Singularity University held its Exponential Medicine Conference last week in San Diego, a look at how technologists are redesigning and rebuilding today’s broken healthcare system.
Continue reading… “Why the $3 trillion healthcare system is broken and how we are going to fix it”
Many companies are starting to integrate blockchain technology into ledgers, using it to track diamonds and ensure fair land distribution. The projects are first steps toward making governments and industries more transparent and eliminating fraud and corruption.
There is some startling news from the world’s most notorious whistleblower: Your smartphone can be taken over with an invisible text message.
Continue reading… “Edward Snowden warns about a scary new privacy threat”
If you were hoping to have your next package delivery sent to you by drone, you may have even longer to wait than you thought. The FAA estimates it will be three years before it has a framework for drone operators to fly the machines without direct human oversight.
Continue reading… “It could be years before drones are flown without direct human oversight: FAA”
California has signed a new set of laws that are the strongest digital privacy rights in the U.S. Governor Jerry Brown has signed the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, which bars law enforcement agencies or investigative entities from handing over any sort of digital communications or metadata without a warrant. The law is by far the most public-friendly in the country.
Continue reading… “California enacts strongest digital privacy laws in the U.S.”
Futurist Thomas Frey: A few weeks ago I was asked to appear on CCTV, the Chinese-American television channel for an interview about the topic of border walls.
With the crisis in Syria deepening, affecting bordering countries and virtually all of the European Union, the show’s moderator asked me a series of tough questions about immigration trends and whether border walls, like the one proposed in Hungary, would become a growing trend.
In retrospect, the thoughts I conveyed on-air to this complex situation were not as crystallized as they could have been, forcing me to rethink my responses.
Continue reading… “Five-Part Sharing-Economy Solution to the Refugee Crisis”
The LA Times reports “a stunning reversal of decades of copyright claims,” as a federal judge in Los Angeles declares Warner/Chappell Music does not hold a valid copyright claim to the “Happy Birthday To You” song. The royalties they demanded were not theirs to demand.
Continue reading… “Judge rules Happy Birthday song is public domain”
Percentage of Households with Access to Download Speeds of 25 Megabits per Second or Greater, 2013.
The message of a new report that was commissioned by the White House says that Broadband internet access is no longer a luxury but a necessity.
Continue reading… “White House declares broadband internet a necessity: Report”
A bill in North Dakota is aimed at making sure that police didn’t put weapons on drones has turned into a bill that accomplished exactly the opposite. North Dakota police can now put Tasers, pepper spray, and all types of non-lethal weapons on their drones.
Continue reading… “North Dakota police can now weaponize their drones”
The Chinese government has begun to tighten controls on the internet as the police announced in August the arrests of about 15,000 people for crimes that “jeopardized Internet security.”
Continue reading… “Police in China arrest 15,000 people for Internet crimes”
In Colorado, 15 of the first 500 FAA exemptions were granted to permit commercial drones to fly. But enabling those and other waiting businesses to spur an estimated $232 million in economic impact — and create more than 1,190 jobs — in Colorado by 2017 hinges on long-delayed rules based on a 1946 U.S. Supreme Court case filed by a poultry farmer.
Continue reading… “MIA federal rules stall Colorado’s ready-to-fly dronemakers”
There’s a good chance the Great Firewall of China will shut you down if you don’t comply with the Chinese government’s regulations in censoring politically sensitive information.
Continue reading… “Nine popular websites that are still blocked in China”
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