Archive for January, 2014
U.S. Army Tests Fully Autonomous Convoy
January 31st, 2014Via: Wired: U.S. Army convoys will soon be able to roll into even the roughest of unfriendly foreign urban areas and combat zones without the worry of loss of life, thanks to new technology that will make large vehicles fully autonomous. In demonstrations earlier this month at Fort Hood, Texas, the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, […]
“The Economic Picture Is Looking Brighter”: Nearly Half of America Lives Paycheck-to-Paycheck
January 31st, 2014Recovery! Via: Time: But as evidenced by a report out Thursday from the Corporation for Enterprise Development, nearly half of Americans are living in a state of “persistent economic insecurity,” that makes it “difficult to look beyond immediate needs and plan for a more secure future.” In other words, too many of us are living […]
Third Banker Suicided
January 31st, 2014We have Gabriel Magee and William ‘Bill’ Broeksmit from a couple of days ago and now Mike Dueker. Any more? Via: Bloomberg: Mike Dueker, the chief economist at Russell Investments, was found dead at the side of a highway that leads to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s […]
Google: Lots of Android Phones Taking Video in the Same Area—Alert the Cops?
January 30th, 2014Via: Phandroid: Excerpt from US Patent #20140025755 “When there are at least a given number of video clips with similar time stamps and geolocation stamps uploaded to a repository, it is inferred that an event of interest has likely occurred, and a notification signal is transmitted (e.g., to a law enforcement agency, to a news […]
New 3D Printer Can Print in Carbon Fiber
January 30th, 2014Via: Popular Mechanics: Gregory Mark co-owns Aeromotions, which builds computer-controlled racecar wings. To make those wings both strong and lightweight, they use carbon fiber. No surprise there—it’s the material of choice for many advanced motorsports parts. The problem is that making custom racecar parts out of carbon fiber is daunting. The only real method available […]
Google and DeepMind Technologies
January 30th, 2014Via: MIT Technology Review: How much are a dozen deep-learning researchers worth? Apparently, more than $400 million. This week, Google reportedly paid that much to acquire DeepMind Technologies, a startup based in London that had one of the biggest concentrations of researchers anywhere working on deep learning, a relatively new field of artificial intelligence research […]
Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
January 30th, 2014Thank you. MH $20 JM $25 Eileen $75 JM asked me to mention freestateproject.org and nhlibertyforum.com.
Deadly Ice Storm Turns Atlanta Into Parking Lot, Strands Thousands
January 29th, 2014Via: Reuters: A rare ice storm turned Atlanta into a slippery mess on Wednesday, stranding thousands for hours on frozen roadways and raising questions about how city leaders prepared for and handled the cold snap that slammed the U.S. South. The storm, which has killed at least seven people, on Tuesday swept over a region […]
Two Top American Bankers Commit Suicide in London
January 29th, 2014Oh sure. Via: Daily Mail: Two top ranking American bankers working in senior positions in London have committed suicide in the space of two days. Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old JP Morgan bank executive, died early this morning after he jumped 500ft from the top of the bank’s European headquarters. His body was discovered on the […]
“What have you heard about Barry Seal having flown a get-away plane out of Dallas after the Kennedy assassination?”
January 29th, 2014Via: Mad Cow Productions: Is there evidence that there was a get-away plane? The answer is yes.
