Technology News

 

The internet was designed as a smart wide-area network in the 1960s by defence departments in the United States, United Kingdom and France.  The internet was designed to re-route data traffic to get to its destination should any of the mid nodes be taken down.  In the 1970s, the internet was made available to the education system and in the 1980s the technology was commercialized.  Use of the internet boomed in the 1990s.  (Wikipedia)

People born in the early to mid-1900s have seen amazing changes to technology:  from horse and buggy to automobiles and airplanes; radios, telephones and televisions as household habits; calculators, desktop and laptop computers; satellites; networks wired and wireless; cellular telephones; and now convergence – the merging of all the different technologies in forms both foreseen by science fiction and much not expected at all.  Technology is exciting.  It broadens our horizons.  It gives us capabilities beyond ourselves.  But perhaps we are moving too fast to really ask ourselves – are there any risks?  The answer is yes, to both your physical and personal security.

 

Artificial Intelligence

There is a lot of talk about artificial intelligence (AI) these days with mainstream sources conveying the impression that computers are ready to take over the world.  The impression is more dangerous than reality. 

·         In reality, computers are simply electricity flowing through wires.  Their Archilles’ heel is electricity.  Turn off or interfere with the power (on/off, electro-magnetic pulse (EMP), pull the battery, drop the box,) and computers are useless.

·         Computers are programmable.  Programmed algorithms are servants of the programmer/funder (i.e. slot machines).

·         Computers can be hacked (i.e. voting machines).

·         Computers cannot be random as their logic is mathematical and can be recreated.  Once a computer can be truly random, then AI is possible.  However, the powers-that-be do not want random, they want control. 

Today’s adage that computer systems require more and more data proves that today’s “AI” is really just consensus data based on vast computer resources rather than true artificial intelligence.  True artificial intelligence does not yet exist.

 

The danger of prematurely declaring artificial-intelligence is that the powers-that-aught-not-be and other charlatans will use AI as an infinite excuse for bad or criminal behaviour.  Once a computer “takes charge”, humans are able to offload responsibility even though human programming/intent is actually at fault.  Meanwhile, “AI” simply consists of censored data or outright lies equivalent to propaganda.

 

For instance,

 

 

Knowing that computers are 100% man-made, why do we expect computers to be infallible?

 

 

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2023-06-15

Westernjournal.com

An AI Program Is Pretending to Be Jesus and Thousands of Lost Young People Are Flocking to It

 

Rachel M. Emmanuel

 

 

Genetic Engineering

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2023-01-31

Gateway Pundit

What Could Go Wrong? Scientists Launch Project to Bring the Dodo Bird Back from the Dead

 

-      Cullen Linebarger

2023-01-19

technologyreview.com

These scientists used CRISPR to put an alligator gene into catfish

 

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2000

 

Full sequencing of the human genome accomplished

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Matrix / MetaVerse

See AO News - Matrix

 

 

Quantum Computing

https://www.bitchute.com/video/wgCuKTN8sX0/

 

https://isaacarthur.net/video/quantum-computing/

 

 

Wireless

Wireless technology is convenient.  The ability to pass energy and data through the air is both amazing and useful.  Restaurant servers can take your order, which goes directly to the kitchen.  Store clerks can run around taking inventory directly updating the system.  You can sit on a beach with your phone or laptop and work, read or play games.

 

However, all those signals – and the results of all those cross-signals, are biologically dangerous to you, your children, your grandchildren and all the animals, insects and birds of the natural world.

 

Definitively, wireless should not be in your child’s school.  And wireless in your home should be turned off at night while you are sleeping.  Or better yet, used wired technology instead.

 

Today wireless technology can be achieved through Bluetooth, WiFi and cellular networks.

 

Click here for AO’s research about Wireless/Electromagnetic/Smart/WiFi/5G News

 

 

 

 

 

NEWS:  General Technology

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2022-10-25

technocracy.news

Boom: Single Chip Can Transmit Twice The Throughput Of Entire Internet

 

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-      New data transfer record of 1.8 petabytes per second

-      1 petabyte = 1,000 terabytes

2021-11-29

CNN

World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say

 

Katie Hunt

2021-10-14

Cleanbowled.in

Facebook announces Ego 4D first-person video dataset for AI training.

 

Thomas Clear

-      Using video to train AI

2020-08-23

CBS News

Automated Trucking, A Technical Milestone That Could Disrupt Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs, Hits the Road

 

Jon Wertheim

2020-04-10

TheGuardian.com

Tech giants struggle to stem 'infodemic' of false coronavirus claims

Julia Carrie Wong

[COVID-19]

[obvious collaborated censorship of internet begins]

2020-01-24

Global News

Ontario watchdog would be ‘very concerned’ about police using tools like Clearview AI

 

Rachel Browne

2020-01-21

CBC Radio

The end of anonymity? Facial recognition app used by police raises serious concerns, say privacy advocates

 

- Clearview A.I.

