Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Swipetarded: Online Preschool
February 9th, 2020Via: Concord Monitor: We read with concern David Brooks’s Jan. 28 article about the New Hampshire Department of Education’s goal of enrolling 200 families in a pilot program for online preschool called Upstart. … A strong body of research, accumulated over decades, demonstrates how young children learn best – through exploration, play and interactions with […]
What Happens To All The Old Wind Turbines?
February 8th, 2020Via: BBC: Between last September and this March, it will become the final resting place for 1,000 fibreglass turbine blades. These blades, which have reached the end of their 25-year working lives, come from three wind farms in the north-western US state. Each is about 90m (300ft) long, and will be cut into three, then […]
Shenzhen: Foxconn Factory Workers Told to Stay Home
February 8th, 2020Via: Bloomberg: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. told employees at its Shenzhen facility not to return to work when the extended Lunar New Year break ends Feb. 10, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg News. The moratorium represents an extreme effort by Apple Inc.’s most important partner to curb the spread of the novel […]
Federal Agencies Use Cellphone Location Data for Immigration Enforcement
February 7th, 2020Via: Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration has bought access to a commercial database that maps the movements of millions of cellphones in America and is using it for immigration and border enforcement, according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The location data is drawn from ordinary […]
The Army Wants Technology that Can See Through Walls—and Identify People on the Other Side
February 6th, 2020Via: Nextgov: People can’t see through walls but the Army wants to pioneer next-level technology that will help soldiers do exactly that—with the added bonus of instantaneously offering advanced, penetrating insights that go far beyond what meets the eye. According to a recent request for information, the Army is accepting white papers to identify commercially […]
The Myth Of Incompetence: DNC Scandals Are A Feature, Not A Bug
February 6th, 2020Via: Medium – Caitlin Johnstone: The Iowa caucus scandal has continued to get more egregious by the hour, with new revelations routinely pouring in about extremely suspicious manipulations taking place which all just so happen to disadvantage the campaign of Bernie Sanders in the first Democratic electoral contest of 2020. … I keep seeing the […]
7-Eleven Tests Cashierless Store At North Texas Headquarters
February 6th, 2020Via: CBS: A new 700-square foot 7-Eleven store has opened in Texas, but this one doesn’t have a human cashier. The pilot store, at 7-Eleven headquarters in Irving, uses a mixture of algorithms and predictive technology to separate individual customers and their purchases from others in the store. The concept location offers some of the […]
Astra: Space Launch Startup Emerges from Stealth Mode
February 3rd, 2020Via: Bloomberg: The company’s founders say they want to be the FedEx Corp. of space. They’re aiming to create small, cheap rockets that can be mass-produced to facilitate daily spaceflights, delivering satellites into low-Earth orbit for as little as $1 million per launch. … Kemp says that Rocket Lab’s going launch rate of about $7.5 […]
San Francisco: A Dystopian Nightmare of Addiction, Homelessness and Criminality
February 2nd, 2020They have been showing it to us for several decades in novels and on screens: Cyberpunk: High Tech, Low Life: Via: Daily Mail: ‘San Francisco has always had hobos but we’ve never seen anything like this. It’s become a vision of some kind of strange dystopian future,’ says Joel Kotkin, a widely respected professor in […]
A Russian “Inspector” Spacecraft Now Appears To Be Shadowing An American Spy Satellite
January 31st, 2020Via: The Drive: Publicly available data suggests that a Russian inspector satellite has shifted its position in orbit to bring it relatively close to a U.S. KH-11 spy satellite. Russia has a number of what it calls “space apparatus inspectors” in orbit, which the U.S. government and others warn the Kremlin could use to gather […]
