Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Counterfeiting Microsoft’s “Restore CD” Landed Me in Prison for a Year
October 14th, 2019“When I save something, that’s taking away from their market share.” Via: Vice:
Facebook Wants Non Invasive Brain Computer Interface, Will Avoid Regulatory Scrutiny
October 14th, 2019Via: Observer: At a recent internal employee Q&A session, the Facebook CEO hinted that such technology could see promising use cases in Facebook’s future augmented reality and virtual reality products. “Brain-computer interface is an exciting idea,” Zuckerberg told employees, according to a meeting transcript leaked earlier this month. “The field quickly branches into two approaches: […]
China’s New Cybersecurity Program: NO Place to Hide
October 14th, 2019Via: China Law Blog: The Chinese government has been working for several years on a comprehensive Internet security/surveillance program. This program is based on the Cybersecurity Law adopted on 2016. The plan is vast and includes a number of subsidiary laws and regulations. On December 1, 2018, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security announced it […]
Why Everything Is Getting Louder
October 12th, 2019Via: The Atlantic: Scientists have known for decades that noise—even at the seemingly innocuous volume of car traffic—is bad for us. “Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience,” former U.S. Surgeon General William Stewart said in 1978. In the years since, numerous studies have only underscored his assertion that noise “must be […]
Scientist Behind The Navy’s “UFO Patents” Has Now Filed One For A Compact Fusion Reactor
October 12th, 2019Via: The Drive: The War Zone has been reporting on a set of bizarre patents assigned to the U.S. Navy that describe radical new technologies that could absolutely revolutionize the aerospace field, and frankly, the very way we live our lives. These include high-energy electromagnetic fields used to create force fields and outlandish new methods […]
Former NASA Scientist Believes Viking Mission Found Life on Mars in 1976
October 11th, 2019Not new claims, but very interesting if you haven’t heard about this before. Via: Scientific American: I was fortunate to have participated in that historic adventure as experimenter of the Labeled Release (LR) life detection experiment on NASA’s spectacular Viking mission to Mars in 1976. On July 30, 1976, the LR returned its initial results […]
Dyson Has Scrapped Its Electric Car Project
October 10th, 2019Via: BBC: Dyson, the UK-based company best known for its vacuum cleaners, has scrapped a project to build electric cars. The firm, headed by inventor Sir James Dyson, said its engineers had developed a “fantastic electric car” but that it would not hit the roads because it was not “commercially viable”. In an email sent […]
Thermoelectric Generator: Cold Side Radiates Heat Built Up from Day to Sky at Night
October 9th, 201925 mW/square meter is close to nothing, but it’s an interesting idea. Via: Joule: A large fraction of the world’s population still lacks access to electricity, particularly at night when photovoltaic systems no longer operate. The ability to generate electricity at night could be a fundamentally enabling capability for a wide range of applications, including […]
Millions Brace for Unprecedented Power Cuts in California
October 9th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: It was a once-unthinkable move: purposely shutting off power to millions of people and plunging a major metropolitan area into darkness. And yet, on Wednesday, utility PG&E Corp. began cutting electricity to almost 800,000 California homes and businesses — representing roughly 2.4 million people — to prevent wildfires as high winds are forecast […]
Nobel Awarded for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Portable Power
October 9th, 2019Via: Quanta Magazine: Three researchers were honored with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry this morning for their roles in the development of lithium-ion batteries, a technology that has made possible our mobile electronic civilization of cellular phones and electric cars. John Goodenough of University of Texas, Austin, M. Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University and Akira […]
