Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Amazon Stores Alexa Transcripts Indefinitely, Unless Customers Manually Delete Them
July 3rd, 2019I wouldn’t believe that anything can actually be deleted from that thing. Via: IAfrikan: Amazon has confirmed that it keeps transcripts of users’ Alexa voice recordings indefinitely on its servers. The company also keeps Alexa voice recordings indefinitely. According to Amazon, customers customers do have an option to delete both the transcripts and voice recordings.
Solein: Synthetic, Protein-Heavy Product, Tastes Like Wheat Flour, Made from Electricity, Water and Air
June 29th, 2019Safety? I can’t find anything related to safety. Also, even if there were claims about it being safe to consume, should we believe them? See: Vaccines, aspartame, GM food, fluoride, etc. “The foodstuff was said to mark a break with a thousand years of production…” Alright. How much time and effort will be spent studying […]
Did U.S. Navy Patent Tic-Tac UFO Technology?
June 29th, 2019Limited Hangout: ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects: At some level, there probably exists much more knowledge about the nature of the objects in the videos than we are being told… I think there’s at least better than even odds that an American is at the controls (possibly by remote) of […]
Trump Administration Considering Encryption Crackdown
June 28th, 2019pic.twitter.com/YMODD0Ffal — John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 28, 2019 Via: Cnet: As tech companies double down on promises to better protect users’ privacy, the US government may have other ideas. Senior Trump officials reportedly met Wednesday to discuss asking Congress to pass legislation that would stop tech companies from using encryption that law enforcement can’t break, […]
Paul Hellyer: Why Is the U.S. Government Releasing UFO Videos Now?
June 28th, 2019Limited Hangout: ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects: While I’d like to know what they’re showing us, I am far more interested in Why Now? and To What End? Via: MUFON Canada:
The First AI Universe Sim Is Fast and Accurate—Creators Don’t Know How It Works
June 27th, 2019Via: Science Daily: For the first time, astrophysicists have used artificial intelligence techniques to generate complex 3D simulations of the universe. The results are so fast, accurate and robust that even the creators aren’t sure how it all works. The Deep Density Displacement Model can accurately simulate how the cosmos would look if certain parameters […]
The Pentagon Has Laser That Can Identify People from a Distance by Their Heartbeat
June 27th, 2019It could be handy for mounting on killer robots. Via: MIT Technology Review: Everyone’s heart is different. Like the iris or fingerprint, our unique cardiac signature can be used as a way to tell us apart. Crucially, it can be done from a distance. It’s that last point that has intrigued US Special Forces. … […]
“The books will stop working.”
June 27th, 2019Via: Rob Donoghue: Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next week. The DRM'd books will stop working. I cannot believe that sentence. "The books will stop working." I keep saying it and it sounds worse each time. — Rob Donoghue (@rdonoghue) June 26, 2019
Vimeo Bans Project Veritas, Natural News on the Same Day
June 27th, 2019Via: Natural News: The video platform Vimeo has banned Project Veritas and Natural News on the same day, taking part in the criminal collusion among tech giants who are systematically silencing independent journalism that keeps exposing the criminality of the tech giants themselves. Research Credit: Pookie
FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max and Orders Boeing to Make Changes
June 26th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Tests on Boeing Co.’s grounded 737 Max have revealed a new safety risk unrelated to two fatal crashes that led to the grounding of the aircraft, and U.S. regulators are ordering the company to make additional design changes. The Federal Aviation Administration discovered that data processing by a flight computer on the jetliner […]
