Technology

A 61 year-old retired engineer from Tokyo, Hiroshi Endo, was no stranger to creating robots for use in projects such as the International Space Station, but his biggest achievement came out of one of the […]

If you thought text to speech was a relatively new phenomenon – think again. In the summer of 1846 in London’s Egyptian Hall, something truly bizarre was on display for people willing to pay one […]

Experts have warned that the technical capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are rising at an alarming rate, and that humans need to keep robots under control before its too late.  Following Google’s AlphaGo 3-0 victory […]

Terrorists can be identified by the victory signs they post in group photos and selfies, according to Jordanian scientists. Researchers have developed a method that, when combined with other data, could be helpful in breaking […]

The Chinese government is developing Orwellian surveillance technology to predict crimes or terrorist attacks before they take place by tapping into the thoughts of its citizens. The Big Brother technology is known as ‘Predictive policing’ […]

The first ever ransomware attack on an Apple computer has been uncovered. Huffington Post Canada reports: Security firm Palo Alto Networks reported Sunday that a form of ransomware had infected Transmission, a BitTorrent installer that […]

A team of scientists in California have unveiled a new type of Matrix-style learning that allows people to upload knowledge directly to their brains.  The scientists from HRL Laboratories say they have conducted experiments in which […]

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is to head the Pentagon’s new Innovation Advisory Board. The board will consist of 12 members that would be hand-picked by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Eric Schmidt. The cosy […]

DARPA, the highly secretive arm of the Department of Defense, have launched various projects that will involve implanting microchips into soldiers’ brains – in an attempt to enhance battlefield performance and repair the traumatized minds of […]

NASA in collaboration with Lockheed Martin are planning to make supersonic passenger travel a reality once again. Concorde, the last turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet that was made jointly by France and the U.K. was retired […]