Archive for the 'Technology' Category
The End of the SLR Photography Era Is Near
July 12th, 2022Update: Nikkei Says Nikon to Stop Making DSLRs, Nikon Says It’s Still Making, Selling & Servicing Them Via: DPReview: Nikon Inc’s statement is fairly straightforward, but Nikon isn’t explicitly denying the information in the Nikkei’s report. Nikon doesn’t say the report is incorrect, only that ‘Nikon has made no announcement in this regards [sic].’ Nikon […]
Artificial Intelligence to Measure Loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party
July 11th, 2022The good news is that this is probably bullshit. Via: Business Insider: Researchers at China’s Comprehensive National Science Center in Hefei claimed to have developed “mind-reading” artificial intelligence capable of measuring citizens’ loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), The Sunday Times UK first reported. In a now-deleted video and article, the institute said the […]
Unanswered Questions Surround $1.1 Billion Meat Processing Plant
July 4th, 2022Hmm… From newscenter1.tv: Adding that cattle will be unloaded directly into the facility off the truck or rail cars and won’t be penned outside eliminating the possibility of a loose cow. … The Western Legacy Development Corporation facility will process cattle and bison completely with the use of robotics and artificial intelligence making processing easier, […]
The World’s Biggest Surveillance Company You’ve Never Heard Of
June 24th, 2022Via: MIT Technology Review: You may never have heard of Hikvision, but chances are you’ve already been captured by one of its millions of cameras. The Chinese company’s products can be found anywhere from police surveillance systems to baby monitors in more than 190 countries. Its ability to make decent-quality products at cheap prices (as […]
Pentagon Explores Using SpaceX for Rocket-Deployed Quick Reaction Force
June 23rd, 2022Since 2019, I’ve been saying that Starlink is not what it seems. And now… Get it? “Starship.” Troopers. Via: The Intercept: The Pentagon envisions a future in which Elon Musk’s rockets might someday deploy a “quick reaction force” to thwart a future Benghazi-style attack, according to documents obtained by The Intercept via Freedom of Information […]
Alexa Upgrade Lets Dead Family Speak to You by “Learning Voice in a Minute”
June 23rd, 2022An hour ago, I was reading Starfall, by Drew Harrison. Part of the plot includes bribery of a corporate executive with AI generated material. So, get busy and, make the memories last… Via: The Sun: The goal, said Amazon’s senior vice president, Rohit Prasad, is to ‘make the memories last’ after ‘so many of us […]
Sen. Johnson Demands DOD Contractor Turn Over Military’s Medical Database Records
June 22nd, 2022#datacorruption 😉 Via: The Defender: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is asking the company that manages the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) to turn over records after the company failed to fully comply with a previous request seeking information about its “awareness of potential data problems” with the military’s database. This […]
Chinese Researchers Build ‘Mind Reading’ Device That Detects When Men Watch Porn
June 22nd, 2022The prototype device was made “for bad information detection.” That’s what Twitter is for. Via: Independent: Chinese researchers have reportedly developed a device that can detect when a man is watching pornography by ‘reading his mind’. The new device, as reported by the South China Morning Post, would benefit Chinese internet censors by detecting the […]
Google Engineer Placed on Leave After Claiming an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Had Become Sentient
June 12th, 2022Via: Business Insider: An engineer at Google said he was placed on leave Monday after claiming an artificial intelligence chatbot had become sentient. Blake Lemoine told The Washington Post he began chatting with the interface LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications, last fall as part of his job at Google’s Responsible AI organization. … […]
“Swarms of Electric Farming Robots”
June 9th, 2022Via: Electrek: Agricultural machinery manufacturer AGCO is continuing its technical partnership with Apex.AI in order to use its Apex.OS software development kit to add autonomous capabilities to its farming robot concept. The battery-powered Xaver farming robots were developed by AGCO brand Fendt and can autonomously plant seeds on farms 24 hours a day.
