Archive for July, 2018
Defcon Hackers Find It’s Very Easy to Break Voting Machines
July 31st, 2018Just in case you haven’t known this for decades… Via: cnet: “The exposure of those devices to the people who do bug bounties or actually look at these kind of devices has been fairly limited,” said Brian Knopf, an internet of things security researcher for Neustar, a security analysis company. “And so Defcon is a […]
Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind
July 30th, 2018Via: Bloomberg: Han is director of Tail Project, a six-year-old company based near Tokyo that specializes in cleaning out and disposing of the property accumulated by the deceased, a service that’s increasingly in demand as Japan’s population ages and shrinks. For Han, today’s job is relatively simple. She and her crew of three started at […]
The World’s Only Homemade Spacesuit Is About To Get Its First Life-or-Death Test
July 29th, 2018Via: Medium: Cameron Smith has never been to space, but this autumn he’ll get close. In a few months, Smith and the small team of volunteers that comprise Pacific Spaceflight will travel to an undisclosed location on the West Coast where Smith will don a homemade spacesuit and attempt to pilot a hot air balloon […]
The $3 Billion Plan to Turn Hoover Dam Into a Giant Battery
July 29th, 2018Via: New York Times: Hoover Dam helped transform the American West, harnessing the force of the Colorado River — along with millions of cubic feet of concrete and tens of millions of pounds of steel — to power millions of homes and businesses. It was one of the great engineering feats of the 20th century. […]
Ford Starts Up $4B Autonomous Vehicle Unit
July 29th, 2018Via: Oilprice.com: While Ford has been emphasizing trucks and SUVs over passenger cars, that may soon be changing over to a new business model. On Tuesday, the Detroit automaker launched Ford Autonomous Vehicles LLC to accelerate the growth of its autonomous vehicle business and to capitalize on market opportunities. The new subsidiary will receive a […]
George H.W. Bush’s Former Doctor Possibly Murdered by Trained Killer
July 29th, 2018Via: Live5 News: It’s been a week since the fatal bicycle-to-bicycle drive-by shooting of Dr. Mark Hausknecht, a renowned cardiologist who treated former President George H.W. Bush. The Houston Police chief says his death was likely a targeted murder. The shooting happened near a Houston construction site; a worker there said crews had been using […]
Federal Air Marshals Wasting Time and Resources Monitoring Passengers Almost at Random
July 29th, 2018Obviously, the chances of this stopping a terrorist incident are somewhere between slim and none. So, if it’s not going to stop an incident, what is it going to do? Is the purpose of this to facilitate a “terrorist” incident, by distracting personnel away from actual threats? Hmm. Via: Boston Globe: Federal air marshals have […]
Quantum Computing: With Just Over 2000 Qubits, “You Can Crack Bitcoin”
July 28th, 2018Disclosure: I am long Quantum Resistant Ledger. — Via: IEEE Spectrum: In response to an audience question about the future of Bitcoin in the quantum computing era, Troyer pointed out that his group calculated that once a quantum computer can be built with just over 2000 qubits, “you can crack Bitcoin.” “We joke that then […]
Trump, Tesla and the X-Technology Secret
July 28th, 2018Trump’s uncle and Nikola Tesla. Guy Banister… UFO investigator?! Nixon and Trump. JFK and UFOs. Masons. Lots of Masons. Via: Dark Journalist:
Disney Buys Most of Fox
July 27th, 2018Via: Los Angeles Times: Walt Disney Co. and 21st Century Fox Inc. shareholders on Friday overwhelmingly approved Disney’s proposed $71.3-billion takeover of much of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox — a milestone in a merger that is expected to dramatically reshape the entertainment industry.
