New York Times and Wall Street Journal both claim they were targeted by Chinese hackers
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have now come forward saying that they have been targeted by Chinese hackers, apparently over their coverage of China. The timing of these announcements is especially interesting given that the Pentagon recently announced a fivefold increase in [...]
Glasgow to become UK’s first ‘smart city,’ will include facial recognition-enabled surveillance cameras
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Glasgow, Scotland is slated to become the first “smart city” in the United Kingdom after receiving a £24 million grant from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) which will result in wonderful benefits like facial recognition for the city’s network of surveillance cameras. Some of the initiatives [...]
German company demonstrates laser weapon capable of shooting down drones from over a mile away
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie With the rise of drones it seems counter-drone technology is a logical next step for countries who would like to continue to pour endless amounts of money into so-called defense technologies. A German company has demonstrated a product which very well might interest many countries: a laser [...]
New report highlights ethics and policy dangers of “military human enhancements”
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie The U.S. military’s constant move towards increasing so-called “human enhancements” or, as California Polytechnic State University researcher Patrick Lin says, “mutant powers,” has raised entirely novel ethical and policy concerns, according to a new report for the Greenwall Foundation. Massive advances in technology are requiring a radical [...]
Japanese security firm to rent surveillance drones for use in private homes
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Just when you thought the rapid advance of drone technology couldn’t get any more unbelievable, a Japanese security firm has announced that they will offer surveillance drones on a rental basis for a meager $58 per month starting some time after April 2014. Offering rental drones for [...]
Smart house technology is not as futuristic as we think
By Brent Daggett Contributing writer for End the Lie In 1999, Disney released the film “Smart House,” which was roughly based on Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt.” Note: be sure to read Brent’s latest articles, “Local laws putting the brakes on food truck vendors” and “Texas high school student withdrawn after RFID protest” Smart House was [...]
VADER: drone-based system automatically spots and tracks people from 25,000 feet
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie The Army is looking to award another three-year contract to keep the Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar (VADER) system, first tested in 2009, up and running. VADER is capable of tracking individuals from 25,000 feet automatically and is just one of many quite incredible drone sensor systems [...]
DARPA-funded MIT program could pave the way for actual Transformers
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Thanks to a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – the Pentagon’s research agency behind mind-bending projects like weaponized hallucinations – the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has begun to develop miniature robots that may eventually pave the way for something like the fictional [...]
Europe successfully tests its first stealth killer drone, ‘nEUROn’
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie The first European stealth drone built for combat, dubbed the Neuron or “nEUROn,” made its maiden voyage from Istres, France on Dec. 1. The nEUROn is a technology demonstrator for a European Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) and represents just one of the many ways in which [...]
