Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Bricklaying Robot Set a New Lay Speed Record
June 6th, 2020Via: Popular Mechanics: A brick-laying robot named Hadrian X has broken its own record for speed, which is now up to 200 concrete blocks per hour—with the next landmark set at 240. (Its sibling robot Hadrian 112 aims to reach 1,000.)
Google Sued for Secretly Amassing Vast Trove of User Data
June 3rd, 2020Via: Bloomberg: Google surreptitiously amasses billions of bits of information –every day — about internet users even if they opt out of sharing their information, three consumers alleged in a proposed class action lawsuit. “Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their […]
This Company Will Point Satellites at Earth and Use them to Look for UFOs
May 30th, 2020Via: Vice: Hypergiant was founded just two years ago, in 2018, but the company has already worked with the likes of Booz Allen Hamilton, Shell, NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Department of Homeland Security. … “UAPs are the X at the cross center.”
Prototype Robot that Carries Out Throat Swab Tests for Coronavirus Developed by Danish Researchers
May 28th, 2020Hmm hmm. Via: Daily Mail: A robot that is able to take throat swabs from coronavirus patients using a 3D printed arm was developed by a team of researchers from Denmark in just four weeks. The University of Southern Denmark says the world’s first fully automated throat swab robot will be be able to test […]
Meet Ella: New Zealand Police Unveil First Artificial Intelligence Officer
May 26th, 2020#nottheonion Via: New Zealand Herald: The police have unveiled their first AI officer, with hopes she’ll soon be smiling and blinking out of screens in stations all around New Zealand. Ella, the artificial intelligence cop at the centre of the police’s new digital services, was revealed at the police national headquarters in Wellington this morning. […]
Precomputed Contact Chaining: Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network
May 26th, 2020Via: Wired: If anyone could become an intelligence target, Mainway should try to get a head start on everyone. … The NSA had built a live, ever-updating social graph of the US.
USS Portland Fires Laser Weapon, Downs Drone in First At-Sea Test
May 22nd, 2020Via: U.S. Naval Institute: Amphibious ship USS Portland (LPD-27) shot down a drone with a laser weapon during a first-of-its-kind at-sea test of the Navy’s high-energy laser weapon system. The Navy is currently developing and testing a portfolio of laser weapons, some of which are more powerful but only suited for ships with greater power-generation […]
Bill Gates and the Population Control Grid
May 17th, 2020Via: Corbett Report: The takeover of public health that we have documented in How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health and the remarkably brazen push to vaccinate everyone on the planet that we have documented in Bill Gates’ Plan to Vaccinate the World was not, at base, about money. The unimaginable wealth that Gates has accrued […]
McConnell Patriot Act Expansion, “Would Explicitly Permit the FBI to Collect Records of Americans’ Internet Search and Browsing Histories Without a Warrant”
May 13th, 2020I could link to dozens or hundreds of posts. Talk about beating a dead horse… For decades. Anyway, here’s one from just a few years ago: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants …if you think that place is only used to store information gleaned from taps on foreigners, I’ve got a bridge to sell […]
“Big Doctor”: Fever-Reading Drones Just The Beginning
May 4th, 2020Via: Miami Herald: Last month, police departments in Daytona Beach and Connecticut unveiled what was initially touted as a potential new tool against a pandemic: drones capable of taking a person’s temperature from 300 feet in the air. Both agencies quickly backtracked on using the machines to track the novel coronavirus after backlash from civil […]
