Archive for September, 2016
North Carolina: State of Emergency Declared After Second Night of Riots
September 22nd, 2016Via: BBC: The North Carolina governor has declared a state of emergency in the city of Charlotte, as unrest continues over the police killing of a black man. Violence erupted for a second night after Keith Lamont Scott was shot dead by a black officer on Tuesday. One protester is in a critical condition after […]
George H.W. Bush Said That He Will Vote for Hillary Clinton
September 21st, 2016Via: CNN: Former President George H.W. Bush said Monday that he will vote for Hillary Clinton in November, according to sources close to the 41st President…
Researchers Hack Tesla Model S with Remote Attack
September 20th, 2016Via: PC World: Tesla Motors is considered one of the most cybersecurity-conscious car manufacturers in the world—among other things, it has a bug bounty program. But that doesn’t mean the software in its cars is free of security flaws. Researchers from Chinese technology company Tencent found a series of vulnerabilities that, when combined, allowed them […]
Power Out Again
September 20th, 2016I was just working on an off grid proposal for a solar customer… When the power went out. It’s a sign! Anyway, I’m taking the night off from Cryptogon. Green tea: Check Phone state of charge 54%: Check Audiobook loaded on phone: Check
Interoceptive Ability Predicts Survival on a London Trading Floor
September 20th, 2016Via: Nature: Interoception is the sensing of physiological signals originating inside the body, such as hunger, pain and heart rate. People with greater sensitivity to interoceptive signals, as measured by, for example, tests of heart beat detection, perform better in laboratory studies of risky decision-making. However, there has been little field work to determine if […]
Abu Dhabi: Solar Power at 2.42 Cents a Kilowatt-Hour
September 20th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. Via: Bloomberg: Two companies offered to build the cheapest solar power plant on record in Abu Dhabi, reflecting declining costs for photovoltaic cells and cheaper financing for clean-energy projects. Government-owned Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority received a record-low bid of 2.42 cents a kilowatt-hour for […]
U.S. Government Will Release Policy on Autonomous Vehicles Today
September 20th, 2016Via: Cnet: On Tuesday, the government will issue federal policy, comprising a four-section package to help facilitate the “responsible” testing and deployment of self-driving vehicles. The policy will include a 15-point “Safety Assessment,” which the government has asked automakers to sign and submit when an autonomous car is believed to be ready for public roads. […]
ALTA 8 – Moving Pictures
September 19th, 2016When I was in photography school more than a couple of decades ago, I used to hang out with the extreme slow mo and bullet-slicing-playing-cards-in-half weirdos. We used to wonder what tech would exist in 20 years along these lines, and we all chuckled and agreed that film would mostly be gone… Nobody guessed that […]
“Disruptive Tidal Wave”: Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All U.S. Jobs by 2021
September 19th, 2016Via: Guardian: By 2021, robots will have eliminated 6% of all jobs in the US, starting with customer service representatives and eventually truck and taxi drivers. That’s just one cheery takeaway from a report released by market research company Forrester this week. These robots, or intelligent agents, represent a set of AI-powered systems that can […]
More than 800 Immigrants “Mistakenly” Granted Citizenship
September 19th, 2016Mmm hmm. Via: AP: The U.S. government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud who had pending deportation orders, according to an internal Homeland Security audit released Monday. The Homeland Security Department’s inspector general found that the immigrants used […]
