We May Soon Be Able to “Design” Our Babies

http://www.babble.com/parenting/we-may-soon-be-able-to-design-our-babies/

Will Our Smart Gadgets Become Trusted or Oppressive Companions?

http://www.govtech.com/products/GT-Will-Our-Smart-Gadgets-Become-Trusted-or-Oppressive-Companions.html

DARPA Wants to Give Soldiers Robot Surrogates, Avatar Style

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/darpa-wants-to-give-soldiers-robot-surrogates-avatar-style

Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Life

http://www.roboticstoday.com/news/open-letter-from-the-future-of-life-3103

Is Facial Recognition The Next Privacy Battleground?

http://www.fastcompany.com/3040375/is-facial-recognition-the-next-privacy-battleground

Why your bad password soon might not matter anymore

http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/chi-visa-cybersecurity-biometric-bsi-story.html

Office puts chips under staff’s skin

“But Hannes Sjoblad says he and the Swedish Biohacking Group have another objective – preparing us all for the day when others want to chip us. “We want to be able to understand this technology before big corporates and big government come to us and say everyone should get chipped – the tax authority chip, the Google or Facebook chip.” Then, he says, we’ll all be able to question the way the technology is implemented from a position of much greater knowledge.”  More in article:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31042477

Harvard Prof: Government Mosquito Drones Will Extract Your DNA

http://www.infowars.com/harvard-prof-government-mosquito-drones-will-extract-your-dna/

Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida Keys

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-gmo-mosquitoes-florida-keys-20150125-story.html

NSA Cyber War Will Use Internet of Things as Weapons Platform; Your Home is the Battlefield

http://www.oldthinkernews.com/2015/01/18/nsa-cyber-war-will-use-internet-of-things-as-weapons-platform-your-home-is-the-battlefield/NSA

Working Lab-Grown Human Muscles to Serve as ‘Clinical Trials in a Dish’

http://singularityhub.com/2015/01/19/lab-grown-muscles-to-serve-as-clinical-trials-in-a-dish/

Scientists create ‘genetic firewall’ for new forms of life

http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-create-genetic-firewall-forms-life-180212474.html