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What Comes After Greed in Technology?

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

I just finished reading a very interesting book by Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson, Humanity in the Machine: What Comes After Greed? Stock market trading systems, venture capitalists and NASCAR teams are all optimized toward a defined goal of winning, in most cases, an excessive accumulation of wealth, he argues. In the financial market, this…

Norway Dashes Cold Water on Bitcoins

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Norway’s government ruled that Bitcoins don’t qualify as a real currency, and it will treat them as an asset — as opposed to a legitimate currency — that is subject to capital gains tax. Many countries have been weighing in on how they will treat Bitcoins. Earlier this month, China said that its banks and…

US, Canada Take Heat for Fighter Jet-Escorted Santa

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Some people are objecting to North American Aerospace Defense Command online updates on the whereabouts of Santa. The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood is particularly off-put by a video that shows Santa’s sleigh being escorted by fighter jets (roughly the :24 mark). NORAD maintains that the images are safe for children, pointing out that…

Brazil Shoots Down Snowden Asylum Speculation

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Brazil does not plan to grant asylum to Edward Snowden, according to sources cited by Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo. Snowden stoked the Brazil asylum speculation Tuesday when he offered, via an open letter, to help Brazil investigate the extent of spying on Brazilian citizens and President Dilma Rousseff. Snowden’s temporary asylum in Russia, where…

Chinese Man Heads to US Prison for Microchip Smuggling Attempt

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A Chinese citizen was sentenced to three years in U.S. prison Wednesday for trying to smuggle American-made microchips from California to China. The man, Philip Chaohui He, was targeted in a 2011 sting at a Los Angeles-area port. He was nabbed while approaching a Chinese freighter, toting with him 200 radiation-hardened microchips tucked inside a…

Japanese Robot Shoots Breeze With Astronaut

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A humanoid robot named “Kirobo” has had a chat with a Japanese astronaut on the International Space Station. The robot, also from Japan, is designed to process questions and construct answers from its vocabulary bank, as opposed to regurgitating preprogrammed responses. When asked by astronaut Koichi Wakata if he could handle zero-gravity conditions, the robot…

Was 2013 the Run-Up to Nineteen Eighty-Four?

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

As we approach the end of the year, it is time to look back on 2013 and consider what we’ve learned about technology and human nature. Both Apple and Dell were massively changed; HP, Yahoo and other companies were in various stages of being turned around; and Google went from a company that wanted our…

Computer Pioneer, Subjected to Homophobic Prosecution, Pardoned by Queen

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Alan Turing, a British man whose code-breaking prowess helped thwart Nazi Germany in World War II, was pardoned this week by Queen Elizabeth for his decades-old “crime.” Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for “gross indecency” for having a sexual relationship with another man, a ruling that resulted in the loss of his security clearance and…

4 Unsettling Prospects for 2014

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

As we’re recovering from Christmas and getting ready for the big New Year’s Day hangover, I’m reminded of the Chinese curse, “May you be born in interesting times,” because 2014 is likely to be a very interesting year. I expect the Democrats will be trying to distance themselves from their failed Affordable Health Care Act,…

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