Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Trump Announces Ohio Sen JD Vance as His 2024 Running Mate
July 15th, 2024Update: Brief Commentary When this announcement came out, I didn’t know anything about JD Vance at all. I looked briefly and saw that he’s closely associated with Thiel and Vance’s wife was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Thiel is the special sauce behind Vance’s rise (financial backing) and his making amends with Trump. Vance used to […]
Microsoft’s AI Speech Generator Achieves Human Parity, Too Dangerous to Release
July 12th, 2024Mmm hmm. Meanwhile… OpenAI’s new voice synthesizer can copy your voice from just 15 seconds of audio From 2019: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds From 2016: Adobe Voco: Via: Techspot: Microsoft has developed a new iteration of its neural codec language model, Vall-E, that surpasses previous efforts in terms of naturalness, […]
AT&T Says Criminals Stole Phone Records of ‘Nearly All’ Customers
July 12th, 2024Via: Tech Crunch: U.S. phone giant AT&T confirmed Friday it will begin notifying millions of consumers about a fresh data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone records of “nearly all” of its customers, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch. In a statement, AT&T said that the stolen data contains phone numbers of both cellular […]
Speed Limiters Now Mandatory in All New EU Cars
July 9th, 2024Via: Autoweek: Cars have been able to figure out when they’re speeding for a while, thanks to GPS as well as traffic sign recognition, and they’ve also been able to pump the brakes automatically when needed. Having a computer automatically slow down a car in response to posted speed limits, therefore, was not really a […]
Quilts and Cats of Calico
July 6th, 2024This is very far off topic. My wife and daughter, Niamh, love the Calico board game. Besides the cats in the game, our actual cats love to “help” with the gameplay. I won’t play Calico and neither will my boys. Although my youngest daughter is fascinated with Calico, she is too young to play. She […]
UChicago: World’s First Anode-Free Sodium Solid-State Battery
July 6th, 2024This is definitely interesting. In terms of years we would have to wait for this, I wonder what, “Closer than ever,” means? Via: University of Chicago: UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering Prof. Y. Shirley Meng’s Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion has created the world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery. With this research, the LESC – […]
China: Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Used to Control Robot
July 3rd, 2024I like how it sits in a dish of nutrient agar! I know I’ve seen something like this in multiple animes decades ago, but I don’t remember which ones. Update: Found a Few… Robotech: The Invid Brain, also known as a Living Computer, was an advanced organic based supercomputer created by the Invid to direct […]
X Re-Joins Pro-Censorship Advertisers’ Alliance
July 3rd, 2024Via: Reclaim the Net: Given how X has gone out of its way to reveal the depth and breadth of online censorship via the Twitter Files, this makes for an awkward reunion: the company has decided to rejoin the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM). It’s a pro-censorship, World Economic Forum-affiliated advertisers’ group, that achieves […]
Futo’s Mobile Apps Are High Quality and Open Source
July 3rd, 2024I sometimes use an Android phone and I’ve started to rely on three apps from Futo. Grayjay: Google’s official Youtube app is a disaster. Grayjay fixes Youtube on mobile devices. I installed this directly from the APK and not the Play Store in case Google bans it. Keyboard: Your keyboard shouldn’t connect to the Internet. […]
Debloat Windows 10 and 11 Installations with Answer Files
July 2nd, 2024Via: Memory’s Tech Tips:
