Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
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 […]
“Surveillance Capitalism” Is Now a Pandemic Necessity
April 1st, 2020Via: Bloomberg: There are no atheists in foxholes, and no tech regulators in a coronavirus lockdown.What was once thunderously described as “surveillance capitalism” is now a pandemic necessity. Twitch is where our children go to school; Twitter where epidemiological models are debated; and WhatsApp where we have drinks with friends.
Amazon Launches Business Selling Automated Checkout to Retailers
March 10th, 2020Amazon calls it: Just Walk Out: Just Walk Out technology enables shoppers to simply enter a store, grab what they want, and just go. Born from years of experience at Amazon Go, Just Walk Out uses a combination of technologies to eliminate checkout lines. We now offer retailers the ability to leverage this technology in […]
U.S. Navy Robot Submarine Would Be Able to Kill Without Human Control
March 9th, 2020Via: New Scientist: The US Navy is quietly developing armed robot submarines controlled by onboard artificial intelligence. The vessels could potentially kill without explicit human control. The Office of Naval Research is carrying out the project, known as CLAWS, which it describes in budget documents as an autonomous undersea weapon system for clandestine use. CLAWS […]
Video Content Producers Increasingly Trying to Work Around YouTube Censorship
February 25th, 2020Here are three videos in a row that I just watched with people trying to dance around YouTube’s censorship and demonetization systems. In the first one, Dana Ashlie goes as far as showing a white board to convey a glossary of terms!
Counter Drone SWAT Team
February 22nd, 2020Via: Breaking Defense: Sometimes, when lives are at stake, even Silicon Valley can’t innovate fast enough. That’s why the director of the Defense Digital Service, Brett Goldstein, has started forming rapid-response “SWAT teams” drawing on the Defense Department’s in-house talent. The first such team that DDS director Brett Goldstein has created – pulling together both […]
Tesla Autopilot Tricked Into Accelerating from 35 to 85 MPH by Speed Limit Sign Modified with Two Inches of Tape
February 21st, 2020Via: MIT Technology Review: Hackers have manipulated multiple Tesla cars into speeding up by 50 miles per hour. The researchers fooled the car’s Mobileye EyeQ3 camera system by subtly altering a speed limit sign on the side of a road in a way that a person driving by would almost never notice. This demonstration from […]
Aided by Machine Learning, Scientists Find a Novel Antibiotic Able to Kill Superbugs in Mice
February 21st, 2020Via: STAT: A study published Thursday in the journal Cell describes how researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used machine learning to identify a molecule that appears capable of countering some of the world’s most formidable pathogens. When tested in mice, the molecule, dubbed halicin, effectively treated the gastrointestinal bug Clostridium difficile (C. diff), […]
How China Is Working to Quarantine the Truth About the Coronavirus
February 19th, 2020“Censorship, diversion, and lying.” Google’s core principals? *I crack myself up* This piece is useful in understanding state behavior, in general, and their large, lapdog media and social networking organizations. Via: DefenseOne: In its battle to contain the coronavirus, the Chinese government has undertaken a wide range of measures, from shutting down cities to using […]
Will Google’s Social Credit System Determine Your Future?
February 12th, 2020Via: Mercola: Google is the largest monopoly the world has ever seen, and its data-siphoning tentacles reach deep into our everyday lives, collecting data on every move you make and conversation you have, whether online or in the real world. … According to Fast Company, China’s social credit system is not entirely unique. “A parallel […]
