Archive for the 'Technology' Category
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Seizing Americans’ Phone Data and Storing It For 15 Years
September 18th, 2022I’m not sure how long I’ve been posting about this. A quick search turned up one from 2008. So it goes… Via: Engadget: If a traveler’s phone, tablet or computer ever gets searched at an airport, American border authorities could add data from their device to a massive database that can be accessed by thousands […]
Food Delivery Robot Rolls Through LA Crime Scene as Confused Cops Look On
September 16th, 2022A food delivery robot forces it’s way across a police crime scene. pic.twitter.com/T5DaET5Q5b — Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) September 13, 2022 Via: USA Today: When you’ve got a job to do, you’ve got a job to. At least that’s the work ethic of a food delivery robot named Connie, whose indifferent actions went viral […]
U.S. Army Conducts ‘Drone Swarm’ Exercise With Armed Quadcopters
September 15th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: At sunrise this morning a swarm of 40 quadcopters all equipped with cameras, MILES, and lethal munition capable launched in advance of 11th ACR’s attack on a prepared defense by 1AD. Drones will be as important in the first battle of the next war as artillery is today. pic.twitter.com/zPQ2I8SoqN — NTC Lead 6 […]
Google Deepmind Researcher Co-Authors Paper Saying AI Will Eliminate Humanity
September 15th, 2022Via: Vice: The paper envisions life on Earth turning into a zero-sum game between humanity, with its needs to grow food and keep the lights on, and the super-advanced machine, which would try and harness all available resources to secure its reward and protect against our escalating attempts to stop it. “Losing this game would […]
Ukraine’s Astronomers Say There Are Tons of UFOs Over Kyiv
September 15th, 2022Hmm. Via: Vice: Ukraine’s airspace has been busy this year—that’s the nature of war. But scientists in the country are looking to the skies and seeing something they didn’t expect: An inordinate number of UFOs, according to a new preprint paper published by Kyiv’s Main Astronomical Observatory in coordination with the country’s National Academy of […]
Truly Autonomous Cars May Be Impossible Without Helpful Human Touch
September 12th, 2022Via: Reuters: Autonomous vehicle (AV) startups have raised tens of billions of dollars based on promises to develop truly self-driving cars, but industry executives and experts say remote human supervisors may be needed permanently to help robot drivers in trouble. … Imperium Drive’s Kaveh said as more self-driving cars – which are more predictable than […]
Judge Orders Fauci, Other Top Officials to Produce Records for Big Tech-Government Censorship Lawsuit
September 7th, 2022Via: Epoch Times: Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and other top Biden administration officials who were resisting efforts to obtain their communications with Big Tech companies must hand over the records, a federal judge ruled on Sept. 6. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, ordered the government to quickly […]
An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed
September 3rd, 2022I played with Midjourney and watched the outputs generated from other users’ prompts. The results ranged from *meh* to breathtaking. It’s extremely weird and unsettling to consider how advanced this technology is already, and where it’s going to be in few years. It’s also astonishing. Via: Vice: A man came in first at the Colorado […]
Power Company Seizes Control of Thermostats in Colorado During Heatwave
September 2nd, 2022Via: Summit News: Around 22,000 households in Colorado lost the ability to control their thermostats after the power company seized control of them during a heatwave. After temperatures soared past 90 degrees, residents were left confused when they tried to adjust their air conditioning and found locked controls displaying a message that said “energy emergency.” […]
U.S. Officials Order Nvidia to Halt Sales of Top AI Chips to China
September 1st, 2022Via: Reuters: Chip designer Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) said on Wednesday that U.S. officials told it to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China, a move that could cripple Chinese firms’ ability to carry out advanced work like image recognition and hamper Nvidia’s business in the country. The announcement signals a […]
