Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Meet Ella: New Zealand Police Unveil First Artificial Intelligence Officer
May 26th, 2020#nottheonion Via: New Zealand Herald: The police have unveiled their first AI officer, with hopes she’ll soon be smiling and blinking out of screens in stations all around New Zealand. Ella, the artificial intelligence cop at the centre of the police’s new digital services, was revealed at the police national headquarters in Wellington this morning. […]
Precomputed Contact Chaining: Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network
May 26th, 2020Via: Wired: If anyone could become an intelligence target, Mainway should try to get a head start on everyone. … The NSA had built a live, ever-updating social graph of the US.
USS Portland Fires Laser Weapon, Downs Drone in First At-Sea Test
May 22nd, 2020Via: U.S. Naval Institute: Amphibious ship USS Portland (LPD-27) shot down a drone with a laser weapon during a first-of-its-kind at-sea test of the Navy’s high-energy laser weapon system. The Navy is currently developing and testing a portfolio of laser weapons, some of which are more powerful but only suited for ships with greater power-generation […]
Bill Gates and the Population Control Grid
May 17th, 2020Via: Corbett Report: The takeover of public health that we have documented in How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health and the remarkably brazen push to vaccinate everyone on the planet that we have documented in Bill Gates’ Plan to Vaccinate the World was not, at base, about money. The unimaginable wealth that Gates has accrued […]
McConnell Patriot Act Expansion, “Would Explicitly Permit the FBI to Collect Records of Americans’ Internet Search and Browsing Histories Without a Warrant”
May 13th, 2020I could link to dozens or hundreds of posts. Talk about beating a dead horse… For decades. Anyway, here’s one from just a few years ago: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants …if you think that place is only used to store information gleaned from taps on foreigners, I’ve got a bridge to sell […]
“Big Doctor”: Fever-Reading Drones Just The Beginning
May 4th, 2020Via: Miami Herald: Last month, police departments in Daytona Beach and Connecticut unveiled what was initially touted as a potential new tool against a pandemic: drones capable of taking a person’s temperature from 300 feet in the air. Both agencies quickly backtracked on using the machines to track the novel coronavirus after backlash from civil […]
Coronavirus Health Passports for UK ‘Possible in Months’
May 3rd, 2020Here we go. Via: Guardian: Tech firms are in talks with ministers about creating health passports to help Britons return safely to work using coronavirus testing and facial recognition. Facial biometrics could be used to help provide a digital certificate – sometimes known as an immunity passport – proving which workers have had Covid-19, as […]
U.S. Patent Office: Artificial Intelligence Cannot be a Legal Inventor
May 1st, 2020Via: The Verge: The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ruled that artificial intelligence systems cannot be credited as an inventor in a patent, the agency announced earlier this week. The decision came in response to two patents — one for a food container and the other for a flashing light — that were […]
Will Covid-19 Speed Up the Use of Robots to Replace Human Workers?
April 24th, 2020Via: BBC: For better or worse the robots are going to replace many humans in their jobs, analysts say, and the coronavirus outbreak is speeding up the process. “People usually say they want a human element to their interactions but Covid-19 has changed that,” says Martin Ford, a futurist who has written about the ways […]
Einride: One Driver, Many Vehicles
April 14th, 2020Via: Cnet: Einride eventually hopes to be able to increase its vehicle-to-driver ratio to the point where a single remote operator can safely manage up to 10 trucks. The video shows the operator switching between two trucks at the push of a button, but we’d guess that it’s still a long way off from that […]
