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- Chinese surveillance balloon used American technology https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chinese-surveillance-balloon-used-american-technology-rcna91961 26 comments worldnews
- Tech Companies Big And Small Look To Include AI Technology And Crypto Picks Up Big Gains - Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2023/03/27/tech-companies-big-and-small-look-to-include-ai-technology-and-crypto-picks-up-big-gains-forbes-ai-newsletter-march-25th/amp/ 4 comments cryptocurrency
- A CO2-guzzling bacteria could help us improve carbon capture plants | Cyanobacteria may be the key to developing better CO2 capture technologies. https://interestingengineering.com/photosynthetic-bacteria-capture-co2 21 comments futurology
- Key Democrat warns of major security risk if US firm acquires NSO hacking code. Ron Wyden says White House right to raise doubts about possible deal for contractor L3Harris to take over surveillance technology. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/16/ron-wyden-democrat-nso-group-technology 10 comments privacy
- Removing the legal ambiguities around blockchain technology to weed out dodgy operators is the task facing the Australian Treasurer’s payment system shake-up. https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/frydenberg-s-crypto-company-challenge-20220103-p59lkg 7 comments cryptocurrency
- SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen , on SpaceX’s acquisition of Swarm Technologies: Found a company that had interesting IP and a team we can leverage. We have not done acquisitions in the past, but would consider something in future if it met right requirements https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1435244519088328704 21 comments space
- Stressed teens benefit from coping online, but a little goes a long way - Teenagers ages 13–17 who spend a moderate amount of time online after a stressful experience deal with adversity far better than those who spend many hours online or avoid digital technology altogether. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/926301 14 comments science
- Buoyancy Energy Storage Technology: An energy storage solution for islands, coastal regions, offshore wind power and hydrogen compression https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352152X21004771 11 comments science
- Why Blockchain is most impactful technology since internet https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blockchain-most-impactful-technology-since-internet-financial-advisor-165153016.html 9 comments cryptocurrency
- Trump administration is reportedly weighing limits to China's access to chip technology https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/17/trump-administration-is-reportedly-weighing-limits-to-chinas-access-to-chip-technology.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard 8 comments wallstreetbets
- Vocdoni wants to make secure voting easy and accessible using decentralized technologies https://vocdoni.io/docs/#/ 11 comments ethereum
- Russia up in arms over Chinese theft of military technology https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/international-relations/russia-up-in-arms-over-chinese-theft-of-military-technology?fbclid=iwar0qngepm3gwspqz99wjf_9nysnitvsjaqkrsjkcfaurqbmkwj_spjo3o2g 155 comments worldnews
- Monetising hate: covert enterprise co-opts far-right Facebook pages to churn out anti-Islamic posts | Technology https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/05/monetising-hate-covert-enterprise-co-opts-far-right-facebook-pages-to-churn-out-anti-islamic-posts 5 comments technology
- Americans would rather drive themselves to work than have an autonomous vehicle drive them, suggests new study (n=502), which may reflect a lack of familiarity and comfort with driverless technology at present. https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/09/16/americans-would-rather-drive-themselves-than-have-an-autonomous-vehicle-drive-them/ 13 comments science
- How China acquires ‘the crown jewels’ of U.S. technology https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/22/china-us-tech-companies-cfius-572413 7 comments politics
- Six myths about blockchain and Bitcoin: Debunking the effectiveness of the technology https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/bitcoin-blockchain-issues/18019/ 60 comments programming
- The technology industry needs to think more seriously about device addiction https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/16/the-technology-industry-needs-to-think-more-seriously-about-device-addiction/ 12 comments technology
- Self-Flying Spacecraft Will Take Us Into Deep Space, Not Human Pilots - "NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology describe how artificial intelligence-driven spacecraft could keep busy during these delays in the near future." https://www.inverse.com/article/33238-nasa-smart-spacecraft-robots-ai 7 comments space
