Archive for the 'Technology' Category
China Deploys Experimental Railgun Aboard Warship
February 5th, 2018Via: news.com.au: WANT to win a war? Build a better gun. Now China appears to have taken a huge stride ahead of the United States with the first experimental deployment of a new ‘supergun’ aboard a warship. The first images began circulating on the internet last week. They showed a Chinese amphibious assault ship — […]
The Breakneck Rise of China’s Colossus of Electric-Car Batteries
February 3rd, 2018Via: Bloomberg: The next global powerhouse in the auto industry comes from a small city in a tea-growing province of southeast China, where an unheralded maker of electric-vehicle batteries is planning a $1.3 billion factory with enough capacity to surpass the output of Tesla and dwarf the suppliers for battery-powered cars by GM, Nissan and […]
Cellphone Radiation Linked To Tumors In Male Rats, Government Study Says
February 3rd, 2018Via: CBS: High exposure to radiofrequency radiation — the radiation known as RFR and emitted from your cell phone — causes a rare cancer in male rats, according to draft conclusions released by the National Institutes of Health on Friday. The two technical reports, one on mice and the other on rats, released by the […]
Airbus Tests Self-Flying Taxi
February 2nd, 2018Via: AFP: Airbus said Friday that it had successfully held the first test flights of the Vahana, an electric, pilotless flying vehicle that it hopes will be able to ferry people around cities. The Wednesday flight at a test range in the US state of Oregon lasted just under one minute, with the aircraft lifting […]
Dr. Martin Pall, Ph.D.: Electromagnetic Field Exposure – The Cellular Effect on Humans
January 29th, 2018I’d like for someone to convince me that Dr. Pall is wrong, or making a mountain out of a molehill, etc. Does anyone out there want to attempt to refute what he’s saying? — — Electromagnetic fields act via activation of voltage-gated calcium channels to produce beneficial or adverse effects by Martin L Pall Research […]
U.S. Government Owned 5G Network?
January 29th, 2018Update: Trump Team Idea to Nationalize 5G Network to Counter China Is Rejected — Via: Reuters: President Donald Trump’s national security team is looking at options to counter the threat of China spying on U.S. phone calls that include the government building a super-fast 5G wireless network, a senior administration official said on Sunday. The […]
Artificial Intelligence Is Going to Supercharge Surveillance
January 29th, 2018Via: The Verge: Artificial intelligence is giving surveillance cameras digital brains to match their eyes, letting them analyze live video with no humans necessary. This could be good news for public safety, helping police and first responders more easily spot crimes and accidents and have a range of scientific and industrial applications. But it also […]
With Teen Mental Health Deteriorating Over Five Years, There’s a Likely Culprit
January 28th, 2018“All signs point to the screen.” Via: The Conversation: Around 2012, something started going wrong in the lives of teens. In just the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of U.S. teens who felt useless and joyless – classic symptoms of depression – surged 33 percent in large national surveys. Teen suicide attempts […]
Plug Wars: The Battle for Electric Car Supremacy
January 27th, 2018Via: Reuters: German carmakers hope a network of high-power charging stations they are rolling out with Ford will set an industry standard for plugs and protocols that will give them an edge over electric car rivals. At the moment, Tesla and carmakers in Japan and Germany use different plugs and communication protocols to link batteries […]
ICE Is About to Start Tracking License Plates Across the U.S.
January 27th, 2018Via: The Verge: The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has officially gained agency-wide access to a nationwide license plate recognition database, according to a contract finalized earlier this month. The system gives the agency access to billions of license plate records and new powers of real-time location tracking, raising significant concerns from civil libertarians. […]
