Science & Technology

‘Facebook passing user details to NSA’

‘Facebook passing user details to NSA’

Tech giant Facebook is passing details of all of its users to the National Security Agency (NSA), it has been reported. Privacy campaigner Max Schrems has launched a case against the social giant to force watchdogs to audit personal data allegedly released to US spy bosses by Facebook. Mr Schrems, argued that the Data Protection Commissioner, Billy Hawkes, wrongly refused[Read More…]

Sinister spy glasses by Google allows criminals and nefarious agencies to steal your PIN number at a distance away

Google invents creepy glasses to steal your PIN codes

Google has invented a creepy new set of glasses that can steal your PIN numbers when you are using a cash machine, it has been revealed. The controversial Glass wearable computer contains special software to analyse the shadows and movements of peoples’ fingers in order to decipher PIN codes entered into tablets and smartphones. The software would also work using[Read More…]

New super-ocean discovered 400 miles beneath our feet

New super-ocean discovered 400 miles beneath our feet

Scientists have recently discovered an ocean 400 miles beneath the ground which could fill our oceans three times over, it has been revealed. The revelations about this giant reservoir of water was recently made after researchers spent decades theorising over what lies beneath. This new discovery appears to suggest that the Earth’s surface water actually came from within, as part[Read More…]

Ancestral memories can be passed down our DNA, according to new findings

Scientists reveal memories and ancestral experiences ‘inherited’ via our DNA

Memories may be passed down to future generations through DNA, according to a new study by US scientists. Researchers from Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta said that the emotions and experiences of our mother and fathers are passed down through future generations and inherited biologically through chemical changes that occur in DNA. This may help to explain how[Read More…]

Google representatives advocate RFID chipping

Google representatives advocate RFID chipping

It sounds like something out of some dystopian future – a micro-chipped population that is unable to access anything without confirming their identity through micro-chips. And yet that is exactly the kind of technology that former DARPA director Regina Dugan is promoting. She has spoken out in favour of an edible “authentication microchip” and an electronic tattoo that can read[Read More…]