Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Pizza Hut: Eye-Tracking Menu
November 30th, 2014Via: Engadget: Pizza Hut wants to help you skip your super-ego middleman and just let your id order that triple-cheese bacon pepperoni pie directly. It’s “Subconscious Menu” uses Tobii’s eye-tracking tech to figure out which of 20 different ingredients you’re looking at on a screen (see the video below). It then takes all of three […]
Jeb Bush’s Four Mysterious Companies Share The Same Address And Have Never Done Any Known Business
November 30th, 2014Via: Think Progress: Jeb Bush and his capital investment company have set up several companies that, despite being registered to his office and being approved for “any and all lawful business,” have seemingly not yet done anything. A ThinkProgress review of corporate registration records with the Florida Department of State revealed several companies registered in […]
Who’s Making Money Off The War On Drugs?
November 28th, 2014Via: AJ+:
Flying Robots to Start Serving in Restaurants by End-2015
November 27th, 2014Nothing says “romantic dinner” like the ceaseless din of large, autonomous quadcopters buzzing around in a closed space. Via: Channel News Asia: Restaurant-goers in Singapore can expect to be served by autonomous flying robots – the world’s first commercial attempt – by the end of next year. Infinium-Serve, the autonomous flying robotic waiters, will be […]
Oil Down 6.88% On OPEC Strategy to Destroy U.S. Shale Business
November 27th, 2014Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I’ll be dusting off some capital for an eventual long side play. However, there’s a part of me, a gut feeling, that thinks that the shale apocalypse will just continue on somehow. Crude Oil Jan 15 (CLF15.NYM) -NY Mercantile 68.62 Down […]
OPEC Policy Ensures U.S. Shale Crash, Russian Tycoon Says
November 27th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: OPEC policy on crude production will ensure a crash in the U.S. shale industry, a Russian oil tycoon said. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries kept output targets unchanged at a meeting in Vienna today even after this year’s slump in the oil price caused by surging supply from U.S shale fields. American […]
Solar and Wind Energy Start to Win on Price vs. Conventional Fuels
November 26th, 2014Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. Via: New York Times: For the solar and wind industries in the United States, it has been a long-held dream: to produce energy at a cost equal to conventional sources like coal and natural gas. That day appears to be dawning. The cost of providing electricity […]
Microsoft Now Has Robot Security Guards
November 26th, 2014Via: The Daily Dot: Robots are increasingly replacing humans in a variety of mundane tasks, like bolting a car together or making lollipops, but now they are moving into the security business. Microsoft recently installed a fleet of 5-feet-tall, 300-pound robots to protect its Silicon Valley campus. The robots are packed with HD security cameras […]
This Is What’s Happening In Mexico Right Now
November 26th, 2014Via: YouTube: Direct From Mexico City: November 20, 2014. Protesters clash with police outside the airport and at the Zocalo. Protesters are demanding the government account for the kidnapping of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School. From AJ+ Video Journalist Jorge Villalpando Background: Dozens of Students Missing in Mexico After Police Fire on Protest
Australia: Networks Told They Need to Play Fair with Solar Customers, or Die
November 24th, 2014Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. I’m working with a Cryptogon reader in New Zealand to get a solar power system installed at her property. Below is an email that I wrote to her about the New Zealand electricity cartel’s absurd and futile resistance to solar. In short, the greedier they are […]