- California and China Have Signed an Agreement to Develop Clean Energy Technology - "designed to drive innovation and commercialization in areas such as carbon capture and storage, as well as advanced information technology that could help cut greenhouse gas emissions." http://fortune.com/2017/06/05/california-china-clean-energy-climate/ 11 comments technology
- A Group Shout on Climate Change - the way to approach the task of harnessing greenhouse gas emissions was not to ask how much it would cost but how much nations stood to gain by investing in new technologies and energy efficiency. http://nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/a-group-shout-on-climate-change.html?ref=opinion&_r=1&referrer= 4 comments politics
- Amazon lists next-generation Kindle Paperwhite with new display technology http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/03/amazon-lists-next-generation-kindle-paperwhite-with-new-display/ 38 comments technology
- These 12 technologies will drive our economic future http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/24/these-12-technologies-will-drive-our-economic-future/?wprss=rss_technology 11 comments technology
- Put a fly larva in a vacuum, and it will collapse into a lifeless husk. Researchers found a way to protect them: Bombard them with electrons, forming a "nano-suit" around their bodies. This could help scientists take hi-res photos of tiny organisms or lead to new space travel technology for humans. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/04/nano-suit-protects-bugs-from-spa.html 58 comments science
- Creepy Verizon technology would watch and listen to you while you watch TV -- using facial, voice and gesture recognition in your home to target ads. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/12/05/verizon_patent_would_monitor_you_as_you_watch_tv_so_it_can_customize_ads.html 6 comments technology
- Obama to target foreign nationals’ use of new technologies in human rights abuses http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-target-foreign-nationals-use-of-new-technologies-in-human-rights-abuses/2012/04/22/giqa4ngxat_story.html 3 comments technology
- In-Cell Touch Technology Could Help Apple Reduce Next iPhone's Thickness by 15% http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/23/in-cell-touch-technology-could-help-apple-reduce-next-iphones-thickness-by-15/ 19 comments apple
- Dell to acquire Make Technologies http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225867/Dell_to_acquire_modernization_specialist_Make_Technologies 5 comments sysadmin
- 2 Picks For Risk-Seeking Investors: Coastal Energy, OCZ Technology - Seeking Alpha http://seekingalpha.com/article/349341-2-picks-for-risk-seeking-investors-coastal-energy-ocz-technology 11 comments investing
- SOPA bans Tor, the US Navy's censorship-busting technology that they've used to promote freedom of speech in other countries. What does this say about the US Government? http://boingboing.net/2011/12/22/sopa-bans-tor-the-us-navys.html 51 comments politics
- DARPA to fund research into starship technology. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-100-year-starship-20110806,0,2437419.story 15 comments technology
- Poll: 4 in 5 Support Full-Body Airport Scanners - Americans overwhelmingly approve of the use of full-body digital x-ray machines - a new technology in use at some airports in the U.S. Most, meanwhile, do not approve of racial or ethnic profiling - a practice not in place. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20022876-503544.html?tag=stack 6 comments politics
- H+ What problems WON'T be solved if the biological body is replaced by something technological? And, what NEW PROBLEMS would emerge? http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/samples/sp657748.pdf 3 comments philosophy
- Salvageable parts inside McDonald's Avatar toys and explanation of motion detection technology used http://www.robotroom.com/inside-avatar-mcdonalds-toy.html 5 comments technology
- Steven Chu explains the ultimate fuel technology (gets interesting around 1:35) http://fora.tv/2007/09/13/steve_chu_a_new_energy_program 4 comments technology
- Anyone else wonder why they are still using batons for the olympic relays? They could easily use technology, like in other sports. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/olympics/2008/08/gay_drops_baton_in_100_relay.html?hpid=artslot 8 comments reddit.com
- The Kegstand: College Parties Will Never Be The Same | Mark's Technology News http://markstechnologynews.blogspot.com/2008/07/kegstand-college-parties-will-never-be.html 2 comments technology
- $153 million thin film dome using todays technology, cheaper than a communications satellite can protect against nuclear weapons and provide high speed communication and a lot of other benefits [pics] http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/04/very-cheap-dome-protection-from-nuclear.html 5 comments science
- IBM's new storage device will have no moving parts and potential capacity, size for size, more than 100x greater than current technologies. http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/11/racetrack-technology-reinvents 9 comments science
- Excellent summary of storage technologies and file systems on GNU/Linux http://lwn.net/articles/226351/ 5 comments programming