Biometric Society

Do you really want to live forever?Futurist Ray Kurzweil has predicted that humans will achieve immortality in just seven years.The 75-year-old computer scientist and former Google engineer, who received the National Medal of Technology in 1999 and was inducted into the National Inventors...

(Reuters) -Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society and...

By one unique metric, we could approach technological singularity by the end of this decade, if not sooner. A translation company developed a metric, Time to Edit (TTE), to calculate the time it takes for professional human editors to fix AI-generated...

Oxford researchers are warning of the danger of artificial intelligence surpassing human power. The scientists are calling for a regulation to protect society from advanced algorithms. Advanced AI can work “game theory” so that it stays a step ahead of efforts...

Next time you’re at airport security, get ready to look straight into a camera. The TSA wants to analyze your face.The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly testing controversial facial recognition technology for passenger screening at 16 major domestic airports —...

A DAD is the first Brit to get microchipped with a bank card implant — letting him pay with just his hand.Arnie Szoke, 40, forked out £350 to have the op in Germany.The NHS healthcare assistant said cashiers and other...

Scientists have managed to turn one of the deadliest insects into a vaccine delivery system. According to new reports from NPR, a clinical trial for a system meant to use mosquitoes to deliver vaccines has been underway in the United...

Have you ever wondered about the passage in the Bible about a government restricting the population so that you cannot buy or sell unless you have a particular mark? Well, China's move toward a cashless society is the answer. This is...

Holographic teleportation sounds like something out of Star Wars or Star Trek, but instead of the bridge of a flashy interstellar spaceship, a world-first technological achievement took place in a nondescript boardroom on campus at Western recently.The term holographic...

The authors of a new report on digital identity systems warned “the actual and potential” human rights violations arising from the digital ID model can be “severe and potentially irreversible.”The 100-page report — “Paving the Road to Hell? A Primer on the Role...