Archive for October, 2016
Tesla Powerwall 2.0 Announcement on Friday
October 26th, 2016Via: Electrek: Tesla will unveil its next generation Powerwall, sometimes called ‘Powerwall 2.0‘, at an event on Friday. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been hyping the product since August saying that “no other company has anything close to it.”
Danney Williams: YouTube Bans Bill Clinton’s Black Son
October 26th, 2016Here’s the link to the original video, BANISHED – The Untold Story of Danney Williams: This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated. Sorry about that. Mirror: More: danneywilliams.com
Obama’s Claim That He Didn’t Know About Clinton’s Email Server Is Bullshit
October 26th, 2016Via: ZeroHedge: we need to clean this up – he has emails from her – they do not say state.gov
“Central Moscow GPS Anomaly”
October 26th, 2016Via: AP: Joggers, taxi drivers, players of Pokemon Go and senior Russian officials are seeking an explanation of why mobile phone apps that use GPS are malfunctioning in central Moscow. A programmer for Russian internet firm Yandex, Grigory Bakunov, said Thursday his research showed a system for blocking GPS was located inside the Kremlin, the […]
The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’
October 25th, 2016Almost unnoticed outside of defense circles… I’ve been posting about this on here since 2002. 😐 Via: New York Times: Almost unnoticed outside defense circles, the Pentagon has put artificial intelligence at the center of its strategy to maintain the United States’ position as the world’s dominant military power. It is spending billions of dollars […]
Self Driving Truck Makes First Commercial Delivery
October 25th, 2016Via: New York Times: The futurists of Silicon Valley may not have seen this one coming: The first commercial delivery made by a self-driving truck was 2,000 cases of Budweiser beer. On Tuesday, Otto, the Uber-owned self-driving vehicle operation, announced the completion of its first commercial delivery, having delivered its beer load from Fort Collins, […]
Google Co-Founder’s Reported ‘Flying Car’ Spotted Hovering in Hollister
October 25th, 2016Via: Monteray Herald: In Hollister, population 40,000, the first rule about Zee.Aero is you don’t talk about Zee.Aero. Related: Airbus Wants to Build a Self-Flying Taxi Called Vahana
Memory of Mankind Project Burying Microscopic Engravings Containing Human Knowledge in an Austrian Salt Mine
October 24th, 2016Via: BBC: Kunze’s solution is the Memory of Mankind project, a collaboration between academics, universities, newspapers and libraries to create a modern version of those first ancient Sumerian tablets discovered in the desert. Their plan is to gather together the accumulated knowledge of our time and store it underground in the caverns carved out in […]
Obamacare Premiums to Soar 22% On Average
October 24th, 2016Via: CNN: Obamacare premiums are set to skyrocket an average of 22% for the benchmark silver plan in 2017, according to a government report released Monday. The price hike is the latest blow to Obamacare. Insurers are raising prices and downsizing their presence on the exchanges as they try to stem losses from sicker-than-anticipated customers. […]
China’s Plan to Organize Its Society Relies on ‘Big Data’ to Rate Everyone
October 24th, 2016Via: Washington Post: Imagine a world where an authoritarian government monitors everything you do, amasses huge amounts of data on almost every interaction you make, and awards you a single score that measures how “trustworthy” you are. In this world, anything from defaulting on a loan to criticizing the ruling party, from running a red […]
