Archive for the 'Technology' Category
This Company Will Point Satellites at Earth and Use them to Look for UFOs
May 30th, 2020Via: Vice: Hypergiant was founded just two years ago, in 2018, but the company has already worked with the likes of Booz Allen Hamilton, Shell, NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Department of Homeland Security. … “UAPs are the X at the cross center.”
Prototype Robot that Carries Out Throat Swab Tests for Coronavirus Developed by Danish Researchers
May 28th, 2020Hmm hmm. Via: Daily Mail: A robot that is able to take throat swabs from coronavirus patients using a 3D printed arm was developed by a team of researchers from Denmark in just four weeks. The University of Southern Denmark says the world’s first fully automated throat swab robot will be be able to test […]
Meet Ella: New Zealand Police Unveil First Artificial Intelligence Officer
May 26th, 2020#nottheonion Via: New Zealand Herald: The police have unveiled their first AI officer, with hopes she’ll soon be smiling and blinking out of screens in stations all around New Zealand. Ella, the artificial intelligence cop at the centre of the police’s new digital services, was revealed at the police national headquarters in Wellington this morning. […]
Precomputed Contact Chaining: Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network
May 26th, 2020Via: Wired: If anyone could become an intelligence target, Mainway should try to get a head start on everyone. … The NSA had built a live, ever-updating social graph of the US.
Meet Bill Gates
May 24th, 2020Via: Corbett Report:
USS Portland Fires Laser Weapon, Downs Drone in First At-Sea Test
May 22nd, 2020Via: U.S. Naval Institute: Amphibious ship USS Portland (LPD-27) shot down a drone with a laser weapon during a first-of-its-kind at-sea test of the Navy’s high-energy laser weapon system. The Navy is currently developing and testing a portfolio of laser weapons, some of which are more powerful but only suited for ships with greater power-generation […]
Apple Whistleblower on Audio Surveillance Related to Siri
May 22nd, 2020Via: The Register: Dear Madam/Sir, I am writing this statement to inform you of massive violation of the privacy of millions of citizens that I have witnessed in the course of my work assignment for Apple. Between 13th May 2019 and 16th July 2019, I was hired by Globe Technical Services, one of Apple’s subcontractors, […]
Sales of Gas Powered Cars Peaked in 2017
May 19th, 2020Via: Bloomberg: Gas-powered vehicles will still comprise more than half of global auto sales for years to come, but the market has already peaked, according to BNEF. Worldwide, we will never buy as many traditional cars and trucks as we did in 2017.
U.S. Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
May 18th, 2020Via: Krebs on Security: A well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state unemployment insurance programs, with potential losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new alert issued by the U.S. Secret Service. A memo seen by KrebsOnSecurity that the Secret Service circulated […]
Google Bans Podcast App Because It Includes Podcasts That Mention Covid-19
May 18th, 2020Via: Reclaim the Net: One of the most popular podcast players on the Google Play store, Podcast Addict, has been suspended on the grounds that some of the podcasts it indexes reference the coronavirus but aren’t approved by government entities or public health organizations. According to the now-removed Google Play store listing for Podcast Addict, […]
