Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Pirate Bay Now Running Out of North Korea [???]
March 4th, 2013Update: Probably Still in Europe This post purports to explain what’s happening. You’ll need more propellers in your beanie than I have in mine if you plan on understanding this: The Pirate Bay – North Korean hosting? No, it’s fake. (P2) — Still Routes Through Europe I’m not really sure what’s going on here. nslookup […]
Brown University Creates First Wireless, Implanted Brain-Computer Interface
March 4th, 2013Make sure the firewall is configured properly on that thing. 😉 Via: ExtremeTech: Researchers at Brown University have succeeded in creating the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface. The wireless BCIs have been implanted in pigs and monkeys for over 13 months without issue, and human subjects are next.
K-12 Student Database Will Share Information with ‘Private Companies Selling Educational Products and Services’
March 4th, 2013You’ll love this. Check out the part in bold to see who’s behind this database. Via: Reuters: An education technology conference this week in Austin, Texas, will clang with bells and whistles as startups eagerly show off their latest wares. But the most influential new product may be the least flashy: a $100 million database […]
Pfc. Bradley E. Manning’s Statement for the Providence Inquiry
March 4th, 2013Via: alexaobrien.com: The statement below was read by Private First Class Bradley E. Bradley at the providence inquiry for his formal plea of guilty to one specification as charged and nine specifications for lesser included offenses. He pled not guilty to 12 other specifications. This transcript was taken by journalist Alexa O’Brien at the Article […]
DHS Using Customized Versions of Predator Drones
March 3rd, 2013Via: Cnet: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show. The documents provide more details about the surveillance capabilities of the department’s unmanned […]
U.S. Navy Will Run Drone Missions 24/7 Out of Point Mugu
March 2nd, 2013Via: Gizmodo: I talked to the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, which had plenty to say about the upcoming drone playground, which is just one of “several bases throughout the world” the Navy wants. Each will host Tritons, with Point Mugu boasting four, conducting around five missions every single day. That’s over 1,800 takeoffs or landings […]
Defense Distributed 3D Printed AR-15 Lower Survives 600+ Rounds
March 2nd, 2013Via: Defense Distributed:
Arm Added to Big Dog Robot
March 1st, 2013😯 Via: YouTube / Boston Dynamics:
First Brain-To-Brain Interface Allows Transmission of Tactile and Motor Information Between Rats
March 1st, 2013Via: Duke University / Nicolelis Lab: A brain-to-brain interface (BTBI) enabled a real-time transfer of behaviorally meaningful sensorimotor information between the brains of two rats. In this BTBI, an ‘‘encoder’’ rat performed sensorimotor tasks that required it to select from two choices of tactile or visual stimuli. While the encoder rat performed the task, samples […]
Manning Admits Providing Classified Data to WikiLeaks
March 1st, 2013Via: Wired: Wearing his Army dress uniform, a composed, intense and articulate Pfc. Bradley Manning took “full responsibility” Thursday for providing the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks with a trove of classified and sensitive military, diplomatic and intelligence cables, videos and documents. In the lengthiest statement to a military tribunal Manning has provided since his nearly three-year […]
