Archive for the 'Technology' Category
New Boss on Construction Sites Is a Drone
August 27th, 2015Via: MIT Technology Review: For some construction workers, any thoughts of slacking off could soon seem rather quaint. The drones will almost certainly notice. The workers building a lavish new downtown stadium for the Sacramento Kings in California are being monitored by drones and software that can automatically flag slow progress. Once per day, several […]
India Just Turned Off Mobile Internet for 63 Million Citizens Amid Protests in Ahmedabad
August 27th, 201563 million! Imagine everyone in California and Texas without mobile data access. Via: The Next Web: Mobile internet services have been blocked in the Indian state of Gujarat (home to nearly 63 million people), following violent protests led by the Patel community after one of its leaders was detained by local police in Ahmedabad.
Police Secretly Track Cellphones to Solve Routine Crimes
August 24th, 2015Via: USA Today: In one case after another, USA TODAY found police in Baltimore and other cities used the phone tracker, commonly known as a stingray, to locate the perpetrators of routine street crimes and frequently concealed that fact from the suspects, their lawyers and even judges. In the process, they quietly transformed a form […]
Not The Onion: Thync’s Mood-Altering Headset
August 24th, 2015You’ll love this. Via: TechCrunch: During the demo, Thync co-founder and CEO Isy Goldwasser explained that the module wasn’t directly stimulating neurons in my brain (that would be too damn weird for me to try, to be honest). Instead, it uses tiny pulses of electricity to stimulate the skin at your temple, which then activates […]
Katherine Albrecht: Windows 10 Is Full Blown Electronic Tyranny
August 24th, 2015Via: Pete Santilli:
No-Fly List Uses ‘Predictive Assessments’ Instead of Hard Evidence, U.S. Admits
August 24th, 2015Shocker. Via: Guardian: The Obama administration’s no-fly lists and broader watchlisting system is based on predicting crimes rather than relying on records of demonstrated offenses, the government has been forced to admit in court. In a little-noticed filing before an Oregon federal judge, the US Justice Department and the FBI conceded that stopping US and […]
Physicists Unveil First Quantum Interconnect
August 24th, 2015Via: MIT Technology Review: An international team of physicists has found a way to connect quantum devices in a way that transports entanglement between them.
Intel’s Optane Drive Technology
August 24th, 2015Via: MIT Technology Review: Computers from laptops to supercomputers could get a major speed boost next year, thanks to a new kind of hard drive developed by Intel. Intel Optane drives, as they will be called, are based on a new way to store digital data that can operate as much as 1,000 times as […]
U.S. Government, Police Working on Counter-Drone System
August 20th, 2015Via: Reuters: As concerns rise about a security menace posed by rogue drone flights, U.S. government agencies are working with state and local police forces to develop high-tech systems to protect vulnerable sites, according to sources familiar with the matter. Although the research aimed at tracking and disabling drones is at an early stage, there […]
Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics?
August 20th, 2015“Gill A. Pratt will be stepping down next month from his position as a Program Manager of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Arlington, Virginia…” Via: American Economic Association (.pdf): About half a billion years ago, life on earth experienced a short period of very rapid diversification called the “Cambrian Explosion.” Many theories have […]
