In the Information Age of social media, with constant cyber threats to privacy and at a time when our federal government and local police departments increasingly keep us under unconstitutional surveillance, there is a shocking number of Americans who willingly surrender their personal information to just about anyone who asks for it. This phenomenon was […]

The future of uncensored social media seems bleak, judging by the recent statements of FBI Director James Comey and Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson. Following Obama’s summit on “violent extremism,” both Comey and Johnson warned the public of looming terrorist activity thanks to the extensive influence of social media. While acknowledging social media’s contribution to […]

Thought-crime may soon be a reality. Law enforcement agencies are seizing upon valuable information from WiFi devices that could be used to convict criminals—perhaps before the crime is even committed. Fingerprints and DNA are the foremost pieces of evidence used in identifying criminals in a court of law, but many experts believe it is not […]

According to Bloomberg Business, as of fiscal year 2014, Eric Schmidt, Ph.D. has an annual compensation of over $100,000,000. Eric Schmidt is best known for being the Executive Chairman of Google, Inc. since April, 2011 and Alphabet, Inc. since October 2015. His extensive resume included decades at the nexus of entrepreneurship, technology and research. And now, big government can be added […]

The second-highest court in Maryland upheld a historic decision by a state trial court that the warrantless use of cellphone tracking devices, known as Stingrays, violates the Fourth Amendment. Stingrays simulate cellphone towers in order to fool nearby mobile phones into connecting with them, thereby revealing the phones’ locations. The surveillance technology can gather data […]

The battle between Apple and the FBI is shaping to be one of the most polarizing technology stories to plague the country. The stakes are high and no one is sure what the outcome will be. But how did it all start? The U.S. government has been frustrated with default encryption on consumer products for […]

The New York Police Department (NYPD) admitted to using cell-site simulators, otherwise known as Stingrays, more than 1,000 times between 2008 and May 2015, according to a new report provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union. The documents are the first response to the Freedom of Information Law request filed last year. Stingrays function […]

People always associate having high cholesterol with being unhealthy. Most believe having high cholesterol levels inevitably leads to fatal heart conditions, and are thus inclined to find remedies to keep their cholesterol levels in check. In fact, statin drugs, which lower LDL cholesterol, are now prescribed to over 13 million Americans, most of whom are over […]

The computers behind Israel’s power grid were shut down by a cyberattack in late January, which Israel Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz described as a “severe” attack. “We had to paralyze many of the computers of the Israeli Electricity Authority,” Steinitz said during a speech at the Cybertech Conference in Tel Aviv in wake of the […]

Pepper is one of the most human-like robots in the world, not so much for its hominid appearance, but for its ability to mirror primal emotions. The machine is revered as the first “robot with a heart.” Pepper was a hit in Japan. The country’s SoftBank Robotics Corporation reports that 1,000 units of the humanoid […]

Harvard University has been granted $28 million to try to figure out why human brains are better at processing and absorbing information than artificial intelligence (A.I.). The award, provided by the Intelligence Advanced Projects Activity (IARPA), could make A.I. systems more like the breathing tissue of biological brains than the cold steel of artificial silicon. A […]

People have been trying to block ads since they first made their way into newspapers. They’ve leaped from the pages of the publishing industry to the mainstream, and are becoming increasingly difficult to block in the wake of the cyber era. In other words, the struggle is real. Fortunately, ad blockers do exist. Unfortunately, not […]

Humai, a new artificial intelligence (A.I.) company, is “reinventing the afterlife” by aiming to bring people back from the grave by 2045. According to the company, this feat will be accomplished with A.I. and nanotechnologies that store data about how the body works. In other words, get ready — the robozombie apocalypse is just around the […]

The country’s largest electrical company, otherwise known as Duke Energy, is on high alert for cyber attacks that stymie the flow of electrical power. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, the company is working with U.S. intelligence agencies about potential threats, the Duke Energy executive heading electronic protection efforts told sources. Duke Energy maintains various electrical […]

A very wealthy businessman, speaking of others like himself, once said to Ralph Nader: “Ralph, we all know how to make a lot of money but we don’t have a clue as to what to do with it, including me.”[1] Indeed, what to do with all their cash has become an increasing problem for the […]