Archive for September, 2018
IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color
September 6th, 2018Via: The Intercept: In the decade after the 9/11 attacks, the New York City Police Department moved to put millions of New Yorkers under constant watch. Warning of terrorism threats, the department created a plan to carpet Manhattan’s downtown streets with thousands of cameras and had, by 2008, centralized its video surveillance operations to a […]
Atomic Antenna
September 6th, 2018Via: MIT Technology Review: Using a laser to detect the effect of radio waves on certain atoms is the basis for a new kind of antenna that resists interference and can receive a wider range of signals.
Jaguar Will Buy 5 GWh of Cylindrical Batteries Per Year from Samsung for Upcoming EVs
September 5th, 2018Via: Electrek: Jaguar is planning to launch new electric vehicles and it could be in a much bigger way than with the new I-Pace. The British automaker has reportedly signed an important 5 GWh cylindrical battery cell contract with Samsung for upcoming electric vehicles. The Korea Times reported that Samsung SDI won the contract to […]
Tech Titans Plot Their Doomsday Escape to New Zealand Luxury Bunkers
September 5th, 2018Via: Bloomberg: Years of doomsday talk at Silicon Valley dinner parties has turned to action. In recent months, two 150-ton survival bunkers journeyed by land and sea from a Texas warehouse to the shores of New Zealand, where they’re buried 11 feet underground. Seven Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have purchased bunkers from Rising S Co. and […]
Emirates Jumbo Jet Quarantined at New York’s JFK with ‘Multiple’ Sick Passengers
September 5th, 2018Via: CNBC: Federal health authorities and local police quarantined an Emirates Airline jumbo jet Wednesday morning in New York after passengers were reported ill on the flight from Dubai. The plane landed at 9:12 a.m. at John F. Kennedy International Airport with “multiple sick passengers,” according to the Port Authority of New York and New […]
Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Next Level
September 4th, 2018Via: New York Times: A state’s capacity to spy on its citizens has grown exponentially in recent years as new technology has meant more aspects of our lives can be observed, recorded and analyzed than ever before. At the same time, much to the frustration of intelligence agencies around the world, so has the ability […]
Robot Boat Sails Into History by Finishing Atlantic Crossing
September 4th, 2018Via: ABC: All summer, the small boat drifted steadily eastward across the churning North Atlantic until it neared the Irish coast, where it made history by becoming the first unmanned sailboat to cross the Atlantic. The SB Met, built by Norwegian company Offshore Sensing AS, reached the finish line of the Microtransat Challenge for robotic […]
Global Debt Soars, Along with Fears of Crisis Ahead
September 4th, 2018Via: Savannah Morning News: Ten years after the worst financial panic since the 1930s, growing debt burdens in key developing economies are fueling fears of a new crisis that could spread far beyond the disruption sweeping Turkey. The loss of investor confidence in the Turkish lira, which has surrendered more than 40 percent of its […]
Google and Mastercard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales in Stores
September 3rd, 2018Via: Bloomberg: For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for. But most of […]
‘Strange Disappearance’ of WikiLeaks Consultant in Norway
September 3rd, 2018Via: Deutsche Welle: WikiLeaks has raised concern after Arjen Kamphuis, an associate of founder Julian Assange, went missing in Norway. The cybersecurity expert was last seen in northern Norway on August 20.
