Archive for the 'Technology' Category
MIT: Eulerian Video Magnification
February 28th, 2013Update: Upload Your Own Videos http://videoscope.qrclab.com/ + September 11 Television Archive = ??? — I’d like to feed some of the 9/11 footage through this. Via: MIT News: At this summer’s Siggraph — the premier computer-graphics conference — researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) will present new software that amplifies variations […]
Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry
February 28th, 2013It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that this amounts to a “nothing-to-see-here” assessment of what is happening. Consider what William Binney and Mark Klein have said and written, and what NSA is building, and then tell me if you believe that only three dozen people have access to the domestic intercepts. Come on. […]
3-D Printed Car
February 27th, 2013Via: Wired: Picture an assembly line not that isn’t made up of robotic arms spewing sparks to weld heavy steel, but a warehouse of plastic-spraying printers producing light, cheap and highly efficient automobiles. If Jim Kor’s dream is realized, that’s exactly how the next generation of urban runabouts will be produced. His creation is called […]
Advanced Persistent Threats Subverting Encryption Systems
February 27th, 2013The fact that the underlying systems represent weaker links than the encryption schemes has been there since the beginning. However, with states and other organizations allocating increasing resources to offensive information warfare, these weak links are increasingly being exploited to do end runs around otherwise strong encryption. Via: ThreatPost: In the current climate of continuous […]
Why a One-Room West Virginia Library Runs a $20,000 Cisco Router
February 26th, 2013Via: Ars Technica: Marmet, West Virginia is a town of 1,500 people living in a thin ribbon along the banks of the Kanawha River just below Charleston. The town’s public library is only open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. It’s housed in a small building the size of a trailer, which the state of West Virginia […]
Foxconn Reshuffle: Some Manufacturing Going to Taiwan, Brazil, Indonesia and USA
February 25th, 2013Via: Forbes: Last Monday, Gou announced that Foxconn’s next major expansion push would be focused on Taiwan, where he wanted to put plants in New Taipei City, Taichung, and Kaohsiung. This comes at a time when the company is putting off the expansion of one of its China facilities, in Zhengzhou. Gou founded Foxconn in […]
PBS NOVA Rise of the Drones
February 24th, 2013Via: PBS: Related: Drone ‘Nightmare Scenario’ Now Has A Name: ARGUS
Zuckerberg, Brin Join Forces to Extend Life
February 21st, 2013Via: AFP: Famed founders of Internet rivals Google and Facebook joined forces on Wednesday to back big-money prizes for research aimed at extending human life. Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg, along with their spouses, joined Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner to award 11 scientists $3 million each to launch the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. […]
The Drones Come Home
February 20th, 2013Via: National Geographic: What Jay Stanley of the ACLU calls his “nightmare scenario” begins with drones supporting “mostly unobjectionable” police raids and chases. Soon, however, networks of linked drones and computers “gain the ability to automatically track multiple vehicles and bodies as they move around a city,” much as the cell phone network hands calls […]
NZ: Ministry of TeleFone Announces New Submarine Cable
February 19th, 2013I guess it’s better than a kick in the teeth. *groan* There still won’t be any competition, but at least there will be another physical path. If you don’t get the TeleFone joke, it simply refers to Telecom New Zealand and Vodafone increasingly colluding on service offerings. See the Rural Broadband Initiative, for example. Now […]
