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Facebook apologises for psychological experiments on users
The second most powerful executive at the company, Sheryl Sandberg, says experiments were ‘poorly communicated’ Facebook’s second most powerful executive, Sheryl Sandberg, has apologised for the conduct of secret psychological tests on nearly 700,000 users
Read More »Facebook’s Psychological Experiments Connected to Department of Defense Research on Civil Unrest
It turns out that one of the researchers who ran Facebook's recent psychological experiments received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to study the contagion of ideas There has been quite a bit of
Read More »Everything We Know About Facebook’s Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment
It was probably legal. But was it ethical? Facebook’s News Feed—the main list of status updates, messages, and photos you see when you open Facebook on your computer or phone—is not a perfect mirror of
Read More »Facebook reveals news feed experiment to control emotions
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Read More »Pure Genius: How Dean Kamen’s Invention Could Bring Clean Water To Millions
At first glance, the bright red shipping container that sits by the side of the road in a slum outside Johannesburg doesn’t look like something that could transform hundreds of lives. Two sliding doors
Read More »DARPA is turning drones into wireless hotspots
Google and Facebook aren't the only ones trying to beam down connectivity from the sky: DARPA, the US Defense Department's advanced research agency, is trying to turn drones into hotspots for high-speed wireless networks,
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Read More »Facebook Moves to Create Virtual Reality World of Social Control
Control the environment and you control human behavior and, ultimately, the destiny of humanity Earlier this week, Facebook dropped $2 billion to buy the virtual reality company Oculus Rift, described by Dave Thier of Forbes
Read More »DARPA developing ultimate web search engine to police the internet
The Pentagon’s research arm that fosters futuristic technology for the military will soon begin working to surpass current abilities of commercial web search engines. Yet, once it masters the “deep Web,” the agency doesn’t
Read More »Nanobiometrics Will Track You By Smell
In a few short years, we already have become accustomed to drone surveillance and an array of biometric ID tracking technology that has formed a pervasive matrix of identification and personal data retention. As discussed
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