Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Introducing iCensor: Apple Is Patenting Technology That Will Cripple Its Devices When They Are In the Proximity of ‘A Concert or a Classified Facility’
June 3rd, 2011Forget Apple’s sycophantic entertainment industry boot licking for a moment. Will agents of the state have a kill switch on recording devices as well? Apparently so. The patent itself, U.S. Patent #20110128384 uses the phrase, “classified facility” as an example of a venue where the devices would be crippled. (Can you hear that sickening sound? […]
Copenhagen Suborbitals HEAT-1X Launched
June 3rd, 2011Via: Copenhagen Suborbitals:
China: Teenager Sells Kidney for iPad, Laptop Computer
June 3rd, 2011Via: BBC: A teenager in China has sold one of his kidneys in order to buy an iPad 2, Chinese media report. The 17-year-old, identified only as Little Zheng, told a local TV station he had arranged the sale of the kidney over the internet.
Sony Hacked Again, One Million Accounts Compromised
June 3rd, 2011Via: Reuters: A hacker group has engineered yet another attack on the computer networks of Sony Corp, a setback to the Japanese company’s efforts to move past a security crisis that erupted in April. The group, which calls itself LulzSec, said on Thursday that it broke into servers that run Sony Pictures Entertainment websites, and […]
Flashback 1969: GE Walking Truck
June 2nd, 2011Look familiar?
U.S. to View Major Cyber Attacks as Acts of War
May 31st, 2011The Bin Laden spectacle was completely absurd from top to bottom—and now… Via: AFP: The Pentagon has adopted a new strategy that will classify major cyber attacks as acts of war, paving the way for possible military retaliation, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The newspaper said the Pentagon plans to unveil its first-ever […]
Test: Javascript Bitcoin Miner
May 30th, 2011Update: Good Video Cards for GPU Mining XFX Radeon HD 6990 XFX Radeon HD 6970 Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Sapphire Radeon HD 5830 —End Update— Update: HAHA Never Mind This misses doing anything worth doing by about four orders of magnitude. lol. Thanks to everyone who tried this out, but it’s the Bitcoin equivalent trying […]
Writer Urges Internet Junkies to ‘Switch Off’ and Think
May 30th, 2011The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Via: AFP: Like tens of millions of others, US technology writer Nicholas Carr found the lure of the worldwide web hard to resist — until he noticed it was getting harder and harder to concentrate. He set out his concerns in a […]
Robot Juggles Five Billiard Balls at Once
May 30th, 2011The audio is the chilling part. Via: io9: This a robotic juggler built by the Department of Control Engineering at Prague’s Czech Technical University. Researchers have taught this machine to lob and catch five billiard balls all on its own. It’ll someday do the same with our skulls.
Get Lamp: A Documentary About Adventures in Text
May 29th, 2011Via: Get Lamp: Trailer: Film: In the early years of the microcomputer, a special kind of game was being played. With limited sound, simple graphics, and tiny amounts of computing power, the first games on home computers would hardly raise an eyebrow in the modern era of photorealism and surround sound. In a world of […]
