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Mar 9, 2016
Apple Says the NSA Should Hack San Bernardino Terrorist’s iPhone
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, electronics, encryption, government, law, mobile phones, privacy
Let’s just hypothesize a little on this topic: let’s say Apple goes ahead and gives in to the US Government and enables government to access the phone’s info. Does Apple have any protection in the future from lawsuits from it’s customers in situations where their own customers information is hacked by criminals and published to the world or used for illegal activities? Because I do see in the future more lawsuits coming at the tech companies for not ensuring their platforms and devices are un-hackable. So, if the government has its way; what protections does tech have now with any future lawsuits by consumers and other businesses?
His comments come during the ongoing legal battle over an iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the individuals responsible for the San Bernardino, Calif. mass shooting December 2. “I don’t think requiring backdoors with encryption is either going to be an effective way to increase security or is really the right thing to do for just the direction that the world is going to”.
This is because First Amendment treats computer code as speech and according to Apple, meeting the demands of the government would be equivalent to “compelled speech and viewpoint discrimination”.
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Mar 9, 2016
China Makes Techonological Breakthrough With Quantum Space Satellite
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: government, quantum physics, space
China’s Quantum Satellite — it’s now official China has beaten the US with their launch of a Quantum Satellite for secured communications. At this rate; US can possibly expect China has and will continue to advance its networking infrastructure. US Government has a good strategy in place.
Quantum space satellite, a satellite under the Chinese space program, is making waves in the country as it is the first satellite to deliver quantum communication in China, according to Chinese state media.
This new innovation is a breakthrough technology and it will be an asset for China’s power all over the globe.
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Mar 9, 2016
Canada To Test Universal Basic Income For Citizens
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: economics, government
By Jacob Bojesson
The Canadian province of Ontario will join several European countries in testing Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) in the near future.
UBI is a a monthly allowance given to all citizens regardless of their socioeconomic status. Ontario’s regional government will release its designs for a pilot program in 2016.
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Mar 8, 2016
The U.S. Government Launches a $100-Million “Apollo Project of the Brain”
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, government, information science, military, neuroscience, robotics/AI
US Government’s cool $100 mil in brain research. As we have been highlighting over the past couple of months that the US Government’s IARPA and DARPA program’s have and intends to step up their own efforts in BMIs and robotics for the military; I am certain that this research will help their own efforts and progress.
Intelligence project aims to reverse-engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans.
By Jordana Cepelewicz on March 8, 2016.
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Mar 7, 2016
The quantum computer that could ‘spell the end of encryption’: Device uses lasers on atoms to quickly crack ‘impossible’ codes
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, encryption, government, internet, quantum physics
Much of the Quantum Internet technology has been in testing at Los Alamos. And, China has stepped up it’s own efforts in Quantum Internet and Computing in order to replace their whole infrastructure before the US and anyone else does due to both the opportunity as well as the threat of not being on Quantum.
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The next 5 years will prove for US and it’s allies a critical period. And, their real challenge is how quickly the US can mature the technology & how soon they can onboard everyone that are high targets for less friendly government backed hackers.
The researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) call their scalable quantum computer ‘the beginning of the end for encryption schemes’.
Mar 5, 2016
China looks to ramp up Internet growth, and its controls
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, encryption, government, internet, quantum physics
Something for everyone to keep a closer eye on in the coming year/s — And, they are indeed well on their way with Quantum and their partnership with Australia. Australia (as we recall) has been the one country outside the US and Canada that has made incredible progress in Quantum Computing especially introducing in Nov 2015 their discovery in developing a machine language for the Quantum platform.
BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has highlighted big data, encryption technology and “core technologies” such as semiconductors as the key elements of its push to grow into a tech powerhouse, according to a new five-year plan released Saturday that envisages the Internet as a major source of growth as well as a potential risk.
Mar 4, 2016
“Internet pioneer”: Interview With Google Vice President Vint Cerf
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: alien life, computing, government, humor, internet
Google’s VP Vint Cerf states in the future that “The brain will be digitally altered by software”.
Considered one of the fathers of Internet, renowned in the computer industry, awarded with the highest award of US government, co-creator of TCP/IP internet and current vice president of Google, the Phd Vint Cerf emerges as one of the most authoritative voices in the world to reflect on new technologies around the world.
The computing Scientific who the United States commissioned along with Bob Khan the creation of a network protocol that will interconnect computers in 1973 in the age of cold war who at the age of 20 will work on F-1 engines used as propellant rocket of Saturn V rocket that “visited” the moon, apart from his academic skills, he can be characterized as a very simple person having fine and good sense of humor and very elegant, like someone from an European royalty party, definitely a different personality and image projecting into the collective imagination a professional of his career.
Reflections about internet of things, the possibility of extraterrestrial life, scanning the brain, space internet and even the possibility that humans can communicate with animals were the subjects Cerf answered who recently toured South America sharing time with inhabitants of end of the world.
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Mar 4, 2016
China’s Quantum Satellite Could Change Cryptography Forever
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: encryption, government, military, quantum physics
Like we have been saying things are getting more and more tricky now with Quantum. China’s government supported hackers are going to love this as well as their own military intel.
Quess could hold the key TO uncrackable communications
By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer
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Mar 3, 2016
Ask Ray | Ethan Kurzweil debates the role of tech firms in personal privacy
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: business, energy, government, law enforcement, mobile phones, Ray Kurzweil
https://youtube.com/watch?v=b28Pquo54ek
Dear readers,
My son Ethan Kurzweil — who is a partner at Bessemer Ventures Partners — tracks the future of web innovation, social and legal concerns about privacy, and start-ups who have an edge with their business or consumer applications, like team sourcing or software-as-a-service.
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