James Webb Telescope discovers some quasars that seem to exist in isolation(scitechdaily.com)

136 points by wglb 2 years ago | 51 comments

Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy(sciencedaily.com)

23 points by jonbaer 2 months ago | 40 comments

Baldness? UCLA's New Molecule Could Revolutionize Hair Growth(scitechdaily.com)

6 points by Jerry2 1 year ago | 0 comments

NASA's Next-Level Discovery: Webb Exposes Dazzling Interstellar Web of Dust(scitechdaily.com)

17 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 3 comments

New Quantum Antenna Reveals a Hidden Terahertz World(sciencedaily.com)

124 points by aacker 10 months ago | 8 comments

AI predicts earthquakes with unprecedented accuracy(scitechdaily.com)

56 points by xrd 2 years ago | 35 comments

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance(eff.org)

408 points by pseudolus 8 months ago | 122 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Matthew Guariglia arguing tech companies should not be pressured by government into conducting surveillance.

Everything you do is being recorded(theatlantic.com)

393 points by ike_usawa 2 months ago | 334 comments

An Atlantic article by Ross Andersen on pervasive recording by AI wearables and other surveillance, and whether people can fight back.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

WiFi signals can measure heart rate(news.ucsc.edu)

431 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 237 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article on Pulse-Fi, a technique using WiFi signals from low-cost devices to measure heart rate without wearables.

Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'(techcrunch.com)

409 points by sbulaev 23 days ago | 229 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that a federal judge described Flock's camera network as 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'.

How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance(fnl.mit.edu)

204 points by cdrnsf 1 month ago | 116 comments

MIT Faculty Newsletter article by several MIT faculty about the installation of surveillance cameras on campus over the summer.