Technology

How U.S. Universities and Companies Aid Communist Surveillance

China’s public surveillance network is one of the most expansive in the world, with the state monitoring its citizens’ movements, communication, and behavior. Unfortunately, several universities and companies in the U.S. are aiding the Chinese government in improving their surveillance and limiting people’s freedoms. According to media reports, American university researchers have written nine academic papers ...

Jack Roberts

China's public surveillance network.

Imagine U.S. Genetic Data in the Hands of Communist China

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a long-term plan to dominate the West. One of the strategies includes collecting as much information about the American population as possible, even DNA genetic information. Over the past years, several Chinese firms have operated in the U.S. with precisely this objective. Collecting American genetic DNA Chinese companies have ...

Jack Roberts

Collecting DNA samples.

Dark Matter Detector Observes Rarest Event Ever Recorded

How do you observe a process that takes more than 1 trillion times longer than the age of the universe? The XENON Collaboration research team did it with an instrument built to find the most elusive particle in the universe — dark matter.  In a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers announced that they have observed the ...

Troy Oakes

Dark matter detector.

How Chinese Communists Use Tech to Suppress Uyghur Muslims

China’s subjugation of the Xinjiang Uyghur Muslim community has to be one of the worst racial, religious persecutions of the decade. What makes it even more unique and horrifying is that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used cutting-edge technology to suppress Uyghurs. AI surveillance The most important component of CCP’s surveillance of Uyghurs is ...

Max Lu

Using AI technology.

Google’s Continued Support of China’s Great Firewall

Google has banned virtual private network (VPN) product adverts in China because of local legal restrictions. The action, however, seems to lend credence to the rumors that Google plans on re-entering the Chinese market with a censored search engine to work around China’s Great Firewall. Following policy or helping censorship efforts? Under its new policy, ...

Jack Roberts

The Google logo.

What Will Happen as AI Keeps Monitoring Human Thoughts?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will pose several ethical and policy challenges in areas like human rights, according to Eleonore Pauwels, Research Fellow on Emerging Cybertechnologies at United Nations University (UNU). She fears that independent human thought is at risk of being regulated as human societies start relying more on Artificial Intelligence. Challenges of AI “At an ...

Armin Auctor

AI video surveillance.

Google Fears Conservative Ideas Seeping Into AI Ethics

Google was forced to shut down its artificial intelligence (AI) ethics board just a few days after its formation. Some of its employees and activist groups had complained that one of the panel’s members was too conservative. The controversy The Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) formed by Google was initially comprised of eight experts ...

Armin Auctor

The Google matrix.

Shanghai 5G Network Might Be Bigger Than Initially Thought

Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station has teamed up with Huawei Technologies to launch a 5G network, bringing ultrafast Internet speed to the city. Passengers will experience a data speed that is 100 times faster than 4G. This development makes Shanghai a dual-gigaband city. “Hongqiao Railway Station is leading the 5G commercial deployment in Shanghai… The 5G ...

Max Lu

Shanghai, China.

A Quantum Computer That Functions Like the Human Brain

Researchers are pushing the limits of technology by trying to create a quantum computer that thinks like a human being. The Neuromorphic Quantum Computing (Quromorphic) Project by Heriot-Watt University is spearheading the project. It is led by Michael Hartmann, a professor at the Heriot-Watt Institute of Photonic and Quantum Sciences, and other researchers across Europe. ...

Armin Auctor

A human brain.

Yahoo and Oath: A Failed Mega Business Plan

In 2017, Verizon Communications purchased Yahoo and made it a part of the Oath brand, expecting the new company to be a significant rival to Facebook and Google. But today, Oath has ceased to exist, and Yahoo is now a part of Verizon Media. Yahoo and Oath In 1994, there was no Google, Facebook, or ...

Armin Auctor

Yahoo! headquarters.