Archive for September, 2015
“Google Self-Driving Car Patent Reveals How You’ll Let AI Take the Wheel”
September 15th, 2015Via: The Verge: A new patent from Google published today has some fascinating insight into how the company thinks that production of self-driving cars of the future might take control from the drivers they’re shuttling around — and how they could give it back, too. The description of “Google Chauffeur,” spotted by Stanford’s Reilly Brennan, […]
HP Will Cut as Many as 30,000 More Jobs After Split
September 15th, 2015Via: ReCode: Hewlett-Packard will shed as many as 30,000 more jobs as it splits into two companies, the company said at a meeting with analysts in San Jose, Calif. Tim Stonsifer, the incoming CFO of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, the company devoted to corporate computing that will emerge from the split on Nov. 1, announced the reductions […]
Russian Gas Stations Ordered To Install Electric Chargers by November 1, 2016 [???]
September 15th, 2015This is absolutely bizarre. Via: Gas2: Let’s get a little perspective on the electric car market in Russia at the moment. First, there are no government incentives that encourage a person to buy an electric or plug-in car. Second, there are fewer than 500 such cars in the entire country. … If previously the number […]
Federal Court Invalidates 11-Year-Old FBI Gag Order on National Security Letter Recipient Nicholas Merrill
September 15th, 2015Via Calyx Institute: A federal district court has ordered the FBI to lift an eleven-year- old gag order imposed on Nicholas Merrill forbidding him from speaking about a National Security Letter (“NSL”) that the FBI served on him in 2004. The ruling marks the first time that an NSL gag order has been lifted in […]
AUSTRIAN ARMY DEPLOYED TO SECURE BORDER
September 14th, 2015Via: France24: Austria announced on Monday it would dispatch the armed forces to guard its eastern frontier, following Germany’s lead in reimposing Europe’s internal border controls after thousands of migrants streamed across its frontier from Hungary on foot. Austrian officials said they were left with no choice after Germany’s decision on Sunday, which effectively suspends […]
China: Head Transplant Team Selected for 2017 Operation
September 14th, 2015Body from executed prisoner? Via: Independent: The likely date and location for the first-ever human head transplant have been set, after the controversial Italian doctor that will lead the surgery said that he has selected his team of surgeons. Radical Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero has drawn fascination and criticism after he announced plans to cut […]
U.S. and Russian Forces in Syria Aren’t Talking to Each Other
September 14th, 2015Via: Defense One: In Syria, where the U.S. is leading an air campaign against Islamic State targets and Russian military advisors are arriving to help the Assad regime, the two militaries aren’t talking to each other.
Oculus, the Closed All-Seeing Eye at Ground Zero, to “Open” Each Year on 9/11
September 14th, 2015Via: YouTube:
California Fires
September 14th, 2015Via: Daily Mail: There were post-apocalyptic scenes in California on Sunday night as raging wildfires blitzed 115,000 acres, destroying at least 400 homes and forcing thousands of terrified residents to flee. As many as 5,000 firefighters were tackling two mammoth blazes that have torn across the state, with entire towns evacuated. Lake and Napa counties […]
“In Japan, the Rise of the Machines Solves Labor and Productivity”
September 13th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: The rise of the machines in the workplace has U.S. and European experts predicting massive unemployment and tumbling wages. Not in Japan, where robots are welcomed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government as an elegant way to handle the country’s aging populace, shrinking workforce and public aversion to immigration. Japan is already a […]
