At the end of September, Amazon debuted two especially futuristic products within five days of each other: a small autonomous surveillance drone, called Ring Always Home Cam, and a palm recognition scanner, called Amazon One. “Both products aim to make security and authentication more convenient — but for privacy-conscious consumers, they also raise red flags,” reports Wired. From the report: Amazon’s…
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Silicon Valley’s Newest Health Fad: Dopamine Fasting
“They have done biohacking, clean sleeping and the keto diet, but now Silicon Valley types have coined a new health trend — dopamine fasting,” reports the Guardian: It is thought that depriving yourself of the neurotransmitter, a chemical messenger that motivates us to do things, can help to reboot or rebalance the brain. Fasting might entail abstinence from technology, artificial light,…
Biohackers Use a Raspberry Pi to Implant a Networked Hard Drive
“Biohackers took one small but important step toward the science fiction dystopia depicted in William Gibson’s Johnny Mnemonic,” reports The Parallax, in an article shared by Slashdot reader Iwastheone: The Four Thieves Vinegar biohacking collective has not figured out how to precisely mimic the memory data transfer scenario Gibson conjured, but it has built a device to enable people to store…