Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Tesla’s Pwn2Own Program
January 16th, 2019Via: Electrek: Tesla has been working closely with white hat hackers for years in order to make its vehicle software safer and now it’s taking an unprecedented step: it’s going to be giving away a Model 3 to a hacker who can crack the vehicle.
China Turns to Driverless Tractors, Combines to Overhaul Agriculture
January 16th, 2019Via: Reuters: A brand new combine harvester buzzes up and down a field in eastern China without a driver on board, chopping golden rice stalks and offering a glimpse of what authorities say is the automated future of the nation’s mammoth agricultural sector. The bright green prototype was operating last autumn during a trial of […]
U.S. Classrooms Are Starting to Resemble Arcades
January 15th, 2019Screens In Schools Are a $60 Billion Hoax: The screen revolution has seen pedagogy undergo a seismic shift as technology now dominates the educational landscape. In almost every classroom in America today, you will find some type of screen—smartboards, Chromebooks, tablets, smartphones. From inner-city schools to those in rural and remote towns, we have accepted […]
The Super-Secure Quantum Cable Hiding in the Holland Tunnel
January 14th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Commuters inching through rush-hour traffic in the Holland Tunnel between Lower Manhattan and New Jersey don’t know it, but a technology likely to be the future of communication is being tested right outside their car windows. Running through the tunnel is a fiber-optic cable that harnesses the power of quantum mechanics to protect […]
Scientists and Doctors Warn of Potential Serious Health Effects of 5G
January 11th, 2019Via: 5G Appeal: We the undersigned scientists and doctors recommend a moratorium on the roll-out of the fifth generation, 5G, for telecommunication until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from industry. 5G will substantially increase exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) on top of the 2G, […]
GM’s Cadillac Will Introduce EV in Fight Against Tesla
January 11th, 2019Good luck with that. Via: Reuters: Cadillac is expected to become General Motors Co’s (GM.N) lead electric vehicle brand as the largest U.S. automaker gears up to introduce a new model under that luxury marquee to challenge Tesla Inc, two people briefed on the matter said Thursday. GM is set to announce Friday as part […]
Mobile Carriers Selling Phone Location Data
January 9th, 2019Via: TechCrunch: Last year, four of the largest U.S. cell carriers were caught selling and sending real-time location data of their customers to shady companies that sold it on to big spenders, who would use the data to track anyone “within seconds” for whatever reason they wanted. At first, a little-known company LocationSmart was obtaining […]
Hyundai’s Elevate Robotic Walking Car
January 8th, 2019Via: New Atlas: Imagine if an emergency vehicle could not only bring the team of responders to the edge of the disaster zone but actually step right in, striding over top flaming rubble to get responders exactly where they need to be. Forget last mile, that’s last 100 yards. And that’s the all-new Hyundai Elevate […]
Apple: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones
January 3rd, 2019In case you had any doubts about why Apple viciously attacks those who repair iPhones… Via: Vice: Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote a letter to investors alerting them that the company would miss its revenue targets in part because Apple didn’t sell as many iPhones as it expected. The lengthy letter cites, specifically, that […]
Blackwater Founder Erik Prince To Launch Fund For Electric Car Metals
January 1st, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: Erik Prince, the founder of private security firm Blackwater, plans to raise as much as $500m to capitalize on the rush into metals required for batteries used in electric cars, according to the Financial Times. Flashback: U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Deposits Worth $1 Trillion in Afghanistan; “The Saudi Arabia of Lithium”
