Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Apple Aims to Sell Macs With Its Own Chips Starting in 2021
April 24th, 2020Via: Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is planning to start selling Mac computers with its own main processors by next year, relying on designs that helped popularize the iPhone and iPad, according to people familiar with the matter. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant is working on three of its own Mac processors, known as systems-on-a-chip, based on […]
Will Covid-19 Speed Up the Use of Robots to Replace Human Workers?
April 24th, 2020Via: BBC: For better or worse the robots are going to replace many humans in their jobs, analysts say, and the coronavirus outbreak is speeding up the process. “People usually say they want a human element to their interactions but Covid-19 has changed that,” says Martin Ford, a futurist who has written about the ways […]
Flaw in iPhone, iPads May Have Allowed Hackers to Steal Data for Years
April 22nd, 2020Via: Reuters: Apple Inc is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers. The bug, which also exists on iPads, was discovered by ZecOps, a San Francisco-based mobile security forensics company, while it was investigating a sophisticated cyberattack against a client […]
YouTube CEO: “Anything That Would Go Go Against WHO Recommendations Would Be A Violation Of Our Policy”
April 20th, 2020Also, watch out for those Vitamin C and turmeric videos. Remove. Remove. Remove. Via: CNN: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcocki says users are using the platform during the coronavirus crisis. It started with basic information but now users “want to know about life under quarantine… like exercise at home. How do I fix my freezer? How […]
A Robotic Spacecraft Caught an Old Satellite and Extended Its Life
April 17th, 2020Via: CNBC: Intelsat’s IS-901 satellite is nearly 20 years old, and well beyond its expected lifespan, but a small spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman succeeded in docking with the satellite and giving it another five years of service, the companies announced on Friday. The feat is a space industry first, as extending the life of […]
Microsoft Releases (and Deletes) an Ad With Elite Occultist Marina Abramovic
April 14th, 2020Via: Vigilant Citizen: On Good Friday, Microsoft released a video promoting its association with the elite’s favorite artist: Marina Abramovic. After massive backlash, the video was set to “private” and all traces of the campaign were scrubbed from Microsoft’s official website. Here’s what this fiasco was all about.
Einride: One Driver, Many Vehicles
April 14th, 2020Via: Cnet: Einride eventually hopes to be able to increase its vehicle-to-driver ratio to the point where a single remote operator can safely manage up to 10 trucks. The video shows the operator switching between two trucks at the push of a button, but we’d guess that it’s still a long way off from that […]
Argument for a 5G – COVID-19 Epidemic Causation Mechanism by Martin Pall, PhD
April 11th, 2020The problem with causation theories of 5G and Covid-19 is that there are many places with no 5G at all AND a Covid-19 problem. France has no 5G (5G spectrum auctions haven’t even happened yet) and it has the 4th most Covid-19 cases. How can that be if 5G is supposedly the cause? South Korea […]
After 50 Years of Effort, Researchers Made Silicon Emit Light
April 11th, 2020Via: Wired: Modern transistors, which function as a computer’s brain cells, are only a few atoms long. If they are packed too tightly, that can cause all sorts of problems: electron traffic jams, overheating, and strange quantum effects. One solution is to replace some electronic circuits with optical connections that use photons instead of electrons […]
“Do You Think It’s Caused By 5G?”
April 8th, 2020Someone asked me if I think the Covid-19 situation is caused by 5G. No, I don’t. 5G is operational in NZ and these are the Covid-19 numbers as of now, according to the government: As you can see, in New Zealand, Covid-19 is more dangerous than farts and less dangerous than just about everything else. […]
