On Killer Robots

https://www.armscontrol.org/ACT/2016_10/Features/Stopping-Killer-Robots-Why-Now-Is-the-Time-to-Ban-Autonomous-Weapons-Systems

Old Shops of Paris

Small Step Towards Mind Control

         

I wonder how far we are from remote mind control; if signals can be recorded, they could be played back...

Wireless recording of neural activity with ultrasound Implanted devices that record neural activity in model organisms such as rats ideally should be as small as possible, remotely powered and able to transduce information wirelessly.

Seo et al. aim for all of these features by using neural dust to record from peripheral neurons in the mouse. Neural dust is a tiny recording system thI wonder how far we are from remote mind control; if signals can be recorded, they could be played back...

Wireless recording of neural activity with ultrasound Implanted devices that record neural activity in model organisms such as rats ideally should be as small as possible, remotely powered and able to transduce information wirelessly.

Seo et al. aim for all of these features by using neural dust to record from peripheral neurons in the mouse. Neural dust is a tiny recording system that consists mainly of electrodes and a piezoelectric crystal. The crystal reflects ultrasonic energy (sent from an external transducer) after neural activity picked up with the electrodes modulates the ultrasonic signal. Electrical activity can thus be inferred from the difference in emitted and received ultrasound signal. The researchers applied their technology in vivo to obtain electroneurographic and electromyographic recordings from rat sciatic nerve and skeletal muscles, respectively.

http://www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S0896-6273(16)30344-0.pdf

Learning UNIX/LINUX Shell

http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_learning_the_shell.php

Free MS Windows VMs

Free MS Windows VM for Testing (the images expire in 90 days)

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

None of it is real -- The Matrix Revealed

From The Guardian of the UK:-

"I always knew," says Mrs Dorothy Jones, of Swansea.

I have always suspected it: this world we live in is merely a computerized mirror image of some other, secret, parallel world out there, which is controlled by aliens. We live in The Matrix.

And this psot is not real. It's all a bad dream.

And they are watching you.

[On the other hand, if this is all an illusion, who is having this headache?]
______________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/simulated-world-elon-musk-the-matrix?

Is our world a simulation? Why some scientists say it's more likely than not.

www.theguardian.com

 A swath of technologists and physicists believe that ‘simulation theory’ will be proved, just as it was proved that the Earth was not the center of the universe...

WiFi kettle lets Englishman down

From Grauniad of the UK: An IT engineer's idea of fun and efficiency...

Serves him right.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/12/english-man-spends-11-hours-trying-to-make-cup-of-tea-with-wi-fi-kettle?
English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettlewww.theguardian.com
Data specialist Mark Rittman spent an entire day attempting to set up his new appliance so that it would boil on command

What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change

Our Robotic Fure - Now

In the news

 

"Can I take a selfie with the robot at the end? It's for my Facebook page!"

 

The problem I can see is that there are already so many options when you order your coffee (latte, cappuccino, single espresso, double espresso, etc.) that it is going to become difficult to manage (with or without a BJ, slow or fast service, etc.).

 

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https://www.rt.com/uk/361200-robot-sex-cafe-london/

Sex robot cafe aims to offer Londoners fellatio with their morning coffee www.rt.com An entrepreneur who hopes to open London’s first ‘fellatio cafe’ has revealed his staff will be made up entirely of sex robots.

 

Warehouse Robots

Fully Autonomous Robots: The Warehouse Workers of the Near Future:


http://www.wsj.com/articles/fully-autonomous-robots-the-warehouse-workers-of-the-near-future-1474383024

Emotion-sensing Router

EQ-Radio: This Wi-Fi Router Can Read Your Feelings Using Radio Waves


https://fossbytes.com/wi-fi-router-can-read-feelings-radio-waves/

PowerShell @ GitHub

Microsoft open sourced PowerShell:

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell

 www.github.com  

GitHub - PowerShell/PowerShell: PowerShell for every system!

Smiling Car

GIZMAG -- People are the problem...

 

A smiling car does make sense, if you follow their explanation.

 

As for me, I would like my fridge to smile at me in the morning, when I walk into the kitchen. "Hello, Babak! Lovely to see you today. How are you?" And so on. Would have to be an intelligent fridge, preferably. Otherwise, it could become very trying, very quickly.

 

The next step would be for the fridge to have a chat with the toaster, and the toaster to make fun of the washing machine, and so on. Hopefully, any human input (and presence) will soon be totally, utterly redundant.

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http://newatlas.com/semcon-self-driving-smiling-car/45484/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=081e27efd3-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-081e27efd3-90190513

Smiling car tells pedestrians when it's safe to cross newatlas.com Around town, drivers and pedestrians communicate using body language and eye contact, something a self-driving car can’t do. To try and solve the problem, a Swedish company has developed a car capable of flashing a smile at pedestrians.

Privacy

The Death of Privacy:

http://melissadata.com/promo/know-your-customer.htm

Assault on Liberty

Truly deplorable - a frontal assault on Liberty - in my opinion:http://www.wsj.com/articles/firm-manipulated-iphone-software-to-allow-spying-report-says-1472149087

A Rant

Jeff Bezos's rant:

http://homepages.dcc.ufmg.br/~mtov/pmcc/modularization.pdf

IT Security Skills Shortage

IT Security Skills:

http://www.eweek.com/security/slideshows/it-security-skills-shortage-means-higher-salaries-more-risks.html


I wonder if this is part of a propaganda effort to increase the number of students so the employers could then pay a pittance for such skills.

Reusing Game Boy Classic

Recycle your old Game Boy Classic by turning it into a drone remote control

Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/game-boy-classic-drone-remote/#ixzz4IBWCrsAe

From the Wall Street Journal

China’s Factories Count on Robots as Workforce Shrinks:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-factories-count-on-robots-as-workforce-shrinks-1471339805


and


Hiring for the Selfie Age:


http://www.wsj.com/articles/video-job-interviews-hiring-for-the-selfie-age-1471366013

Robotic Exoskeleton

Brain-robot training triggers improvement in paralysis - BBC News 

Eight paraplegic people have regained partial movement after a one-year training programme based on brain-controlled robotics, researchers say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37024197