Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Satire: New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears
October 4th, 2010Via: The Onion: New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears Research Credit: JH
Iran Arrests ‘Nuclear Spies,’ Intelligence Chief Says
October 4th, 2010Via: CNN: Iran arrested a number of “nuclear spies,” its intelligence minister said, in the wake of widespread reports of a sophisticated new computer virus that may have been aimed at Iran. Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi made the announcement Saturday, without giving any details, Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency reported. Iran is widely thought to […]
EU’s Technolife Project: Social Engineering for the Coming Technofascist World
October 3rd, 2010Via: Technofascism Blog: In yet another attempt to gain public acceptance for the coming technological tyranny, the EU has recently funded the University of Bergen in Norway to create a website that collects people’s opinions on three emerging techno-fascist technologies: biometric id, human augmentation, and global tracking systems. … The TechnoLife project will present the […]
The U.S. Government has Deployed Mobile X-Ray Technology to Scan Cars and Trucks at Internal Checkpoints
October 1st, 2010Via: Christian Science Monitor: As an antiterror measure, the US government has deployed mobile X-ray technology to randomly scan cars and trucks. But the measure is riling privacy proponents. For many living in a terror-spooked country, it might seem like a great government innovation: Use vans equipped with mobile X-ray units to scan vehicles at […]
Researchers Find Phone Apps Sending Data Without Notification
September 30th, 2010Via: PhysOrg: Publicly available cell-phone applications from application markets are releasing consumers’ private information to online advertisers, according to a joint study by Intel Labs, Penn State, and Duke University. Flicking through a wallpaper app with backgrounds of Mickey Mouse and a tropical waterfall, Peter Gilbert gets a plain, black and white text notification on […]
Breakthrough in Quantum Computer Race
September 29th, 2010Via: University of New South Wales: A team led by UNSW engineers and physicists have developed one of the key building blocks needed to make a quantum computer using silicon: a “single electron reader”. Their work has been published in the journal Nature. Quantum computers promise exponential increases in processing speed over today’s computers through […]
Pre-Crime Magic 8 Ball Uses “Resentment” in Spoken and Written Information to Identify “The Terrorists”
September 29th, 2010I like Tony’s commentary on this over at Technofascism Blog. He offers a couple of quotes from 1984: “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, […]
How Elon Musk Turned Tesla Into the Car Company of the Future
September 29th, 2010What I found most interesting about this piece was how Toyota and Daimler got on board with Tesla. It seemed like those organizations saw Tesla as a catalyst that could help overcome their own bureaucratic inertia. Toyota’s involvement with Tesla is definitely interesting. Toyota made a big miscalculation with its long insistence that hybrid technology […]
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September 28th, 2010Churning Swindles on Garbage Stocks
September 27th, 2010Via: Reuters: Some traders are manipulating U.S. stocks that are worth less than $1 by taking both sides of trades in order to earn big rebates, according to an official at Knight Capital Group Inc. … At issue is whether an individual trader is using separate brokerage accounts to trade against himself, something known as […]
