Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Daimler Moving Electric Car Plans Forward by Three Years
March 29th, 2017Via: Reuters: Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler (DAIGn.DE) is accelerating its electric car program, it said on Wednesday after announcing that it had failed to cut fleet emissions in Europe for the first time since 2007. Daimler put its emissions numbers down to customers increasing preference for sports utility vehicles (SUVs), which tend to be more polluting […]
Domino’s Will Begin Using Robots to Deliver Pizzas in Europe
March 29th, 2017Via: Bloomberg: Starship Technologies, the London-based company that has created six-wheeled self-driving delivery robots, will begin taking customers Domino’s pizzas in Germany and the Netherlands. Starship, launched in July 2014 by two former Skype co-founders, Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, will whisk pizzas to customers’ doors if they live within a one-mile radius of certain […]
‘We Are the Biological Boot-Loader for Digital Super-Intelligence’
March 27th, 2017While centered around Elon Musk, this piece also takes a broader look at where AI is headed, and some of the personalities involved. Everyone has heard of AI, but superintelligence is where the crazy comes out. If you don’t know what superintelligence is, and you like stuff that straddles the line between sci-fi and fantasy, […]
The Privacyless, Freedomless Smart City of 2030 the Elite Are Engineering
March 27th, 2017Via: Truthstream Media: Research Credit: rb
Uber to Suspend Autonomous Tests After Arizona Accident
March 26th, 2017Via: Bloomberg: Uber Technologies Inc. is suspending its self-driving car program after one of its autonomous vehicles was involved in a high-impact crash in Tempe, Arizona, the latest incident for a company reeling from multiple crises. In a photo posted on Twitter, one of Uber’s Volvo self-driving SUVs is pictured on its side next to […]
‘Wright Brothers Moment for Space’
March 24th, 2017Via: Bloomberg: If the rocket Elon Musk’s SpaceX expects to launch next week looks familiar, that’s because it is. The Falcon 9 rocket slated to take off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, has flown before, marking the first time Space Exploration Technologies Corp. will refly one of the 14-story-tall boosters it recovered […]
Apple Investigating Accessory that Turns iPhone, iPad Into Full-Fledged Touchscreen Laptop
March 23rd, 2017It’s a shit sandwich all around in the general purpose computing world. It’s a very serious worry, because I see the least capable computer users (most computer users, in other words) fully embracing swipetard devices and operating systems, which are mainly intended to serve as tamper proof vending machines and surveillance platforms. —Windows 10 Is […]
Apple Says Recent Wikileaks CIA Docs Detail Old, Fixed iPhone and Mac Exploits
March 23rd, 2017Great, I wonder what’s in the other 99% of the Vault 7 docs… Via: TechCrunch: We have preliminarily assessed the Wikileaks disclosures from this morning. Based on our initial analysis, the alleged iPhone vulnerability affected iPhone 3G only and was fixed in 2009 when iPhone 3GS was released. Additionally, our preliminary assessment shows the alleged […]
WikiLeaks Vault 7: CIA Firmware and Other Exploits on Apple iPhones and Mac Computers
March 23rd, 2017Via: WikiLeaks: Today, March 23rd 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 “Dark Matter”, which contains documentation for several CIA projects that infect Apple Mac Computer firmware (meaning the infection persists even if the operating system is re-installed) developed by the CIA’s Embedded Development Branch (EDB). These documents explain the techniques used by CIA to gain ‘persistence’ […]
A Simple Command Allows the CIA to Commandeer 318 Models of Cisco Switches
March 21st, 2017Via: Ars Technica: Cisco Systems said that more than 300 models of switches it sells contain a critical vulnerability that allows the CIA to use a simple command to remotely execute malicious code that takes full control of the devices. There currently is no fix. Cisco researchers said they discovered the vulnerability as they analyzed […]
