Sentences with phrase «controversial technology»

Of course, bitcoin core supporters were pleased to hear the news and most seemed to forget about how controversial this technology was just a few months ago.

Digital rights management (DRM) is a class of controversial technologies that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders, and individuals with the intent to control the use of digital content and devices after sale; there are, however, many competing definitions.

Russia is pushing for next week's landmark UN climate science report to include support for controversial technologies to geoengineer the planet's climate, according to documents obtained by the Guardian.

CoalSwarm also has information on controversial technologies such as natural gas, which some promote as a «bridge fuel» and others criticize as not much better, or perhaps even worse, than coal.

Don't feel singled out — this rhetorical device is commonly employed by enthusiasts for many controversial technologies: «Embrace GMO's or the third world will starve;» «Opponents of DDT are responsible for malaria;» etc..

Now, recent reports indicate that the early adaptor and bitcoin developer, wanted to test out the Lightning Network, a fairly controversial technology whose purpose is to run parallel to a blockchain, to speed up transactions.

That makes it hard to compare concerns about geoengineering to attitudes about other controversial technologies, like nanotechnology or genetically modified organisms.

The success or a failure of a potentially controversial technology, depends on the way the public perceives it.

Pandora's Promise / U.S.A. (Director: Robert Stone)-- A growing number of environmentalists are renouncing decades of antinuclear orthodoxy and have come to believe that the most feared and controversial technology known to mankind is probably our greatest hope.

Achieving negative emissions will involve what the analysis calls «the deployment of uncertain and at present controversial technologies, including biomass energy with carbon capture and storage.»

And the task gets all the harder if countries delay action or if they rule out certain controversial technologies, like nuclear power or carbon capture for coal plants.

I've heard a few tech evangelists use a variation of the same analogy when promoting somewhat controversial technologies.

Like the many controversial technologies that preceded the cloud (phone, fax, email etc.), controversy does eventually give way to acceptance and progress, and it's my hope that the dialog initiated here will seed further discussion and clarification on the part of regulators about how lawyers can ethically and responsibly leverage leading technology to the betterment of their clients and the practice of law.

But this isn't the first time Thiel has shown an interest in cutting - edge or controversial technology.

The creator of the controversial technology went by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, and over the years multiple media outlets have attempted to unmask the mysterious founder.

The controversial technology allowed Uber engineers to take over a user's app and send them a map that did not accurately reflect which drivers were in the area.

When sought response to the charge, Greenpeace Campaigner Manvendra Singh Inaniya said» «Golden Rice has simply been a marketing gimmick of the GM industry to garner support for a controversial technology.

Colon cancer test Non-invasive, virtual colonoscopies — which involve a CT scan of the lower body — are as effective as standard colonoscopies at detecting large and medium - size polyps that can lead to colon cancer, according to the largest and most definitive study to date on the controversial technology.

New York hasn't issued permits for shale gas wells using horizontal drilling and fracking since it began its review of the controversial technology in 2008.

Governments and energy firms will find it hard to generate the necessary public acceptance for such a controversial technology.

A free vote in the Commons saw 382 MPs vote in favour of the controversial technology, which would prevent serious diseases being passed down from mother to child.

Although it may take 5 years or more before researchers will be ready to try a controversial technology for eradicating or replacing populations of pests and vectors in the field, today a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee urged researchers, funding organizations, and regulatory agencies to waste no time in coming up with ways to deal with the societal and regulatory issues surrounding this technology, called gene drive.

TOKYO — Fourteen years after a coolant leak and botched cover - up led to its shutdown, Japan's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor Monju was restarted today with the hope of moving the controversial technology toward wider commercialization.

Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home f...

Kids love social networking, but many teachers are leery of the risks of introducing the controversial technology into the classroom.

It also includes a major new pilot project in China to study carbon capture and sequestration, the controversial technology that — at least in theory — could help China curb its emissions while continuing to burn coal for electricity.

Despite opposition from environmental groups, the Obama administration apparently supports the expansion of the natural gas industry and the controversial technology of hydraulic fracturing.

It wasn't clear whether disagreements over the statements» contents were a result of Freud's «narcissism of small differences», or whether they showed that minutiae really will matter for the governance of such a controversial technology.

There are scientific and societal benefits to establishing a disclosure mechanism early in the development of a controversial technology.

Desalination Desalination is a controversial technology and rightfully so — it has some real problems, stemming primarily from large amounts of energy needed to make fresh water, the misuse of desalination technologies, and the environmental impacts of sucking in sea water and spitting out brine into the marine habitat.

Under the Trump administration, enthusiasm appears to be growing for the controversial technology of solar geo - engineering, which aims to spray sulphate particles into the atmosphere to reflect the sun's radiation back to space and decrease the temperature of Earth.

The controversial technology is expected to roll out to police departments...