Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’
October 13th, 2011Do you notice how this technocratic theocracy is the same old snake handling and sky god worship, but with “science” and computers? Same result, it just doesn’t look like a Pentecostal revival. Instead of people speaking in tongues and waving bibles, technocrats in suits are telling us that the machines will find the terrorists who […]
AOL Launches New Unmanned ‘Lights Out’ Data Center
October 12th, 2011They role all the hardware issues into batch jobs that get dealt with by contractors. I wonder how many years it will be before they build Ikea warehouse style data centers, where robots will actually pull and replace the defective server units? You could have a data center the size of a couple of football […]
Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
October 8th, 2011Via: Wired: A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from […]
U.S. Drone Helicopters to Begin Troop Re-Supply Operations in Afghanistan
October 6th, 2011Via: Wired: Next month, the Afghanistan war gets a boost. Specifically, a boost from a robotic helicopter that ferries gear to U.S. troops. Check out the video above. That’s the K-MAX helicopter, a collaboration between defense giant Lockheed Martin and Connecticut aerospace company Kaman, lifting off from an Arizona test site in August, after its […]
It’s Man vs. Machine and Man Is Losing
October 6th, 2011More machines, fewer workers. Via: Wall Street Journal: In the man-versus-machine competition, machine is winning. And it’s not just Watson beating humans on “Jeopardy.” Since the recession ended, businesses had increased their real spending on equipment and software by a strong 26%, while they have added almost nothing to their payrolls.
Introducing Siri: DARPA’s Ghost in Apple’s Machine
October 5th, 2011So their eyes are growing hazy cos they want to turn it on so their minds are soft and lazy, well… give em what they want —10,000 Maniacs – Candy Everybody Wants One of the stocks that I used to kick around in the 1990s was that of a now long dead company called General […]
Boston Dynamics’ AlphaDog Quadruped Robot Prototype
October 1st, 2011Via: ieee Spectrum: …those weights that AlphaDog is carrying in a few of the clips weigh a total of 400 pounds (180 kilograms), and the robot will be able to carry that load up to 20 miles (30 kilometers) over the course of 24 hours without having to refuel.
U.S. Military Wants Drones that Detect ‘Adversarial Intent’
September 28th, 2011Oh sure. Via: Wired: Perhaps the idea of spy drones already makes your nervous. Maybe you’re uncomfortable with the notion of an unblinking, robotic eye in the sky that can watch your every move. If so, you may want to click away now. Because if the Army has its way, drones won’t just be able […]
Will Robots Steal Your Job?
September 27th, 2011Via: Slate: They might not know it yet, but some of the most educated workers in the nation are engaged in a fierce battle with machines. As computers get better at processing and understanding language and at approximating human problem-solving skills, they’re putting a number of professions in peril. Those at risk include doctors, lawyers, […]
U.S. Assembling Drone Bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula
September 21st, 2011Via: Washington Post: The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, U.S. officials said. One of the installations is being established in Ethiopia, a U.S. […]
