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05/20/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Former DARPA exec to head shady Facebook project called “Building 8” centered around augmented reality and brain-scanning technology

As if things weren’t already bad enough for Mark Zuckerberg’s baby, Facebook (the world’s least trusted company at this point), now they are apparently working on a secret project behind the scenes that has nothing to do with social media, and everything to do with scanning people’s brains as part of a sinister artificial intelligence […]

03/22/2018 / By Ethan Huff

The future of AI: How fast it’s growing and the possibility of sci-fi movie scenes coming to pass

Technocrats like Eric Schmidt, the former executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, are brimming with glee over the continued advancements being made in the field of artificial intelligence, or AI. But how will these changes affect the social landscape, and what types of threats does this technology pose to humans? Not many at the […]

07/04/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Apple set to destroy reality and ensnare “tech hipsters” into augmented worlds that disconnect people from reality

Just like Eve who was lured into taking a bite out of the forbidden apple in the Garden of Eden, many people today are enamored with the idea of chomping down on anything that tech giant Apple throws their way. This includes so-called “next level” technologies like the one the Apple is currently working on […]

06/05/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

One with the machines: Man has compass implanted into his chest, becomes a cyborg

The possibility of man becoming one with machines is terrifying to some, but not to Daniil Lyktin. The 26-year old programmer from Novosibirsk firmly believes that electronic modifications will become a sixth sense in humans someday. Rather than waiting for that day to come, however, Lyktin has moved towards it himself, as demonstrated by the […]

04/04/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Scientists believe they will make synthetic life within two years

After successfully synthesizing artificial DNA strands from Baker’s yeast using nothing but laboratory equipment and human ingenuity, scientists working as part of the so-called Synthetic Yeast Project (SC2.0) are now ready to move onto their next endeavor: The synthesis of artificial human DNA. Set to be released in just two years, the first artificial lifeforms […]

03/31/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Google chief thinks immortality will happen by 2029

Will humans one day be able to live forever? Google’s Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, thinks it’s a possibility. He says that living in a fleshly shell for eternity could become a reality as soon as 2029, when scientists are set to unveil special “nano-bots” that will supposedly be able to navigate throughout people’s bodies […]

06/07/2016 / By D. Samuelson

Virtual reality coming to journalism?

Virtual Reality (VR) continues its pervasive ascent. But it’s more than VR video games or VR movies where one purposely suspends cognition for entertainment purposes. In the past two years, the idea of “immersive journalism” has been barnstorming the newsroom. Nonny de la Peña is considered the Virtual Reality pioneer; she created the very first VR “journalistic” story called Hunger in Los […]

04/22/2016 / By Julian Kramer

Transhumanism and going beyond human limitations

Science is slowly inching its way to discovering the secret to immortality. Human enhancement, as defined by transhumanists, is everything that “encompasses a range of approaches that may be used to improve aspects of human function.” Human enhancement is currently being researched in institutions such as Stanford University, which has recently devised a mathematical algorithm, […]

08/17/2015 / By Chris Draper

Transhumanist presidential candidate proposes microchipping citizens’ brains to establish authoritarian control over humans

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. Istvan argues that violent behavior is a mental disorder that requires outside assistance, in the same way a heart with an irregular beat requires a pacemaker. According to […]

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