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Stop lights, sunsets, junctions are tough work for Google's robo-cars
Microsoft's maps lost Melbourne because it used bad Wikipedia data
Microsoft can't tell North from South on Bing Maps
New science: Pathetic humans can't bring themselves to fire lovable klutz-bots
Viscous liquid oozing down the walls? You must have hives
UK military buys third £4m Zephyr drone for 'persistent surveillance' trials
Watt the USB-C logo?
Apple kills its Stores
ISS astronauts begin spacewalk to install new docking adapter
My headset is reading my mind and talking behind my back
Re: Yellow 'sunglasses'
You are one of the Myoptic Muldoni Boys from Chicago* and I claim my £5.
L: SPH -4.25 / CYL -1.25 / AX 160
R: SPH -3.75 / CYL -2.25 / AX 010
Currently VEO care by Bausch & Lomb. Contacts are much more convenient when wearing a motorcycle helmet. They work really well - only by now old age presbyopia has set in. Which means after swapping my specs for contacts I now need reading glasses for small print when I wear them...
* Cartoon by Glen Baxter.
Re: Besides, wearables are harmless, right?
As long as everything is made perfectly safe...
Re: Sunglasses After Dark
It does work when you are 106 miles from Chicago.
Banking system SWIFT was anything but on security, ex-boss claims
Technically, SWIFT doesn't handle any money but acts as a messenger. SWIFT does not facilitate funds transfer: rather, it sends payment orders, which must be settled by correspondent accounts that the institutions have with each other. Each financial institution, to exchange banking transactions, must have a banking relationship by either being a bank or affiliating itself with one (or more) so as to enjoy those particular business features.
That being said, SWIFT's job is to provide secure communications for its users.
Which is tricky at best; but they should at least try to lock out common criminals.
Gawker.com to shut down
Twitter suspends 235,000 'violent extremism' accounts
Re: so...
Only half of it.
Microsoft promises free terrible coffee every month you use Edge
You shrunk the database into a .gz
and the app won't work? Sigh
Robo-buses join the traffic in Helsinki
Re: 10 km/hr
" cars had to have someone walking in front of them waving a red flag when they were first around "
Only in that lovely but somewhat odd island nation where they still insist on driving on the wrong side of the road.
BTW, from 1905 to 1906, Rolls-Royce offered the "Legalimit" model which was designed to be incapable to exceed the legal speed limit which was 20 mph at the time. This was achieved by a different gearbox, as the engine was a 8 cylinder 90 degree V configuration with 3,535 cc and a bore & stroke of 3 1/4" x 3 1/4". Apparently it was as silent as the electric town cars that were around at the time.
In total, Rolls-Royce made three of them.
If this headline was a security warning, 90% of you would ignore it
Re: MS haven't taken this advice onboard for Windows 10, it needs more babysitting than ever
Installing another OS isn't "neutering" the computer.
And if any neutering is to be done it's clearly to be done to the people who came up with stuff like the example you quote. No blunt blades though; this isn't meant as a punishment as such, this is meant to protect future generations.
NASA dangles ONE MILLION DOLLARS for virtual Mars robots
If the robot had an AI system that really was AI, all you'd have to do is to give it a copy of The Martian and the manuals for the tech sent to Mars.
New UK trade deals would not compensate for loss of single market membership
Brit cops cuff Sage employee at Heathrow airport
CERN staff conduct 'human sacrifice' at supercollider site
NSA blames it on the rain
McDonald's launches wearable then pulls it after kid feels the burn
'Flying Bum's' first flight was a gas, gas, gas
Does it really sound like that?
I live some 30 km from an airport where a conventional blimp is based. They do sightseeing trips and use it as a flying billboard. So it is a faily common sight around here. If you're outdoors you usually hear it before you see it - but it's a constant low frequency steady drone that's not unpleasant. I find it actually has a kind of soothing, reassuring quality. A perfect background sound for a lazy afternoon out in the garden.
But this? Sounds like some silly contraption that is about to fall apart any minute. That being said, it looks amazing. Like a Typhoon-class submarine swimming in the sky. (Well, that's what lighter-than-air aircraft are all about and how they work, right?)
Anyway, all the best for HAV, hope the Airlander is successfull - I for one would like to see airships cruising the sky.
Bootnote: the Airlander 10 is roughly 5 times larger than the Zeppelin NT in terms of volume and payload.
Cops break up German sausage fight between pair of Neubrandenburgers
Ford announces plans for mass production of self-driving cars by 2021
Penetration tech: BAE Systems' new ammo for Our Boys and Girls
"non-toxic bullet" - you just gotta love that.
BTW, the time I was in the army coincided with the time petrol with lead-based additives was phased out. There was a campaign to promote the all-new lead-free petrol. They had stickers with slogans around the lines of "lead-free is the way to go, I'm all for it" etc without specifically mentioning that this was all about petrol. Some joker plastered dozends of those stickers all around the shooting range.
LinkedIn sues 100 information scrapers after technical safeguard fail
Baltimore cops accused of violating FCC rules with Stingrays
US Dept of Energy lobs out $34m for bright ideas on securing grids
Russia investigates downsizing space station crew from three to two
Microsoft to overhaul Windows 10 UI – with a 3D Holographic Shell
Re: 3D UI yes... useless crap VR headsets NO! JUST NO !
@ Deltics: damn you, now I have THAT SONG in my head for the rest of the day!
FWIIW, we're in a virtual reality all the time anyway. Our sensory perception lets us sense only a fraction of all there is (visible light spectrum, hearable audio spectrum, perception of time, etc), and through a barrage of filters too. Then all of that data is assembled into some kind model that relies heavily on cultural condition and brain chemistry, to name but two factors.
Physicists believe they may have found fifth force of nature
Re: Matter/antimatter vs "regular"/"dark" matter
"Thus, the only mechanism for them to clump is the very small gravitational force, which means eventually they form halos around galaxies, but the halos will be very, very slow to contract."
In the very, very long run (after all the stars in a galaxy have burned out?), could this be a mechanism that squeezes all the galaxy's matter into a singularity? Or even the whole universe?
Re: Matter/antimatter vs "regular"/"dark" matter
"I have come from a dark matter world to probe some arse"
Could be the libretto for an actual Space Opera. Just translate it into Italian and put some catchy solo arias in there. I'm thinking The Magic Flute meets The Flying Dutchman in space, with some Psychic TV thrown in for good measure.
Productivity Puzzle
Well, IT helps us to solve the problems we would'n have without it. But there are policies that tweak performance.
We're going to bring an asteroid fragment into Lunar orbit
Re: What can go wrong?
Watched 'The Andromeda Strain' again the other night - it ages quite gracefully. The IT equipment is now so old that it becomes interesting again, and the main theme is as current now as it was then.
As we're talking about the moon I guess I'll watch 'Iron Sky' this weekend...
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