Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Sony Suspends Filming After Hackers Hit Payments
December 12th, 2014Via: The Times: The Hollywood studio that made the James Bond and Spider-Man films has abandoned shoots after hackers crippled its computer network, and leaked four films and thousands of documents. Agencies filming for Sony Pictures have cancelled shoots because the problems have left it unable to process payments, a source told The Times.
Britain: Air Traffic Control System Failure
December 12th, 2014Via: Guardian: London airspace has been severely restricted after a system failure at the main national control centre in Swanick. Passengers travelling to and from London’s major airports face lengthy delays and cancellations, with European controllers suggesting skies would be restricted until 7pm GMT. The restriction, which appears to have been sparked by either a […]
Repository of Censored and Sensitive Chinese Keywords
December 12th, 2014Via: CitizenLab: …we have collected 13 lists of sensitive Chinese keywords and aggregated them into a single, sortable, and share-able CSV file (see a Google docs sample, sorted by the number of lists each keyword appears on). This file, along with a description of the 13 lists and their sources/origins, are located in a GitHub […]
HP: The Machine
December 10th, 2014Via: MIT Technology Review: Hewlett-Packard will take a big step toward shaking up its own troubled business and the entire computing industry next year when it releases an operating system for an exotic new computer. The company’s research division is working to create a computer HP calls The Machine. It is meant to be the […]
Retail Neuroscience
December 10th, 2014Via: CBS: Retailers are trying to get into customers’ brains and they now have the technology to do it. It’s called consumer neuroscience and companies are getting valuable shopper intel that can shape the shopping experience.
Facebook AI Assistant for Imbeciles
December 10th, 2014Via: Wired: Let’s say you’re out drinking with your buddies, things get out of hand, you pull out your smartphone, you take a selfie in the middle of all this drunken revelry, then you take 30 or 40 more, and, without hesitation, you start uploading them to Facebook. It’s a common thing to do. But […]
Why Elon Musk’s Batteries Scare the Hell Out of the Electric Company
December 9th, 2014Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. Via: Bloomberg: At a sagebrush-strewn industrial park outside of Reno, Nevada, bulldozers are clearing dirt for Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s battery factory, projected to be the world’s largest. Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk, sees the $5 billion facility as a key step toward making electric cars more […]
The Vending Machine Of The Future Is Here, And It Knows Who You Are
December 9th, 2014I haven’t bought anything from a vending machine since 2005. Then again, I haven’t been to a town with traffic lights in nearly two years. In any event, here’s one for your bulging Not-The-Onion file folder. Via: Telegraph: The Luce X2 Touch TV vending machine, which was debuted to industry professionals in Hertfordshire in October, […]
Mesosphere Data Center OS
December 9th, 2014Via: TechCrunch: Besides the funding though, the bigger news was the announcement of their first data center operating system (DCOS). This is a new kind of operating system that operates on the scale of the entire data center, which means instead of controlling a single machine, the operating system sits on top of the data […]
Give NSA Unlimited Access to Digital Data, Says Federal Judge
December 8th, 2014Via: Computerworld: The U.S. National Security Agency should have an unlimited ability to collect digital information in the name of protecting the country against terrorism and other threats, an influential federal judge said during a debate on privacy. “I think privacy is actually overvalued,” Judge Richard Posner, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]
