Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Photos of SpaceX’s Starlink Prototype Ground Station Antennas
June 22nd, 2020Via: Reddit User darkpenguin22: Prototype Starlink terminals – Merrillan, WI More: SpaceX Starlink Antennas Spied at Starship Factory for First Time
Cern Poised to Back Plan for €20bn Successor to Large Hadron Collider
June 19th, 2020Via: Guardian: As the largest scientific instrument on the planet enters its twilight years, Cern scientists have been facing the question of what next after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Following extensive debate, they appear to have landed on an answer: go bigger or go home. Cern’s council is expected to announce its backing on […]
SpaceX Hiring Staff to, “Design and Build an Operational Offshore Rocket Launch Facility” Sized for Starship and Super Heavy
June 19th, 2020Via: Teslarati: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that the company is going to build multiple massive “floating spaceports” to enable Starship launches to Mars and the Moon, as well as point-to-point travel around the Earth. First confirmed in job listings and later backed up by Musk himself, the goal of the nascent program is “to […]
Director of AI at Tesla on Self Driving Progress: We’re Hiring
June 19th, 2020A year and a bit after an AI researcher buddy of mine said, in essence, “no way” would Tesla’s full self driving thing happen anytime soon, how much closer is Tesla to making it a reality? Remember, back in April 2019, Elon Musk said that robotaxis were coming in 2020: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said […]
Speculation About Tesla Battery Day
June 19th, 2020Musk keeps delaying Battery Day, so I went looking for speculation about what might be announced. Via: Now You Know:
Massive Spying on Users of Google’s Chrome Through Extensions
June 18th, 2020Via: Reuters: A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry’s failure to protect browsers as they are used more for email, payroll and other sensitive functions. … Most of the free extensions purported to […]
Quantum Computing for the Very Curious
June 18th, 2020Via: Quantum Country: This essay explains how quantum computers work. It’s not a survey essay, or a popularization based on hand-wavy analogies. We’re going to dig down deep so you understand the details of quantum computing. Along the way, we’ll also learn the basic principles of quantum mechanics, since those are required to understand quantum […]
Trump Team Prepares $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan to Spur Economy
June 16th, 2020Via: Reuters: The Trump administration is preparing an up to $1 trillion infrastructure package focused on transportation projects as part of its push to spur the world’s largest economy back to life, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. The Department of Transportation’s preliminary version reserves most funds for projects such as roads […]
Political Groups Use “Deeply Spooky” Protester Location Data
June 16th, 2020Via: Ars Technica: It’s no secret that police and other law enforcement agencies have a history of using mobile phone location and other data to target or investigate individuals, and the wave of mass protests in support of black communities and against police brutality this month has provided a rich data trove for them to […]
Starlink Will Cause Large Change in Seismic Oil and Gas Exploration
June 15th, 2020Oil companies use tape to store information collected from reflection seismology. A lot of tape. A lot of bulky, slow, expensive tape. Starlink will allow for the fast movement of terabytes of data from remote exploration vessels to cloud storage for analysis. Currently, the data moves by crates in helicopters and trucks. Via: BigMarker: For […]
