Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Intel to Cut 11% of Workforce
April 19th, 2016Via: Bloomberg: Intel Corp. will eliminate 12,000 jobs, or 11 percent of its workforce, embarking on the deepest cutbacks in a decade to gird for a fifth year of declines in the personal-computer market. The world’s biggest maker of semiconductors said it’s shifting focus to higher-growth areas, such as chips for data center machines and […]
Earth-Insulated, Shipping Container, Underground Home
April 18th, 2016Book: Off Grid and Underground: A Simpler Way to Live Paperback by Steve Rees Via: Kirsten Dirksen:
Children of Sydney’s Business and Political Elite Attend School That Bans Screens in Classrooms
April 18th, 2016Via: The Australian: A top Australian school has banned laptops in class, warning that technology “distracts’’ from old-school quality teaching. The headmaster of Sydney Grammar School, John Vallance, yesterday described the billions of dollars spent on computers in Australian schools over the past seven years as a “scandalous waste of money’’. “I’ve seen so many […]
U.S. to Sail Submarine Drones in South China Sea
April 18th, 2016Via: Financial Times: As it watches China build up its presence in the South China Sea, one reclaimed island at a time, the US military is betting on a new technology to help retain its edge — submarine drones. During the past six months, the Pentagon has started to talk publicly about a once-secret programme […]
Why, Where & How to Do Wind Electricity
April 16th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — As New Zealand’s electricity cartel ramps up the war on solar power, I’m starting to take a more serious look at the end game: Disconnection from the grid. While I’m not sure how I want to handle this yet, one thing is certain: Wind power […]
Pentagon Touts “Loyal Wingman” for Combat Jets
April 15th, 2016If your trillion dollar F-35 boondoggle can’t fight, why not throw a magic-8 ball brain into older fighters that can? Via: Flightglobal: US Air Force plans to insert a “brain” into current-generation fighter jets to create autonomous flying wingmen paired with the Lockheed Martin F-35 were given a bump today, with the Pentagon’s second-in-charge saying […]
‘Wow!’ Signal Could be Explained After Almost 40 Years
April 15th, 2016Via: Guardian: He didn’t find aliens but he did find two suspicious looking comets. Known as 266P/Christensen and 335P/Gibbs, they have never been investigated before because they were only discovered in 2006 and 2008 respectively. Paris found that they were both in the vicinity of Chi Sagittarii on the day that the ‘Wow!’ signal was […]
Canadian Police Have Had Master Key to BlackBerry’s Encryption Since 2010
April 14th, 2016Via: Vice: A high-level surveillance probe of Montreal’s criminal underworld shows that Canada’s federal policing agency has had a global encryption key for BlackBerry devices since 2010. The revelations are contained in a stack of court documents that were made public after members of a Montreal crime syndicate pleaded guilty to their role in a […]
The Plan to Send Featherweight Robotic Spacecraft to the Nearest Star at One-Fifth of the Speed of Light
April 13th, 2016100 billion-watt laser??? Via: Guardian: In an unprecedented boost for interstellar travel, the Silicon Valley philanthropist Yuri Milner and the world’s most famous cosmologist Stephen Hawking have announced $100m (£70m) for research into a 20-year voyage to the nearest stars, at one fifth of the speed of light. Breakthrough Starshot – the third Breakthrough initiative […]
New Zealand: Solar Tax, “Desperate Move to Squeeze Every Last Dollar Out of a Dying Business Model”
April 9th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — They’re going to gouge people while battery prices are still high. The NZ electricity cartel knows it only has a couple of years left to screw people before grid defection sweeps over this place like a tsunami. In the meantime, get used to hearing about […]
