Archive for the 'Technology' Category
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 […]
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 […]
