According to 200 organizations, the billion-dollar Alliance for a Green Revolution (AGRA) program has been hurting Africans instead of helping them. What happens next seems…
Proponents say such semi-autonomous machines allow armies to protect their soldiers, while critics fear this marks another dangerous step toward robots making life-or-death decisions. An…
Sweden has passed a new law that will compensate those injured by the COVID vaccines. The new law would come into force in December but…
The United Kingdom’s upcoming digital identity system may cost the country up to £400 million (roughly US$552 million), ComputerWeekly reports. Dubbed “One Login for Government,”…
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Getting full approval from the FDA for its COVID-19 vaccine is a big deal for Pfizer. The FDA-stamp of approval is a critical step in…
As part of our season marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 “terrorist attacks”, OffG is going to be highlighting some of the research papers…
France is integrating its national digital ID card, the CNIe, with smartphones to allow French citizens to complete online transactions, through a collaboration with Idemia.…
The integration of biometrics sensors in laptop applications seems to be growing at a steady pace, with Google recently revealing it is working with Antmicro…
Despite the vaccine rollout now having covered almost all adults, the UK government is already preparing for another lockdown in October which will also see…
Slowly but surely, the world is transforming into a 1984-Robocop-Terminator-Minority Report–Judge Dredd fusion dystopia. And while we wait for Elon Musk’s dancing humanoid robot (wonder how much…
By Jeff Thompson For those who may not know (and those who do), here is a primer on The Great Reset. Buckle your seat belts…
From Estonia’s long-time running national identity scheme to the Netherlands’s foundational ID, Europe will soon be conducting much of its digital identity authentication…
A joint statement from the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank Negara Malaysia, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the South African Reserve Bank, and BIS Innovation…
The government of Costa Rica has announced that newly designed passports, which will integrate biometric technology, will go into effect in the first quarter of…
Denmark’s sixth impeachment trial in history began on Thursday over former minister Inger Stojeberg’s aggressive immigration policies. During Stojeberg’s term as Minister for Immigration, Integration…
Tanzanian officials on Sunday suspended another newspaper accused of false stories, despite President Samia Suluhu Hassan pledging to uphold the media freedoms that had been…
In the early days of the virus pandemic, we covered multiple stories involving drones equipped with thermal optic sensors and artificial intelligence to detect if a person…
A member of the House of Lords is demanding to know why Brits returning to the UK from abroad are required to take several PCR…
Robert and Mulvihill on Aug. 30 filed a motion for an emergency temporary restraining order against the mandate, asking the court to prevent the DOD…