Archive for the 'Technology' Category
FAA Computer Problem Causes Most Flight Delays and Cancellations Since 9/11
January 11th, 2023Via: USA Today: A computer glitch at the Federal Aviation Administration delayed airline traffic across much of the nation early Wednesday, and the agency said it was working to restore the system. The FAA instituted a nationwide pause on departures, known as a ground stop, for part of the morning Wednesday but that order had […]
AI-Powered Lawyer Will Represent Defendant in Court
January 10th, 2023Via: CBS: A “robot” lawyer powered by artificial intelligence will be the first of its kind to help a defendant fight a traffic ticket in court next month. Joshua Browder, CEO of DoNotPay, said the company’s AI-creation runs on a smartphone, listens to court arguments and formulates responses for the defendant. The AI lawyer tells […]
VALL-E: Microsoft’s New Speech Synthesis AI Can Mimic A Speaker’s Voice From A Three Second Sample
January 9th, 2023Many audio examples are at the link. Via: Microsoft – Github: We introduce a language modeling approach for text to speech synthesis (TTS). Specifically, we train a neural codec language model (called VALL-E) using discrete codes derived from an off-the-shelf neural audio codec model, and regard TTS as a conditional language modeling task rather than […]
John Deere Will Allow U.S. Farmers to Repair Their Own Equipment
January 9th, 2023Via: Engadget: John Deere has been one of the stauncher opponents of right to repair regulation, but it’s now willing to make some concessions. Deere & Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) that lets US farmers and independent repair shops fix equipment, rather than requiring the use […]
Salt Lake City: Why Are Antennas Popping Up All Over The Foothills?
January 7th, 2023They’re probably Helium cryptocurrency nodes, but they could also be some other sort of voice/data repeater system. Showing what was inside the box would have been an easy way to get the answer, but they didn’t do that. Fonarow said that there were no identifying marks on the antennas and that they’d been bolted into […]
“6G Could End Up Using People As Antennas”
January 6th, 2023Via: Study Finds: Results show people are actually the best medium for amplifying the coil’s ability to collect leaked RF energy. Attaching the coil to a person collected up to 10 times more energy than just using a bare coil. Based on these results, the researchers created an inexpensive, wearable device called the “Bracelet+,” which […]
The Social Disaster: Children Who Frequently Check Social Media Face Significant Brain Changes
January 4th, 2023Flashback 2018: Facebook Is ‘Designed to Exploit the Brain’ Via: Study Finds: Here’s one more reason to limit the amount of time your child is spending in front of a screen. Social media could be reprogramming children’s brains and making them hooked on “likes,” a new study out of the University of North Carolina reveals. […]
Latest ‘Twitter Files’ Reveal Biden Officials Colluded With Twitter on Widespread Censorship of Medical Experts
January 4th, 2023Not sure if this is news to anyone at this point, but… Via: The Defender: Twitter engaged in widespread censorship of prominent scientists and medical experts for posting content that contradicted the official COVID-19 narrative, according to the latest “Twitter Files” document dump, released Dec. 26, 2022, by investigative reporter and author David Zweig. Much […]
DIY Starlink Flat Mount RV Roof Adaptor Powered by 12 Volts
January 2nd, 2023With more Cryptogon readers permanently bugged out, I thought this might come in handy to some of you using Starlink on boats and RVs. Via: Everlanders:
World Economic Forum Cancels Twitter, Directs Followers to Chinese Social Media Apps
December 28th, 2022Via: The Dossier: Twitter is noticeably absent from the entities listed on the organization’s “How to follow Davos 2023” social media pamphlet, and that appears to be no accident. To stay up to speed with all that is happening within the invite-only doors of the ruling class confab, the WEF recommends following along through a […]
