Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Nine of the World’s Biggest Banks Form Blockchain Partnership
September 15th, 2015Via: Reuters: Nine of the world’s biggest banks, including Goldman Sachs and Barclays, have joined forces with New York-based financial tech firm R3 to create a framework for using blockchain technology in the markets, the firm said on Tuesday. It is the first time banks have come together to work on a shared way in […]
“Google Self-Driving Car Patent Reveals How You’ll Let AI Take the Wheel”
September 15th, 2015Via: The Verge: A new patent from Google published today has some fascinating insight into how the company thinks that production of self-driving cars of the future might take control from the drivers they’re shuttling around — and how they could give it back, too. The description of “Google Chauffeur,” spotted by Stanford’s Reilly Brennan, […]
HP Will Cut as Many as 30,000 More Jobs After Split
September 15th, 2015Via: ReCode: Hewlett-Packard will shed as many as 30,000 more jobs as it splits into two companies, the company said at a meeting with analysts in San Jose, Calif. Tim Stonsifer, the incoming CFO of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, the company devoted to corporate computing that will emerge from the split on Nov. 1, announced the reductions […]
Federal Court Invalidates 11-Year-Old FBI Gag Order on National Security Letter Recipient Nicholas Merrill
September 15th, 2015Via Calyx Institute: A federal district court has ordered the FBI to lift an eleven-year- old gag order imposed on Nicholas Merrill forbidding him from speaking about a National Security Letter (“NSL”) that the FBI served on him in 2004. The ruling marks the first time that an NSL gag order has been lifted in […]
“In Japan, the Rise of the Machines Solves Labor and Productivity”
September 13th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: The rise of the machines in the workplace has U.S. and European experts predicting massive unemployment and tumbling wages. Not in Japan, where robots are welcomed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government as an elegant way to handle the country’s aging populace, shrinking workforce and public aversion to immigration. Japan is already a […]
Honda Gets California Approval for Self-Driving Cars on Roads
September 13th, 2015Via: Reuters: Honda Motor Co Ltd has received a permit from the state of California to drive its autonomous vehicles on public streets, joining companies ranging from Google Inc to Volkswagen AG in testing the fast-growing technology. The California Department of Motor Vehicles on its website listed Honda as the most recent of 10 companies […]
Online Security Braces for Quantum Revolution
September 11th, 2015Via: Nature: It is an inevitability that cryptographers dread: the arrival of powerful quantum computers that can break the security of the Internet. Although these devices are thought to be a decade or more away, researchers are adamant that preparations must begin now. Computer-security specialists are meeting in Germany this week to discuss quantum-resistant replacements […]
Microsoft Pushing Windows 10 Install Packages to Windows 7 and 8 Systems Without Asking Users
September 11th, 2015Via: Ars Technica: You might be in the process of acquiring Windows 10—whether you want the free upgrade or not. Microsoft has confirmed that it is “helping upgradable devices get ready for Windows 10 by downloading the files they need” in the event that owners decide to migrate to the new OS, even if they […]
Lockpickers 3-D Print TSA Master Luggage Keys From Leaked Photos
September 10th, 2015Via: Wired: The TSA is learning a basic lesson of physical security in the age of 3-D printing: If you have sensitive keys—say, a set of master keys that can open locks you’ve asked millions of Americans to use—don’t post pictures of them on the Internet. A group of lock-picking and security enthusiasts drove that […]
Meanwhile, in Hitachi Warehouses
September 9th, 2015Via: Popular Science: Say hello to your new artificial intelligence overlord–er, boss. At Hitachi, the Japanese electronics manufacturer, workers have started to take orders from artificial intelligence programs meant to increase productivity in the workplace. Hitachi has deployed the AI in an unspecified number of warehouses, where it issues work orders and instructions to employees. […]
