Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Google Collecting Complete Health Histories on Millions of Americans
November 11th, 2019Unbelievable. Via: Wall Street Journal: Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states. The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the biggest effort yet by a Silicon Valley giant to gain a toehold […]
Inside Amazon’s Plan for Alexa to Run Your Entire Life
November 11th, 2019Comedy Gold on Cryptogon this morning. Via: MIT Technology Review: The creator of the famous voice assistant dreams of a world where Alexa is everywhere, anticipating your every need. … The crux of the plan is for the voice assistant to move from passive to proactive interactions. Rather than wait for and respond to requests, […]
Microsoft: Project Silica Stores Warner Bros. ‘Superman’ Movie on Quartz Glass
November 9th, 2019Via: Microsoft: Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a drink coaster, 75 by 75 by 2 millimeters thick. It was the first proof of concept test for Project Silica, a Microsoft Research project that uses […]
Ireland: AI System to Search “Near Infinite Combinations” of Materials to Improve Hydrogen Production Through Electrolysis
November 8th, 2019Via: PhysOrg: The team aims to now use artificial intelligence to put a large number of earth-abundant metals and ligands (which glue them together to generate the catalysts) in a melting pot before assessing which of the near-infinite combinations yield the greatest promise. In combination, what once looked like an empty canvas now looks more […]
Chinese Surveillance Goods Illegally Sold to U.S. Military
November 8th, 2019Via: AP: A Long Island firm sold tens of millions of dollars in Chinese-made surveillance and other sensitive security equipment to customers, including the U.S. military to use on aircraft carriers, by falsely claiming the goods were manufactured in America, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The fraud that prosecutors allege by Aventura Technologies Inc. raised “a […]
Google Wants More Pentagon Work
November 7th, 2019Via: DefenseOne: The company’s senior vice president for global affairs said Tuesday that the search giant has Pentagon contracts to work on cybersecurity, business automation, and deepfake detection — and is looking for more. “It’s been frustrating,” said Google’s Kent Walker, referring to rising public perceptions that the company is opposed to doing national security […]
Fully Charged Show Visits Rivian
November 7th, 2019Via: Fully Charged:
This Is How the U.S. Military’s Massive Facial Recognition System Works
November 7th, 2019Via: OneZero: Over the last 15 years, the United States military has developed a new addition to its arsenal. The weapon is deployed around the world, largely invisible, and grows more powerful by the day. That weapon is a vast database, packed with millions of images of faces, irises, fingerprints, and DNA data — a […]
Tesla ‘Cybertruck’ Pickup Gets Unveil Date: Nov 21 in Los Angeles
November 6th, 2019Via: Electrek: Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla is going to unveil the ‘Cybertruck’ on November 21 in Los Angeles “near SpaceX’s rocket factory.” The CEO has been teasing Tesla’s electric pickup truck concept for the last year. It was first supposed to be unveiled this summer, but it was pushed to the fourth quarter. Musk […]
U.S. Army Wants 50KW Lasers Fielded by 2022: “The Time Is Now to Get Directed Energy Weapons to the Battlefield”
November 6th, 2019Via: Stars and Stripes: The Army is now developing 50 kilowatt lasers for its Stryker wheeled armored vehicles, with plans calling for a prototype to be fielded in 2022, the service said. “The time is now to get directed energy weapons to the battlefield,” said Lt. Gen. L. Neil Thurgood, director of hypersonics, directed energy, […]
