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Could Google Become Skynet? 8 Products That Prove It’s Already There:
Think the NSA is scarry ? Watch this..
Inside Edward Snowden’s Life as a Robot
Snowden can drive his in-office telepresence system with his keyboard’s arrow keys at around two miles an hour. It has an eight hour battery life before it needs to dock into a $950 charging station, and even comes with a “party mode” that activates more ambient microphones and elevates the volume of its speaker.
Designers create a Faraday-cage cloak to foil NSA, other spies
Designers create a Faraday-cage cloak to foil NSA, other spies
How ISIS militants in Iraq evade surveillance
ISIS communicates using human beings—not the Internet or phones, networks the U.S. intelligence apparatus can surveil with relative ease. Human couriers, in contrast, move quietly, quickly, and blend into the local population, rendering them effectively invisible.
Facebook App Knows What You’re Hearing, Watching
The audio-recognition feature works similar to the app Shazam, which also can identify music and television programming using the built-in microphones in mobile phones.
“I fundamentally believe technology will keep increasing the [wealth] gap,”
"What's happening is if you have a great idea and the technical skills to implement it you can create disproportionate wealth very quickly," he said. "That's good by itself except it increases disparity." That disparity, Khosla said, will only continue to grow as machine learning and big data technologies improves. Eventually, software will have the ability to replace everything from farmworkers picking lettuce to law clerks.
Skybox or Skynet?
After all, putting an all-seeing Google eye in space gives a whole new meaning to “do not track.”