Archive for the 'Technology' Category
U.S. Army Flickr Page Inadvertently Reveals New Hypersonic Weapon Concept
June 11th, 2020Via: AviationWeek: A new hypersonic weapon concept has emerged inadvertently on a social media page managed by U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy that describes a Mach 5-plus projectile with the ability to penetrate into defended airspace and dispense a multi-role loitering air system over a target area.
Charles Lieber and China: Federal Grand Jury Indicts Harvard Scientist
June 11th, 2020Via: Boston Globe: A federal grand jury in Boston on Tuesday indicted a world-renowned Harvard nanoscientist on charges of lying about his ties to a university in China, prosecutors said. The indictment was handed up against Charles Lieber, 61, on two counts of making false statements to investigators, according to legal filings and US Attorney […]
Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Cannons
June 10th, 2020I wouldn’t mess around with this. If police or military are willing to use LRAD on a crowd, permanent hearing loss could easily result. Via: Vice: Over the past two weeks, cops have been deploying every tool at their disposal to suppress worldwide protests and riots over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony […]
Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC
June 9th, 2020If Intel’s stagnation was the problem, I wonder why Apple didn’t move to AMD’s Ryzen chips? This piece over at MacWorld speculates that it might be related to the general lack of support for Thunderbolt 3 on AMD. Via: Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is preparing to announce a shift to its own main processors in Mac […]
Starlink Releases Small Amount of Technical Information During Reddit Ask Me Anything
June 8th, 2020Via: GeekWire: SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation is still deep into testing mode, but it’s already generating 5 trillion bytes of data on a daily basis and getting software updates on a weekly basis. Those are a couple of the nuggets coming from a weekend Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session featuring SpaceX’s software team. The main […]
Tipping Point: Hyundai Has Bigger Market Share for EVs Than Combustion Cars
June 8th, 2020Via: Electrek: Internal-combustion vehicles made by Hyundai-Kia represented 8.9% of the global market in the first quarter of 2020. But the EVs it sells were 9.9% of the global electric-vehicle market. In other words, Hyundai could be the first legacy automaker that is now more competitive on EVs than with its gas- and diesel-powered cars.
World’s Most Powerful CW Handheld Laser
June 8th, 2020When I was a boy, I played with the 5mw red laser in my high school’s chemistry lab and it was good. These kids today… Via: styropyro:
Bricklaying Robot Set a New Lay Speed Record
June 6th, 2020Via: Popular Mechanics: A brick-laying robot named Hadrian X has broken its own record for speed, which is now up to 200 concrete blocks per hour—with the next landmark set at 240. (Its sibling robot Hadrian 112 aims to reach 1,000.)
Google Sued for Secretly Amassing Vast Trove of User Data
June 3rd, 2020Via: Bloomberg: Google surreptitiously amasses billions of bits of information –every day — about internet users even if they opt out of sharing their information, three consumers alleged in a proposed class action lawsuit. “Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their […]
President Donald Trump Makes Reference to “… Greatest Weapons Ever Imagined” in SpaceX Speech
June 1st, 2020Via: Black Vault:
