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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

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

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

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,

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

Finally, people are starting to wake up to the dangers of predatory data mining. Unsurprisingly, it required the partisan fuel of the 2016 election and the specter of 'interference' to ignite our collective

With 'smart' tools, blockchain, and surveillance technologies all evolving at hyperbolic speeds, it was inevitable that the three would collide. The company Faceter, which bills itself as the ‘first

One of questions frequently asked of bitcoin investors is how will cryptocurrency actually find practical everyday uses. Well, for strippers and exotic dancers, the anonymity and cashless nature of bitcoin

The new startup, Nectome, is developing a way to "backup" human consciousness and cheat death. They have developed a specially-formed chemical solution which they say can preserve the physical

Last week, reports of Amazon’s virtual artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Alexa bursting into unprovoked, creepy hysterics went viral all across the Internet. Many users were so unnerved that they