Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
China Turns to Driverless Tractors, Combines to Overhaul Agriculture
January 16th, 2019Via: Reuters: A brand new combine harvester buzzes up and down a field in eastern China without a driver on board, chopping golden rice stalks and offering a glimpse of what authorities say is the automated future of the nation’s mammoth agricultural sector. The bright green prototype was operating last autumn during a trial of […]
U.S. Classrooms Are Starting to Resemble Arcades
January 15th, 2019Screens In Schools Are a $60 Billion Hoax: The screen revolution has seen pedagogy undergo a seismic shift as technology now dominates the educational landscape. In almost every classroom in America today, you will find some type of screen—smartboards, Chromebooks, tablets, smartphones. From inner-city schools to those in rural and remote towns, we have accepted […]
Tulsi Gabbard Says U.S. Government Arming, Funding ISIS and Al Qaeda
January 13th, 2019Via: CNN:
Kenya Will Start Teaching Chinese to Elementary School Students from 2020
January 9th, 2019Via: Quartz: Kenya will teach Mandarin in classrooms in a bid to improve job competitiveness and facilitate better trade and connection with China. The country’s curriculum development institute (KICD) has said the design and scope of the mandarin syllabus have been completed and will be rolled in out in 2020. Primary school pupils from grade […]
Mobile Carriers Selling Phone Location Data
January 9th, 2019Via: TechCrunch: Last year, four of the largest U.S. cell carriers were caught selling and sending real-time location data of their customers to shady companies that sold it on to big spenders, who would use the data to track anyone “within seconds” for whatever reason they wanted. At first, a little-known company LocationSmart was obtaining […]
Golden Globe Flu Shot Gag
January 8th, 2019Desperation? Via: YouTube:
Blackwater Founder Erik Prince To Launch Fund For Electric Car Metals
January 1st, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: Erik Prince, the founder of private security firm Blackwater, plans to raise as much as $500m to capitalize on the rush into metals required for batteries used in electric cars, according to the Financial Times. Flashback: U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Deposits Worth $1 Trillion in Afghanistan; “The Saudi Arabia of Lithium”
Blackwater: We Are Coming
December 31st, 2018Via: Russia Today: Blackwater, the controversial US private security firm, has flagged its intent to resume business, taking out a full-page commercial in the latest edition of Recoil magazine with a chilling message declaring “We are coming.” The resurrection within the military contractors’ market of notorious Blackwater, which, after numerous scandals and several rebrandings, is […]
Google’s Earth: How the Tech Giant Is Helping the State Spy On Us
December 20th, 2018Via: Guardian: The purchase of Keyhole was a milestone for Google, marking the moment the company stopped being a purely consumer-facing internet company and began integrating with the US government. When Google bought Keyhole, it also acquired an In-Q-Tel executive named Rob Painter, who came with deep connections to the world of intelligence and military […]
Walmart Testing Robotic Fry Cook
December 11th, 2018Via: Yahoo Finance: Walmart (WMT) is in the early stages of testing a kitchen robot assistant named “Flippy” at its Bentonville, Arkansas, headquarters to see whether or not it’s the right fit for its in-store delis. Flippy is the world’s first autonomous robotic kitchen assistant powered by artificial intelligence from Miso Robotics, a two-year-old startup. […]
