Scientists are constructing Roboy as a tendon-driven robot modeled on human beings (robots usually have their motors in their joints, giving them that “robot” break-dance look),...
IBM believes computers will have all five human senses, and will communicate with us in radically different ways.
Refusing the mark! Andrea Hernandez is being involuntarily withdrawn from John Jay High School in San Antonio for refusing the new RFID chip tracking ID badge
The device, called a Magic Band, includes a radio-frequency-identification chip. Walt Disney Parks and Resorts recently got permission from the Federal Communications Commission to try out...
Hernandez says subjecting herself to constant monitoring by way of wearing a RFID chip is comparable to clothing herself in the “mark of the beast.”
The name of this new promotion is called "We Will Find You." The whole idea of it is to make you relax and feel comfortable with...
California has become the third state to welcome driverless cars with open arms. Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law today that officially legalized self-driving...
US law enforcement agencies are implementing a tool called Voice Grid Nation able to store, analyze and identify voices in seconds. YOUR voice.
Riots by Muslims that began on September 11, 2012, have reached Jerusalem, where demonstrations were held after Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque in the Old...
The FBI has begun rolling out facial recognition to identify criminals. "FACE recognition is 'now'," declared Alessandro Acquisti of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in a...
Domain Awareness System is a joint venture between city and Microsoft. Commissioner Ray Kelly says system is able to access information through live video feeds and...
The NYPD says it will launch an all-seeing "Domain Awareness System" that combines several streams of information to track both criminals and potential terrorists. Police Commissioner...
Imagine a cheap, tiny, hovering aerial drone capable of being launched with the flick of a person’s wrist and able to provide manipulable 360-degree surveillance views....
The Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems hopes to allow researchers to grow insect nerves into silicon computer chip connections to allow the insects to be remote controlled...
A new generation of computerised 'Big Brother’ cameras are able to spot if you are a terrorist or a criminal - before you even commit a...
“I would insist on every individual having a unique ID permanently attached, an implanted chip to provide an easy, fast inexpensive way to identify individuals,” she...
The USDA is now considering biometric identification for all individuals who will want to benefit from their Food and Nutrition Services. Biometric identification technology provides automated...
The Texas Northside Independent School District plans to track students next year on two of its campuses using technology implanted in their student identification cards in...
The U.S. military wants to plant nanosensors in soldiers to monitor health on future battlefields and immediately respond to needs, but a privacy expert warns the...
Touché could let people manipulate their smartphones without taking the phones out of their pockets. Want to turn the volume down on some music? Users could...
A hi-tech chip allows a phone to 'see through' walls, wood and plastics - and through fabrics such as clothing. The team's research involves tapping into...
Take a look at the green stuff in your wallet and prepare to say goodbye to it in the future: By 2020, most Americans will be...
The Pentagon has placed an order with Innovega for lenses which focus 3D battlefield information from drones and satellites directly into people's eyeballs. The experience is...
Broadcom has just rolled out a chip for smart phones that promises to indicate location ultra-precisely, possibly within a few centimeters, vertically and horizontally, indoors and...