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Meet your new robot overlords

Over the past few years Google has made strides into robotics, artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles... and that's just the secret projects we know about. Watching the pieces fall into place, it's hard to not see a certain pattern emerge. One that matches a familiar sci-fi world that filmmaker James Cameron first envisioned 30 years ago. One in which AI, robotics, and autonomous vehicles all unite in a winner-takes-all battle against humanity itself.

Google’s DC office is crammed to the brim with former spooks, intelligence officials and revolving door military contractors.

RT @isaach: meanwhile at google i/o

Think the NSA is scarry ? Watch this..

Designers create a Faraday-cage cloak to foil NSA, other spies

After all, putting an all-seeing Google eye in space gives a whole new meaning to “do not track.”

“We’re nowhere near Skynet today. That’s way the heck out there. That’s not close to anything that’s possible today.”

Thanks to Edward Snowden, we know the apparatus of repression has been covertly attached to the democratic state. However, our struggle to retain privacy is far from hopeless