Transhumanist presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan proposed that behavior-correcting brain implants could be used as a substitute for capital punishment, according to a recent article published in Motherboard.… Read More
A Russian university has made a giant advance in the the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
Back in May, 21WIRE reported on a stunning breakthrough by the University of Melbourne where Australian scientists managed to successfully configure an analogue solution to building an AI brain – one which outperforms its digital counterpart on multiple levels.… Read More
Google’s artificial neural network has been making extreme headway lately. You’ve probably seen a huge surge of these types of thought provoking images on social networking sites, and wondered “what the hell is going on here?” A neural network is a dense and complex idea.… Read More
The U.S. Government alone classifies over 500 million pages of documents each year. As far as transparency goes, there is none.… Read More
(Jake Anderson) Though transparency was a cause he championed when campaigning for the presidency, President Obama has largely avoided making certain defense costs known to the public.… Read More
our computer’s built-in webcam is easy to take for granted if you don’t use if very often. But just because you don’t take advantage of this amazing piece of technology — as a woman in Toronto was recently shocked to learn — doesn’t mean it isn’t being used.… Read More
Portals appear in many books, movies and video games. Some of them connect distant places, others travel back or forward in time, and the most powerful ones bridge into different dimensions.… Read More
Google could change the result of the Presidential election based on where it ranks candidates in its search results, a study has shown.… Read More
Modern technology has created a brave new electronic and borderless world. Surveillance and biometric capturing technologies have advanced significantly in recent years.… Read More