Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Google Critic Suggests His Wife’s Fatal Car Crash Was Not an Accident
January 21st, 2020Via: Daily Mail: A high profile critic of Google, who accused the search engine of meddling in the 2016 election, has now suggested his wife’s fatal car crash was not an accident. Robert Epstein, 66, said in July the internet giant’s methods ‘gave’ millions of votes to Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election. In […]
SAFIRE Project 2019 Update
January 19th, 2020Thanks to NH for posting this in The Case Against Reality – Prof. Donald Hoffman on Conscious Agent Theory and to Dennis for mentioning it to me. Via: SAFIRE Project: More: 2015: Michael Clarage: SAFIRE and the Electric Sun Model
Key Volkswagen Exec Admits Full Self-Driving Cars ‘May Never Happen’
January 19th, 2020Via: The Drive: After years of sunny optimism and big promises, automakers are beginning to realize just how difficult it is to make a market-ready, full self-driving car. The CEO of Volkswagen’s autonomous driving division recently admitted that Level 5 autonomy—that’s full computer control of the vehicle with zero limitations—might actually never happen. Related: Automakers […]
Amazon Wants Shoppers to Pay With a Wave of the Hand
January 18th, 2020Via: Bloomberg: Amazon.com Inc. is planning to create terminals which would allow customers to make payments in-store with a wave of the hand, Dow Jones reports citing people familiar with the matter. The company plans to pitch the terminals to coffee shops, fast-food restaurants and other merchants and has recently began working with Visa Inc., […]
Georgia Election Server Showed Signs of Tampering, Expert Says
January 17th, 2020Via: AP: A computer security expert says he found that a forensic image of the election server central to a legal battle over the integrity of Georgia elections showed signs that the original server was hacked. The server was left exposed to the open internet for at least six months, a problem the same expert […]
The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens
January 16th, 2020Reality By EranFowler Via: Wired: Mojo Vision’s prototypes can enhance your vision or show you your schedule—right from the surface of your eyes. A glance to the left. A flick to the right. As my eyes flitted around the room, I moved through a virtual interface only visible to me—scrolling through a calendar, looking up […]
Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft’s Code
January 15th, 2020Via: BBC: The US National Security Agency (NSA) has discovered a major flaw in Windows 10 that could have been used by hackers to create malicious software that looked legitimate. Microsoft has issued a patch and said it had seen no evidence of the bug being exploited by hackers. The issue was revealed during an […]
IBM Partnering with Mercedes and Others to Bring Cobalt and Nickel Free Battery Design to Market
January 15th, 2020Definitely don’t hold your breath while waiting for this one, but it’s an interesting read. Via: IBM: Today, IBM Research is building on a long history of materials science innovation to unveil a new battery discovery. This new research could help eliminate the need for heavy metals in battery production and transform the long-term sustainability […]
Windows 7 End of Life: Many Businesses Still Haven’t Finished Move to Windows 10; Zombie Systems Flourish
January 15th, 2020I run IT for a small business here in NZ and I only had three Windows 7 systems to upgrade to Windows 10 before the deadline. Everything else was already on Windows 10 or macOS. Out of those three Win 7 to Win 10 upgrades that I had to do, zero out of three were […]
Computer-Designed Organisms
January 14th, 2020Via: GitHub: Thus, we here present a method that designs completely biological machines from the ground up: computers automatically design new machines in simulation, and the best designs are then built by combining together different biological tissues. This suggests others may use this approach to design a variety of living machines to safely deliver drugs […]
