Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Tokyo Police Launch Drone Designed To Take Down Other Drones
December 13th, 2015Via: NPR: In Tokyo, police will soon deploy a drone designed to take out suspicious drones or drones that enter into restricted airspace.
Daimler Is Reusing Electric Vehicle Batteries to Store Renewable Energy
December 10th, 2015Via: Ars Technica: When electric vehicle batteries get long in the tooth, they have to be replaced because they’ll start experiencing power loss—which will mean reduced vehicle performance. But what happens to those old batteries after they’re replaced is important if you’re judging a car on how environmentally friendly it is. To this end, automaker […]
Ford to Spend $4.5 Billion by 2020 on Electric Vehicles
December 10th, 2015Via: Detroit Free Press: Ford announced its largest five-year investment ever in electrified vehicles, with a pledge to spend $4.5 billion and introduce 13 new models by 2020, CEO Mark Fields announced today. Fields said 40% of nameplates globally will be electrified by the end of the decade, up from 13% now. They will be […]
Will Your Driverless Car Kill You So Others May Live?
December 10th, 2015Via: Los Angeles Times: It’s 2025. You and your daughter are riding in a driverless car along the Pacific Coast Highway. The autonomous vehicle rounds a corner and detects a crosswalk full of children. It brakes, but your lane is unexpectedly full of sand from a recent rock slide. It can’t get traction. Your car […]
Australian Police Raid Sydney Home of Reported Bitcoin Creator
December 9th, 2015Via: Reuters: Australian police raided the Sydney home and office on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine as the probable creator of bitcoin and holder of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency, Reuters witnesses said. More than a dozen federal police officers entered a house registered on the electoral roll […]
France Looking at Banning Tor, Blocking Public Wi-Fi
December 7th, 2015Via: Ars Technica: According to leaked documents from the Ministry of Interior the French government is considering two new pieces of legislation: a ban on free and shared Wi-Fi connections during a state of emergency, and measures to block Tor being used inside France. The documents were seen by the French newspaper Le Monde. According […]
Google Wants to Patent a Blood-Sucking Smartwatch
December 5th, 2015Via: Gizmodo: Just when you thought our data-driven lifestyles were getting a little weird, Google wants to make it creepy. The company just filed a patent application for a “needle-free blood draw” device that can be implanted in a wearable.
Car Turns Driver in for Hit-and-Run
December 4th, 2015Via: WPBF: A Port St. Lucie woman is under arrest in connection with a hit-and-run. Police responded to a hit-and-run in the 500 block of Northwest Prima Vista Boulevard on Monday afternoon. The victim, Anna Preston, said she was struck from behind by a black vehicle that took off. Preston was taken to the hospital […]
Google Increasing Staff in Makani Energy Kites Division
December 2nd, 2015Via: Business Insider: GoogleX is ramping up recruiting at Makani, hinting that the ambitious project to create “energy kites” that generate cheap wind power is moving closer to reality. In the past few months, Google has posted more than 30 Makani job openings, and a recent posting on the company’s LinkedIn page boasts that the […]
Q-Carbon
November 30th, 2015Via: PhysOrg: Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a new phase of solid carbon, called Q-carbon, which is distinct from the known phases of graphite and diamond. They have also developed a technique for using Q-carbon to make diamond-related structures at room temperature and at ambient atmospheric pressure in air. Phases are distinct […]
