Freedom lovers beware! NBC recently aired a report predicting that by 2017 RFID chips may be embedded under the skin of Amerikans to facilitate identification. While the report doers briefly mention concerns over personal privacy posed by this existing technology, it primarily focuses on the conveniences created by implemetation of such a system. Tom Costello reports.
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NBC predicts we will all have an embedded RFID Chip by 2017
Tech firm will transfer human consciousness into robots
MELBOURNE, Australia (PNN) - May 29, 2016 - An Australian startup tech company has announced plans to work on a way of transferring a person’s consciousness into a robot’s body so that people can continue to live after their bodies have died.
Mind-reaching machine could soon turn your secret thoughts into speech
Device eavesdrops on the voices in your head.
LONDON, England (PNN) - May 28, 2016 - A mind-reaching machine that can translate thoughts into speech is coming closer to reality.
The research has been ongoing for several years, and recently scientists successfully managed to playback a word that someone is thinking by monitoring their brain activity.
Shape-shifting touch screens can morph on demand
BRISTOL, England (PNN) - May 27, 2016 - Imagine if when you launched a gaming app on your smartphone, the device could automatically morph into the shape of a console. Then, if you received a text message and needed to respond, it could transform itself back into a phone.
Cops can now take your phone after being stopped and search it using a Textalyzer
ALBANY, New York (PNN) - May 23, 2016 - As government continues to expand, finding ever more ways to feed itself through taxation, it seeks to justify this burgeoning existence.
New York is a leader in developing laws and regulations to protect us from ourselves, perhaps most famously with the Big Apple’s attempt to ban-large size sugary drinks. The Empire State has the highest cigarette taxes in the nation, which fuels a black market, and it places heavy restrictions on other “sins.”
Scientists find link between dark matter and primordial black holes
GREENBELT, Maryland (PNN) - May 25, 2016 - While most scientists believe that the elusive substance known as dark matter is comprised of extremely massive exotic particles, one NASA scientist believes that it might actually be made up of black holes formed during the very first moments of the universe’s existence.
Researchers discover new property of light with a twist
DUBLIN, Ireland (PNN) - May 18, 2-16 - Light is a fundamental avenue of study in physics, and its properties are well established with steadfast rules and invariable constraints. Until recently, we thought we knew just about everything there was to know about it. But now physicists from Trinity College Dublin have added a twist to the existing canon by demonstrating a new form of light with a total angular momentum that has a half-integer spin. In other words, light that does not obey the rules.
You can now sign up to take a driverless car for a spin around London
LONDON, England (PNN) - May 13, 2016 - Fancy driving a driverless car? You can now register for the Fascist United Kingdom’s first public trial of autonomous vehicles.
If you're in the FUK, you can register with the Gateway (Greenwich Automated Transport Environment) project and take a ride around London's Greenwich area in a totally automated self-driving electric shuttle. You'll then be invited to share your thoughts on the experience. You can also take part in workshops to discuss the future of automated transport.
CDC scientist admits data of vaccines and autism was trashed
Over 100 people gathered outside the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta are demanding transparency when it comes to vaccines. Is there anything to what these people are saying? How about the facts that no one else will share? Ben Swann reports.
University of Florida brain-drone race
The University of Florida has held the world's first brain-drone race. UF researchers hope this competition will inspire others to continue to build upon brain computer interface technology that could be used in our everyday lives.
