Did you know that a drone can recognize a tennis shoe from 60,000 feet above the ground? Dones can be equipped with advanced technology like infrared thermal imaging cameras to uncover details that are not visible to the naked human eye. Contrary to what you may have learned from this highly informative SNL video, drones aren’t just used to “find the bad guys” or for military purposes. In fact. civilian drones are scheduled to be permitted in the national airspace as early as 2015. But before we see drones flying in the air everywhere we go, there are a lot of kinks to work out in terms of regulation, partially on on the privacy and civil liberties fronts.…
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We are well on the road (so to speak) to having driverless cars, but while we are waiting, Ford has already put plans into motion to produce cars with steering wheel and other biometric sensors that monitor our stress levels, shut off our cell phones, tablets and can even prevent us from driving altogether if the car decides that we’re too agitated. Call it an “auto-vention.”
The good news is you soon will be able to purchase a car with the money saved not having to pay a shrink who would have just told you the same thing.
The bad news is this is yet another instance of technology turning us into a nation of helpless incompetents who cannot be trusted to do anything ourselves, the most irritating manifestation of which is the modern public restroom.…
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Hands off! Why Self-Flushing Toilets Will Be the End of Us All
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Drones: Coming to City Near You
Is CISPA the Worst Privacy Disaster Our Country Has Ever Faced?
Somewhere in between the madness of last week’s events in Boston, Congress passed CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (with a majority of 288 to 127!) that some are calling the worst privacy disaster our country has ever faced. If you thought SOPA and PIPA were bad, well, Gizmodo warns that CISPA might be a lot worse.…
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Tell Twitter You’re Thirsty and It’ll Tell You What to Drink. Whether You Like It Or Not
I may open a Twitter account just so I can send Nihal Mehta nasty tweets.
Mehta is one of several hot young social media “mavens” or “hotshots” or some might say, “parasites” spotlighted in a recent issue of Entrepreneur magazine. The item about him was not more than a couple hundred words long, but long enough to make you put down the magazine and say to yourself, “That, right there, is everything that’s wrong with social media.”…
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Steubenville & Social Media: How Twitter Brought Two Rapists To Justice
On Monday, March 17, two high school football stars accused of raping a 16-year-old girl, in one of the most publicized rape cases in recent history, were found guilty. The story, sadly, was not such an uncommon one: male teen athletes taking advantage of a young girl is a storyline that has played on television shows like Law & Order: SVU countless times. But in this particular episode, social media was a central part of not just the crime itself, but also of the way to perpetrators were finally brought to justice…
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