Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Sold 85% of $4 Billion Position in Taiwan’s TSMC
April 28th, 2023If China was to invade Taiwan, there might be a plan to prevent any of TSMC’s fabs from falling into Chinese hands: The US would sooner see TSMC fabs destroyed than fall into Chinese hands should Xi Jinping invade Taiwan, according to a former national security advisor to the Trump administration. “The United States and […]
Inside the Chaotic World of Kids Trying to Play Video Games on School Laptops
April 27th, 2023Assuming you think it’s ok for children to have access to these devices during school (I don’t), the IT departments could easily implement domain whitelists. This means that only sites explicitly whitelisted by the administrators would be accessible by the students. All of that said, I salute the entrepreneurial genius of the boy who makes […]
AI-Generated Pizza Commercial
April 26th, 2023AI generated video is mostly nightmare fuel at this point. But this… I laughed so hard, I nearly injured myself. Via: tom’s HARDWARE: In the last few months, we’ve seen how large language models such as ChatGPT can generate text copy, how image generators like Stable Diffusion can create pictures on demand and even how […]
Japan’s ispace Seeks to Land First Private Spacecraft on the Moon
April 25th, 2023Update: Lost Communications, Landing Probably Failed — Live: Via: EL PAÍS: The Japanese probe Hakuto-R — which is about the size of a large refrigerator — will try to land in Atlas, an impact crater in the far north of the Moon, within the unexplored Mare Frigoris, or Sea of Cold. If it succeeds, it […]
“People Are Getting Plastic Surgery Now So They Can Try To Look Like These Filters”
April 24th, 2023I just emailed this to a friend with a teenage daughter who is a heavy Tiktok user. I thought Tiktok was mostly a bunch of short attention span nonsense, wasting people’s time. Nope. It’s much worse than that. Names have been changed: Hi John I saw a disturbing video about TikTok. I remember you mentioning […]
CATL Announces 500 Wh/Kg “Semi-Solid State” Battery
April 22nd, 2023Batteries with an energy density around 500 Wh/kg could definitely be a game changer, depending on cost and cycle life, but none of those details were released. Via: PV Magazine: Chinese battery giant CATL on Wednesday unveiled a new ultra-high energy battery technology initially slated for aviation, and with an automotive cell under development. The […]
Alphabet CEO’s Pay Soars to $226 Million on Huge Stock Award as Thousands Fired
April 22nd, 2023Via: Bloomberg: The pay package awarded to Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai soared to $226 million in 2022, boosted by a triennial stock grant, making him one of the world’s highest-paid corporate leaders. … In January, Alphabet started cutting about 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its global workforce, following months of other measures […]
Unlimited Hangout: Consolidating Control with Catherine Austin Fitts
April 22nd, 2023Via: Unlimited Hangout: Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb · Consolidating Control with Catherine Austin Fitts Whitney is joined by Catherine Austin Fitts to discuss the current financial situation and what to expect in the short term, why the US government is using the crisis to push for greater bank consolidation, the FedNow service and the […]
Farmers ‘Crippled’ by Satellite Failure as GPS-Guided Tractors Grind to a Halt
April 20th, 2023Via: The Sydney Morning Herald: Tractors have ground to a halt in paddocks across Australia and New Zealand because of a signal failure in the satellite farmers use to guide their GPS-enabled machinery, stopping them from planting their winter crop.
Google DeepMind
April 20th, 2023Via: 9to5 Google: DeepMind is regarded to be one of the top machine learning and artificial intelligence research labs. After being an Alphabet company for the past several years, it’s now being folded in to form “Google DeepMind.” The new unit encompasses DeepMind and the Brain team from Google Research. Collective accomplishments from the past […]
