Archive for the 'Technology' Category
UBCO: Dual Electric Drive Motor Bike
November 4th, 2015Wow! Farmers and special forces operators from around the world: Form a double line down in Tauranga. Via: UBCO: It has a powerful, lightweight ‘SuperX’ frame design that gives you bulletproof low-speed control for stock handling as well as rural and urban jobs. With a load capacity of up to 200kg, the 2×2 can transform […]
Avoid Humans
November 4th, 2015Har! Via: Avoid Humans: Sometimes, everybody needs a break from everybody. Enter Avoid Humans—a web-based app that combs data from Foursquare and Instagram check-ins, giving you the nearest places in your area with the least amount of humans. The app is divided into four categories-nightlife, food, coffee and refuge—and each location is color coded to […]
Details of UK Website Visits to Be Stored for Year
November 4th, 2015Via: BBC: The internet activity of everyone in Britain will have to be stored for a year by service providers, under new surveillance law plans. Police and intelligence officers will be able to see the names of sites people have visited without a warrant, Home Secretary Theresa May said. But there would be new safeguards […]
Philadelphia: Survey Finds Babies Routinely Given Smartphones
November 4th, 2015Via: Reuters: Many children under age five own their own smartphones and tablets, and they often use the devices without any supervision or help from their parents, a small U.S. study suggests. While the results – based on surveys of parents in 350 households in Philadelphia – aren’t nationally representative and the study didn’t measure […]
U.S. Army Tests Swarms of Consumer Grade Drones in Major Exercise
November 2nd, 2015Via: IT World: The U.S. Army has for the first time tested swarms of consumer drones during a major military training exercise and determined the low-cost technology is at a stage where it could be used offensively. Off-the-shelf drones have brought what was previously complex and expensive technology into the reach of consumers, and the […]
U.S. Announces Plans to Deal with EMP Threat
November 2nd, 2015In other news, Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation. Via: USA Today: Space weather, which can disrupt satellites, stifle communications networks and paralyze the electric power grid, is getting some special scrutiny from the Obama administration. The White House announced a new strategy Thursday to identify and respond to interstellar phenomena such as solar flares that […]
Washington: How a Group of Neighbors Created Their Own Internet Service
November 2nd, 2015Via: Ars Technica: When you live somewhere with slow and unreliable Internet access, it usually seems like there’s nothing to do but complain. And that’s exactly what residents of Orcas Island, one of the San Juan Islands in Washington state, were doing in late 2013. Faced with CenturyLink service that was slow and outage-prone, residents […]
Robot Buses Are Coming To America
October 30th, 2015Via: Fast Company: Self-driving buses are coming to America. The Bishop Ranch business park in San Ramon, California will be the first place in the U.S. to use French robo-buses to ferry passengers around. … The EZ10 is a driverless bus designed for short hops. It has been deployed in Europe—in Finland, France, and is […]
Wifi Networks Can Now Identify Who You Are Through Walls
October 29th, 2015Via: Gizmodo: Who needs a peep hole when a wifi network will do? Researchers from MIT have developed technology that uses wireless signals to see your silhouette through a wall—and it can even tell you apart from other people, too. The team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab are no strangers to using […]
Google’s Project Loon Internet Balloons to Circle Earth
October 28th, 2015Via: BBC: Google believes it is on course to have enough internet-beaming balloons in the stratosphere to form a ring over part of the world next year. It told the BBC the move would let it trial a continuous data service to people living below the balloons’ path. The declaration coincides with the announcement that […]
