nymag-Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics?
Bret Stephens. Photo: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Once narrowly defined as the belief that human beings could breed selectively to weed out disease and crime,...
View ArticleWorld Crunch-Predictive Politics: When Algorithms Will Run Our Democracy
pic from plugged.com New tech may soon be able to predict future political problems and independently develop solutions before issues even arise. But what does that mean for democracy? Tech companies...
View ArticleThe Verge-Go read this NYT expose on a creepy new facial recognition database...
Hundreds of agencies are using a system which scraped billions of photos from the internet Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the US have started...
View ArticleHow Techies Ignored the Bureaucrats and Helped the COVID-19 Response
(Anyaivanova / Dreamstime.com) Thank God for the tech scene. When our established institutions fail in the face of existential threats, at least we have the quick thinking and resourcefulness of...
View ArticleWill Washington Allow the WHO to Investigate its Military Bio Labs?
In Fort Detrick, Maryland, the U.S. Army has cutting-edge labs researching viruses. In August 2019, Ft. Detrick labs were closed and a number of pneumonia cases, or illness with similarities to...
View ArticleSecurity Today-Police departments work to build city surveillance through...
Police departments have figured out a new way to increase city security – through privately-owned surveillance cameras. While the smart home security camera market is expected to rise swiftly in the...
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