Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Biology: “Something That Can Be Digitally Manipulated”
October 2nd, 2019It’s easy to laugh at the barking insanity of these monsters, but at the same time, you probably know someone who spent their hard earned money to buy a “smart speaker” surveillance platform for their home. Via: CNBC: Brain inserts and carbon-absorbing bacteria aren’t just the fantasies of Silicon Valley’s richest executives, they’re also a […]
Gait Analysis (and Correlation to Video) of Individuals Possible Through Wi-Fi
October 2nd, 2019This is very bad. Via: TechXplore: Researchers in the lab of UC Santa Barbara professor Yasamin Mostofi have enabled, for the first time, determining whether the person behind a wall is the same individual who appears in given video footage, using only a pair of WiFi transceivers outside. This novel video-WiFi cross-modal gait-based person identification […]
FAA Allows UPS to Expand Drone Deliveries in U.S.
October 2nd, 2019Via: CBS: UPS won government approval to operate a nationwide fleet of drones, which will allow the company to expand deliveries on hospital campuses and move it one step closer to making deliveries to consumers. Many regulatory obstacles remain, however, before UPS — or other operators who are testing drones — can fill the sky […]
China Displays New Hypersonic Nuclear Missile on 70th Anniversary
October 2nd, 2019Via: Al Jazeera: China’s military has shown off a new hypersonic ballistic nuclear missile believed capable of breaching all existing anti-missile shields deployed by the United States and its allies. The vehicle-mounted DF-17 was among weapons displayed on Tuesday in a large military parade led by President Xi Jinping to mark the 70th anniversary of […]
This Robot Can Make 300 Pizzas In An Hour
October 2nd, 2019Via: TribLive: Watch out pizza world: this pizza robot could shake things up. Seattle startup Picnic announced Tuesday that it has a developed a unit that can make 300 12-inch pizzas per hour and 180 18-inch pizzas per hour. While the pizzabot does its share of the work, dough preparation, sauce making and baking are […]
Amazon’s Dystopian Plan To Be Anywhere And Everywhere
September 30th, 2019Via: The Week: When most tech companies host a launch event, it is to unveil one or two major products. Not Amazon. For the past couple of years at its launch events, the company has bombarded tech watchers with a torrent of new products. And so it wasn’t all that surprising when it announced a […]
Twitter Executive for Middle East Is British Army ‘Psyops’ Soldier
September 30th, 2019Via: Middle East Eye: The senior Twitter executive with editorial responsibility for the Middle East is also a part-time officer in the British Army’s psychological warfare unit, Middle East Eye has established. Gordon MacMillan, who joined the social media company’s UK office six years ago, has for several years also served with the 77th Brigade, […]
China: Fugitive On Run for 17 Years Found Living in Cave by Drone
September 30th, 2019Via: BBC: Chinese police have arrested a fugitive who’d been on the run for 17 years, after they used drones to spot his cave hideout. The 63-year old, named Song Jiang by the police, had been jailed for trafficking women and children but escaped from a prison camp in 2002. He had been living in […]
GE, NASA Partner to Advance the Future of Electric Flight
September 29th, 2019Via: ZDnet: Electric flight is becoming a tantalizingly close reality for shorter-range service. But increasing passenger carrying capacity and flight times to economically accommodate longer routes will require a major rethink of crucial components. One of these is the inverter, which changes the direct current of batteries into alternating current used by the airplane’s propulsion […]
Auto Workers Fear for Jobs with Rise of Electric Vehicles
September 28th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: The milkman went missing thanks to the rise of refrigerators. Switchboard operators were done in by the dawn of direct dialing. And in the car industry, auto workers are deathly afraid the engine assembler will give way to battery builders. Dread over the prospect that plug-in cars — which have fewer parts and […]
