Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Google Considers Pulling Out of China and Will Provide Uncensored Search Results in Wake of Chinese Information Warfare Operations
January 13th, 2010Via: GoogleBlog: These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on […]
Israeli Military Robots
January 12th, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: Israel is developing an army of robotic fighting machines that offers a window onto the potential future of warfare. Sixty years of near-constant war, a low tolerance for enduring casualties in conflict, and its high-tech industry have long made Israel one of the world’s leading innovators of military robotics. “We’re trying […]
Taser Now Peddling Mobile Phone Surveillance System
January 11th, 2010Via: AFP: Stun gun maker Taser wants to help parents, not with jolts of electricity but with a tool which allows parents to effectively take over a child’s mobile phone and manage its use. “Basically we’re taking old fashioned parenting and bringing it into the mobile world,” Taser chairman and co-founder Tom Smith said at […]
Cancer Risks Debated for X-Ray Body Scanners
January 10th, 2010Via: New York Times: The plan for broad use of X-ray body scanners to detect bombs or weapons under airline passengers’ clothes has rekindled a debate about the safety of delivering small doses of radiation to millions of people — a process some experts say is certain to result in a few additional cancer deaths. […]
Houston Police Department UAV
January 9th, 2010This Week in Pre-Crime: Mind-Reading Security Systems
January 8th, 2010Via: AP: The aim of one company that blends high technology and behavioral psychology is hinted at in its name, WeCU – as in “We See You.” The system that Israeli-based WeCU Technologies has devised and is testing in Israel projects images onto airport screens, such as symbols associated with a certain terrorist group or […]
Windows 7 Has Lots of ‘GodModes’
January 8th, 2010Via: Cnet: Those intrigued by the “GodMode” in Windows 7 may be interested to know that there are many other similar shortcuts hidden within the operating system. Intended for developers as a shortcut to various internal settings, such features have been around since Vista and even before, according to the head of Microsoft’s Windows division, […]
Robotic System Makes a Novel Scientific Discovery
January 8th, 2010Dress up brute force real pretty and put lipstick on it. Via: Wales Online: IT was hailed as taking artificial intelligence to a new level. Now, the creation by Welsh scientists of the first robot in the world to make an independent scientific discovery has been named the fourth most significant discovery of 2009 by […]
And Now… DARPA’s Flying Car Program
January 5th, 2010*chortle* Via: Network World: Military scientists are looking to ramp up research and development of a flying military vehicle that will hold up to 4 people and have the ability to launch vertically and soar when necessary. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will this month hold its first Proposers’ Day Workshop in support […]
GSM Encryption Has Been Cracked
December 30th, 2009The analog mobile phone systems from the 1980s sent conversations flying around, totally in the clear. Anyone with decent scanner used to be able to listen to the calls. Now, with a bit of open source software and some inexpensive hardware, in a way, it’s back to the future. Keep in mind, however, that this […]
