Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Want to Pay Cash? That’ll Cost You Extra
June 6th, 2024Via: Wall Street Journal: Paying with cash used to be a way to get a discount. These days it can often cost an extra $1 to $6—the sort of transaction fees once limited to swiping a credit card or using an out-of-network ATM. Reverse ATMs like those at Yankee Stadium are now common at cashless […]
“Tech is dead. I’m done.”
June 5th, 2024I’m not sure if this is satire or not, but it contains a lot of truth and his deadpan delivery is hilarious. Via: TechLead:
Kevin Knuth, Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Albany: Handheld Nuclear Fission Reactor to “Lure” UFOs
June 4th, 2024Keep in mind, long time CIA contractor, Garry Nolan, is listed as, “Executive Director of the Board,” on the Sol Foundation’s website. Via: The Sol Foundation:
Fusion Tech Finds Geothermal Energy Application
June 4th, 2024Via: IEEE: The upper 10 kilometers of the Earth’s crust contains vast geothermal reserves, essentially awaiting human energy consumption to begin to tap into its unstinting power output—which itself yields no greenhouse gasses. And yet, geothermal sources currently produce only three-tenths of one percent of the world’s electricity. This promising energy source has long been […]
Windows AI Feature that Screenshots Everything: A Security ‘Disaster’
June 3rd, 2024My commentary from from last month sums it up: This looks like a built-in retroactive surveillance feature that law enforcement and intelligence agencies will love. The article indicates that the “Recall” feature is activated by default, but also that it can apparently be turned off. Via: The Verge: Microsoft is about to launch a new […]
NYSE Technical Issue Caused Berkshire Hathaway to be Displayed Down 99%
June 3rd, 2024Update: ZeroHedge: About a dozen trades showed shares changed hands at $185.10 around 9:50 a.m., a discount of 99.97% to Friday’s closing price of $627,400. Wow! Next question: Who got them??? — Would someone with a real datafeed look at the 9:50am (1-minute) bar on Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK-A) and tell me what you see? […]
Brain Damage from Smartphones
June 1st, 2024This isn’t news to any of you at this point, but maybe it could come in handy if you’re trying to help someone deal with this, or warning someone with young children about the dangers of social media. I love the snowflakes going to “dumbphones” in an attempt to heal their dopamine addled brains. haha […]
Secrets from the Algorithm: Google Search’s Internal Engineering Documentation Has Leaked
May 30th, 2024Google Search is terrible. I stopped using it several years ago. I’m posting this mainly as an FYI for anyone out there who still cares about what Google may or may not be doing with search. Via: iPullRank: Google spokespeople have gone out their way to misdirect and mislead us on a variety of aspects […]
Neuroplatform: World’s First Online Platform to Access Biological Neurons in Vitro
May 28th, 2024Via: tom’s HARDWARE: A Swiss biocomputing startup has launched an online platform that provides remote access to 16 human brain organoids. FinalSpark claims its Neuroplatform is the world’s first online platform delivering access to biological neurons in vitro. Moreover, bioprocessors like this “consume a million times less power than traditional digital processors,” the company says.
Von der Leyen Vows To ‘Vaccinate’ EU Population Against Disinformation
May 28th, 2024Via: The People’s Voice: Von der Leyen Vows To ‘Vaccinate’ EU Population Against ‘Wrongthink’People in society who hold views that contradict the globalist narrative must have their minds “inoculated” against “wrongthink” according to European Commission President Ursula Von der LeyenSpeaking at the… pic.twitter.com/qICbZY8y6n — Camus (@newstart_2024) May 28, 2024 As technology evolves, we need to […]
