Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Technical Presentation on Giza Plateau Massive Underground Structures
June 16th, 2025Via: Project Unity:
DARPA Program Sets Distance Record for Power Beaming
June 15th, 2025The terminator robots will never run out of power. Via: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: In a series of recent tests in New Mexico, the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program achieved several new records for transmitting power over distance. The team recorded more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission […]
Meta Buys 49% Stake in Scale AI for “Superintelligence” Unit
June 13th, 2025Via: Inc.: Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, hell-bent on expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities, just invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, acquiring a 49 percent stake in the San Francisco-based startup. Scale, now valued at $29 billion just nine years after its founding, will remain a separate company, but as part of the investment, Meta effectively poached […]
Apple Introduces Digital Passport IDs, Marking Major Step Toward Normalized Digital ID Integration
June 12th, 2025Via: Reclaim the Net: Apple’s latest announcement at WWDC 2025 marks another step in the steady integration of digital identity into everyday mobile technology. With iOS 26 set to introduce passport-based digital IDs in Apple Wallet, users will soon be able to present a digital form of identification at supported TSA checkpoints and within certain […]
“Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades”
June 12th, 2025The Wall Street Journal claims the entirety of the UFO phenomenon was made up by the Pentagon. Mmm hmm. Here’s some useful commentary from Richard Dolan on this: Via: Gizmodo: UFOs have been back in the news a lot lately, and it may be the case that the government wants it that way. Last week, […]
“Walmart Goes Big With Drone Delivery Expansion”
June 11th, 2025Via: Wired: Walmart, with its partner Wing, plans to bring drone delivery to 100 new stores in five new US cities: Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.
FAA to Eliminate Floppy Disks Used in Air Traffic Control Systems – Windows 95 Also Being Phased Out
June 9th, 2025Maybe the FAA can borrow some left over 8-inchers from the U.S. Air Force: Defense tech news site C4isrnet reports that the Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS)—the communication infrastructure that transmits emergency action messages for nuclear command centers—is ditching the floppy disks. Lieutenant Colonel Jason Rossi, 595th Strategic Communications Squadron commander, told C4isrnet […]
Top Researchers Leave Intel to Build RISC-V Startup
June 6th, 2025I wonder what computer hardware will be like a decade from now… (Assuming, of course, that the machine overlords let us meatsacks have computers of our own by then.) Via: The Oregonian: Together, the four founders of Beaverton startup AheadComputing spent nearly a century at Intel. They were among Intel’s top chip architects, working years […]
Britain: Downing Street ‘Exploring Plan for Digital ID Cards’
June 6th, 2025Via: Independent: Downing Street is exploring a proposal to introduce digital ID cards for every adult in Britain in a move to tackle the UK’s illegal migration crisis, according to reports. The new “BritCard” would be used to check on an individual’s right to live and work in Britain, with senior No 10 figures examining […]
AI Datacenter in Texas Will Have Its Own 1.2GW Gas Power Plant
June 5th, 2025Data Center Executives Pivot Toward Onsite Power: In November, data center leaders said they expected approximately 30% of all data center sites to use some onsite power as a primary energy source supplemental to the grid by 2030, 2.3 times more than just seven months earlier. The report noted there were more data center announcements […]
