You thought you knew the Internet. But sites such as Facebook, Amazon, and Instagram are just the surface. There’s a whole other world out there: the Deep Web… It’s a place where online information is password protected, trapped behind paywalls, or requires special software to access—and it’s massive. By some estimates, it is 500 times […]
Crowdsourcing began as a legitimate tool to leverage the wisdom of the crowds to solve complex business and scientific challenges. This post originally appeared on O’Reilly Radar (“From crowdsourcing to crime-sourcing: The rise of distributed criminality“). It’s republished with permission. Crowdsourcing began as a legitimate tool to leverage the wisdom of the crowds to […]
Man or machine? The question is becoming harder to answer. Rapid advances in medicine are increasingly enabling the integration of information technology with biology. Each year, 300,000 Americans receive wireless medical medical devices including implantable medical devices (IMDs) such as cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators, cochlear implants, neuro-stimulators, as well as drug delivery systems such as insulin […]
The future of science and technology sounds so promising. Unprecedented advances in computing, robotics, artificial intelligence, genetics, neuroscience and biotechnology hold the potential to radically transform our world for the better and create mass abundance for all… The future of science and technology sounds so promising. Unprecedented advances in computing, robotics, artificial intelligence, genetics, neuroscience […]
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States recently approved the sale of Complete Genomics, based in Mountain View, California to China-based BGI (formerly known as the Beijing Genomics Institute.) Some decried the committee’s investigation as the overarching meddling of government in business affairs while others hailed the committee’s efforts as an important measure necessary […]
Biometric security seems secure, but it isn’t hack-proof. This essay is excerpted from Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It, by Marc Goodman, published by Doubleday. The biometric scanners we see in Hollywood spy thrillers such as Mission: Impossible all look so high-tech and capable—eye scanners, fingerprint […]
As a parent, it’s good to know that your kid is surrounded by really secure technology, corporations with their best interests in mind and no creepy people nearby … oh, wait. Marc Goodman wrote the book on high tech crime… (literally — it’s a New York Times bestseller), and he knows all the threats that […]
Data Privacy In A Public World In his best-selling book “Future Crimes,” Marc Goodman digs into the opportunities presented by connected technologies, but also the dangers for the vast amount of data they create, in which many users are voluntarily giving away their rights to privacy. For businesses and their solution provider partners, this is […]