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The following articles show how a cashless society is becoming an imminent reality. They show numerous ways that a cashless society becomes profitable for key players, and they highlight the steady progression of technology from things like cashless wristbands and palm reading devices, to RFID implants.
Nevertheless, most of these articles (and others like them) fail to address the questions and concerns that we have. They sometimes present the problem, but do not provide the answers. Check out other articles on this site (and videos on the End Time Survivors YouTube channel) for a clearer understanding of how to prepare, practically and spiritually, for where these developments are taking us.
Nevertheless, most of these articles (and others like them) fail to address the questions and concerns that we have. They sometimes present the problem, but do not provide the answers. Check out other articles on this site (and videos on the End Time Survivors YouTube channel) for a clearer understanding of how to prepare, practically and spiritually, for where these developments are taking us.
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German journalist Martin Bernklau made a shocking discovery earlier this year when he typed his name into Microsoft's AI tool, Copilot.
"I read there that I was a 54-year-old child molester," he tells ABC Radio National's Law Report.
The AI information said Bernklau had confessed to the crime and was remorseful.
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US military plans to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next two years
Published: The Conversation - August 30, 2023 1.18pm AEST
The United States military plans to start using thousands of autonomous weapons systems in the next two years in a bid to counter China’s growing power, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced in a speech on Monday.
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Published on The Conversation: April 11, 2024 2.46pm AEST
By Natasha Karner (PhD Candidate, International Studies, RMIT University)
The Israeli army used a new artificial intelligence (AI) system to generate lists of tens of thousands of human targets for potential airstrikes in Gaza, according to a report published last week. The report comes from the nonprofit outlet +972 Magazine, which is run by Israeli and Palestinian journalists.
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Travellers departing from one of the world's busiest airports will soon be able to do so without needing a passport.
An automated immigration clearance system is to be introduced at Changi Airport in Singapore from 2024, ministers have announced.
The changes will allow people to depart the airport without needing to "repeatedly present their travel documents".
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Macquarie's move to restrict cash services has angered those fearing people will be left behind. Photo: AAP
Australian banks are under fire for removing customers’ access to cash, with controversial changes sparking calls for governments to step in and protect communities.
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01.04.2023
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A brain wave reader that can detect lies. Miniaturized cameras that sit inside vape pens and disposable coffee cups. Massive video cameras that zoom in more than a kilometer to capture faces and license plates.
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Chinese internet and tech giant Tencent has launched a palm-recognition service for its WeChat Pay service here that allows Metro passengers to pay via waving their palm over a scanner, the media reported on Monday.
The technology relies on recognition of both surface-level palm prints and the hand's veins, according to Tencent.
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CCTV cameras are seen overlooking a street in Tehran, Iran, on April 9, 2023.
Iran has embraced artificial intelligence (AI) as a way to significantly improve its state surveillance networks, allowing the repressive regime to further crack down on perceived offenses.
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Geoffrey Hinton at Google's Mountain View, Calif, headquarters (Noah Berger / AP file )
The "godfather of AI" is issuing a warning about the technology he helped create.
Geoffrey Hinton, a trailblazer in artificial intelligence, has joined the growing list of experts sharing their concerns about the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. The renowned computer scientist recently left his job at Google to speak openly about his worries about the technology and where he sees it going.
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Kim Jon un: General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and 3rd Supreme leader of North Korea
North Korea has intensified its hounding of Christians, hunting for underground churches, executing believers and incarcerating their families in labour camps, aid groups have reported.
As Kim Jong-un seeks to tighten his grip on power through ideological indoctrination, Open Doors, a global mission organisation that supports persecuted Christians, said it had documented a “rise in reported incidents of violence” last year.
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A Chinese office worker wears a protective mask as she waits to take a public bus, March 2, 2020 in Beijing, ChinaKevin Frayer/Getty Images
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Fri, January 27, 2023 A Ukrainian soldier watches a drone feed on two screens from an underground command center in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Dec. 25, 2022.
