Archive for June, 2016
Switzerland: Gotthard Base Tunnel Ritual
June 16th, 2016Wow! You might want to bookmark this one. Via: Independent: Switzerland has opened up the world’s biggest railway tunnel, 17 years and £8bn after it committed to break the record. It held a celebration for the completion of the 35-mile Gotthard Base Tunnel, which runs through the Alps. Crowds gathered to celebrate the tunnel’s record-breaking […]
British MP Murdered
June 16th, 2016Fascinating: Poll Reveals 10-Point Swing Towards Brexit With A Week To Go And then… Cue lone nut. I’ll be very surprised if the Brexit is allowed to happen. My guess is that anything and everything would be done to prevent it. Via: Guardian: The grieving husband of Jo Cox, the Labour MP shot and stabbed […]
Wal-Mart Experimenting With Robotic Shopping Cart for Stores
June 16th, 2016Alternate headline: Americans Too Obese to Push Their Chinese Crap Around Walmart and Out to Their Cars. Via: Bloomberg: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is working with a robotics company to develop a shopping cart that helps customers find items on their lists and saves them from pushing a heavy cart through a sprawling store and parking […]
New Robot Picks Individual Items from Warehouse Shelves
June 15th, 2016Via: MIT Technology Review: A German firm called Magazino believes it has built a better warehouse robot: the Toru. Unlike the robots used in Amazon warehouses that help locate items for shipping by moving entire shelves, Toru robots can pick up individual items. “The [Amazon] approach saves a lot of human work spent on walking […]
FBI Says Utility Pole Surveillance Cam Locations Must Be Kept Secret
June 15th, 2016Via: Ars Technica: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has successfully convinced a federal judge to block the disclosure of where the bureau has attached surveillance cams on Seattle utility poles. The decision Monday stopping Seattle City Light from divulging the information was expected, as claims of national security tend to trump the public’s right […]
San Antonio Man Patents Stirling Engine Range Extender for Electric Cars
June 15th, 2016My guess is that this is the last time we’ll hear about it. Via: KHOU: We’ve heard rumors for years about engines capable of getting 100 miles to a gallon of fuel, but the reality is much closer than you might think. Josh “Mac” MacDowell says he not only has the engine, he has come […]
Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records
June 15th, 2016Via: Government Executive: The U.S. Air Force has lost records concerning 100,000 investigations into everything from workplace disputes to fraud. A database that hosts files from the Air Force’s inspector general and legislative liaison divisions became corrupted last month, destroying data created between 2004 and now, service officials said. Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed […]
DDOS on Cryptogon Underway
June 14th, 2016Update: Latest Attack Last night’s antics. — Update: Some of the Attacking Machines People are saying that other alternative news sites have recently been attacked. Here are some of the IPs that attacked Cryptogon, if any other admins was to see if they were hit by the same IPs. This isn’t a complete list at […]
GCHQ Spy Programme with Secret Link to Scottish Police
June 12th, 2016Via: The National: SECRET reports leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed how UK mass surveillance of phone and internet activity was accessed by Scottish police forces. The documents confirm that a little-known policing body called the Scottish Recording Centre (SRC) was given access to information logs that include millions of communications data, including […]
Orlando: Mass Shooting at Nightclub
June 12th, 2016Judge Napolitano: “Nobody Died Until 05:13 in the Morning” — Gun Store Owner: We Called FBI Before Orlando Shooting Via: CBS: The co-owner of a Florida gun store says his employees contacted law enforcement before the Orlando shooting after gunman Omar Mateen attempted to purchase body armor and ammunition. Robbie Abell, co-owner of Lotus Gunworks, […]
