Archive for August, 2016
MIT and DARPA Pack Lidar Sensor Onto Single Chip
August 5th, 2016Via: IEEE: Applications such as autonomous vehicles and robotics heavily depend on lidar, and an expensive lidar module is a major obstacle to their use in commercial products. Our work at MIT’s Photonic Microsystems Group is trying to take these large, expensive, mechanical lidar systems and integrate them on a microchip that can be mass […]
British Woman Questioned After Being Seen Reading Book About Syria on Plane
August 4th, 2016Via: Guardian: Free-speech groups have condemned the detention of a British Muslim woman after a cabin-crew member reported her for “suspicious behaviour” while reading a book about Syrian culture on a flight to Turkey. Faizah Shaheen, a psychotherapist in Leeds, was detained by police at Doncaster airport on 25 July, on her return from her […]
Zika… Co-Factors
August 4th, 2016Via: Globe and Mail: Brazil’s Ministry of Health has launched an investigation into the cluster of babies born with brain defects linked to the Zika virus, after an expected “explosion” of cases across the country did not occur. The bulk of the cases of congenital Zika syndrome – fetal brain defects that sometimes cause microcephaly, […]
Sea Hunter Unmanned Sub Chaser Completes First Sea Trials
August 3rd, 2016Via: New Atlas: The Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) has completed its first round of sea trials, during which main contractor Leidos says it met or surpassed its performance goals. Co-sponsored by DARPA and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the autonomous 132-ft (42-m) trimaran, which is designed to track potentially hostile […]
Neural Dust
August 3rd, 2016Via: UC Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley engineers have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit-like device could monitor internal nerves, muscles or organs in real time. Because these batteryless sensors could also be used to stimulate nerves and muscles, the technology […]
Private Company Wins U.S. Clearance to Fly to the Moon
August 3rd, 2016…including cremated human remains? Via: Reuters: A Florida-based company won U.S. government permission on Wednesday to send a robotic lander to the moon next year, the firm’s founder said, marking the first time the United States has cleared a private space mission to fly beyond Earth’s orbit. The Federal Aviation Administration’s unprecedented go-ahead for the […]
Google’s Project Wing Delivery Drones to Be Tested in U.S.
August 3rd, 2016Via: Bloomberg: The proposed drone delivery service born in Google’s experimental labs will test its system at a U.S. site, the White House announced as part of an initiative to push research and safety measures for unmanned flight. … Project Wing’s test program will be the most significant drone delivery trial to date in the […]
Jeep Hackers Take Control of Steering and Braking Systems
August 3rd, 2016Via: The Verge: A pair of hackers have compromised their Jeep Cherokee, fooling the car into doing dangerous things like turning the steering wheel or activating the parking brake at highway speeds. It’s the same pair that hacked their Jeep remotely last year. But, because this version of the hack requires physical access to the […]
Armed Man Busted at Trump Tower After Secret Service Calls Cops
August 3rd, 2016Via: New York Post: A man is in custody after police responded to a call about someone showing up with a gun at Trump Tower Tuesday night. The Secret Service asked for NYPD assistance after stopping the man at the building on Fifth Avenue by E. 56th St. just after 10 p.m., officials said. Police […]
MIAMI: AERIAL ORGANOPHOSPHATE SPRAYING
August 3rd, 2016In Miami? Run. Also, if anyone knows the name of the firm that’s doing the spraying, let me know. Naled: Inert Ingredients are in most pesticide applications and naled is no exception. Caroline Cox from the Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) lists solvents in Dibrom that are listed as “inert ingredients”: Napthaline: which […]
