Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Twitter Set to Accept Musk’s $43 Billion Offer
April 25th, 2022Via: Reuters: Twitter Inc is poised to agree a sale to Elon Musk for around $43 billion in cash, the price the CEO of Tesla has called his “best and final” offer for the social media company, people familiar with the matter said. Twitter may announce the $54.20-per-share deal later on Monday once its board […]
Russian Airlines Told To Prepare For World Without GPS
April 24th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: Russia’s air traffic regulator sent a warning to airlines about potential upcoming flights without using the American Global Positioning System (GPS). Russian newspaper Izvestia reported Friday that a letter from the Federal Air Transport Agency (FATA) instructed national airlines to be aware of “GPS failures, degradations, and abnormal performance.” Areas prone to “jamming” […]
Power Beam Energy Test, Zap Energy to Troops from Space
April 23rd, 2022Via: Study Finds: Could soldiers in the future receive the power for their equipment from space? A team of researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have demonstrated the feasibility of terrestrial microwave power beaming by transmitting 1.6 kilowatts of power over one kilometer (km). The achievement, by a team at the U.S. Army […]
Musk Speaking To Co-Investors As Twitter Board Adopts “Poison Pill” To Thwart Hostile Takeover
April 15th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: In an attempt to move along his hostile takeover following Twitter’s adoption of a poison pill takeover defense (see below), the NY Post reports that Elon Musk is speaking to potential co-investors who could partner with him on a bid for the social network, and cites sources according to whom a new plan […]
Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter for $43 Billion
April 14th, 2022Via: CBS: Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter for $43 billion, saying the social media company “needs to be transformed as a private company.” The billionaire and founder of electric car maker Tesla, who earlier this month disclosed he owns a 9.2% stake in Twitter, proposed in a regulatory filing on Thursday to buy […]
Tesla Model 3 Computer System Crashes as Vehicle Is Traveling 83MPH
April 13th, 2022Luckily, the brakes still worked… What we’re seeing here is slipshod engineering that’s more akin to a buggy computer operating system than something like a high reliability glass cockpit from the aviation world. And even in aviation, we find the following: Due to the possibility of a blackout, glass cockpit aircraft also have an integrated […]
Freedom Is Tyranny: Robert Reich Goes Full Orwellian in Anti-Free Speech Screed
April 13th, 2022Via: Jonathan Turley: We recently discussed the gathering of Democratic politicians and media figures at the University of Chicago to discuss how to better shape news, combat “disinformation,” and reeducate those with conservative views. The political and media elite shared ideas on how to expand censorship and control what people read or viewed in the […]
Where Did the Rest of the Internet Go?
April 13th, 2022Via: Truthstream Media:
NVIDIA Instant NeRF: 2D Photos to 3D Scenes in the ‘Blink of an AI’
April 5th, 2022Via: NVIDIA: When the first instant photo was taken 75 years ago with a Polaroid camera, it was groundbreaking to rapidly capture the 3D world in a realistic 2D image. Today, AI researchers are working on the opposite: turning a collection of still images into a digital 3D scene in a matter of seconds. Known […]
The Next Google
April 5th, 2022Via: DKB: DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google. The next Google can’t just be an input box that spits out links. We need new thinking to create something much better than what came before. In the last few years, different groups of people came to the same […]
