MEDIA ROOTS — Many of us notice our society’s shift away from the use of anonymous cash and toward the use of databeast-tracked digital money. But many are unaware that there are steps already being taken to outlaw cash in favour of debit/credit cards and digital transactions. In Louisiana, House Bill 195 of the 2011 Regular Session (Act 389) was … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – Two weeks ago the U.S. department of defense tested a new weapon that, by being able to travel faster than the speed of sound and strike any location on the planet in under an hour, combines the global reach of the Cold War’s intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the surgical precision of today’s robotic flying drones. In doing … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- Ten years ago, the concept of visually mapping out one’s thoughts, dreams or memories seemed like far-fetched science fiction. Now, it’s a looming reality. UC Berkeley scientists have made a mind-blowing technological breakthrough by developing a system that collects visual activity in the human brain and roughly remodels it as digital video clips. After the process is perfected … Read More
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES– Experiments that create animal-human hybrids by implanting human material in lab animals should be more rightly regulated, a group of British scientists said in a new report. It may sound like something from a horror movie, but implanting a small number of human genes or cells in animals is nothing new: scientists have already made strides in medical … Read More
BBC– Developed by US computer scientists the software, called Telex, hides data from banned websites inside traffic from sites deemed safe. The software draws on well-known encryption techniques to conceal data making it hard to decipher. So far, Telex is only a prototype but in tests it has been able to defeat Chinese web filters. Outside in Telex was developed to … Read More
