Archive for the 'Technology' Category
“The Anti-MacBook” – Panasonic TOUGHBOOK 55 Review
September 26th, 2019Here’s one for you 3.5mm Ports on Your Mobile Phone Luddites. This will definitely call to you. I love it! While one can dream, I still think old/used Dell Latitudes are the best laptop values to be had anywhere. Via: Mr. Mobile:
China: New ‘Super Camera’ Can Instantly Pinpoint Specific Targets Among Tens of Thousands of People
September 26th, 2019Would you like an anti-surveillance face mask or T-shirt to go with that? Via: ABC: Scientists have unveiled a 500 megapixel cloud camera system in China that they say is capable of capturing the facial details of each individual in a crowd of tens of thousands of people, raising fears facial recognition monitoring could soon […]
Drilling Open a Smart Door Lock in 4 Seconds
September 25th, 2019Via: Pen Test Partners: The BBC asked us to have a look at some smart locks for a TV show recently. We didn’t have much prep time, but were genuinely shocked by just how easy this one was to compromise. Usually, we spend time looking at Bluetooth/RF, the mobile app, the API and then move […]
BostonDynamics Atlas Gymnastic Routine
September 25th, 2019Via: BostonDynamics: Atlas uses its whole body — legs, arms, torso — to perform a sequence of dynamic maneuvers that form a gymnastic routine. We created the maneuvers using new techniques that streamline the development process. First, an optimization algorithm transforms high-level descriptions of each maneuver into dynamically-feasible reference motions. Then Atlas tracks the motions […]
Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind
September 23rd, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Facebook Inc. agreed to acquire CTRL-Labs, a technology startup that is building software to let people control a digital avatar using only their thoughts. The world’s largest social network is paying between $500 million and $1 billion, according to people familiar with the deal. The closely held four-year-old startup, which has dozens of […]
Mystery Towers Going Up All Over Cincinnati Area
September 22nd, 2019These towers are going up and the cities don’t know which companies are building them? This is incredible. Via: WCPO: But the FCC allows these towers to go in with almost no local approval. The FCC and FAA claim there are no proven links between 5G cell service and health effects, and say local residents […]
“Robot Priests Can Bless You, Advise You, and Even Perform Your Funeral”
September 22nd, 2019You head on down to your local Reverend Wayne’s Pearly Gates franchise, hoping for a pleasant sermon from a robot that looks like it stepped out of Ghost in the Shell, but you find that there have been… Upgrades. Here’s Geordie Rose talking about, “These things that we’re summoning into the world now.” Via: Vox: […]
Google Research Paper Claims ‘Quantum Supremacy’
September 21st, 2019The paper was posted publicly by mistake and then removed. Via: Fortune: In what may be a huge milestone in computing, Google says it has achieved “quantum supremacy,” an experimental demonstration of the superiority of a quantum computer over a traditional one. The claim, made in a new scientific paper, is the most serious indication […]
How The Sabbatian-Frankist Death Cult Runs The World
September 20th, 2019Book: The Trigger: The Lie That Changed the World by David Icke Via: David Icke:
Smart Faucets And Toilets Use Alexa To Listen To Your Conversations
September 19th, 2019haha Oh sure! Via: MassPrivatel: It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone’s conversations, but that is just what Delta Faucet and Kohler have done. Delta Faucet’s “Voice IQ” takes advantage of where lots of people like to congregate and turns it into […]
