Archive for January, 2020
Virginia Governor Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Gun Rights Rally
January 16th, 2020Via: NPR: Fearing potential violence, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is declaring a state of emergency and is banning firearms and other weapons on the Capitol grounds in Richmond ahead of a gun rights demonstration planned for next week. “We have received credible intelligence from our law enforcement agencies that there are groups with malicious plans […]
Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft’s Code
January 15th, 2020Via: BBC: The US National Security Agency (NSA) has discovered a major flaw in Windows 10 that could have been used by hackers to create malicious software that looked legitimate. Microsoft has issued a patch and said it had seen no evidence of the bug being exploited by hackers. The issue was revealed during an […]
IBM Partnering with Mercedes and Others to Bring Cobalt and Nickel Free Battery Design to Market
January 15th, 2020Definitely don’t hold your breath while waiting for this one, but it’s an interesting read. Via: IBM: Today, IBM Research is building on a long history of materials science innovation to unveil a new battery discovery. This new research could help eliminate the need for heavy metals in battery production and transform the long-term sustainability […]
Windows 7 End of Life: Many Businesses Still Haven’t Finished Move to Windows 10; Zombie Systems Flourish
January 15th, 2020I run IT for a small business here in NZ and I only had three Windows 7 systems to upgrade to Windows 10 before the deadline. Everything else was already on Windows 10 or macOS. Out of those three Win 7 to Win 10 upgrades that I had to do, zero out of three were […]
Bernie 2020 Field Organizer Calls for Violence, Mass Murder of Opposition, and “Reign of Terror”
January 14th, 2020Via: Project Veritas:
Trump Campaign Adviser Pleads Guilty to Child Porn, Sex Trafficking
January 14th, 2020Via: Courthouse News Service: An informal adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign who testified in the Mueller probe pleaded guilty Monday to charges of child sex trafficking and possessing child pornography. … This is not Nader’s first run-in with the law. He served six months after a 1991 guilty plea in Virginia to transporting child […]
Visit Art Museums to Live Longer?
January 14th, 2020Hmm. I don’t know about the health benefits, but in the the pre-collapse California days of the late 1990s to early 2000s, I found that roaming around art museums was definitely pleasant. I wasn’t particularly interested in art, or, so-called art, but the air conditioning worked and it was generally quiet in museums. Bonus feature […]
FDA and NIH Let Clinical Trial Sponsors Keep Results Secret and Break the Law
January 14th, 2020Shocker. Via: Science: Many scientists who conduct clinical trials, and their sponsors or funders, have downplayed concerns about late or missing results in ClinicalTrials.gov. Researchers, doctors, and patients can instead learn about trial outcomes from peer-reviewed publications, they say. But thousands of trials are never published, particularly when they find treatments ineffective, history has shown.
Computer-Designed Organisms
January 14th, 2020Via: GitHub: Thus, we here present a method that designs completely biological machines from the ground up: computers automatically design new machines in simulation, and the best designs are then built by combining together different biological tissues. This suggests others may use this approach to design a variety of living machines to safely deliver drugs […]
Walmart Expands Its Robotic Workforce to 650 Additional Stores
January 13th, 2020Via: Business Insider: Walmart is moving forward with automation in more stores nationwide. The superstore is adding shelf-stocking robots to 650 stores by the summer, the retailer confirmed to Business Insider. The robots are designed by the San Francisco-based Bossa Nova Robotics Inc. and made to scan items on shelves to assist with price accuracy […]
