Archive for September, 2019
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 […]
Pelosi Launches Formal Trump Impeachment Inquiry
September 25th, 2019Via: CBS: Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House is launching a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump, setting up a dramatic constitutional clash just over a year before the presidential election. “Today I’m announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry,” Pelosi said at the Capitol late Tuesday afternoon. The […]
Prepare for the Weirdness
September 23rd, 2019Earlier today, when I sat down in front of the computer with a cup of coffee, I had a flashback to Joe Biden’s recent bleeding eye incident. An ancient Hunter Thompson essay, Prepare for the Weirdness, came to mind. “What would Thompson think about these times?” I mumbled to myself. These times. Which reminds me, […]
Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind
September 23rd, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Facebook Inc. agreed to acquire CTRL-Labs, a technology startup that is building software to let people control a digital avatar using only their thoughts. The world’s largest social network is paying between $500 million and $1 billion, according to people familiar with the deal. The closely held four-year-old startup, which has dozens of […]
New Crime in Britain: Eating Meat?
September 23rd, 2019Via: Telegraph: Eating meat could be banned like smoking, one of Britain’s foremost barristers has predicted, as he called for the offence of ‘ecocide’ to be introduced to prosecute those who damage the nature on a massive scale. Michael Mansfield QC warned that the farming of livestock for meat was destroying the planet and called […]
How Afghan Opium Poppy Farming Has Grown
September 22nd, 2019Mission accomplished. Many articles on Cryptogon about this. One of my favorites: Afghanistan: Planned British Covert Operation Included Training in “Farming and Irrigation Techniques” for Taliban Fighters Via: BBC: The US has spent $1.5m (£1.15m) a day since 2001 fighting the opium war in Afghanistan.
Sacramento McDonald’s Tries to Drive Homeless Away with Siren
September 22nd, 2019Via: CBS Sacramento: A Sacramento McDonald’s is going to extremes to curb outside loitering. It’s playing a loud, strange sound on speakers outside the restaurant. The property at 30th and K streets appears to be a popular homeless hangout site. The siren is intended to annoy and reduce the number of people standing around the […]
The Time When A Burning B-52 Nearly Caused A Nuclear Catastrophe “Worse than Chernobyl”
September 22nd, 2019Via: The Drive: Nearly four decades ago, a U.S. Air Force B-52H bomber, armed with eight nuclear-tipped AGM-69A Short Range Attack Missiles and four B28 nuclear gravity bombs, burned for hours at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. Years later, despite previous assurances that the risk of a nuclear accident had been low, […]
Mystery Towers Going Up All Over Cincinnati Area
September 22nd, 2019These towers are going up and the cities don’t know which companies are building them? This is incredible. Via: WCPO: But the FCC allows these towers to go in with almost no local approval. The FCC and FAA claim there are no proven links between 5G cell service and health effects, and say local residents […]
Epstein’s Process: When You Are In, You Can’t Get Out
September 22nd, 2019Via: Miami Herald: “He would find out they have no home, no car, that they need a place to live, and he would provide a place to live,’’ Edwards said. “He can get you to the best doctors. Sometimes he would do that and sometimes he wouldn’t do that, but the promise was real because […]
