Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Tesla Enters Race to Build Self-Driving Car
September 18th, 2013Via: Reuters: Electric car company Tesla Motors is working to produce a car capable of running on “auto-pilot” within the next three years, CEO Elon Musk said, joining tech giant Google and rival carmakers in the race to roll a driverless car into the market. The California-based company’s autonomous car would allow the driver to […]
‘Your Pulse Could Be Your New Password’
September 17th, 2013Via: CBS: Passwords, pin numbers, and credit cards could soon be a thing of the past. Soon, your heart and your body might be used to keep track of just about everything if new technology is able to unlock “pulse passwords”. Your heartbeat reveals more about you than your health, Bionym chief executive officer Karl […]
‘Dartmouth Researchers Discover How and Where Imagination Occurs in Human Brains’
September 17th, 2013“Understanding these differences will give us insight into where human creativity comes from and possibly allow us to recreate those same creative processes in machines.” Via: Dartmouth University: Philosophers and scientists have long puzzled over where human imagination comes from. In other words, what makes humans able to create art, invent tools, think scientifically and […]
Directed Energy Device Disables Vehicles
September 16th, 2013The same company is developing, “High altitude electromagnetic pulse weapons.” Via: Telegraph: An energy beam that can be fired to disable vehicles and electronic devices has been developed by Nato scientists. The device uses an intense pulse of electromagnetic energy that can be directed at a moving vehicle to interfere with the electronics on board. […]
Recovery: Widest Gap in Employment Rates Between Rich, Poor in a Decade
September 16th, 2013Via: AP / Newser: The gap in employment rates between America’s highest- and lowest-income families has stretched to its widest levels since officials began tracking the data a decade ago, according to an analysis of government data conducted for The Associated Press. Rates of unemployment for the lowest-income families _ those earning less than $20,000 […]
Teach People About Food Atrocities with an App?
September 16th, 2013Via: Chipotle Mexican Grill – Scarecrow The Game: Related: The Chipotle Cultivate Foundation Research Credit: ottilie
No Child Left Untableted
September 16th, 2013A division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is supplying tablet computers and curricula to students in the U.S. In other words, the world’s most diabolical propagandist is receiving public money (Department of Education’s Race to the Top program—no joke) to provide screen based education to thousands of students in the U.S. This could expand to […]
‘Follow the Money’: NSA Spies on International Payments
September 15th, 2013Via: Spiegel: The United States’ NSA intelligence agency is interested in international payments processed by companies including Visa, SPIEGEL has learned. It has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a “tailored access operations” division. The National Security Agency (NSA) widely monitors international payments, banking and credit card transactions, according […]
Oxford Researchers Say 45 Percent of America’s Occupations Will be Automated Within the Next 20 Years
September 15th, 2013Via: MIT Technology Review: Rapid advances in technology have long represented a serious potential threat to many jobs ordinarily performed by people. A recent report (which is not online, but summarized here) from the Oxford Martin School’s Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology attempts to quantify the extent of that threat. It concludes that […]
FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
September 14th, 2013Via: Wired: It wasn’t ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors. Freedom Hosting’s operator, Eric Eoin Marques, had rented the servers […]
