Snowden: The NSA's building Skynet to fight wars online

These robots are our golems — utterly unpredictable, entirely unaccountable, alarmingly enabling. The horizon of war reeks of their casualties, with every blue face, every lank arm, the output of an arbitrary machine.

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.

The U.S. Secret Service is looking to buy software to help it distinguish between sarcastic remarks made on social media and legitimate threats.

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Sony Pictures Entertainment has optioned the film rights to the book “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State” with the James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli ..

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NSA performed warrantless searches on Americans' calls and emails – Clapper

RT @BanKillerRobots: Every technology invented was supposed to put an end to war, but rather it done opposite by providing new opportunitie…

RT @BanKillerRobots: Fully autonomous weapons are never going to work b/c logic of war is asymmetrical based on different moral codes/conve…