Archive for July, 2019
Giant Batteries and Cheap Solar Power Are Shoving Fossil Fuels Off the Grid
July 12th, 2019If the electricity from solar plus storage is, “Cheaper than any power generated with fossil fuel,” why aren’t these systems shooting up like weeds? The availability of batteries is the bottleneck. We’ve heard about Tesla’s rumored 1GWh energy storage system and things like the 800MWh system below. This is a drop in the bucket, in […]
Epstein Begs Judge For House Arrest At $77 Million, 21K Sqft Mansion With ‘Artificial Eyeball Wall’
July 12th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: Jeffrey Epstein’s attorneys have informed Judge Richard M. Berman that their client wants out of his 100 sqft holding cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in lower Manhattan he’s been in since his arrest last Saturday at Teterboro airport. Instead, the registered sex-offender and self-admitted pedophile would agree to house arrest at […]
Suzanne Eaton: U.S. Molecular Biologist Found Murdered in Nazi Bunker on Crete
July 12th, 2019Via: Independent: The body of an American scientist has been found in a bunker used by the Nazis during the Second World War on the Greek island of Crete. Suzanne Eaton died as a result of a “criminal act”, says Antonis Papadomanolakis, a state coroner who examined her body. A post-mortem concluded the molecular biologist […]
AI Poker Bot Is First to Beat Professionals at Multiplayer Game
July 11th, 2019Via: Nature: Machines have raised the stakes once again. A superhuman poker-playing bot called Pluribus has beaten top human professionals at six-player no-limit Texas hold’em poker, the most popular variant of the game. It is the first time that an artificial-intelligence (AI) program has beaten elite human players at a game with more than two […]
Mass Exodus from Tesla’s Autopilot Team
July 10th, 2019Definitely see, Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars. A friend of mine, who happens to be involved with AI research, completely dismissed Musk’s claims that Tesla is anywhere near to having a full self driving capability. And now… Via: ZeroHedge: Several key members of Tesla’s Autopilot team have left the company together […]
Parents Are Hiring ‘Screen-Free Coaches’ to Help Keep Kids Off Their Devices
July 10th, 2019“Is there a ball somewhere? Throw the ball… kick the ball.” Via: Global News: It seems like some parents have forgotten what parenting was like before smartphones and tablets. According to a recent article in the New York Times, some parents in the U.S. are hiring screen-free parenting coaches to help them raise phone-free children. […]
Desperate to Get Rid of Homeless People, Businesses Using Prickly Plants, Fences, Barriers
July 10th, 2019Via: Los Angeles Times: L.A. has struggled to stymie the growing number of obstructions that residents and business owners are creating to target homeless people. There are now about 59,000 people without homes in L.A. County. Within the city of Los Angeles, the population soared 16% this year to more than 36,000 — the majority […]
Ship Seized in Record $1.3 Billion Cocaine Bust Belongs to JPMorgan
July 10th, 2019Fascinating. Via: ZeroHedge: Today we learn that the vessel, the MSC Gayane, is owned by JP Morgan, and has been seized by US authorities according to the Wall Street Journal. The Gayane is the world’s second-largest container ship – operated by Switzerland-based Mediterranean Shipping Co, MSC.
Ross Perot Dead at 89
July 9th, 2019Via: Reuters: H. Ross Perot, the feisty Texas technology billionaire who rattled U.S. politics with two independent presidential campaigns in the 1990s that struck a chord with disgruntled voters, died on Tuesday at the age of 89, his family said.
New Zealand Gun Owners Refusing to Turn Over Firearms to Government
July 8th, 2019Via: Reason: Once again, responding to a horrendous crime by inflicting knee-jerk, authoritarian restrictions on innocent people proves to be an ineffective means of convincing people to obey. Specifically, New Zealand’s government—which also stepped up censorship and domestic surveillance after bloody attacks on two Christchurch mosques earlier this year—is running into stiff resistance to new […]
