Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away
May 14th, 2025Via: Physics Magazine: One of astronomers’ tricks for observing distant objects is intensity interferometry, which involves comparing the intensity fluctuations recorded at two separate telescopes. Researchers have now applied this technique to the imaging of remote objects on Earth. They developed a system that uses multiple laser beams to illuminate a distant target and uses […]
Tesla Optimus Robot
May 14th, 2025Was just getting warmed up https://t.co/dN6rSXiLVS pic.twitter.com/JbJ8TxyaAz — Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) May 14, 2025
When DoD Releases Incident With Russian Jet vs. When DoD Releases a UFO/UAP Video
May 13th, 2025*chortle* When DoD Releases Incident With Russian Jet vs. When DoD Releases a UFO/UAP Video ? pic.twitter.com/8a1nDyPDP5 — John Greenewald, Jr. (@blackvaultcom) May 9, 2025
White House Announces Saudi Arabia Spending $600 Billion on U.S. Goods and Services, Largest Weapons Deal Ever
May 13th, 2025Via: White House: Today in Saudi Arabia, President Donald J. Trump announced Saudi Arabia’s $600-billion commitment to invest in the United States… The first deals under the announcement strengthen our energy security, defense industry, technology leadership, and access to global infrastructure and critical minerals. … Underscoring our commitment to strengthening our defense and security partnership, […]
This Film Is Lying
May 12th, 2025THIS FILM IS LYING pic.twitter.com/1QbWxj6LhA — Matt Zien (KNGMKR) (@KNGMKRlabs) May 9, 2025
AI Firms Warned to Calculate Threat of Super Intelligence or Risk it Escaping Human Control
May 10th, 2025Coming soon… Via: Guardian: Artificial intelligence companies have been urged to replicate the safety calculations that underpinned Robert Oppenheimer’s first nuclear test before they release all-powerful systems. Max Tegmark, a leading voice in AI safety, said he had carried out calculations akin to those of the US physicist Arthur Compton before the Trinity test and […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the U.S. by Car
May 10th, 2025“They are locking this place down, and it’s going to be for everyone.” Via: Wired: United States Customs and Border Protection plans to log every person leaving the country by vehicle by taking photos at border crossings of every passenger and matching their faces to their passports, visas, or travel documents, WIRED has learned. The […]
Mark Zuckerberg Is Building a New Surveillance State
May 10th, 2025Welcome to the open air dragnet. Via: The Hill: Mark Zuckerberg recently took to Instagram to boast that nearly a billion people now use Meta AI across the company’s platforms. To celebrate, he announced the launch of a new standalone app, encouraging users to “Check it out!” It sounded innocuous, almost charming, as if he […]
Large Hadron Collider Transmutes Lead Into Tiny Particles of Gold
May 9th, 2025Via: CERN: In a paper published in Physical Review Journals, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). …but the total still amounts to trillions of times less than would be required to make a piece of jewellery. While the dream of medieval alchemists […]
Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans
May 9th, 2025Robots are going through the same ramp in capability that large language models went through a couple of years ago. Via: IEEE Spectrum: At an event in Dortmund, Germany today, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform […]