Russia's war in Ukraine provides an unprecedented testing ground for lethal drone technology. But experts are voicing their concerns over the creep of artificial intelligence over human decision-making in warfare.
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Mon, 11 April 2022, 9:13 pm·6-min read
A woman paying for her meal in a café using a contactless payment chip implanted in her hand
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A system that searches a database of billions of facial images could help Ukraine uncover Russian infiltrators, fight misinformation and identify the dead, a company has said.
Facial recognition firm Clearview AI has offered its services to Ukraine's government.
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Disturbing reports from China say Communist Party officials have rewritten the story of the woman caught in adultery from John 8, claiming Jesus stoned the woman to death.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (TND) — Microchip technology invented by Swedish startup company "Epicenter" is now being presented as a possible way to carry around a COVID-19 vaccine passport under a person's skin, according to a viral video.
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When they came for the Falun Gong, we were silent, because they aren't Abrahamic believers. When they came for the Uighurs, we were silent because they are not followers of Jesus. Now they are coming for professed followers of Jesus. Are we going to keep silent because we differ with JWs on the Trinity? Your church could be next!
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This chip - from German firm Q.ant - is designed to facilitate optical data processing for quantum technology.
Imagine a world where encrypted, secret files are suddenly cracked open - something known as "the quantum apocalypse".
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Facebook owner Meta Platforms has removed more than 500 accounts linked to an online disinformation network primarily based in China.
The accounts had promoted the claims of a fake Swiss biologist called "Wilson Edwards", who alleged the US was meddling in efforts to find the origins of Covid-19.
Edwards' comments had been widely carried by Chinese state media outlets. However, the Swiss embassy said that it was unlikely this person existed.
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The UK's biggest retailer said its branch in High Holborn has been converted to allow customers to shop and pay without using a checkout.
The new format, known as GetGo, follows similar stores opened by Amazon.
Customers with the Tesco.com app will be able to pick up the groceries they need and walk straight out again.
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American spy planes have been deployed to keep watch on large-scale war games being conducted by Beijing and Moscow.
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An Afghan street vendor in Mazar-i-Sharif. The city is home to a small community of Uyghurs.
Earlier this week, as the dust began to settle on the Taliban's blistering takeover of Afghanistan, a small group gathered at a house in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The guests arrived discreetly, in ones and twos, keen to avoid attention.
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The Chinese government banned what it called "sissy men" from television Thursday and directed broadcasters to serve the people of China with "revolutionary culture."
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When COVID first emerged in Wuhan China used big data to collect and monitor people’s COVID status and movements around the country to keep the pandemic under control.(Chinatopix via AP)
China has used big data to trace and control the outbreak of COVID-19. This has involved a significant endeavour to build new technologies and expand its already extensive surveillance infrastructure across the country.
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China builds new Great Wall as global sea conflict escalates
By JamieSeidel July 18, 20211:21am www.news.com.au
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China's BGI Group is using a prenatal test, developed with the Chinese military, to harvest gene data.
BGI says more than 8 million women globally have taken their prenatal tests. (Reuters, file photo)
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The United States expressed concern on Thursday over a report that China is building more than 100 new silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, on the screen, via video conference in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 28:
MOSCOW (AP) — The leaders of Russia and China on Monday hailed increasingly close ties between their countries and announced the extension of a 20-year-old friendship treaty, a show of unity amid their tensions with the West.- Details
Chilling drone footage reveals conditions Uyghurs endure in Xinjiang “concentration camps”.
China is facing revived accusations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang after Amnesty International accused the communist nation of creating a "dystopian hellscape".
More than one million Uyghur and Muslim minorities are believed to have been detained in internment camps in the region, set up by Chinese authorities to tackle extremism and re-educate millions in the far-western province.
But Beijing's move to detain Uyghurs en masse has been widely condemned by the West, with several nations including the US and UK accusing China of genocide.
See details on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
But Beijing's move to detain Uyghurs en masse has been widely condemned by the West, with several nations including the US and UK accusing China of genocide.
