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Monday, May 5th, 2008
By Clayton Dach | Amphetamines and the military first met somewhere in the fog of WWII, when axis and allied forces alike were issued speed tablets to head off fatigue on the battlefield.
More than 60 years later, the U.S. Air Force still doles out dextro-amphetamine to pilots whose duties do not afford them the luxury ...
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English village to be invaded in spybot competition
Monday, May 5th, 2008
By Ceri Perkins | A village in south-west England will shortly be swarming with robots competing to show off their surveillance skills. The event is the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD) answer to the US DARPA Grand Challenge that set robotic cars against one another to encourage advances in autonomous vehicles.
The MoD Grand Challenge is instead designed to boost development of ...
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Facial recognition is same as tossing coin
Monday, April 28th, 2008
By Geraint Bevan - NO2ID | After all the rhetoric about securing our borders, the Home Office has now announced its intent significantly to weaken passport control in the UK. Starting this summer, border guards will gradually be replaced at UK airports by machines performing automatic facial recognition, comparing digital photographs to the data stored on passport chips.
Four years ago, the Home ...
tagged Biometrics, Technology and UK-News
Brain-plug weapons could provide war crime immunity
Friday, April 25th, 2008
By Lewis Page |
An American law student has published an analysis of international law regarding war crimes that might be committed using future brain-interface-controlled weapon systems.
Stephen White, studying at Cornell Law School, had his paper Brave New World: Neurowarfare and the Limits of International Humanitarian Law published (pdf) in the current issue of the Cornell International Law Journal. ...
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Enhanced Tracking Technology May Help RFID
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008By DON CLARK A Los Angeles start-up says it has developed a way to dramatically expand the range of a popular wireless tracking technology, opening up many new applications for low-cost identification tags. Closely held Mojix Inc. says its enhancements to a technology known as RFID -- for radio frequency ...
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Brain scanner predicts your future moves
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Ewen Callaway New Scientist Long before you decided to read this story, your brain may have already said "click that link". By scanning the brains of test subjects as they pressed one button or another – though not a computer mouse – researchers pinpointed a signal that divulged the decision about seven seconds before people ever realised their choice. The discovery has implications for mind-reading, and the nature of free will. "Our ...
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New Domestic Satellite Surveillance System
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Plans for the Department of Homeland Security to launch a new satellite surveillance system is coming under new criticism on Capitol Hill. Last week, Secretary Michael Chertoff said the satellite surveillance system would be soon ready to go. But now the Wall Street Journal reports Democrats are threatening to shut down the program unless the department does more to address privacy concerns. The satellite program is designed to provide ...
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NSA releases new version of Linux software
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008WASHINGTON, March 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. National Security Agency has released its own version of the open-source computer operating system Linux, which offers enhanced security for users. The new software was rolled out earlier this month to an e-mail list for users of Linux -- an operating system that many experts believe provides a more secure alternative to the ubiquitous Microsoft Windows. Linux is open-source, which means the core ...
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The Next Civil Rights Battle Will Be Over the Mind
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008By Clive Thompson Wired Trolling down the street in Manhattan, I suddenly hear a woman's voice. "Who's there? Who's there?" she whispers. I look around but can't figure out where it's coming from. It seems to emanate from inside my skull. Was I going nuts? Nope. I had simply encountered a new advertising medium: hypersonic sound. It broadcasts audio in a focused beam, so that only a ...
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Documents prove FBI tracks Internet and phones
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008FBI also spies on home soil for military, documents show; Much information acquired without court order John Byrne The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been routinely monitoring the e-mails, instant messages and cell phone calls of suspects across the United States -- and has done so, in many cases, without the approval of a court. Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and given to the Washington Post -- which stuck ...
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Did BT spy on 36,000 customers?
Sunday, April 6th, 2008By MATTHEW HICKLEY BT tested secret "spyware" on tens of thousands of its broadband customers without their knowledge, it admitted yesterday. It carried out covert trials of a system which monitors every internet page a user visits. Companies can exploit such data to target users with tailored online advertisements. An investigation into the affair has been started by the Information Commissioner, the personal data watchdog. Privacy campaigners reacted with horror, accusing BT of illegal interception ...
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Mobile phones ‘more dangerous than smoking’
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation. Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation. The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, ...
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Brain scan lie detectors ‘may already be in use’
Friday, March 28th, 2008A brain imaging technique called fMRI may be being used as a "lie detector" by US intelligence agencies, despite concerns over unreliability and the possibility of abuse, a leading academic has claimed. Professor Jonathan Marks, a bioethicist at Pennsylvania State University in the US and a lawyer at London's Matrix Chambers, says in an article in the American Journal of Law and Medicine that he believes that the use of ...
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Are Biometrics the Future of Credit Cards?
Monday, February 25th, 2008Credit and debit cards have taken the place of cash for most modern transactions. What’s next? According to research from Emme Kozloff, a Sanford Bernstein analyst, the power to buy groceries will soon be at your fingertips. Wal Mart and Costco are looking into biometric payment systems. These work by recognizing the fingerprint of registered users. The customers place their fingertip on a pad, then select which form of payment ...
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Hackers Steal Data From Former CU
Thursday, February 7th, 2008By David Morrison FORT WORTH, Texas – OmniAmerican Bank, an institution that started life as OmniAmerican Credit Union before converting to a bank charter in 2005, has suffered a date security breach that allowed some of the bank depositors to have money stolen, according to local press reports. The local media quoted Tim Carter, president of the former CU bank, as saying that the ...
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