Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Dark Journalist: TSSA CIA Fake UFO Disclosure
November 1st, 2019Via: Dark Journalist:
The Fantasy of Opting Out
November 1st, 2019Via: The MIT Press Reader: Consider a day in the life of a fairly ordinary person in a large city in a stable, democratically governed country. She is not in prison or institutionalized, nor is she a dissident or an enemy of the state, yet she lives in a condition of permanent and total surveillance […]
The Military Has Been Researching “Anti-Gravity” For Nearly 70 Years
October 31st, 2019Via: The Drive: Decades-old questions about the potential existence of fantastical anti-gravity propulsion technologies have resurfaced following the Navy’s own disclosure of encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena and our own original reporting on a series of bizarre patents assigned to the U.S. Navy that seem to defy our current understanding of physics and aerospace propulsion. […]
Piper Announces First General Aviation Aircraft to be Standard Equipped with Autoland Capability
October 31st, 2019Via: Piper – Press Release: The Halo system, once engaged either automatically or by a passenger, gains immediate situational awareness and assumes control of all systems necessary to bring you and your passengers safely to the best suited runway. During all phases of flight it communicates with passengers and appropriate air traffic control facilities regarding […]
Secretive Military Spaceplane Lands in Florida After Record-Long Orbital Flight
October 27th, 2019I’m thinking: Kinetic bombardment. Ground attack capability from orbit; projectiles, accelerated mostly by gravity, maybe launched with a bit of cold gas. What’s your guess? Via: Reuters: The Pentagon’s secretive X-37B spaceplane landed in Florida on Sunday after a record-long orbital flight lasting more than two years, the U.S. Air Force said, capping the latest […]
Primitive Technology: A Survivalist’s Guide to Building Tools, Shelters, and More in the Wild
October 27th, 2019My children and I have been watching John’s Primitive Technology channel for years. Highly recommended. Here’s his new book: Primitive Technology: A Survivalist’s Guide to Building Tools, Shelters, and More in the Wild Hardcover by John Plant.
Skylon’s SABRE Engine Precooler Passes a Big Test
October 27th, 2019Via: Universe Today: Recently, Reaction Engines passed a major milestone with the development of their SABRE engine. As the company announced earlier this week (on Tues. Oct. 22nd), their engineers conducted a successful test of a vital component – the engine’s heat exchange element (aka. precooler). What’s more, the test involved airflow temperatures equivalent to […]
Tesla Summon: “A Tragedy Waiting to Happen”
October 27th, 2019The “Summon” feature is cringe inducing. Fully autonomous robotaxis in a year or two? No way. Via: ZeroHedge: Seemingly undeterred by disturbing video on social media and a regulator inquiry into the company, Tesla continues to forge forward blindly and recklessly into the realm of autonomy. Most recently, Tesla said on its conference call Wednesday […]
Microsoft Wins $10 Billion Pentagon Cloud Contract, Beating Amazon
October 26th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Microsoft Corp. has won the sought-after JEDI cloud computing contract with the Pentagon valued at as much as $10 billion over a decade, dealing a blow to the market leader, Amazon.com Inc., which had been the front-runner. The decision, which was announced by the Defense Department late Friday, may be challenged by Amazon, […]
Equifax Used ‘Admin’ as Username and Password for Sensitive Data
October 24th, 2019Via: Yahoo Finance: Equifax (EFX) used the word “admin” as both password and username for a portal that contained sensitive information, according to a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of Georgia. The ongoing lawsuit, filed after the breach, went viral on Twitter Friday after Buzzfeed reporter Jane Lytvynenko came […]