2020-01-16

LawTimesNews.com

How lawyers brought down internet trolls — without ever uncovering their identities

 

Anita Balakrishnan

2020-01-07

CBC News

Hundreds to lose jobs to automation, consolidation of 2 Loblaws distribution centres

 

 

2020-01-02

CBC News

'Completely unsustainable': How streaming and other data demands take a toll on the environment

 

Thomas Daigle

2019-10-31

Element14.com

OmniVision earns world record for the world’s smallest image sensor

 

Cabe Atwell

2019-10-08

TheStar.com (Jakarta)

Fake news spark mass panic

 

2019-08-16

Youtube / Dana Ashlie

A solution they DO NOT want you to know (40 mins)

 

[COVID-19]

 

2019-07-04

National Observer

Politicians can block you on Twitter. But should they?

 

Emma McIntosh, Fatima Syed

2019-06-18

The Guardian

Libra: Facebook launches cryptocurrency in bid to shake up global finance

 

Kari Paul

 

2019-06-13

South China Morning Post

Most meat won’t come from slaughtered animals by 2040, new report claims

 

The Guardian

- AO Farming Culture

2019-05-11

NBC News

How facial recognition became a routine policing tool in America

 

Jon Schuppe

2019-04-09

Ethicalcorp.com

Indigenous people’s livelihoods at risk in scramble for lithium, the new white gold’

 

Eniko Horvath

2019-02-01

Bloomberg Technology

How Drones Can Plant and Protect Trees After Wildfires

 

DroneSeed

2018-08-23

TheGuardian.com

Russian trolls 'spreading discord' over vaccine safety online

 

Jessica Glenza

2018-08-05

Wired

The spiralling environmental cost of our lithium battery addiction

 

Amit Katwala

- AO Info - Mining

2018-06-18

Youtube / Motherboard

Surveillance and the City: Know When You're Being Watched (4 mins)

 

Ingrid Burrington

2018-03-08

Bloomberg

The Battery Will Kill Fossil Fuels—It's Only a Matter of Time

 

Mark Chediak

2017-10-26

Collective Evolution

“Black Mirror” Meets Reality:  China Moves to Rate its Citizens Using a “Social Credit System”

 

Kalee Brown

2017-10-21

Wired

Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens

 

Rachel Botsman

“Social Credit System”

2017-09-25

Michael Geist

An Industry Divided: How Bell Broke With the Telecom Sector on Copyright

 

Michael Geist

2017-09-11

Healthnutnews.com

Top scientist admits on live TV: Recent hurricanes are man-made

Erin Elizabeth

HAARP

Youtube link – Michio Kaku

2017-08-31

Collective Evolution

Here are the Electronics & Apps in your Home that Secretly Monitor You & Map Your Home

 

Kalee Brown

2017-07-24

Epoch Times

Wis. Company Offering to Implant Microchips in Workers’ Hands

 

Jack Phillips

2017-07-24

Gizmodo.com

Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder

 

Rhett Jones

2017-07-10

BBC News

The coming battle over 'net neutrality'

 

Hannah Henderson

2017-06-06

Youtube / Mashable

How Drones are Helping to Plant Trees - A Cleaner Future

 

Mashable

-        Droneseed

2017-05-19

Mashable

These game-changing solar panels are cheap and can be printed

 

Johnny Lieu

AO Solar News

2017-05-24

National Observer

RCMP charge Alberta women with threatening Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

 

John Cotter

2017-05-12

TheGuardian.com

Massive ransomware cyber-attack hits 74 countries around the world

 

Julia Carrie Wong and Olivia Solon

2017-04-25

WorldAtlas.com

The Most Spied Upon Cities in the World

Kimutai Gilbert

- Chongqing, New York, Chicago, Beijing, London

2017-03-03

CBC News

What happens when a Canadian border agent asks to search your phone?

 

Matthew Braga

2017-01-28

Motherboard.vice.com

The Data That Turned the World Upside Down

 

Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus

2016-12-01

Cracked.com

Signs Of A Creepy Government Conspiracy At Standing Rock

Robert Evans

AO Info: Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)

2016-11-29

Drone Shield

Video:  Gian gun takes down drones (2 mins)

 

 

2016-11-15

New York Times

Secret Backdoor in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China, Analysts Say

 

Matt Apuzzo

Michael S. Schmidt

2016-11-15

Toronto Star

Top-secret RCMP files show digital roadblocks thwarting criminal investigations in Canada

 

Robert Cribb, Dave Seglins, Chelsea Gomez

2017-03-09

Arstechnica.com (USA)

Police win warrant to search Dakota Access Pipeline protest Facebook page

 

David Kravets

2017-02-17

Collective Evolution

Why Heating Your Food with Microwave Radiation Might be a Terrible Idea

 

Arjun Walia

2016-11-02

CBC News

ANALYSIS

'Feels like blackmail': Canada needs to take a hard look at its piracy notice system

 

Sophia Harris

2016-10-25

Ring of Fire Network

At&T Joins Ranks of Companies Selling and Sharing Your Data

 

Sydney Robinson

2016-09-15

TheVerge.com

Facebook censored a live stream video posted by Dakota pipeline protesters

 

Amar Toor

2016-09-15

Desmogblog.com

Did an Industry Front Group Create Fake Twitter Accounts to Promote the Dakota Access Pipeline?

