Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Biology: “Something That Can Be Digitally Manipulated”
October 2nd, 2019It’s easy to laugh at the barking insanity of these monsters, but at the same time, you probably know someone who spent their hard earned money to buy a “smart speaker” surveillance platform for their home. Via: CNBC: Brain inserts and carbon-absorbing bacteria aren’t just the fantasies of Silicon Valley’s richest executives, they’re also a […]
FAA Allows UPS to Expand Drone Deliveries in U.S.
October 2nd, 2019Via: CBS: UPS won government approval to operate a nationwide fleet of drones, which will allow the company to expand deliveries on hospital campuses and move it one step closer to making deliveries to consumers. Many regulatory obstacles remain, however, before UPS — or other operators who are testing drones — can fill the sky […]
This Robot Can Make 300 Pizzas In An Hour
October 2nd, 2019Via: TribLive: Watch out pizza world: this pizza robot could shake things up. Seattle startup Picnic announced Tuesday that it has a developed a unit that can make 300 12-inch pizzas per hour and 180 18-inch pizzas per hour. While the pizzabot does its share of the work, dough preparation, sauce making and baking are […]
China: Fugitive On Run for 17 Years Found Living in Cave by Drone
September 30th, 2019Via: BBC: Chinese police have arrested a fugitive who’d been on the run for 17 years, after they used drones to spot his cave hideout. The 63-year old, named Song Jiang by the police, had been jailed for trafficking women and children but escaped from a prison camp in 2002. He had been living in […]
China: New ‘Super Camera’ Can Instantly Pinpoint Specific Targets Among Tens of Thousands of People
September 26th, 2019Would you like an anti-surveillance face mask or T-shirt to go with that? Via: ABC: Scientists have unveiled a 500 megapixel cloud camera system in China that they say is capable of capturing the facial details of each individual in a crowd of tens of thousands of people, raising fears facial recognition monitoring could soon […]
BostonDynamics Atlas Gymnastic Routine
September 25th, 2019Via: BostonDynamics: Atlas uses its whole body — legs, arms, torso — to perform a sequence of dynamic maneuvers that form a gymnastic routine. We created the maneuvers using new techniques that streamline the development process. First, an optimization algorithm transforms high-level descriptions of each maneuver into dynamically-feasible reference motions. Then Atlas tracks the motions […]
“Robot Priests Can Bless You, Advise You, and Even Perform Your Funeral”
September 22nd, 2019You head on down to your local Reverend Wayne’s Pearly Gates franchise, hoping for a pleasant sermon from a robot that looks like it stepped out of Ghost in the Shell, but you find that there have been… Upgrades. Here’s Geordie Rose talking about, “These things that we’re summoning into the world now.” Via: Vox: […]
How The Sabbatian-Frankist Death Cult Runs The World
September 20th, 2019Book: The Trigger: The Lie That Changed the World by David Icke Via: David Icke:
Smart Faucets And Toilets Use Alexa To Listen To Your Conversations
September 19th, 2019haha Oh sure! Via: MassPrivatel: It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone’s conversations, but that is just what Delta Faucet and Kohler have done. Delta Faucet’s “Voice IQ” takes advantage of where lots of people like to congregate and turns it into […]
U.S. Drone Strike Kills 30 Pine Nut Farm Workers in Afghanistan
September 19th, 2019Via: Reuters: A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labor in the fields, officials said on Thursday. The attack on Wednesday night also injured 40 people after accidentally targeting farmers and laborers who had just finished collecting pine nuts […]
