Archive for the 'Technology' Category
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Successfully Hovered for 40 Seconds in Mars’s Thin Atmosphere
April 20th, 2021Via: Scientific American: NASA has pulled off the first powered flight on another world. Ingenuity, the robot rotorcraft that is part of the agency’s Perseverance mission, lifted off from the surface of Mars on 19 April, in a 40-second flight that is a landmark in interplanetary aviation. “We can now say that human beings have […]
SpaceX Wins $2.9 Billion NASA Moon Lander Contract
April 17th, 2021Via: Reuters: NASA awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon as early as 2024, the agency said on Friday, picking it over Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics Inc.
Man Found in Hudson River Identified as Cryptocurrency Mathematician
April 14th, 2021Via: New York Post: The man whose body was found floating in the Hudson River Monday has been identified as a mathematician working with cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, according to police sources and his “devastated” family. Sources identified the remains found off West 45th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan as Shuvro Biswas, 31, adding […]
Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Buys Microsoft Ahead of Big Govt Contract
April 14th, 2021Via: The Street: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband purchased millions of dollars worth of Microsoft (MSFT) and Roblox (RBLX) shares last month, new financial disclosures form reveal. Paul Pelosi exercised call options and paid $1.95 million to buy 15,000 shares of Microsoft at a strike price of $130 on March 19, according to an April […]
DARPA Is Working On COVID Vaccine, Implantable Microchip To Detect Virus
April 13th, 2021Via: Summit News: The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a COVID vaccine that will work on all variants and has developed an implantable microchip that it says will continuously monitor the human body for signs of the virus. Retired Colonel Matt Hepburn, an army infectious disease physician heading up DARPA’s […]
U.S. COVID Contract Details Are a “Trade Secret” – According to the Contractors
April 12th, 2021Via: MIT Technology Review: As the US government pumps billions of dollars into projects aimed at curbing the pandemic, from vaccine development to genomic sequencing, officials claim they are being transparent about how money is being spent. But government contractors have a lot of leeway to hide things, as shown by a recent records request […]
Navy Labs Will Research Cold Fusion, Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Again
April 10th, 2021Via: The Warzone: Researchers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division have reopened the case on low-energy nuclear reactions, or LENRs, largely unexplained phenomena that are at the core of theories about “cold fusion.” Five different government-funded laboratories under the control of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, and National Institutes of Standards and […]
Neuralink: Monkey MindPong
April 8th, 2021What Neuralink is showing here is very trivial. See: Mattel Mindflex toy, circa 2009, non-invasive EEG, used chip from Neurosky. The difference with Neuralink is that there might be potential for higher order cognitive functionality with that interface. However, as with Musk’s robotaxis, don’t hold your breath. Via: Neuralink: By modeling the relationship between different […]
Your ‘Smart Home’ Is Watching – And Possibly Sharing Your Data with the Police
April 7th, 2021Via: Guardian: You may have a roommate you have never met. And even worse, they are nosy. They track what you watch on TV, they track when you leave the lights on in the living room, and they even track whenever you use a key fob to enter the house. This is the reality of […]
Tim Cook Wants Americans To Be Able To Vote On Their iPhones
April 6th, 2021“And so why not?” Here you go, Tim. Get comfortable, you’ve got a lot of reading to do. Reasons Not To Use Apple Who Controls Your Computer? (And How to Make Sure It’s You) A Defensive Computing Checklist Via: Daily Mail: “We do our banking on phones. We have our health data on phones. We […]
