Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Trump Exempts Phones, Computers, Chips from New Tariffs
April 12th, 2025What’s next? Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)? It’s the most well-known secret on Capitol Hill: China owns the American generic drug supply chain. Basic thyroid or blood pressure medications might finally be put into pill form in an Indian lab and sold under an Indian brand like Cipla. But the organic compounds, or key starting materials, […]
Sodium Ion Batteries
April 11th, 2025These look interesting for stationary storage. Via: Undecided:
Gabbard: “Electronic Voting Systems Have Been Vulnerable to Hackers for a Very Long Time”
April 11th, 2025It does get exhausting, decade after decade. Via: Modernity News: National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard made a startling revelation during an open cabinet meeting Wednesday, announcing that she has evidence that electronic voting machines have been tampered with to manipulate the results of past US elections. “I’ve got a long list of things that we’re […]
Siemens Executive, Wife and Children Killed in Hudson River Helicopter Crash
April 11th, 2025The rotor and tail boom detached mid-flight. Talked to a number of my pilot friends -“This isn’t normal.” What was Siemens CEO Agustin Escobar, working on? pic.twitter.com/blRshCKqAd — Grant Cardone (@GrantCardone) April 11, 2025 Via: Firstpost: A family’s sightseeing tour over New York City ended in tragedy after their helicopter crashed into the Hudson River. […]
Lockheed Martin Helendale Radar Cross Section Facility – Night Testing
April 10th, 2025Via: Uncanny Expeditions: Related: Lockheed Martin Helendale RCS Facility
Apple Airlifts 600 Tons of iPhones from India ‘To Beat’ Trump Tariffs
April 10th, 2025*snort* "Chinese Children" Song: Chinese Children by Devendra Banhart@realDonaldTrump @elonmusk @lexfridman @bennyjohnson @FearedBuck @wallstreetbets @jk_rowling @stillgray @jordanbpeterson @RealAlexJones @benshapiro @RealCandaceO @MattWalshBlog @MarioNawfal pic.twitter.com/Syzi1JWl1f — The Dor Brothers (@thedorbrothers) March 18, 2025 Via: Reuters: Tech giant Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million, to the United States […]
Hyundai to Expand Robot Fleet with Tens of Thousands Atlas Units from Boston Dynamics
April 7th, 2025About the workers in all the new factories being built in the U.S… Via: Interesting Engineering: Hyundai unveiled a $21 billion investment plan in the U.S., which includes $6 billion aimed at fostering innovation and expanding strategic partnerships. As per the agreement, Hyundai will purchase tens of thousands of robots, supporting Boston Dynamics’ growth and […]
The Computer that Runs on Human Neurons
April 6th, 2025I’ve posted about this before. I think it’s worth monitoring closely because my guess is that this (or something like it) is how a disorderly advance in AI could happen. Via: El País: Lab-grown brain cells are the basis for the functioning of the CL1, which has been announced as the first commercially-sold biological computer. […]
AI 2027
April 4th, 2025Via: AI 2027: We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution. We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might look like. It’s informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience at OpenAI, and previous forecasting successes.
AI-Based Model Streams Intelligible Speech from Thoughts
April 2nd, 2025Via: Berkeley Engineering: Marking a breakthrough in the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco has unlocked a way to restore naturalistic speech for people with severe paralysis. This work solves the long-standing challenge of latency in speech neuroprostheses, the time lag between when a subject […]
