(Natural News) This one’s for sci-fi lovers: A team of machine learning researchers from KU Leuven in Belgium found a simple hack to trick surveillance systems into thinking that a person is invisible. In their paper, which they presented in this year’s Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the team revealed how wearing a colorful printed […]

(Natural News) The NSA is spying on innocent American citizens, but not for the reasons you might think. While the official stance seems to be that data collection and other intrusive forms of NSA surveillance are a matter of national security, behind closed doors the federal agency has a far more clandestine purpose. As Edward […]

(Natural News) If Technology was to be diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, it’s darkest most sinister incarnation would be this.  No matter what angle we’ve taken when discussing tech we haven’t nearly treaded deep enough into the dark crevices to even begin to scratch the surface of the mass amount of people it could devastate in […]

(Natural News) There is growing and bipartisan alarm among Americans about the “bad acts” of Big Tech companies. For far too long, Big Tech has gotten away with profiting from human trafficking, revenge-porn, the opioid epidemic and drug addiction, terrorism, and other forms of human misery, while engaging in egregious business practices like snooping, spying, political bias against conservatives, employee abuses, and anticompetitive conduct. (Article by Mike Davis […]

(Natural News) We were hoping that President Donald Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” would involve the firing (or indictment and conviction) of rogue members of the deep state who couldn’t care less about the Constitution and run their agencies like their own unaccountable fiefdoms. So far, the president has managed to cut back on […]

(Natural News) Sometimes we have to shake our heads at the inertia of government — the processes that our system goes through just to validate or prove a founding constitutional principle. For instance, it should be self-evident that any law that deprives an American of their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms should […]

(Natural News) A New Jersey police department recently implemented new technology that allows 911 operators in the area to stream live video from callers’ smartphones with the touch of a button. While callers will still have to give their consent to such monitoring, some media outlets have dubbed the technology a slippery slope towards automatic […]

(Natural News) Want to go back to typewriters and hand-delivery of messages? In what may be a huge milestone in computing, Google says it has achieved “quantum supremacy,” an experimental demonstration of the superiority of a quantum computer over a traditional one. (Article by Karl Denninger republished from Market-Ticker.org) The claim, made in a new scientific paper, […]

(Natural News) Delta and Kohler have both teamed up with Amazon to start installing Alexa “smart” surveillance systems inside their faucets and toilets (to keep close track of people’s bodily functions?). According to reports, Delta is introducing a line of faucets equipped with so-called “Voice IQ” technology, which allows users to command their plumbing appliances […]

(Natural News) Like all the other tech giants, Google has been dogged by issues surrounding the way in which it protects the privacy of its users and what it does with their personal information. The company has had to deal with allegations that it allowed contractors to listen to audio snippets recorded by users, supposedly […]