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After a big shakeup in their executive circle, Facebook's head of Messenger will now lead a new group that studies the potential of blockchain for Facebook. Here's my new article for Anti-Media about this

A coalition of digital rights and consumer groups have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission claiming Facebook's facial recognition technology violates the privacy rights of users. On April

It was interesting to read that both Buzzfeed and Vice missed their revenue targets this year. Despite the massive amount of digital media consumed on desktop and mobile platforms, a lot of publishers

Nary a month goes by that I don't see an article somewhere pronouncing that Minority Report is coming to life--that pre-crime policing is here. Usually, when you drill further into it you find that a company

This week we were treated to a veritable carnival attraction as Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of one of the largest tech companies in the world, testified before Senate committees about privacy issues related to

While we think of the social network as a revolutionary tool for connecting people, it was designed to be addictive, to exploit a vulnerability in people. This was said in no uncertain terms when Sean

A new robot called Fribo is being used to promote social connectivity and reduce isolation. The technology combines robotics, artificial intelligence, and social networking to make people, mostly young

On the Thursday edition of Anti-Media Radio on UCY.TV, we discussed the continued fallout of the Facebook data scandal, comparing how each of the Big 5 tech giants--Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, and

The recent scandal involving Facebook's data harvesting operations being exploited by a third-party vulture highlighted what many already knew: "surveillance capitalism" has gotten way out of

The late great cosmologist Stephen Hawking spent his illustrious career battling the most enigmatic and vexing questions in our known universe, such as black holes, quantum mechanics, dark matter, and

Retail giant Walmart has filed a patent for autonomous robotic bees who will be used to pollinate crops. Precipitated by the decline of natural honey bees, which nourish 1/3rd of human food supplies but

Technological growth continues to lead us into a society stunningly similar to the world portrayed in the show Black Mirror. A new report estimates that within three years the Pentagon expects to have

We can now add a new Microsoft policy of punishing account users who use “offensive language” while logged into one of their products or services to the growing list of draconian measures employed by tech

One of the holy grails of science fiction is the idea of a fusion reactor--a form of power generation in which energy is produced from a fusion reaction. It is conceivably the starship engine of the future

Many companies use surveys to gauge the mindsets of employees. Now, in the age of artificial intelligence, SPS Companies Inc. has contracted an artificial intelligence tool known as Xander to help analyze

With the Big 5 tech companies--Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft--increasingly under fire about privacy violations, collusion with the government, and draconian surveillance and censorship,

The salient facts of the new Cambridge Analytica scandal are bad, and the optics are even worse for Facebook, which is already facing multiple battles both in legal courts and the court of public opinion.

Likely you’ve heard of the recent imbroglio involving Facebook, a ‘data breach,’ and a company called Cambridge Analytica. While the underlying problem--which is the selling of Facebook users’ private

Scientists now fear the human race faces the danger of being hacked...by aliens. In a new paper, astrophysicists Michael Hippke and John Learned argue that aliens may seek to destroy our civilization but

Less than two weeks before his death, Stephen Hawking submitted what was to become his final scientific paper. The paper, called “A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation,” lays the groundwork for detecting