Archive for the 'Technology' Category
“Keyword Warrants”
October 6th, 2021Via: Forbes: The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an accidentally unsealed court document shows. There are fears such “keyword warrants” threaten to implicate innocent Web users in serious crimes and are more common than previously thought.
“What The Fuck Is That?” – Mysterious Stealthy Shape That Resembles Future Fighter Concepts Spotted At Radar Test Range
October 1st, 2021Via: The War Zone: An apparently previously unseen low-observable aircraft test shape has emerged, with initial open-source intelligence research indicating it was spotted at Lockheed Martin’s secretive Helendale radar-cross section (RCS) measurement facility. … While we don’t know what this shape is intended to resemble, it provides a timely reminder of some of the exotic […]
Amazon’s Home Robot Can Follow You Around
September 28th, 2021Great! Via: USA Today: Amazon’s next big leap in hardware: a personal robot. On Tuesday, Amazon announced Astro, a home robot the company says can help owners keep up with tasks such as home monitoring or keeping in touch with family and friends.
CIA’s Secret War Plans Against WikiLeaks
September 26th, 2021Via: Yahoo News: In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation. Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed […]
China Declares All Virtual Currency Transactions “Illegal”
September 24th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: China expanded its escalating crackdown on cryptocurrencies on Friday when its central bank declared that all activities related to digital coins are “illegal” and must be banned. In a statement the People’s Bank of China said the latest notice was to further prevent the risks surrounding crypto trading and to maintain national security […]
Mossad Assassinated Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Using Remote-Controlled Machine Gun
September 19th, 2021Via: Business Insider: The “father” of Iran’s nuclear weapons program was at the top of Israel’s hit list for 14 years. On November 27 2020, after a failed attempt to kill him a decade earlier, the Mossad finally managed to assassinate Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Their weapon of choice? A remote-controlled machine gun that required no on-site […]
The New Warrant: How U.S. Police Mine Google for Your Location and Search History
September 16th, 2021Via: Guardian: It was a routine bike ride around the neighborhood that landed Zachary McCoy in the crosshairs of the Gainesville, Florida, police department. In January 2020, an alarming email from Google landed in McCoy’s inbox. Police were requesting his user data, the company told him, and McCoy had 7 days to go to court […]
We Are in a Global Revolution That Is Bringing in a Genuine and Terrifying Totalitarianism
September 16th, 2021“9/11 wasn’t enough…” Via: Richard Dolan: Just because the word “revolution” isn’t being bandied about doesn’t mean it’s not all around us. We happen to be living in the midst of a global revolution that is bringing in a genuine and terrifying totalitarianism. The 9/11 Revolution was Phase One; welcome to Phase Two which is […]
MIT-Designed Superconducting Magnet Is Major Advance Toward Fusion Energy
September 15th, 2021Via: MIT News: It was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept. 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth. That successful […]
Australian Navy Goes Nuclear With Future Submarine Force
September 15th, 2021Via: The Warzone: The Royal Australian Navy is set to get a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines as part of a new trilateral advanced defense agreement with the United States and the United Kingdom. The Australian government is also reportedly poised to cancel its long-troubled deal with French shipbuilder Naval Group to build advanced conventionally-powered attack […]
