Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Retailers Race Against Amazon to Automate Stores
April 2nd, 2018Via: New York Times: A global race to automate stores is underway among several of the world’s top retailers and small tech start-ups, which are motivated to shave labor costs and minimize shoppers’ frustrations, like waiting for cashiers. They are also trying to prevent Amazon from dominating the physical retail world as it does online […]
Ever Record a Video on Facebook? Facebook Still Has It.
March 31st, 2018Via: New York Magazine: Have you downloaded your Facebook data archive yet? Facebook makes it easy to obtain a ZIP file of all the data it has on you: your status updates, your friend list, your messages … and, as I and several people I spoke with were surprised to discover, every video you ever […]
U.S. to Seek Social Media Details From All Visa Applicants
March 29th, 2018Via: Bloomberg: The State Department wants to require all U.S. visa applicants to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers, vastly expanding the Trump administration’s enhanced vetting of potential immigrants and visitors. In documents to be published in Friday’s Federal Register, the department said it wants the public to comment on […]
Microsoft Edges Closer to Quantum Computer Based on Elusive Particle
March 29th, 2018Disclosure: I am long Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL). — Via: Bloomberg: At Microsoft Corp.’s Dutch research facility at the Delft University of Technology, several large cylindrical metal tubes hang from the ceiling. Each tube – a dilution refrigerator used to cool circuits down to temperatures colder than deep space – costs more than $500,000, and […]
Monero Less Untraceable Than It Seems
March 29th, 2018Via: Wired: Monero is designed to mix up any given Monero “coin” with other payments, so that anyone scouring Monero’s blockchain can’t link it to any particular identity or previous transaction from the same source. But in a recent paper, a team of researchers from a broad collection of institutions—including Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Boston University, […]
Musk Removes Tesla and SpaceX Facebook Pages
March 24th, 2018Via: The Verge: During a tweetstorm, Elon Musk has removed both of his companies’ Facebook pages after being challenged to do so by a few of his followers. The pages of both SpaceX and Tesla are now inactive. Each had around 2.6 million followers. Musk was answering a flurry of tweets this morning when he […]
U.S. Military Research Into Generating Sounds with Lasers
March 21st, 2018This one is a keeper! Via: DefenseOne: Within three years, the Pentagon’s non-lethal weapons lab hopes to have a direct energy weapon that can produce an effect like a haunted walkie-talkie or the biblical burning bush.
Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Woman Crossing Street
March 19th, 2018Update: Police Release Video The LIDAR system should have easily been able to detect that a pedestrian was in the road. Additionally, despite the difficult lighting situation, an alert human driver probably wouldn’t have hit the woman. A professional driver, trained in defensive driving techniques, almost certainly wouldn’t have hit the woman. The ride-along driver […]
Battery Makers Descend on Australia, Canada Cobalt Developers
March 18th, 2018Via: Reuters: Nervous Asian battery makers are turning to early-stage cobalt projects in Australia and Canada to lock in supplies of the critical battery ingredient ahead of expected shortages as demand for electric vehicles revs up. Mine developers say interest from Japanese and Korean firms is particularly strong as they compete with rivals from China, […]
Intel: ‘Partitions’ in New Chips Will Correct Design Flaw that Created Spectre and Meltdown
March 18th, 2018Via: GeekWire: After security researchers were able to exploit design flaws in modern processors that lay undetected for up to 20 years, Intel said it would redesign future chips to correct those flaws, and on Thursday it provided a little more information about how that will work. Starting with the Cascade Lake version of its […]
