Chaos ensued in both the sky and on the planes August 15, after a traffic control automation issue at a Virginia air traffic control central disrupted hundreds of flights. When the damage w [...]
The world economy is in a major crisis. The United States, China and European stock markets collapsed into a free fall starting last week. A bloodbath of low oil prices, China’s econo [...]
Chinese stocks are believed to drop 9 percent again in the next four to five days. The losses could be as bad as the losses that occurred during U.S. exchanges in the Wall Street crash of 1 [...]
Whether or not autonomous weapons should have rights is a question that has received a lot of attention in recent years. In the same way vegetarians pushed for animal rights, artificial int [...]
In the age of hyperconnectivity, people have access to a sea of information with the click of a mouse. While the internet has radically changed how information is disseminated, it has also [...]
In the tech age, people who do not own a cell phone are assumed to be either Amish or deaf. Rarely using or not owning a cell phone may have its own benefits, however. A recent meta-study f [...]
The Fourth Amendment is under attack in an age of electronic surveillance and expanding government. The Email Privacy Act, H.R. 699, and its Senate companion bill S. 356, is marching toward [...]
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 publi [...]
It doesn’t take much effort to stir a panic in an age of hypersensitivity, especially on an airplane. Turkish Airlines flight TK79 was making a typical flight from Istanbul to San Fra [...]
Fiat-Chrysler is voluntarily recalling approximately 1.4 million vehicles fueled by fears of remote control hacking.1 WIRED security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Vassalage were able [...]