 

Steve Horn

2016-09-08

Toronto Star

EU court rules for Playboy in fight over links to celebrity pictures

 

Aoife White, Bloomberg

2016-08-26

CBC News

Hungover customer brings heaps of business to struggling Alberta fish and chip shop

 

- thanks to review on facebook

2016-06-10

Business Insider

The 3 biggest ways self-driving cars will improve our lives

 

Cadie Thompson

2016-02-24

EcoWatch / Lorraine Chow

Ever Wonder What’s Happened to the More Than 570 Million iPhones Sold Since 2007?

 

Lorraine Chow

2016-02-24

TrueActivist.com (USA)

Owners Of Unregistered Drones May Face Up To 3 Years In Prison Under New Restrictions

 

John Vibes

2016-02-19

TrueActivist.com (USA)

The NYPD is Spying on Your Cell Phone and It’s Worse Than You Thought

 

Derrick Broze

- cell site simulators “Stingray”

2016-01-14

OpenMedia.org

Important precedent for cell phone privacy in Canada set in landmark ruling

 

Laura Tribe

2015-11-12

CTV News Vancouver

Vancouver cops mum on use of controversial surveillance technology

Geordon Omand, The Canadian Press

-Stingray

2015-08-27

Youtube / Buzz 60

Police can use drones to taser people in North Dakota

 

b/60

2015-06-02

NY Times

The Agency

 

Adrian Chen

2015-04-14

EcoWatch / Lorraine Chow

Stunning Photos Capture Devastating Worldwide E-Waste Problem

 

Lorraine Chow

2015-04-06

CBC News

Canada finally commits its share of funds for Thirty Meter Telescope

 

 

2015-02-09

BBC News

Not in front of the telly: Warning over 'listening' TV

 

 

2015-02-06

Youtube / TEDx

Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson

 

Sharyl Attkisson, investigative journalist

2015-02-03

Ring of Fire Radio

Thanks to Grassroots Support, FCC Chair will Support Net Neutrality Regulations

 

 

2015-01-23

Fast Company

Portland's New Pipes Harvest Power From Drinking Water

 

Adele Peters

- water pipeline

2015-01-20

Technology Review

Drones That Can Suck Up Water Hunt Oil Leaks, Invasive Species

 

Andrew Rosenblum

2015-01-07

CBC News

Canada backs internet 'direct democracy' abroad, but faces questions at home

 

Evan Dyer

2014-11-06

CBC News

CRTC bans 30-day notice for cancelling TV, phone, internet

 

- effective Jan. 23rd, 2015

2014-09-15

Globe and Mail

The covert cellphone tracking tech the RCMP and CSIS won’t talk about

 

Matthew Braga

2014-09-11

Ring of Fire Radio

FCC Receives Record Number of Comments Supporting Net Neutrality

Amy Eddings

- 1.5 million comments against internet “slow lanes” & “fast lanes”

2014-09-02

Globe and Mail

In 'kill, kill, kill' world of social media, PR isn't enough. Just ask the dog-kicking CEO

 

Susan Krashinsky

2014-06-27

Toronto Star

Why has Canada’s new anti spam law caused such an uproar: Geist

 

Michael Geist

2013-10-24

The Verge

Samsung fined $340,000 for faking online comments

 

Aaron Souppouris

- “astroturfing”

2013-10-14

Ottawa Citizen

How trade deals threaten modern culture

Reilly Yeo and Steve Anderson

- copyright & the internet

- Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

2013-01-29

OpenMedia.ca

Petition to protest Rogers deal with Shaw to take over systems crucial to mobile internet and phone services

Petition to Industry Minister of Canada, Christian Paradis

AWS set-aside spectrum reserved for new entrants

2013-01-15

Globe and Mail

Shaw hangs up on its cellular plans

Rita Trichur

Shaw selling wireless licences to Rogers

2012-06-18

Toronto Sun

Google: Government requests to censor content “alarming”

 

Claire Davenport, Reuters

 

 

Technology can be used to benefit humanity.  It can also be used to infringe on fundamental rights and freedoms.  It is used for war.  See AO News – Surveillance Technology

 

 

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