The 5 most damaging, most culturally regressive, sinister tech patents in the world today.
(ANTIMEDIA) Patents are governmental grants that legally establish the sole rights of an invention. In modern times, patents on technological advancements are resulting in some dangerous, arguably sinister, consequences on our society, namely the stifling of innovation in the small business landscape and the outright litigious bullying of
Mark West, a UNESCO project officer says that the fact that 25 percent fewer women than men currently access the Internet “was alarming” and that changes needed to occur early in education so that girls were not left out of future jobs.
Providing women with greater access to mobile technology could increase literacy, advance development and open up much-needed educational and employment opportunities, according to experts at the fourth United Nations’ Mobile Learning Week conference here. “Mobile technology can offer learning where there are no books, no classrooms, even no
It may be the case that the cryptocurrency is most valuable as a development platform for other products — products that could ultimately revolutionize the ways we think about and handle data.
The U.S. Marshals Service announced last Monday that it will be auctioning off 50,000 of the bitcoins it seized from the accounts of Ross William Ulbricht. Ulbricht, who operated under the pseudonym the Dread Pirate Roberts, allegedly operated the first iteration of Silk Road, the online marketplace accessible only through Tor that sold drugs,
A different type of Apple iPhone 6/Samsung Galaxy S5 comparison.
“Hacktivist” tells of government attempts to silence transparency and civil liberties advocates by abusing technology and the public’s privacy in general.
Out this week is the long-anticipated print edition of the comic book “Hacktivist” by American actress Alyssa Milano, which tells the story of two people who co-founded a fictional social media networking company, and just so happen to also be part of the largest hacking group in the world. According to Comic Book Resources, “The story follows
NASA, the agency that first placed a man on the moon, relies on private contractors and the Chinese for space access.
The International Space Station -- the largest man-made object currently in orbit of the planet -- was destined to meet its fate in 2020. The budgeted end of the ISS is symbolic of the current fate of NASA. With funding cut to the space agency to levels not seen since the administration of George W. Bush, a mixture of sequestration and low-interest
