Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Lawyers Claim Google Wi-Fi Sniffing ‘Is Not an Accident’
June 4th, 2010Via: Gizmodo: Lawyers suing Google claimed Thursday they have discovered evidence in a patent application that Google deliberately programmed its Street View cars to collect private data from open Wi-Fi networks, despite claims to the contrary. “At this point, it is our belief that it is not an accident,” said Brooks Cooper, an Oregon attorney […]
The Coming Artilect War
June 3rd, 2010Via: Technofascism Blog: If you haven’t heard of Hugo de Garis, AI researcher and Professor at China’s Xiamen University, then you’ve probably never heard of an Artilect either. A contraction of Artificial Intellect, the Artilects are future creations that, according to de Garis, will be immortal, godlike robotic beings that, due to being built on […]
WikiLeaks Was Launched With Documents Intercepted From Tor
June 2nd, 2010Many technologies that amateur anonymity fetishists are attracted to are actually designed to harvest information. Put yourself in the shoes of the NSA. If you wanted a concentrated haul of the most interesting information what would you do? You would establish a honeypot: a service (free or paid) that purported to provide an anonymous web […]
Japan Plans to Build Robot Moon Base by 2020
June 1st, 2010Via: PhysOrg: Believing that a moon base is essential for exploration of the solar system, Japan has recently announced plans to send humanoid robots to the moon to construct a robot lunar base. As part of the $2.2 billion project, the robots will begin surveying the moon around 2015, and then build the unmanned base […]
Navy’s Drone Death Ray Takes Out Targets at Sea
June 1st, 2010Via: Wired: For years, the U.S. Navy has been pursuing a workable ray gun that could provide a leap ahead in ship self-defenses. Now, with a series of tests of a system called the Laser Weapon System, or LaWS), it may be one step closer to that goal. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the service’s […]
Toolkit: A Look at the Gear That Experts Use to Spy on Spies
May 31st, 2010Via: Wired: When companies like Archer Daniels Midland and Liberty Mutual Insurance are worried that someone is bugging their boardrooms or tapping their phone lines, they call Kevin Murray. He heads one of the most sophisticated surveillance-detection firms this side of the FBI. Wired asked Murray about the bevy of gizmos he and his staff […]
The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains
May 29th, 2010The QuickImage plugin for Firefox may be used to very easily turn image loading on and off. Via: Wired: During the winter of 2007, a UCLA professor of psychiatry named Gary Small recruited six volunteers—three experienced Web surfers and three novices—for a study on brain activity. He gave each a pair of goggles onto which […]
Government Wants to Monitor Networks of All Critical Infrastructure Providers
May 28th, 2010Oh sure. Via: Wired: Companies that operate critical infrastructures and do not voluntarily allow the federal government to install monitoring software on their networks to detect possible cyberattacks would face the “wild” internet on their own and place us all at risk, a top Pentagon official seemed to say Wednesday. Defense Deputy Secretary William Lynn […]
USAF Vehicle Breaks Record for Hypersonic Flight
May 27th, 2010Via: PhysOrg: An experimental aircraft has set a record for hypersonic flight, flying more than 3 minutes at Mach 6 – six times the speed of sound. The X-51A Waverider was released from a B-52 Stratofortress off the southern California coast Wednesday morning, the Air Force reported on its website. Its scramjet engine accelerated the […]
IBM Patent Application Describes “Intelligent” Stop Lights That Turn Off Cars
May 27th, 2010What could possibly go wrong? Via: Daily Tech: Running red lights and failure to stop leads to untold numbers of traffic accidents around the world. Sitting at a red light with cars idling also burns fuel that really isn’t needed. IBM has filed a patent application that outlines a system that would turn the motors […]
