Watch: Vacuum-footed robot dog cleans up the beach
This nifty little quadruped robot has been trained to seek and eliminate litter by researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology
By Loz Blain
This nifty little quadruped robot has been trained to seek and eliminate litter by researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology, using a vacuum cleaner backpack with nozzles strapped to its ankles.
It's built on the AlienGo robo-dog from Chinese company Unitree – a relatively expensive and athletic research-grade robot, which we last encountered learning to open doors with the aid of a top-mounted manipulator arm. When we say expensive, we're talking around US$50,000 – but you may well be able to replicate this using a specced-up version of the highly impressive (and also surprisingly athletic) US$1,600 Unitree Go 2…
Sugar Daddy of Trump’s VP Pick Has Deep Ties to CIA
Surging in the polls after surviving an assassination attempt, Donald Trump boosted his prospects of becoming the next president by nominating J. D. Vance as his vice president
by Jérémy Kuzmarov
Surging in the polls after surviving an assassination attempt, Donald Trump boosted his prospects of becoming the next president by nominating J. D. Vance as his vice president.
Vance is an Ohio Senator whose best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy positioned him as a politician who could empathize with people living in poverty in the Rust Belt.
Hillbilly Elegy recounted Vance’s upbringing in a poor family that also served as a sort of sociological examination of white working-class Americans.
Less well known about Vance is his intricate ties to billionaire Peter Thiel, who has enabled Vance’s political career…
Huge Microsoft Outage Caused by CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
A software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike inadvertently disrupted IT systems globally—taking Windows machines offline
by wired
BANKS, AIRPORTS, TV stations, health care organizations, hotels, and countless other businesses are all facing widespread IT outages, leaving flights grounded and causing widespread disruption, after Windows machines have displayed errors worldwide.
In the early hours of Friday, companies in Australia running Microsoft’s Windows operating system started reporting devices showing Blue Screens of Death (BSODs). Shortly after, reports of disruptions started flooding in from around the world, including from the UK, India, Germany, the Netherlands, and the US: TV station Sky News went offline, and US airlines United, Delta, and American Airlines issued a “global ground stop” on all flights…
U.S. Government Gives Moderna $176 Million to Develop mRNA Bird Flu Biologic
On July 2, 2024, the U.S. government awarded a $176 million contract to Moderna, Inc. for the development of an mRNA H5N1 avian influenza biologic labeled a “vaccine”
by Amber Baker
On July 2, 2024, the U.S. government awarded a $176 million contract to Moderna, Inc. for the development of an mRNA H5N1 avian influenza biologic labeled a “vaccine,” as the media reports concerns about bird flu in dairy cows and farm workers in multiple states. The funds from the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) will be used to finish developing and testing a pre-pandemic mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) biologic for H5N1 bird flu, pending the results of Phase 1 clinical trials, which are expected to be completed this month. Late-stage testing of the vaccine is set to begin in 2025…
How Israeli Intelligence Front Censors Social Media
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by Kit Klarenberg
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On July 10th, it was announced social media giant Meta would broaden the scope of its censorship and suppression of content related to the Gaza genocide. Under the new policy, Facebook and Instagram posts containing “derogatory or threatening references to ‘Zionists’ in cases where the term is used to refer to Jews or Israelis” will be proscribed. A welter of Zionist lobby organisations - many of which aggressively lobbied Meta to adopt these changes - cheered the move. Emboldened, the same entities are now calling for all social media platforms to follow suit…
How to Cloak Your Photos from AI Facial Recognition Databases
China’s utilization of AI is a bit scary. This is, in part, because we have seen the most significant improvements of facial recognition technology fueled by cutting edge AI research in China.
by #Tbot: Take Back Our Tech
China’s utilization of AI is a bit scary. This is, in part, because we have seen the most significant improvements of facial recognition technology fueled by cutting edge AI research in China. In addition to leading the world in both AI development and spending, China currently has the largest and most sophisticated facial recognition network on Earth.
The devil’s advocate argument for the use case of this technology in both the US and China is that it is used to stop crime, terrorist threats and human trafficking. In theory it sounds great, but in real world practical use, these measures usually translate as weaponizing surveillance tools to carefully eliminate dissent and deem all those necessary by the global power elite as the enemies of the state…
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