Archive for July, 2016
France to Create New National Guard
July 28th, 2016Via: The Local: France will soon have its own National Guard the president announced on Thursday as he aims to boost security to protect the French population facing repeated terror attacks. President François Hollande announced on Thursday that a new National Guard would be created from existing reserve forces. The move comes after a spate […]
Reagan Would-Be Assassin John Hinckley Jr To Be Released
July 27th, 2016The Hinckley-Bush-Reagan connection is one of the best coincidences of all time. I don’t know if I’ve dealt with it in the past on Cryptogon… so here it is, just in case. AP 1981: Bush Son Had Dinner Plans With Hinckley Brother Before Shooting Via: BBC: John Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate […]
Mercedes-Benz shows Off the First Fully Electric Heavy Urban Transport Truck
July 27th, 2016Production is still many years away. Via: TechCrunch: Daimler isn’t about to let Tesla own any more ‘firsts’ in electric transportation; the German company revealed the Mercedes-Benz Urban eTruck today in Stuttgart, an all-electric truck with a total admissible weight capacity of 26 tonnes (29 U.S. tons), which makes it the first clean energy big […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jeff Bezos, Cass Sunstein Join Pentagon’s ‘Defense Innovation Board’
July 26th, 2016See: Cass “Cognitive Infiltration” Sunstein Also, this sounds like the group described in Ernest Cline’s Armada, which I would only recommend to absolute diehard sci-fi and gaming nerds who are between the ages of about 40 and 50 years old. My guess, however, is that Cline got the idea for the group in his book […]
French Priest Beheaded by Two ISIS Followers in Church
July 26th, 2016Strategy of Tension? Via: Guardian: The murder of a priest and the wounding of one of his parishioners in Normandy was an act of terrorism carried out by two followers of Islamic State, the French president, François Hollande, has said. A witness to the attack has described how the two men forced the 86-year-old priest, […]
Clinton Cash
July 26th, 2016Based on: Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich by Peter Schweizer Via: YouTube:
Breast-Feeding the Microbiome
July 26th, 2016Via: The New Yorker: Human milk is a particular marvel. Every mammal mother produces complex sugars called oligosaccharides, but human mothers, for some reason, churn out an exceptional variety: so far, scientists have identified more than two hundred human milk oligosaccharides, or H.M.O.s. They are the third-most plentiful ingredient in human milk, after lactose and […]
Who Gets Your Vote for U.S. President?
July 25th, 2016Let’s assume everyone reading this is eligible to vote in the upcoming election.
Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings and Wheels
July 24th, 2016See artificial intelligence winters and hype cycles. Via: New York Times: For more than a decade, Silicon Valley’s technology investors and entrepreneurs obsessed over social media and mobile apps that helped people do things like find new friends, fetch a ride home or crowdsource a review of a product or a movie. Now Silicon Valley […]
Self Driving Car Company Asks People to Generate Data with Mobile Phones
July 24th, 2016But what I really thought was interesting was the inducement to get people to do this: Comma Points and a scoreboard. In other words, Hotz turned this into a game. I wonder if he plans to use the Chffr app to offer bonus points to get people to drive on roads that present particularly difficult […]
