Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Man 3D Prints Concrete Castle in Backyard, Designing Kit to Print Two-Story Houses
August 31st, 2014Via: 3ders: In Minnesota, contractor Andrey Rudenko is currently working on a project of gargantuan proportions that seems to be stretching and exploring the limits of 3D printing technology. Using a printer that was substantially modified and expanded, he has printed a concrete castle in his own backyard. And at 3 by 5 meters, this […]
Inside Google’s Secret Drone-Delivery Program
August 28th, 2014Via: The Atlantic: After two years of development, the Silicon Valley company reveals to The Atlantic that it has substantial research effort into building flying robots than can deliver products across a city in a minute or two.
Federal Cybersecurity Director Found Guilty on Child Porn Charges
August 28th, 2014Tor, Tor, Tor. Via: Wired: As the acting cybersecurity chief of a federal agency, Timothy DeFoggi should have been well versed in the digital footprints users leave behind online when they visit web sites and download images. But DeFoggi—convicted today in Nebraska on three child porn charges including conspiracy to solicit and distribute child porn—must […]
Neuroscientists Reverse Memories’ Emotional Associations
August 28th, 2014Via: MIT News: Most memories have some kind of emotion associated with them: Recalling the week you just spent at the beach probably makes you feel happy, while reflecting on being bullied provokes more negative feelings. A new study from MIT neuroscientists reveals the brain circuit that controls how memories become linked with positive or […]
These 3-D Printed Skeleton Keys Can Pick High-Security Locks in Seconds
August 27th, 2014Via: Wired: One of the hairier unintended consequences of cheap 3-D printing is that any troublemaker can duplicate a key without setting foot in a hardware store. But clever lockpickers like Jos Weyers and Christian Holler already are taking that DIY key-making trick a step further: They can 3-D print a slice of plastic or […]
L.A. Unified Halts Contract for iPads
August 26th, 2014Via: Los Angeles Times: L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy suspended future use of a contract with Apple on Monday that was to provide iPads to all students in the nation’s second-largest school system amid mounting scrutiny of the $1-billion-plus effort. The suspension comes days after disclosures that the superintendent and his top deputy had especially […]
Targeting Political Ads to Individuals
August 26th, 2014Via: Engadget: Like it or not, another US election is almost upon us — and this time around, the incessant political advertising may cut a little too close to home. Both Democrats and Republicans are using a new TV ad targeting system from DirecTV and Dish that takes advantage of voter records to put personalized […]
The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
August 26th, 2014Via: First Look: The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept. The documents provide the first definitive evidence […]
‘Robo Brain’ Will Teach Robots Everything from the Internet
August 25th, 2014This is the exact scenario from two recent cyber apocalypse stories; Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson and Transcendence. The goo escapes the cage in the lab and devours everything. Vis: Physorg: Robo Brain – a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources – is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, […]
“Want a Happy Worker? Let Robots Take Control”
August 24th, 2014Alternate Headline: Getting the Most Out of Your Remaining Human Meatsack Workers Until It Makes Economic Sense to Eliminate Them. Via: MIT Technology Review: If you’ve seen a sci-fi flick with autonomous robots in the last 40 years, you may be wary of giving robots any semblance of control. But new research coming out of […]
