Are smart cards really a smart idea?
Credit and debit cards are expected to be superseded by smart cards by October 2015. Embedded with computer chips, smart cards will be dipped, rather than swiped into machines. Banks are sp [...]
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Reddit user creates the world’s first homemade railgun
The world’s first 3D portable homemade railgun has been created by a Reddit user under the name NSA_Listbot. The man in the featured image is neither in the military nor a NASA engine [...]
Construction workers to be replaced by robots that create entire buildings without needing a break
The days of laying down brick may soon be over for several construction workers. Zurich-based architects and roboticists have developed In-situ Fabricator, an autonomous robot that can lay [...]
New commission report reveals Chinese plans to take down U.S. satellites
An upcoming report by the congressional U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission provides new details about China’s space weapons program’s plan to destroy and disrupt [...]
A.I. robot scores higher than four year old on I.Q. test
The gap between human and artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming narrower and narrower. An A.I. system at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dubbed ConceptNet, recently took an I. [...]
Japan debuts world’s first laundry folding robot
Nobody enjoys folding laundry. It’s one of the most banal household chores. Fortunately, the days of creasing and folding may soon be over. Japan has recently unmasked the first laund [...]
Google busted for fraud
Google has been busted for fraud. The multinational technology company is being questioned for charging advertisers for YouTube views seen by robots instead of people. The recent revelation [...]
150 million vehicles will be vulnerable to hacking by 2020
People are jumping on board the connected car bandwagon. Approximately 150 million connected cars are expected to be on road by 2020. Although connected cars enable drivers to access the in [...]
Former NSA employee hired by Uber for car hacking skills
Who knew you could make a lawful living as a professional computer hacker? That is at least the case for Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, two computer hackers who were recently hired by Ub [...]
DARPA implanting computer chips in soldiers’ brains
Melding artificial silicon with breathing tissue is no longer fantasy peddled by science fiction writers. That is at least what New York Times best-selling author and journalist Annie Jacob [...]
