Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Small, Unmanned Spy Boat Washed Up on Scottish Island
October 8th, 2020Via: Forbes: Last week a small unmanned vessel washed up on the rocky Scottish Isle of Tiree, about a hundred miles from the U.K.’s nuclear submarine base at Faslane. It was identified as a Wave Glider, a type made by U.S. company Liquid Robotics, which is capable of traveling thousands of miles and is used […]
Meet the XB-1: A Prototype for a Modern Supersonic Passenger Jet
October 8th, 2020Via: Ars Technica: Boom Supersonic will roll its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft out of its facilities in Centennial, Colorado, on Wednesday and reveal the vehicle publicly for the first time. The rollout marks the handoff from the design, development, and build phase to testing, said Blake Scholl, Boom founder and chief executive. After undergoing a series […]
Covid-19: Increased Use of Electronic Ankle Monitors
October 8th, 2020Via: MIT Technology Review: As covid-19 began to spread earlier this year, it soon became clear that prisons and jails are particularly susceptible to outbreaks. In response, criminal justice systems around the world started looking for alternatives to incarceration. Many turned to electronic ankle monitors as a solution. They used this technology to quickly relocate […]
“World’s Fastest Electrodes” Triple the Energy Density of Lithium Batteries
October 8th, 2020As usual, with laboratory-stage “game-changing” battery news, I definitely wouldn’t try to hold my breath waiting for this, but it makes for interesting reading. Via: New Atlas: French company Nawa technologies says it’s already in production on a new electrode design that can radically boost the performance of existing and future battery chemistries, delivering up […]
AMD Reveals New Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 Processors
October 8th, 2020Via: The Verge: AMD just announced its new lineup of Ryzen 5000 series processors for desktops, which are also the first chips from the company set to feature its next-gen Zen 3 architecture and represent the biggest jump for AMD’s desktop chips yet. AMD is also setting expectations high, promising that the new Ryzen 5900X […]
The IRS Is Being Investigated for Using Location Data Without a Warrant
October 6th, 2020Via: Vice: The body tasked with oversight of the IRS announced in a letter that it will investigate the agency’s use of location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones, according to a copy of the letter obtained by Motherboard. The move comes after Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren demanded a formal […]
SpaceX, L3Harris Technologies Get Pentagon Contracts to Track Missiles from Outer Space
October 6th, 2020Via: Nextgov: The Pentagon’s Space Development Agency—which will become part of the U.S. Space Force in 2022—selected SpaceX and L3Harris Technologies to produce satellites and sensors that can track and target advanced missile threats from outer space. Award notices published to the federal procurement site beta.sam.gov Friday afternoon indicate that SpaceX could receive more than […]
How the Police Use AI to Track and Identify You
October 3rd, 2020Via: The Gradient: Surveillance is becoming an increasingly controversial application given the rapid pace at which AI systems are being developed and deployed worldwide. While protestors marched through the city demanding justice for George Floyd and an end to police brutality, Minneapolis police trained surveillance tools to identify them. With just hours to sift through […]
For Years, Intel Sat On Its CPU Monopoly And Now The Tide Turns Against Them
October 3rd, 2020AMD’s Zen 3 chips (reveal 8 October) are going to be very ugly for Intel. Via: Seeking Alpha: Intel is scared.
JPMorgan’s Gold And Silver Manipulation “Crime Ring”
October 1st, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: There was a time when the merest mention of gold manipulation in “reputable” media was enough to have one branded a perpetual conspiracy theorist with a tinfoil farm out back. … All that changed in November 2018 when a former JPMorgan precious-metals trader admitted he engaged in a six-year spoofing scheme that defrauded […]
