Report: US government now buys more malware than anyone else in the world
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie According to a new report, the United States government is now in fact the single largest buyer of malware in the world thanks to the shift to “offensive” cybersecurity and is leaving us all vulnerable in the process. Speaking of the government’s new focus on offensive cybersecurity, [...]
The troubling privacy implications of increasingly common eye tracking technology
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie With eye tracking technology becoming increasingly common in everything from phones to computers, some individuals and groups have raised troubling concerns about the privacy implications involved. While this technology can be used in applications related to advertising, it most troublingly can be used by law enforcement and [...]
New video shows Harvard’s creepy quarter-sized ‘RoboBee’ robot insect in flight
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Harvard’s tiny “RoboBee” flying robot is shown in flight in a new video released by the school, flapping its translucent wings 120 times per second, emitting a creepy persistent buzz. The RoboBee, which is around the size of a quarter, is part of an increasingly fruitful focus [...]
New ‘DroneShield’ project seeks to crowdfund a cheap way to detect surveillance drones
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie The latest bit of anti-drone technology comes in the form of a crowdfunded project attempting to build a cheap device that will detect surveillance drones and alert users via text message or email. This seems to be part of a much larger backlash against increasingly widespread domestic [...]
Companies push drones for media use at National Association of Broadcasters convention
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie As I recently reported, the calls for the use of drones as routine news-gathering tools have only grown over the past year and now drone companies are marketing directly to the industry. It seems that there is a quite concerted effort to expand the drone industry’s reach [...]
PETMAN: the Pentagon’s creepy humanoid robot gets clothed for new video
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie In a new video, the Boston Dynamics-manufactured humanoid robot called “PETMAN” is shown with a flame-retardant camouflage jumpsuit and a gas mask walking, squatting, rotating and performing some other human-like actions. This robot is part of the Pentagon’s focus on more lifelike humanoid robots which approach the [...]
The new renaissance: how Bitcoin millionaires will change the world
By Adam B. Levine Contributing writer for End the Lie Despite the stratospheric increase in price and lacking a major disruptive event, Bitcoin is not in a bubble. Let me explain. Over the last few weeks I’ve found myself writing about topics relating to Bitcoin quite frequently. You’ve probably noticed this phenomenon in the news [...]
Air Force to research non-lethal directed energy weapon ‘bioeffects’ to create new exotic weaponry
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie While it may sound like complete science fiction, the Air Force is actually preparing to spend $49 million to research the biological effects of non-lethal directed energy weapons in hopes of creating future weaponry that manipulates the body on a biochemical or molecular level. This may sound [...]
Cyro: the creepy autonomous robot jellyfish that could eventually patrol the oceans of the world
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Continuing the US military’s focus on developing robots that mimic animals, the US Naval Undersea Warfare Center and Office of Naval Research has funded a project that has already produced a prototype of a giant robotic jellyfish. Other research includes insect-like drones capable of carrying out lethal [...]
