Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Udio: AI Creates Music from Text Prompts
April 10th, 2024Via: Udio: Introducing Udio, an app for music creation and sharing that allows you to generate amazing music in your favorite styles with intuitive and powerful text-prompting. 1/11 pic.twitter.com/al5uYAsU5k — udio (@udiomusic) April 10, 2024
Cash-Strapped Argentines Queue for Eye Scans
April 9th, 2024Via: AFP: Argentines eyeing a financial boost are lining up by the thousands to have their irises scanned in exchange for a few crypto tokens as part of an online biometrics project under scrutiny in several countries. … For volunteering their data, initial participants receive 10 tokens each of Worldcoin’s own cryptocurrency, the WLD. In […]
Musk Ignores Court Ordered Censorship in Brazil
April 8th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: Brazil’s activist Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered an investigation into Elon Musk, after the billionaire vowed to defy a court order as part of an ongoing probe into social media accounts allegedly spreading misinformation and ‘hate’ speech. … The TWITTER FILES BRAZIL, reported by investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger, and colleagues […]
Insurance Company Surveillance: Nearly Every Building in the Country Is Being Photographed, Often Without the Owner’s Knowledge
April 7th, 2024Via: Wall Street Journal: Across the U.S., insurance companies are using aerial images of homes as a tool to ditch properties seen as higher risk. Nearly every building in the country is being photographed, often without the owner’s knowledge. Companies are deploying drones, manned airplanes and high-altitude balloons to take images of properties. No place […]
Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Shipping Company Court Filing Seeks, “Exoneration from Liability”
April 7th, 2024U.S. District Court, Maryland: “Petitioners claim exoneration from liability for any and all losses or damage arising out of the Casualty and from any and all claims for damages that have been or may be filed. Petitioners further allege that they have valid defenses to any and all such claims.” Via: Redacted:
Debt From Above: The Carbon Credit Coup
April 5th, 2024Via: Unlimited Hangout: Latin America is quietly being forced into a carbon market scheme through regional contractual obligations – enforced by the satellites of a US intelligence-linked firm – which seeks to create an inter-continental “smart grid,” erode national and local sovereignty, and link carbon-based life to the debt-based monetary system via a Bitcoin sidechain. […]
NSA Official: Practical Quantum Computing Is Coming in 3 to 5 Years
April 4th, 2024My guess is that they already have it. Via: NextGov: Practical quantum computing tools are about 3 to 5 years out from workforce use and will likely be accessed through cloud based environments, a top National Security Agency official predicted at a Tuesday Palo Alto Networks public sector cybersecurity event. Neal Ziring, the NSA’s cybersecurity […]
Taiwan Earthquake: TSMC Resumes Production; No Damage to Most Critical Chip-Making Equipment
April 4th, 2024Good news. Via: Bloomberg: Taiwan’s semiconductor industry restarted operations and emergency personnel worked to help injured and trapped citizens as the island begins to recover from its worst earthquake in 25 years. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the leading producer of advanced chips for Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp., said it would resume production less than […]
Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” Grocery Checkout AI Was Actually 1,000 Contractors in India
April 3rd, 2024Via: The Byte: Amazon is giving up with its unusual “Just Walk Out” technology, The Information reports, which allowed customers to simply put their shopping into their bags and leave the store without having to get in line at the checkout. The tech, which was only available at half of the e-commerce giant’s Amazon Fresh […]
TSMC, UMC EVACUATE CHIPMAKING LINES AFTER MAJOR TAIWAN QUAKE
April 2nd, 2024Via: Bloomberg: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and its closest rival evacuated factory areas after the biggest earthquake to hit its home island in 25 years, casting uncertainty over production at the world’s largest maker of advanced chips. TSMC, the main contract chipmaker to Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp., moved staff out of certain areas and […]
