World remains seconds from global catastrophe as Doomsday Clock is updated for 2024

World remains seconds from global catastrophe as Doomsday Clock is updated for 2024

The Doomsday Clock has been set for 2024, with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists declaring the world remains 90 seconds from global catastrophe. The clock was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project. The clock is … Read more

How to Opt Out of Comcast’s Xfinity Storing Your Sensitive Data

How to Opt Out of Comcast’s Xfinity Storing Your Sensitive Data

Your internet service provider could have a good idea of who you’re planning to vote for in the 2024 election as well as the gender of the last person you slept with—and it’s saving that information for later. Major internet providers, like Comcast’s Xfinity, stockpile more revealing data than users might initially realize. For example, … Read more

Your Medical Data Is Code Blue

Your Medical Data Is Code Blue

Until last November, I had never heard of Perry Johnson and Associates. But they had heard of me. In fact, without my knowledge, they had information about me that even my closest friends and relatives might not know. Because the company provides “transcription and dictation” services to Northwell Health, a medical provider that has treated … Read more

Paras Defence: Paras Defence usually treads in non-competitive zones and creates a niche: Amit N Mahajan

Paras Defence: Paras Defence usually treads in non-competitive zones and creates a niche: Amit N Mahajan

Amit N Mahajan, Director, Paras Defence, says “Paras Defence is currently focussing on the domestic market because it is not just that the domestic market is the biggest market, but it also has a preferential procurement policy in favour of companies like us. So, the export market becomes a plan B. Plan A always will … Read more

UK Police Use Driver License Photo In Facial Recognition Search

UK Police Use Driver License Photo In Facial Recognition Search

A recent change to a single clause in a UK criminal justice law will soon allow police or the National Crime Agency to run facial recognition searches on a database of 50 million driver’s license holders in the country, in addition to social media images and surveillance images. UK officers have recently taken to using … Read more