Archive for the 'Technology' Category
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.
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s New Investment Firm Deepens His Ties to the U.S. Military
June 9th, 2022Via: Recode: Perhaps most interesting is Schmidt’s connection to AFF CEO Gilman Louie. Louie was one of 15 commissioners on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), where Schmidt was chair. From 2018 to 2021, the commission developed policy recommendations on how AI could be used to promote US national security. Their work was […]
Tesla Going Back to Radar for Self Driving System
June 8th, 2022Via: Electrek: Tesla has filed to use a new radar in its electric vehicles, and everyone is confused since Elon Musk has made it clear that Tesla plans to achieve self-driving with camera-based vision only. After years of using a suite of sensors that included both cameras and a radar, Tesla announced a transition to […]
Solid Power: Slow Progress with Solid State Batteries
June 8th, 2022Via: Ars Technica: Solid Power, a Colorado-based battery developer, moved one step closer to producing solid-state batteries for electric vehicles on Monday. The company has completed an automated “EV cell pilot line” with the capacity to make around 15,000 cells per year, which will be used first by Solid Power and then by its OEM […]
The Top 10 Creepiest and Most Dystopian Things Pushed by the World Economic Forum (WEF)
June 5th, 2022Via: Vigilant Citizen: Here are the 10 most dystopian things that are being pushed by the WEF right now. This list sorted is in no particular order. Because they’re all equally crazy. Related: “Environmentally-Friendly Digital Children Who Will Not Deplete the Planet of Any of Its Natural Resources”
