Archive for the 'Technology' Category
And Now… More Troops to Libya to Search for Thousands of Looted Surface to Air Missiles
September 29th, 2011Northrop Grumman will be pleased. Via: AntiWar: According to White House spokesman Jay Carney, the United States is preparing to deploy additional forces on the ground in Libya to “secure conventional arms storage sites” as well as to try to track down missing surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). In the wake of the rebel invasion of Tripoli, […]
Nissan Developing Brain Machine Interface for Use in Cars
September 29th, 2011[???] Via: Guardian: One of the world’s largest motor manufacturers is working with scientists based in Switzerland to design a car that can read its driver’s mind and predict his or her next move. The collaboration, between Nissan and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), is intended to balance the necessities of road safety […]
U.S. Military Wants Drones that Detect ‘Adversarial Intent’
September 28th, 2011Oh sure. Via: Wired: Perhaps the idea of spy drones already makes your nervous. Maybe you’re uncomfortable with the notion of an unblinking, robotic eye in the sky that can watch your every move. If so, you may want to click away now. Because if the Army has its way, drones won’t just be able […]
Facebook Tracks Users After They Leave Site
September 27th, 2011I use a custom filter in AdBlock+ to block all Facebook nonsense. I haven’t seen one of those ‘Like’ buttons in years. (Not on my computer, anyway.) If you don’t know what this ‘Like’ button garbage is all about, it’s a little widget that site operators put all over the place that lets Facebook users […]
Will Robots Steal Your Job?
September 27th, 2011Via: Slate: They might not know it yet, but some of the most educated workers in the nation are engaged in a fierce battle with machines. As computers get better at processing and understanding language and at approximating human problem-solving skills, they’re putting a number of professions in peril. Those at risk include doctors, lawyers, […]
The Federal Reserve Plans to Identify “Key Bloggers” and Monitor Billions of Conversations About the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, Forums and Blogs
September 26th, 2011Is there are Federal Reserve link for this document? Here’s the document that ZeroHedge has produced: Sentiment Analysis And Social Media MonitoringSolution RFP Request for Proposal (Event-6994) Event Information Description: Federal Reserve Bank of New York (“FRBNY”) is extending to suppliers an invitation to participate in an Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution RFP […]
Los Angeles: Large AT&T Mobile Network Outage
September 25th, 2011Via: AP / Washington Post: It’s been a day of missed, dropped and failed calls for AT&T wireless customers in Southern California, and the night may be the same. A recorded message for AT&T cell phone customers and the company’s official Twitter account Saturday said Los Angeles-area customers are having difficulty making or receiving calls […]
Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets
September 25th, 2011This is great, but don’t forget the context: U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors The Sock Puppet Industrial Complex: U.S. Trains ‘Activists’ to Evade Security Forces Think outside the box, by all means. Just don’t be surprised when you find another box. Via: Chronicle of Higher […]
Google Shuts Down ActivistPost.com
September 24th, 2011Via: Before It’s News: At mid-day on Friday, September 23, 2011, the popular alternative news blog, ActivistPost.com, was taken offline. Activist Post receives over one million views per month and has been hosted by Google’s Blogger since its founding in June 2010. “We remain puzzled as to why Activist Post was erased completely by Google,” […]
Researchers Develop fMRI-Based Model to Reconstruct Moving Images that People Are Seeing
September 23rd, 2011Many articles that I’ve read about this don’t mention the little detail that this is based on data obtained through the use of fMRI. This MIT Technology Review piece deals with that right up front. In case you don’t know, fMRI is not a technology that we’re going to be walking around with anytime soon. […]
