Archive for the 'Technology' Category
The Science Of Propaganda Is Still Being Developed And Advanced
October 16th, 2021Below, Caitlin Johnstone describes what I have been calling, “The American Corporate State,” for the past couple of decades. However, way back in 1980, Bertram Gross called it, “Friendly fascism.” The following is from, Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America by Bertram Gross: Friendly Fascism portrays two conflicting trends in the United […]
People Are Taking Out Loans Against Their NFTs – And Defaulting
October 16th, 2021NFTs are easily the craziest financial phenomenon I’ve ever encountered. Via: Vice: In the ongoing speedrun to turn everything into a non-fungible token, savvy traders and entrepreneurs have recently taken a few steps to squeeze more investment opportunities out of their JPEGs. Case in point: it’s now a thing to take out a loan and […]
Guns for Robodogs
October 13th, 2021Via: Caitlin Johnstone: At an exhibit booth in the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting and exhibition, Ghost Robotics (the military-friendly competitor to the better-known Boston Dynamics) proudly showed off a weapon that is designed to attach to its quadruped bots made by a company called SWORD Defense Systems. “The SWORD Defense Systems […]
3D Gun Legend, “JStark,” Dead At 28-Years Old
October 11th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: It’s come to our attention that German magazine Der Spiegel reports the inventor of the rapid-fire 3D-printed gun that could be entirely printed at home has passed away. JStark, a 28-year-old German citizen, was one of the biggest innovators of this decade when printing weapons and gun parts at home. He helped create […]
Winged Microchip Is Smallest-Ever Human-Made Flying Structure, Could be Used for, “Disease Tracking, Population Surveillance”
October 8th, 2021Via: Northwestern Now: Northwestern University engineers have added a new capability to electronic microchips: flight. About the size of a grain of sand, the new flying microchip (or “microflier”) does not have a motor or engine. Instead, it catches flight on the wind — much like a maple tree’s propeller seed — and spins like […]
Singapore’s Patrol Robots
October 6th, 2021Via: Guardian: Singapore has trialled patrol robots that blast warnings at people engaging in “undesirable social behaviour”, adding to an arsenal of surveillance technology in the tightly controlled city-state that is fuelling privacy concerns. From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an explosion […]
“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 […]
