Archive for the 'Technology' Category
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 […]
F-35’s Gun That Can’t Shoot Straight Adds to Its Roster of Flaws
January 30th, 2020Via: Bloomberg: Add a gun that can’t shoot straight to the problems that dog Lockheed Martin Corp.’s $428 billion F-35 program, including more than 800 software flaws. The 25mm gun on Air Force models of the Joint Strike Fighter has “unacceptable” accuracy in hitting ground targets and is mounted in housing that’s cracking, the Pentagon’s […]
And Now, Colorado Mystery Drones a Case of Mass Hysteria
January 30th, 2020Swamp gas, Venus, etc. Via: Vice: On January 13, the Colorado Department of Public Safety (CDPS) issued a statement about their investigation into the mysterious drone sightings in question. CDPS “confirmed no incidents involving criminal activity, nor have investigations substantiated reports of suspicious or illegal drone activity.” In other words, they found nothing. Of the […]
University of Missouri Tracking Students with Phone App
January 29th, 2020Get them ready for life in those lovely “smart” cities! Via: Kansas City Star: Officials say it’s for the students’ own good. … The phone app is called Spotter, developed by a former Mizzou basketball coach. It works using short-range phone sensors and campus-wide WiFi networks. The university can tell when a student crosses a […]