See details on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
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KARGU® a Rotary Wing Attack Drone Loitering Munition System
A UN report suggests that at least one autonomous drone operated by artificial intelligence (AI) may have killed people for the first time last year in Libya, without any humans consulted prior to the attack, according to a U.N. report.
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A gate of what is officially known as a "vocational skills education centre" in Xinjiang.
A camera system that uses AI and facial recognition intended to reveal states of emotion has been tested on Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the BBC has been told.
A software engineer claimed to have installed such systems in police stations in the province.
A human rights advocate who was shown the evidence described it as shocking.
The Chinese embassy in London has not responded directly to the claims but says political and social rights in all ethnic groups are guaranteed.
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Russia's 'Arctic Trefoil', its northernmost military base, is built on the ruins of an old Soviet site.
"The enemy shall not pass," exclaims commander Ivan Glushchenko, standing in the glistening white snow that surrounds an ultra-modern Russian military base in the heart of the Arctic, the site of Moscow's stand-off with NATO.
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- Amazon is bringing its palm-scanning payment system to a Whole Foods store in Seattle, the company announced Wednesday, with rollout planned for other locations.
- Previously, the technology was available only at a dozen of Amazon’s physical stores.
- Amazon said it has signed up thousands of users of the system.
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Technology News March 10, 2018 China eyes 'black tech' to boost security as parliament meets By Pei Li, Cate Cadell BEIJING
China's "Black Tech" [2 min Video]
(Reuters) - At a highway check point on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features and car registration plates, and match them in real-time with a database of suspects.
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[The system hones in on uncovered features such as eyes]
Japanese company NEC, which develops facial-recognition systems, has launched one that can identify people even when they are wearing masks.
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[The Australian Strategic Policy Institute believes China has collected DNA samples from as many as 70 million of its citizens.
File images Credit: Getty]
File images Credit: Getty]
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With a digital identity on your mobile phone, there'll be no need to exchange documents with TSA ...
In Aruba, the tourism industry is preparing to pilot a biometrically verified digital identity that allows visitors to move from airport, to rental car pickup, to hotel check-in without ever showing a passport. Nor do travelers have to produce a driver’s license, credit card, or reservation confirmation during their stay. Instead, the official verification of who they are, the reservations they’ve made, and payment methods are on their mobile phone — a digital ID that can be unlocked at any point during their trip using facial recognition.
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Singapore will become the world's first country to use facial verification in its national ID scheme, but privacy advocates are alarmed by what they say is an intrusive system vulnerable to abuse.
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Chandler Guo at one of his cryptocurrency mines Chandler Guo
Chandler Guo was a pioneer in cryptocurrency, the digital currencies that can be created and used independently of national central banks and governments.
In 2014 he set up an operation to produce one of those currencies, Bitcoin, in a secret location in western China.
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22 countries sign letter calling on China to close Xinjiang Uyghur camps
July 11, 2019
Updated 0501 GMT (1301 HKT) July 11, 2019
Source: CNN
Uyghurs plead for answers about family in China 03:39
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The police who work inside are looking elsewhere. They spend their days poring over computer screens, watching footage that comes in from 4,300 cameras across the country.
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Authorities use an app to collect personal data on Uighurs as part of a vast surveillance
network, Human Rights Watch says. By Simina Mistreanu. Mon 6 May 2019. The Guardian.
A re-education camp in Xinjiang, part of a network of control and surveillance used against Muslims which also includes an app to track suspicious ‘person types’.
Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
Using too much electricity or having acquaintances abroad are among a list of reasons that prompt authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region to investigate Uighurs and other Muslims who might be deemed “untrustworthy” and sent to internment camps, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
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Mon 6 May 2019 Jonathan Watts - The Guardian Global environment editor.
Forest clearance in Indonesia. Scientists have warned of the impact of deforestation on animals. Photograph: Ulet Ifansasti/Greenpeace
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By Eleanor Ainge Roy
'I'm being watched': Anne-Marie Brady, the China critic living in fear of Beijing
New Zealand academic says Chinese intimidation tactics she has studied are now being used against her
China academic Anne-Marie Brady says the harassment has put a strain on her family life.
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