Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick: Extraterrestrial ‘Technical Supremacy’ Is a Top Concern
July 20th, 2023I thought this was worth a post because we’re introduced to a new phrase: Extraterrestrial Technical Supremacy. I can’t find any reference to that phrase occurring before this story. And then it’s the usual, no evidence, no ships, no reverse engineering program, etc. Move along… Via: ABC News: The scientist and military intelligence officer leading […]
Japan To Deploy Pre-Crime Style “Behavior Detection” Technology
July 19th, 2023Via: Reclaim the Net: The use of AI in law enforcement is becoming commonplace globally. A 2019 study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace revealed that 52 out of the 176 nations surveyed were incorporating AI tools into their policing strategies, Nikkei Asia reported. … The National Police Agency plans to carry out tests […]
Apple Experimenting With ‘Apple GPT’ AI Tool
July 19th, 2023One of my children figured out a few cunning tricks to work around his time limits on his PC running Windows 10. I saw what he was doing and thought that I could solve it with some automation. In short, I needed a script to log just him out on workstation lock; completely terminate the […]
“This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal”
July 18th, 2023Via: Forbes: Artificial intelligence is helping American cops look for “suspicious” patterns of movement, digging through license plate databases with billions of records. … “You’ve seen the systems totally metastasize to the point that the capabilities of a local police department would really shock most people.” … “The scale of this kind of surveillance is […]
“Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023”: Non-Human Intelligence
July 16th, 2023I made an absurdly large amount of green tea and started going through Schumer’s, “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023.” (Chucky, it’s UFO, not UAP. It’s never going to be UAP. Got it? Good.) I’m having a great time reading this. It’s hard to believe this legislation exists at all. After over four decades […]
This Is Why We Need to Talk About CBDCs
July 15th, 2023Via: Truthstream Media: More: Shut Up… Or Else
SpaceX Starlink Satellites Collision-Avoidance Maneuvers Growing Exponentially
July 14th, 2023Via: Space: Staggering growth in Starlink collision-avoidance maneuvers in the past six months is sparking concerns over the long-term sustainability of satellite operations as thousands of new spacecraft are poised to launch into orbit in the coming years. … The steep increase in the number of maneuvers worries experts because it follows an exponential curve, […]
100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Li-Fi, Light-Based Networking Standard Released
July 13th, 2023Via: Tom’s Hardware: Where Li-Fi shines (pun intended) is not just in its purported speeds as fast as 224 GB/s. Fraunhofer’s Dominic Schulz points out that as it works in an exclusive optical spectrum, this ensures higher reliability and lower latency and jitter. Moreover “Light’s line-of-sight propagation enhances security by preventing wall penetration, reducing jamming […]
Smartphones, Other Portable Electronics, Will Need to Have Replaceable Batteries by 2027
July 13th, 2023Most portable electronics are engineered to make replacing worn out rechargeable batteries very difficult. The goal has nothing to do with water resistance or, “What consumers demand,” and everything to do with causing people to buy new devices when the batteries will no longer hold a charge. I wear a Casio G-Shock G-9300 Mudman watch […]
Elon Musk’s New xAI Company Launches to ‘Understand the True Nature of the Universe’
July 12th, 2023Besides naming some employees, there isn’t much more information at this time. Via: The Verge: xAI, Elon Musk’s newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at https://x.ai/. Musk tweeted the company’s intent is to “understand reality” without any other details or explanation. “The goal of xAI […]
