Archive for the 'Technology' Category
At New NYC Hotel, a Robot Handles the Luggage
June 22nd, 2011Via: AP: Forget the bellhop. Meet the luggage robot. It’s the first of several high-tech, sleek amenities guests encounter at the Yotel, a new hotel that aims to provide a trendy stay at an affordable price. … The 20-foot-tall robotic arm at the entrance automatically stores bags in lockers for guests who want to wonder […]
When Secret Sats Spy on Us, Monsieur Legault Spies Back
June 22nd, 2011Via: Wired: From mysterious robotic space planes to giant spy satellites the size of school buses, space is teeming with secret American hardware meant to gaze down on insurgents, terrorists and, well, everybody on the third rock from the sun. For mere proles like you and me, it can be hard to get a straight […]
NATO’s First Combat Casualty of the War in Libya Was a Robot
June 22nd, 2011Via: Wired: NATO has suffered its first apparent combat casualty of the three-month-old war in Libya. And it’s a robot. Wing Cmdr. Mike Bracken said the alliance lost contact with the unmanned rotorcraft this morning. “This drone helicopter was performing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance over Libya to monitor pro-Gadhafi forces threatening the civilian population,” Bracken […]
China Projecting Holographic Images of City Skylines, Mountains, Trees [???]
June 21st, 2011Uh… Via: ITN: Spectacular images of mountains, buildings and trees have appeared in a mirage in China.
Millions of Bored Users Quit Facebook [???]
June 21st, 2011Quantcast and Alexa both show Facebook as the #2 destination on the Internet in the U.S., behind Google, so… Via: CNN: There’s no denying the cultural impact of Facebook. It has united almost 700 million people, including most of you reading this, becoming the greatest social introduction platform the world has ever seen. But there […]
Spying Devices Found on Thousands of Hong Kong Cars
June 20th, 2011Via: Discovery News: Note to drivers and passengers travelling through Hong Kong: Mum’s the word. Chinese authorities have allegedly been spying on Hong King motorists after a device installed on throusands of vehicles was discovered to contain hardware suitable for eavesdropping. According to a report in Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, recording devices were installed […]
Hiding Surveillance and Killer Drones in Plain Sight
June 20th, 2011Via: New York Times: Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds. The […]
Bitcoin Flashcrash on Mt.Gox
June 19th, 2011Update: Mt.Gox User Database Stolen, Service Down There’s ugly, there’s fugly and then there’s… Via: Mt.Gox: [Update – 2:06 GMT] What we know and what is being done. It appears that someone who performs audits on our system and had read-only access to our database had their computer compromised. This allowed for someone to pull […]
NSA Allies with Internet Carriers to Thwart Cyber Attacks Against Defense Firms
June 17th, 2011Oh sure. Via: Washington Post: The National Security Agency is working with Internet providers to deploy a new generation of tools to scan e-mail and other digital traffic with the goal of thwarting cyberattacks against defense firms by foreign adversaries, senior defense and industry officials say. The novel program, which began last month on a […]
And Now… ‘Shit Burger’
June 15th, 2011Note the helpful label on the fridge. Via: Inhabitat: Yep, you heard me correctly — Japanese scientist Mitsyuki Ikeda has developed a “burger” made from soya, steak sauce essence, and protein extracted from human feces. Related: Yes Men Hunger Presentation [Thanks, Dennis]
