Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Tesla Battery Degradation Less Than 10% After 160,000 Miles
April 15th, 2018Via: Electrek: Battery degradation is one of the biggest concerns for electric car owners and potential buyers, but data from Tesla battery packs have been very reassuring so far. Now the latest data shows less than 10% degradation of the energy capacity after over 160,000 miles on Tesla’s battery packs. A group of Tesla owners […]
AI Creates a 3D Model of a Person from Just a Few Seconds of Video
April 14th, 2018Via: Science: Transporting yourself into a video game, body and all, just got easier. Artificial intelligence has been used to create 3D models of people’s bodies for virtual reality avatars, surveillance, visualizing fashion, or movies. But it typically requires special camera equipment to detect depth or to view someone from multiple angles. A new algorithm […]
China Sending Plants, Insects to the Moon
April 13th, 2018Via: Quartz: Almost half a century ago, the first human landed on the moon, marking “a giant leap for mankind.” This year, China is sending seeds of plants and insects there. Seeds of potatoes and arabidopsis—a small flowering plant belonging to the mustard family—along with silkworm cocoons, will hitch a ride with the Chang’e-4 lander […]
Facebook Donated to 46 of 55 Members on Committee That Will Question Zuckerberg
April 10th, 2018Via: USA Today: Members of the House and Senate committees that will question Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about user privacy protection next week are also some of the biggest recipients of campaign contributions from Facebook employees directly and the political action committee funded by employees. The congressional panel that got the most Facebook contributions is […]
California: SB-1424 Internet: Social Media: False Information: Strategic Plan
April 9th, 2018Via: Jon Rappoport: This bill would require any person who operates a social media, as defined, Internet Web site with a physical presence in California to develop a strategic plan to verify news stories shared on its Web site. The bill would require the plan to include, among other things, a plan to mitigate the […]
Do You Trust This Computer?
April 7th, 2018Via: doyoutrustthiscomputer.org: Do You Trust This Computer? from Busy Child on Vimeo.
How China Can Win a Trade War in 1 Move
April 6th, 2018Via: The Week: China will not be easily cowed in a trade dispute. Chinese President Xi Jinping is now exchanging threats of tit-for-tat tariffs with President Trump, who announced Thursday he’s considering raising the stakes another $100 billion. China vowed to defend itself “at any cost.” Compared to the scale of the U.S. economy, the […]
Zipline’s Bigger, Faster Drones Will Deliver Blood in the United States This Year
April 4th, 2018Via: IEEE Spectrum: The delivery drone startup has been operating in Rwanda since October of 2016, using small autonomous fixed-wing aircraft to paradrop critical blood products to rural medical clinics. The system is able to get blood from a centralized distribution center to where it’s needed in minutes, independent of time of day, traffic, or […]
NASA Hires Lockheed Martin to Build Quiet Supersonic X-Plane
April 3rd, 2018Via: space.com: NASA has taken a huge leap forward in its quest to create an aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound without causing the ear-splitting sonic boom. The space agency announced today (April 2) that it has awarded the aerospace company Lockheed Martin a $247.5 million contract to design and build […]
Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel
April 2nd, 2018I’m very worried that Apple will, essentially, give up on general purpose computing. The company is already mostly dependent on its mobile oriented iOS ecosystem and people like me have been worried that macOS would eventually be merged into iOS. I would like to believe that Apple is going to aim to beat Intel in […]
