Scenes in "Black Mirror", a British television series first broadcast two years ago, made a deep impression on viewers as its actors were implanted with chips in their eyes and behind their ears. With the rapid development of technology, implantable devices such as electronic tattoos, chip capsules, and internal headsets are becoming a reality... with these miniature devices, scenes from the movies are becoming part of real life. Extraordinary retentive memory may be within the reach even of ordinary people, transforming them into "supermen". In fact, experimentation with implantable devices has already extended beyond medical use. Some pioneers are trying to extend their sensations to reach a world that ordinary people cannot sense, for example to 'hear' heat, or to 'feel' wireless network signals. Others have implanted invisible earphones in their ears, giving them better hearing than normal people. One 'geek' has tried to implant storage devices in his body for passwords and telephone numbers.
DHS Gets $250 Million From Senate To Advance Beast-TechA Senate subcommittee this week approved a request from the United States Department of Homeland Security for nearly a quarter-of-a-billion dollars to be used on a state-of-the-art biometric system. On Tuesday, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on DHS green-lighted more than $47 billion to go towards the agency as part of a request made for funding in fiscal year 2015. According to a statement published later that day by Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the chairwoman of the committee on appropriations, a significant chunk of that sum will go towards increasing the efforts of DHS to document persons coming in and out of the US by using high-tech biometric technology that captures unique features from individuals and then scours massive databases for more information pertaining to those persons. If all goes as planned, upgrades to DHS’s biometric system will allow not only for the vast collection of this information, but will ensure that the details are easily shared among federal agencies of various sorts.
Privacy Fears Mount As Pentagon’s ‘All Seeing’ Surveillance Crafts Get Go-AheadControversial surveillance blimps that can spot a person 340 miles away have been unveiled by military firm Raytheon. It boasts the project can offer ’360 degree 24/7 surveillance for 30 days at a time’ – and revealed the US Army has already bought two. One is being trialled over Maryland, with the other being kept in ‘strategic reserve’. ‘By putting JLENS in strategic reserve, the Army is giving combatant commanders around the globe the ability to pick up the phone and, in short order, receive this incredible air defense capability in their area of responsibility, said Raytheon’s Dave Gulla, vice president of Integrated Defense Systems’ Global Integrated Sensors business area. The system is called JLENS — or Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System — which is composed of an integrated radar system on two tethered, 80-yard blimps.
Terminator-Style 'Judgment Day' Could Be Reality If We Keep Developing A.I., Warns ExpertThe advancements made in artificial intelligence over the past month could mean robots become the norm in our lives sooner than some people might think. And anyone who’s seen The Terminator or I, Robot might want a few questions answering about what the future holds. MM spoke to Mancunian futurist and tech expert Tom Cheesewright to see what breakthroughs in technology could mean for the future. “I take the view that humans are just super-sophisticated machines,” said Mr Cheesewright. “That’s not to diminish the wonder of what we’re capable of – it’s incredible. “But if you accept this principle, then you have to accept that at some point we might become sophisticated enough to create machines that can match or even surpass our capabilities.”
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