Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Bay Area City Blocks 5G Deployments Over Cancer Concerns
September 10th, 2018Via: TechCrunch: The Bay Area may be the center of the global technology industry, but that hasn’t stopped one wealthy enclave from protecting itself from the future. The city council of Mill Valley, a small town located just a few miles north of San Francisco, voted unanimously late last week to effectively block deployments of […]
Tooth Radios for Military
September 10th, 2018Via: Defense One: The future of battlefield communications is resting comfortably near your back gums. Next time you pass someone on the street who appears to be talking to themselves, they may literally have voices inside their head…and be a highly trained soldier on a dangerous mission. The Pentagon has inked a roughly $10 million […]
Are New York’s Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks Tracking Your Movements?
September 10th, 2018Via: The Intercept: LinkNYC kiosks have become a familiar eyesore to New Yorkers. Over 1,600 of these towering, nine-and-a-half-foot monoliths — their double-sided screens festooned with ads and fun facts — have been installed across the city since early 2016. Mayor Bill de Blasio has celebrated their ability to provide “the fastest and largest municipal […]
Decentralisation: The Next Big Step for the World Wide Web
September 9th, 2018Via: Guardian: The decentralised web, or DWeb, could be a chance to take control of our data back from the big tech firms. So how does it work and when will it be here?
Pentagon Will Spend $2 Billion Developing Next-Generation AI
September 8th, 2018Via: Nextgov: The Pentagon on Friday announced it would spend more than $2 billion over the next five years to advance the foundations of artificial intelligence technology. Through the AI Next initiative, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aims to bring about so-called “third wave” AI, tools capable of human-like communication and contextual reasoning that […]
The U.S. Army Wants to Transmit Power to Drones with Lasers
September 8th, 2018Via: Defense Systems: Even as drone technology advances, power constraints limit the amount of equipment unmanned systems can carry as well as the time they can stay in the air. Some drone systems, like the Persistent Aerial Reconnaissance and Communications drone from CyPhy Works, deliver power through a tether to keep a small drone aloft […]
Trump Tells Apple to Make Products in U.S. to Avoid China Tariffs
September 8th, 2018Via: Reuters: U.S. President Trump tweeted on Saturday that Apple Inc should make products inside the United States if it wants to avoid tariffs on Chinese imports. The company told trade officials in a letter on Friday that the proposed tariffs would affect prices for a “wide range” of Apple products, including its Watch, but […]
Why Your Next Job Interview Could be with a Machine
September 6th, 2018Via: CBC: Your next job interview may feel a lot like an audition tape. On a screen, a manager pops up in a recorded video and asks a question like: “Why do you want a career in this field?” You have 10 seconds to think, and just a minute and a half to record your […]
IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color
September 6th, 2018Via: The Intercept: In the decade after the 9/11 attacks, the New York City Police Department moved to put millions of New Yorkers under constant watch. Warning of terrorism threats, the department created a plan to carpet Manhattan’s downtown streets with thousands of cameras and had, by 2008, centralized its video surveillance operations to a […]
Atomic Antenna
September 6th, 2018Via: MIT Technology Review: Using a laser to detect the effect of radio waves on certain atoms is the basis for a new kind of antenna that resists interference and can receive a wider range of signals.
