Archive for the 'Technology' Category
WellPoint Routinely Cancels Coverage of Breast Cancer Patients
April 23rd, 2010So, let me understand this: Obamacare is going to require people to pay for insurance that can be canceled as soon as they come down with a serious illness? Get the state to hold a gun at people’s heads to pay into a scam. That sounds like a pretty good gig for those diabolical corporations. […]
IEEE: Build Backup Routes for Undersea Communications Infrastructure “Before we have to learn the hard way”
April 21st, 2010Cryptogon Flashback to 2002: Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won’t In the years since I wrote that, I started to think that a massive attack on the physical network infrastructure would make increasing sense to the elite if the financial scams became totally untenable, and the perpetrators needed a distraction […]
BioLite: Rocket Stove That Runs the Fan by Converting Heat to Electricity
April 20th, 2010No, it’s not available yet. (In case you’re new to rocket stoves.) I think that this is the first one with a thermoelectric generator. Are there others? Via: BioLite: With the BioLite Stove you can step off the grid and leave the petrol at home. Whether you’re spending a month in Alaska or a night […]
Britain: Plate Reading Cameras Combined with GPS Will Automatically Issue Speeding Tickets; System Calculates Average Speed Between Two Points in ‘SpeedSpike’ Network
April 20th, 2010Via: Telegraph: A new type of speed cameras which can use satellites to measure average speed over long distances are being tested in Britain. The cameras, which combine number plate reading technology with a global positioning satellite receiver, are similar to those used in roadworks. The AA said it believed the new system could cover […]
Digital Photocopiers Might Digitally Store Thousands of Documents That Get Passed on at Resale
April 20th, 2010You’ll love this one. Via: CBS News: At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports almost every one of them holds a secret. Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive – like the one on your […]
Adept Quattro: The World’s Fastest Pick and Place Industrial Robot
April 19th, 2010Via: YouTube / Botjunkie: The fastest pick and place robot in the world, the Adept Quattro, demonstrates its skills versus a user controlled moving platform.
Cultivated Play: Farmville
April 19th, 2010Related: The Future Where Soda Cans Have Screens Via: Future of the Book: Farmville is a free, browser-based video game that is played through one’s Facebook account. Users harvest crops, decorate their farms, and interact with one another, in what is ostensibly a game about farming. While this may sound like a relatively banal game, […]
Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It’s a Very Bad Idea
April 18th, 2010Via: Gizmodo: There are no naked pre-cogs inside glowing jacuzzis yet, but the Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice will use analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents, putting potential offenders under specific prevention and education programs. Goodbye, human rights! They will use this software on juvenile delinquents, using a series of variables to […]
Tattooing Patients With UV Ink Could Protect Pacemakers From Hackers
April 18th, 2010Oh sure. Via: Popular Science: More and more implantable devices, like pacemakers or defibrillators, are turning to wireless signals as a means to communicate with external devices, but in doing so they open themselves to security breaches. Several solutions are in the works that tackle this problem by upping device defenses, but by piling on […]
Apple App Store Bans Pulitzer-Winning Satirist for Satire
April 16th, 2010Via: Wired: Editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore may be good enough to win this year’s Pulitzer Prize, but he’s evidently too biting to get past the auditors who run Apple’s iPhone app store, who ruled that lampooning public figures violated its terms of service. Fiore irked Apple’s censorious staffers with his cartoons making fun of the […]
