gather your browsing history, cryptominers that secretly use your device's resources to mine cryptocurrency, and fingerprinters that uniquely identify you based on your device, settings and apps.
BEIJING, China (PNN) - September 17, 2019 - Swedish and Chinese scientists have developed a new kind of organic solar cell that has been optimized to convert ambient indoor light into electricity.
The power they produce is low, but is probably enough to feed the millions of products that the Internet of things will bring online.
As the Internet of things expands, it is expected that we will need to have millions of products online, both in public spaces and in homes. Many of these will be the multitude of sensors to detect and measure moisture, particle concentrations, temperature and other parameters. For this reason, the demand for small and cheap sources of renewable energy is increasing rapidly, in order to reduce the need for frequent and expensive battery replacements.
SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia (PNN) - August 17, 2019 - Deepfake material including fabricated evidence will become so realistic it will land innocent people in jail, an expert has warned.
Shamir Allibhai, CEO of video verification company Amber, believes content including CCTV and voice recordings will be subject to gross manipulation.
He spoke amid alarming concerns over deepfake technology raising eyebrows online, including a recent viral video of comedian Bill Hader morphing into actor Tom Cruise.
Shamir warns it is only a matter of time before the technology creeps its way into the global judicial system.
SACRAMENTO, Kalifornia (PNN) - August 13, 2019 - Kalifornia Assemblyman Phil Ting has never been arrested, but he was recently mistaken for a criminal.
He’s not surprised.
Ting (San Francisco), who authored a bill to ban facial recognition software from being used on terrorist pig thug cop body cameras, was one of 26 Kalifornia legislators who was incorrectly matched with a mug shot in a recent test of a common face-scanning program by the Amerikan Civil Liberties Union.
Josh Sigurdson talks with Kingsley Edwards, CEO of Flote.app, the new social media site that is aiming to replace so many of the old guard systems like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Twitch, Tumblr, and Patreon. Just launched and in beta phase, Flote is both simplistic and wildly complicated. For the user it's incredibly simple, but the work being put into Flote on the back end to ensure privacy and countless functional options is enormous.
Congo trial reports over 90% success.
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo - August 14, 2019 - A randomized clinical trial taking place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been terminated early due to the extraordinary success of two drugs being investigated to treat the Ebola virus. Four new treatments were being tested in the trial, but two have displayed incredible survival rates, especially if given at the earliest stages of infection.
This changes our understanding of the universe.
TOKYO, Japan (PNN) - August 7, 2019 - Scientists have found a vast array of hidden galaxies, which together could change our understanding of how the universe works.
The mysterious galaxies, which were previously unknown to researchers, were discovered by a breakthrough new approach that allowed astronomers to look more deeply than ever before into the universe.
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