Archive for the 'Technology' Category
ACLU: Border Agents Violate Constitution When They Search Electronic Devices
May 2nd, 2019Via: NPR: The American Civil Liberties Union says it has uncovered new evidence that federal border agents are violating the Constitution when they search travelers’ electronic devices. The ACLU, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sued the federal government in 2017, alleging that its “warrantless and suspicionless searches” of electronic devices at the U.S. ports […]
Virgin Orbit
May 1st, 2019Via: The Verge: Right now, hundreds of space startups are racing to develop newer, smaller rockets, in order to take advantage of the proliferation of smaller satellites within the aerospace industry. Many of these companies want to get to space the old-fashioned way, by making a rocket that takes off vertically from the ground. But […]
U.S. Searches of Phones, Laptops at Airports Rising
May 1st, 2019Via: AP: U.S. government searches of travelers’ cellphones and laptops at airports and border crossings nearly quadrupled since 2015 and were being done for reasons beyond customs and immigration enforcement, according to papers filed Tuesday in a federal lawsuit that claims scouring the electronic devices without a warrant is unconstitutional. The government has vigorously defended […]
The U.S. Has a Battery Problem in the Race for Electric Car Supremacy
April 30th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. push to challenge China’s dominance in the production and sale of electric vehicles has at least one weak link: Most of the raw materials needed to make the batteries are dug elsewhere. Both Chinese and U.S.-based companies have invested heavily in lithium mining projects in Chile, Australia and Argentina, some of […]
FCC Approves SpaceX’s Plans to Fly Internet-Beaming Satellites in Lower Orbit
April 30th, 2019In case you’re not being hit with enough EM smog already… Via: The Verge: The Federal Communications Commission has approved SpaceX’s request to fly a large swath of its future internet-beaming satellites at a lower orbit than originally planned. The approval was a major regulatory hurdle the company needed to clear in order to start […]
SpaceX’s Unnerving Silence on an Explosive Incident
April 30th, 2019Via: The Atlantic: The smoke was visible for miles. The day, April 20, was sunny on the Florida coast, with few clouds. The plumes, thick and glowing orange, rose over the horizon and crawled across the sky. Beachgoers stopped to stare. A photographer for Florida Today, on assignment to cover a surf festival, turned the […]
Censorship – The First Action of a Criminal Government
April 29th, 2019Via: The Crow House: Research Credit: LoneWolf
Poway Synagogue Shooting: Minecraft References in John T. Earnest’s Manifesto
April 28th, 2019Update: It’s a Joke Used on 8chan SK writes: The “It’s easy to do {{felony}} . . . In Minecraft” is an 8chan idiom to suggest the author had plausible deniability in making the statement. I don’t think it’s taken as a true legal defense as much as a running joke. Given the content of […]
Retailers Are Tracking Where You Shop – and Where You Sleep
April 27th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Retailers are following the trail of electronic bread crumbs left by millions of customers. And it’s helping them at a time when the industry is suffering. They’re buying mobile-phone data that can track where and for how long people shop, eat, see movies — and where they go before and after. It allows […]
Walmart Experiments with AI to Monitor Stores in Real Time
April 25th, 2019Enable face recognition so the system can tempt Bubba with three cents off his next bag of Doritos with alerts on his phone as he’s standing in front of the chips. Via: AP: Inside one of Walmart’s busiest Neighborhood Market grocery stores, high resolution cameras suspended from the ceiling point to a table of bananas. […]
