Archive for the 'Technology' Category
2022 GMC Hummer EV: Insane Specifications and Price
October 21st, 2020Update: Customers Reserve First Year’s Worth of Production in an Hour — Via: Car and Driver: The 2022 GMC Hummer EV … is a departure, in pretty much every way possible, from anything GM builds. Its debut offering is a four-door pickup with 1000 horsepower, at least 1000 lb-ft of torque, and a claimed zero-to-60-mph […]
Microsoft Partners with SpaceX to Connect Azure Cloud to Musk’s Starlink Satellite Internet
October 20th, 2020SpaceX is a major DoD contractor. Microsoft is a major DoD contractor. Better broadband for people in rural areas? This is definitely one for your, Yes, but wait, there’s more… file folder. Via: CNBC: Microsoft is partnering with SpaceX to connect the tech giant’s Azure cloud computing network to the growing Starlink satellite internet service […]
Justice Department and 11 States Accuse Google of Antitrust Violations
October 20th, 2020Via: Yahoo News: The Department of Justice, joined by 11 states with Republican attorneys general, filed an antitrust lawsuit Tuesday against the tech giant Google, setting off a titanic legal battle likely to last for years. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., accuses Google of using its enormous size to illegally monopolize […]
Google Terminates Dollar Vigilante and Last American Vagabond YouTube Channels
October 20th, 2020dollarvigilante.com thelastamericanvagabond.com
Dr. Jeff Dahn: EV Batteries Going 2 Million Miles
October 19th, 2020Via: Electrek: A Tesla battery researcher showed updated test results pointing to batteries lasting over 15,000 cycles or the equivalent of over 2 million miles (3.5 million km) in an electric car.
“Twitter and Facebook – They’re Running a Protection Racket for Joe Biden”
October 18th, 2020Via: Sky News Australia:
China Conducts Test Of Massive Suicide Drone Swarm Launched From A Box On A Truck
October 15th, 2020Via: The Warzone: China recently conducted a test involving a swarm of loitering munitions, also often referred to as suicide drones, deployed from a box-like array of tubular launchers on a light tactical vehicle and from helicopters. This underscores how the drone swarm threat, broadly, is becoming ever-more real and will present increasingly serious challenges […]
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
October 14th, 2020There’s just one catch… Via: Quanta Magazine: Yet while researchers celebrate the achievement, they stress that the newfound compound — created by a team led by Ranga Dias of the University of Rochester — will never find its way into lossless power lines, frictionless high-speed trains, or any of the revolutionary technologies that could become […]
BOJ Joins Fed And ECB In Preparing Rollout Of Digital Currency
October 10th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: First it was the Fed, then the ECB, and now the BOJ: the world’s central banks are quietly preparing to unleash digital currencies on an unsuspecting population in one final last-ditch attempt to spark inflation and do away with the current monetary orthodoxy which has failed to push living conditions for the masses […]
Google Is Giving Data to Police Based on Search Keywords
October 9th, 2020Via: cnet: There are few things as revealing as a person’s search history, and police typically need a warrant on a known suspect to demand that sensitive information. But a recently unsealed court document found that investigators can request such data in reverse order by asking Google to disclose everyone who searched a keyword rather […]
