Archive for September, 2016
Pittsburgh: Fears of Uber’s Human Drivers Become a Reality
September 14th, 2016Obviously, the mass deployment of this technology is still at least a few years out, but I’d be very surprised if it didn’t happen within a decade in major cities. I think LIDAR will have to be used. Currently, LIDAR is very expensive and cumbersome. Once the MIT/DARPA LIDAR-on-a-chip gadget emerges in bulk, watch out. […]
HUD Video of Auto-GCAS Saving Unconscious F-16 Pilot
September 13th, 2016Via: Aviation Week: This newly declassified video footage from the head-up-display of a U.S. Air Force Arizona Air National Guard F-16 records the dramatic moment when its unconscious pilot is saved from certain death by the aircraft’s Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto-GCAS).
Lawmaker Issues Subpoena to FBI for Clinton Probe Records
September 13th, 2016Via: The Olympian: A senior House Republican on Monday escalated the GOP’s battle with the FBI over its decision not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email system, serving a top FBI official with a subpoena for the investigation’s full case file. The move during a congressional hearing […]
Wells Fargo Exec Who Oversaw Fake Customer Accounts Scam Gets $125 Million Golden Parachute
September 13th, 2016Via: Raw Story: Wouldn’t it be nice to be axed from your job because you helped your employer get smacked with a massive $185 million fine — and still walk away with a payday of $125 million? Fortune reports that Carrie Tolstedt, the executive in charge of the Wells Fargo unit that opened more than […]
How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
September 12th, 2016Via: New York Times: The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to downplay the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show. The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and published Monday in […]
Trump Would Spend Hundreds of Billions More on Military
September 11th, 2016[???] Via: Reuters: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s U.S. military buildup plan would cost hundreds of billions of dollars – but with no apparent strategy, defense experts from across the political spectrum said on Thursday. “I haven’t seen any kind of strategy,” said William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center […]
Hillary Clinton Collapses, Carried Away from 9/11 Ceremony
September 11th, 2016More like dragged. Watch her feet. Wow. That was a bad one. Via: Zdenek Gazda: Hillary Clinton 9/11 NYC pic.twitter.com/q9YnsjTxss — Zdenek Gazda (@zgazda66) September 11, 2016 Backup of video:
China Will Resurrect The World’s Largest Plane
September 11th, 2016Via: Popular Science: On August 30, members of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AICC) and the Antonov Corporation, the leading Ukrainian aviation company, signed an agreement to restart production of the AN-225, the world’s largest cargo aircraft.
Thousands Protest North Dakota Pipeline
September 9th, 2016Via: CBC: Thousands of people have joined the Standing Rock Sioux Nation’s fight against construction of a contentious oil pipeline, a showdown Indigenous leaders in North Dakota warn won’t end anytime soon. They’re opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a multimillion-dollar project that’s supposed to transport light sweet crude oil from the Bakken oilfield near […]
India: World’s Largest General Strike
September 9th, 2016Via: Alternet: Trade unions leaders are reticent to say how many people struck work on September 2, 2016. They simply cannot offer a firm number. But they do say that the strike – the seventeenth general strike since India adopted its new economic policy in 1991 – has been the largest ever. The corporate news […]
