Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’ Set To Test Blockchain Voting
"Residents of the Swiss city, Zug, will use the city’s eID system to vote using their smartphones this month as part of a blockchain based voting test."
Opendoor Raises $325 Million to Expand Automated House Flipping to 50 Markets
"Opendoor, a startup that uses computer algorithms to buy and sell homes, has closed a new fundraising round in a bid to supercharge growth."
Governments Will Soon Be Powerless to Stop You From Manufacturing Anything You Want
"From DIY guns to designer drugs, classic-car parts, and human livers, 3D printing promises a dynamic and uncontrollable world."
Western Investors Cash in on Chinese Surveillance Program Targeting Muslims For ‘Re-Education’
"The system includes mandatory facial-recognition scans at gas stations and Wi-Fi sniffers that secretly collect data from network devices. Over the past two years, the technology has helped authorities round up an estimated hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslims and lock them up in clandestine camps that China calls 're-education centers.'"
The Silicon Valley Company Building The ‘Skynet’ Border Wall
"Lonsdale and Luckey argue that building cheaper, more efficient systems is a virtuous pursuit, saving taxpayer dollars. Anduril’s Palantir pedigree may have prepared it for criticism."
Internet luminaries urge EU to kill off automated copyright filter proposal
"A large group of Internet pioneers have sent an open letter to the European Union urging it to scrap a proposal to introduce automated upload filters, arguing that it could damage the internet as we know it."
The EU’s Copyright Proposal is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Especially Wikipedia
"Sites will have to pay to license the technology to match submissions to the database, and to identify near matches as well as exact ones. Sites will be required to have a process to allow rightsholders to update this list with more copyrighted works. Even under the best of circumstances, this presents huge problems."
Taser manufacturer now supplying AI-backed drones to local police departments
"Footage from those flying cameras will be automatically analyzed by AI systems not disclosed to the public."
Skydio’s self-flying drone can now track down cars
"The self-flying drone will be able to track and follow vehicles as they move through challenging terrain that would be impossible to film previously without a skilled drone pilot."
Robot submarine finds “holy grail of shipwrecks” with up to $17 billion in treasure
"British warships sunk the San Jose and its crew of 600 in 1701. Colombia and Spain both say it belongs to them."
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