Archive for the 'Technology' Category
V3Solar Spin Cell = 8 Cents/kWh?
January 28th, 2013At a minimum, it’s a neat looking design. Whether or not it will amount to anything more, who knows… Via: Clean Technica: “V3Solar has invented, and is now in the process of commercializing, the first major change to flat panel PV technology in over 50 years – the V3 Spin Cell. For too long, the […]
Homeland Security Researching New Public Surveillance System
January 27th, 2013Via: Business Insider: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Secret Service have requested information to support the installation of a gunshot detection system in Washington D.C. Such a system is already in place in various cities, as outlined last May by The New York Times, and it records a whole lot more than […]
Google Earth Exposes North Korea’s Secret Prison Camps
January 26th, 2013Via: Telegraph: Human rights activists are turning to Google Earth to identify the vast network of prison camps that dot the North Korean countryside and hold as many as 200,000 people deemed hostile to the regime.
Antigua to Establish WTO Sanctioned Warez Site
January 26th, 2013Via: TorrentFreak: The Government of Antigua is planning to launch a website selling movies, music and software, without paying U.S. copyright holders. The Caribbean island is taking the unprecedented step because the United States refuses to lift a trade “blockade” preventing the island from offering Internet gambling services, despite several WTO decisions in Antigua’s favor. […]
Bill Gates: The Better Than Cash Alliance
January 25th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Billionaires are known for not keeping a lot of spending green in their wallets. But that’s not why Bill Gates hates cash. He hates it because of its effect on people at the opposite end of the wealth spectrum—the world’s poor and unbanked. The Better Than Cash Alliance, which was founded last September […]
NYPD Will Begin Testing New Device That Scans People for Concealed Weapons
January 25th, 2013Via: New York Daily News: Get ready for scan-and-frisk. The NYPD will soon deploy new technology allowing police to detect guns carried by criminals without using the typical pat-down procedure, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday. The department just received a machine that reads terahertz — the natural energy emitted by people and inanimate objects […]
Jobs ‘Being Obliterated by Technology’
January 24th, 2013Via: AP: Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over. And the situation is even worse than it appears. Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish as well, say […]
Momentum Machines Robots Will Prepare Hamburgers, Eliminate Fast Food Jobs
January 23rd, 2013Via: The National: Funded by San Francisco’s Lemnos Labs, it has developed a robot designed to take the place of humans in burger restaurants. Its creators believe their patty-flipping Alpha robot could save the fast-food industry in the United States about US$9 billion a year. Designed to entirely replace two to three full-time kitchen staff, […]
The Next Big Thing in Technocrack Pipes: Oculus Rift
January 19th, 2013Via: Tom’s Hardware: “Holy $#!+,” I blurted after the Oculus Rift VR goggles were slapped on my face. It had nothing to do with the device’s physical aspect – the Oculus Rift was surprisingly light on my head despite its bulky appearance. I just didn’t expect to see what my eyes were sending to my […]
MacOS Logs All Downloads Regardless of Application
January 19th, 2013Via: OSXDaily: Whether it’s for troubleshooting, personal interest, or forensics, the following command will show you everything that you’ve downloaded to a Mac regardless of the application that it came from… … For those who would rather not have an all-inclusive historical list of downloaded files, you can run the following command to delete the […]
