Facebook Sets off to Normalize Facial Recognition
Facebook is taking its facial recognition technology another step forward and plans to use it to figure out if anyone posts any pictures online that include you, whether [...]
Social Psychology
Facebook’s New AI Takes On Suicide Prevention Job
There are so many voices in the world demonizing Artificial Intelligence, that sometimes it’s good to remember of all the good things that can come out of this [...]
China To Grade Citizens’ Trustworthiness by Snooping on Social Media
Not so long ago, George Orwell’s “1984” seemed like something that could never actually happen. Then, revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillance practices [...]
Airport Facial Recognition May Cut Your Travel Time, Boost Security
Another country’s airports are about to roll out face recognition technology, and that may be a very good thing. Sure, it sounds invasive on some level – [...]
Six strikes anti-piracy program fails
We all watch movies, and some of us sometimes watches movies, that they find online on torrenting or streaming sites. Even youtube is full of pirated content. The ordinary, [...]
Act now: the 4 most unhealthy tech-trends of today
In our minds the future is either a bright cosy place full of sunshine or an oppressive regime of mad dictators with an army equipped with cutting edge technology all lined [...]
We Need to Teach Kids How to Be Skeptical of the Internet
The internet is a beautiful escape, the world’s most wide-reaching communication device, the biggest business ever conceived, and a leveler of who has the tools to [...]
17 things you will certainly regret not starting 2017 with!
Your data worth money! Facebook is storing a few metric tons of information about all of us, called marketing data. I sometimes wonder exactly what intel, and how they [...]
High-Impact Technology For Climate Change Is Already Here
The problem is that CleanTechnica is all over clean tech like white on rice, so how do you choose, for example, between cheap solar cells that can be painted on any surface [...]
Privacy is still alive and kicking in the digital age
Most often, it appears, we live in open and too easily accessible data networks. States and corporations are watching us through data, and we are watching each other through [...]