Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
“Scientists Have Created the First-Ever Living Robots That Can Reproduce”
November 30th, 2021What could possibly go wrong? In response to any ethical concerns the public might have, the team stress Xenobots are entirely contained in a lab, are easily extinguished, and are vetted by federal, state and institutional ethics experts. Via: Daily Mail: In a potential breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists have created the first-ever living robots […]
Zipline Starts First Commercial U.S. Drone Deliveries with Walmart Partnership in Arkansas
November 18th, 2021Small area, small payloads. Via: The Verge: Walmart and drone delivery company Zipline are launching a delivery service in Pea Ridge, Arkansas — the first commercial drone delivery service offered by Zipline in the US. Customers will be able to choose from “thousands of products,” though are restricted to health and wellness items like “over […]
Singapore’s Tech-Utopia Dream Is Turning Into a Surveillance State Nightmare
November 17th, 2021Oh sure. Via: Rest of World: “Our vision is for Singapore to be a Smart Nation: A nation where people live meaningful and fulfilled lives, enabled seamlessly by technology, offering exciting opportunities for all,” Lee said at the launch. “We should see it in our daily living, where networks of sensors and smart devices enable […]
Guns for Robodogs
October 13th, 2021Via: Caitlin Johnstone: At an exhibit booth in the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting and exhibition, Ghost Robotics (the military-friendly competitor to the better-known Boston Dynamics) proudly showed off a weapon that is designed to attach to its quadruped bots made by a company called SWORD Defense Systems. “The SWORD Defense Systems […]
Amazon’s Home Robot Can Follow You Around
September 28th, 2021Great! Via: USA Today: Amazon’s next big leap in hardware: a personal robot. On Tuesday, Amazon announced Astro, a home robot the company says can help owners keep up with tasks such as home monitoring or keeping in touch with family and friends.
Mossad Assassinated Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Using Remote-Controlled Machine Gun
September 19th, 2021Via: Business Insider: The “father” of Iran’s nuclear weapons program was at the top of Israel’s hit list for 14 years. On November 27 2020, after a failed attempt to kill him a decade earlier, the Mossad finally managed to assassinate Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Their weapon of choice? A remote-controlled machine gun that required no on-site […]
Biden’s Total Financial Surveillance
September 9th, 2021Via: Reason: Imagine living in a world where every one of your noncash financial transactions—a restaurant meal, a Venmo transfer to a friend, maybe some bitcoin bought on the dips—was automatically reported to a beefed-up, audit-hungry IRS. That dystopia will become a reality if President Joe Biden gets his way. Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, […]
Robocop Is Here: Singapore Deploys Robots To Detect “Undesirable Behavior” Including Groups Of “More Than Five People”
September 6th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: The robot(s), called Xavier, will weave its way autonomously through the crowds to detect “undesirable social behaviors” including: Congregation of more than five people (in line with prevailing Safe Management Measures) Smoking in prohibited areas Illegal hawking Improperly parked bicycles within HDB Hub Motorized active mobility devices and motorcycles on footpaths Upon detecting […]
Elon Musk Claims Tesla Will Build Humanoid Robot
August 20th, 2021This was very cringe inducing. Via: Cnet: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday unveiled a humanoid robot called the Tesla Bot that runs on the same AI used by Tesla’s fleet of autonomous vehicles. A functioning version of the robot didn’t make an appearance during Musk’s reveal, though a slightly bizarre dance by a performer […]
‘Tortured Phrases’ Give Away Fabricated Research Papers
August 8th, 2021Long ago, my wife had a student who wrote, “Auspicious lizard,” when she was actually trying to express, “Lucky dragon.” Anytime we come across tortured phrases we mention the famous, “Auspicious lizard.” Via: Nature: In April 2021, a series of strange phrases in journal articles piqued the interest of a group of computer scientists. The […]
