Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Ripasso Testing 34% Efficient Concentrated Solar System in Kalahari Desert
May 18th, 2015Disclosures: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand and I’m long Enphase Energy. — Via: Guardian: A new solar electricity generation system that developers claim is the most efficient in the world, is being tested in South Africa’s Kalahari desert. The Swedish company behind the project – which combines military technology with an idea […]
Self Driving Trucks Will Wipe Out Millions of Jobs
May 18th, 2015Via: Medium: Robot trucks also don’t need salaries?—?salaries that stand to go up because fewer and fewer people want to be truckers. A company can buy a fleet of self-driving trucks and never pay another human salary for driving. The only costs will be upkeep of the machinery. No more need for health insurance either. […]
Why Today’s Automobile Industry Looks A Lot Like IBM in 1985
May 18th, 2015Via: TechCrunch: With the number of mobile phone subscriptions shortly expected to exceed the total global population, what is the next great connected device going to look like? Hint: It’ll have four wheels. Gartner predicts that there will be 250 million connected cars on the road by 2020. That means one in every three cars […]
UK Government Quietly Rewrites Hacking Laws to Give GCHQ Immunity
May 17th, 2015Via: ArsTechnica: The UK government has quietly passed new legislation that exempts GCHQ, police, and other intelligence officers from prosecution for hacking into computers and mobile phones. While major or controversial legislative changes usually go through normal parliamentary process (i.e. democratic debate) before being passed into law, in this case an amendment to the Computer […]
Feds Say That Banned Researcher Hacked Flight Control Systems
May 17th, 2015And Now: Man’s Claims of Hacking Plane Discredited by Law Enforcement Via: Bloomberg: U.S. law enforcement officials have no credible evidence that commercial airplane cockpits have been hacked from passengers’ seats, contradicting a man who claims he did just that. While most airplanes can’t be hacked because flight-control computers are separate from the connections passengers […]
Many of the NSA’s Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors
May 14th, 2015Via: FirstLook: The talking heads have been backstopping the NSA’s mass surveillance more or less continuously since it was revealed. They spoke out to support the agency when NSA contractor Edward Snowden released details of its programs in 2013, and they’ve kept up their advocacy ever since — on television news shows, newspaper op-ed pages, […]
New Machine Could One Day Replace Anesthesiologists
May 12th, 2015Via: Washington Post: The new machine that could one day replace anesthesiologists sat quietly next to a hospital gurney occupied by Nancy Youssef-Ringle. She was nervous. In a few minutes, a machine — not a doctor — would sedate the 59-year-old for a colon cancer screening called a colonoscopy. But she had done her research. […]
Your Cyberpunk Games Are Dangerous
May 10th, 2015Via: BoingBoing: How roleplaying games and fantasy fiction confounded the FBI, confronted the law, and led to a more open web.
Wrightspeed Unveils New Turbine Range Extender for Medium and Heavy-Duty Electric Powertrains
May 10th, 2015Via: Green Car Congress: Wrightspeed Inc., a developer of range-extended electric vehicle powertrains for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (earlier post), has unveiled the Fulcrum, a new proprietary turbine generator for use in its Route family of electric powertrains (Route for Class 3-6, Route HD for Class 7-8). The new 80 kW Fulcrum is a radial […]
Brainwave-Reading Patents Spike on Increase in Commercial Mind-Reading Apps
May 9th, 2015Via: Network World: More developers are creating commercial applications that use brainwave-reading technology that was previously found only in the medical field.
