Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Atlas, Can You Bring Me a Drink?
May 18th, 2026Via: Boston Dynamics:
“Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid”
May 14th, 2026Via: Arkadiy Tetelman: Modern cars are computers on wheels – they have more sensors than you can count and are constantly phoning home with telemetry data like your location, speed, fuel levels, sudden accelerations/decelerations, video footage, driver attention data from eye monitoring systems, and hundreds of other data points. Cars have inward- and outward-facing cameras. […]
U.S. Approves Nvidia’s H200 AI Chip Exports to Several Large Chinese Firms
May 14th, 2026Via: First Post: The United States has approved exports of Nvidia’s advanced H200 artificial intelligence chips to several major Chinese technology firms, including Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance, even as US President Donald Trump held high-stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter. According to […]
DARPA Funded Research Into Customized Casimir Cavities Produced ‘MicroSparc’ Device That Allegedly Draws Power from Quantum Vacuum
May 13th, 2026tldr: Output is picoamps at the moment, but it seems real. Via: The Debrief: Casimir Inc, a company founded and led by former DARPA-funded NASA warp drive pioneer and founder of the EagleWorks Lab, Harold G. “Sonny” White, has exited stealth mode to announce the pending 2028 commercialization of MicroSparc, a chip that the company […]
Google Chrome Downloading 4GB AI Model to Your Device Without Asking, Re-Downloads When You Delete It
May 5th, 2026Firefox has a single kill switch for all AI features. Go to Settings – AI Controls – Toggle on, “Block AI enhancements.” Via: Techspot: Google started turning Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser, into an AI browser last year in response to threats from popular AI-native rivals such as OpenAI. Recent reports have uncovered […]
The Car That Watches You Back
May 5th, 2026Via: Nobody Asked For This: This is a story about how a machine most people still think of as property became something else: a platform with monetized inventory and a data feed pointed back at the manufacturer. It is also about the sequence of technical decisions that made that transformation possible. The story starts, depending […]
“I’m Scared About Biological Computing”
May 5th, 2026Via: Mind Dump: So… are the neurons on that chip seeing? We all desperately want to say no. We want to say it’s just a science experiment, that 200,000 neurons isn’t enough to be a “person.” But 200,000 is already more neurons than a jellyfish or a worm. Where do we draw the line?
The Manhattan Project 2.0 – The Secrecy of UFO Crash Retrieval Programs
May 2nd, 2026Via: UAP Gerb:
Israel Tries Cope Cages Against Hezbollah’s Drones
April 30th, 2026Via: The War Zone: Over the course of a nearly two-month old war with Israel, Hezbollah has been increasing its use of fiber-optic controlled first-person view (FPV) drones against Israeli troops and vehicles, something we were among the first to note. Now, it appears that Israel is resorting to the use of anti-drone netting on […]
More Than Two Thirds of Children Under Two Use Screens
April 29th, 2026Via: Sky: More than two-thirds of children under the age of two use screens – some watching devices for up to eight hours a day, researchers warned. Despite recent government guidelines that parents should avoid screen time for kids under two, new research found that one in 10 babies now regularly fall asleep with a […]
