Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
October 6th, 2022Cryptogon 2019: Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars: In short, I asked him: Is this going to work? No. He’s confident that it’s not going to work under the current paradigm. Via: Bloomberg: “You’d be hard-pressed to find another industry that’s invested so many dollars in R&D and that has delivered so […]
“Be Afraid, Be Actually Afraid”: Reporters Panic at the Thought of Twitter Restoring Free Speech Protections
October 6th, 2022The purported concern and even hysteria about Musk's purchase and control of Twitter has always been driven by an obvious fear, totally different from the one they claim. Liberals are petrified Musk will stop censoring their adversaries. That's all there is to it. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 4, 2022 Via: Jonathan Turley: “Be afraid, […]
China Pairs Armed Robot Dogs With Drones That Can Drop Them Anywhere
October 6th, 2022Via: The Warzone: Footage of a Chinese-made drone carrying a ‘robot dog’ that is armed with a machine gun has started to make its rounds on social media, and it looks like it was taken straight out of a dystopian war movie. It isn’t immediately clear if the video was recorded as part of a […]
The U.S. Government’s Vast New Privatized Censorship Regime
October 5th, 2022Via: Tablet: Over the next several months, the three scientists faced a barrage of condemnation: They were called eugenicists and anti-vaxxers; it was falsely asserted that they were “Koch-funded” and that they had written the declaration for financial gain. Attacks on the Great Barrington signatories proliferated throughout social media and in the pages of The […]
Twitter Halted on Report Musk Going Ahead with Acquisition at $54.20 Per Share
October 4th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: Bloomberg is reporting, according to people familiar with the matter, that Elon Musk is proposing to buy Twitter Inc. for the original offer price of $54.20 a share, valuing the company at $44 billion. The billionaire’s lawyers communicated the proposal to Twitter’s lawyers overnight Monday and filed a letter confidentially with the Delaware […]
Bill Gates and Digital IDs: ‘Gravest Technological Threat’ to Liberty
October 2nd, 2022Via: The Defender: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) this month said it will invest $200 million in digital ID projects, encompassing “digital public infrastructure, including civil registry databases and digital ID” to help meet the 2030 target date for reaching the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The $200 million in new […]
Kyiv Astronomers Capture “UAPs Everywhere” Using Meteor-Tracking Software
September 30th, 2022This is very strange and fascinating. Via: Chris Lehto:
Tesla AI Day 2022
September 30th, 2022“Within the next few months… or years.” Via: Tesla:
Kindle Scribe: Amazon Has Finally Announced a New Large Format E-Book Reader
September 29th, 2022Today, Amazon announced a new, large format e-book reader called the Kindle Scribe. About a decade ago, I bought a Kindle DX just before Amazon stopped making them. It wasn’t an easy choice. However, I (and members of my family) have used the device almost daily since. I’ve had to become the household Kindle whisperer […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Condemned for Calling to Regulate Free Speech as a ‘Weapon of War’ at UN
September 29th, 2022Via: Fox: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was blasted for comparing free speech online to “weapons of war” in a recent speech to the U.N. that critics called “authoritarian.” … Independent journalist and The Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald called out Ardern on Twitter. “This is the face of authoritarianism – even though it looks […]
