Archive for the 'Technology' Category
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 […]
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, […]
