Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Connecticut City Rejects 5G Citing Evidence of Health Risks
November 27th, 2023Via: The Defender: The Board of Representatives in Stamford, Connecticut, earlier this month voted to reject a model agreement that would have allowed AT&T and Verizon to install 5G equipment on city-owned utility poles. In a bid to get 5G swiftly installed in his state, Gov. Ned Lamont’s office created a template contract between the […]
Anthony Levandowski and His AI Church
November 26th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Anthony Levandowski, a name synonymous with the pioneering of self-driving technology and a figure shrouded in Silicon Valley controversy, has made headlines again. This time, it’s not about groundbreaking tech advancements or legal battles, but something far more unorthodox: the resurrection of his AI-centric church, “Way of the Future.” … According to Levandowski, […]
Q-Star (Q*): OpenAI Researchers Warned Board of, “A Powerful Artificial Intelligence Discovery That They Said Could Threaten Humanity”
November 22nd, 2023The Reuters piece below contains a significant error: The maker of ChatGPT had made progress on Q* (pronounced Q-Star), which some internally believe could be a breakthrough in the startup’s search for superintelligence, also known as artificial general intelligence (AGI)… That’s not correct. Superintelligence is not the same as artificial general intelligence. Superintelligence far exceeds […]
The Kozyrev Mirror Experiments
November 22nd, 2023I’d never heard of this. Did anyone take videos or photos inside that thing? Via: Mr. Mythos:
Sam Altman to Return as CEO of OpenAI
November 22nd, 2023Via: The Verge: Sam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI, overcoming an attempted boardroom coup that sent the company into chaos over the past several days. Former president Greg Brockman, who quit in protest of Altman’s firing, will return as well. The company said in a statement late Tuesday that it has an “agreement […]
Northvolt Develops Sodium-Ion Battery Validated at 160 Wh/kg
November 21st, 2023As a point of reference, Tesla’s newest battery, which will go into the upcoming Cybertruck, delivers about 272-296 Wh/kg. But for applications where lower power density will do… Via: Northvolt: Northvolt today announced a state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery, developed for the expansion of cost-efficient and sustainable energy storage systems worldwide. The cell has been validated for […]
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of U.S. Phone Records
November 21st, 2023Via: Wired: A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter WIRED obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality. According to the letter, a surveillance program now known […]
Hundreds of OpenAI Employees Threaten to Resign and Join Microsoft
November 20th, 2023Yikes! pic.twitter.com/sJI97R9DJK — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2023 Via: The Verge: Most of the staff at OpenAI have threatened to resign from the company and join Microsoft, which has hired ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman to lead a new “advanced AI research team.” In a letter to OpenAI’s […]
Inside the $1.5-Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program You’ve Never Heard Of
November 17th, 2023Via: Scientific American: …the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center requested the design and construction of a new missile. The contractor Northrop Grumman bid on it and won, and by 2021 Congress had authorized the first investments in an updated nationwide ICBM system, which is now called Sentinel. Like the Minuteman III missiles currently in the […]
Printed Robots with Bones, Ligaments, and Tendons
November 16th, 2023Via: ETH Zurich: For the first time, researchers have succeeded in printing a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons made of different polymers using a new laser scanning technique.
