In 165 countries, China's Beidou eclipses American GPS (Nikkei)
Capital cities for 165 of 195 major countries are observed more frequently by Beidou satellites than by GPS.
tag > Technology
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Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in (wolfie christl)
"Esoteric metrics based on analyzing extensive data about employee activities has been mostly the domain of fringe software vendors. Now it's built into MS 365. A new feature to calculate 'productivity scores' turns Microsoft 365 into an full-fledged workplace surveillance tool"
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Public Shut Out of Global RF Health Briefing - Updates from NTP, Japan, Korea & WHO
An international briefing on RF health research, known as GLORE 2020, was held online, November 9-12, featuring updates on the second phase of the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) project and the Japanese-Korean partial repeat. The WHO presented a status report on ten ongoing systematic reviews of RF health effects. Government and industry representatives from Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and the U.S. participated, as did an assortment of academics. The public and the press were not invited. Everything about GLORE 2020 is being kept secret.
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The primary effects of spending 10 min on Twitter:
Significant increase of stress, tension and confusion.The primary effects of spending 10 min doing Qigong:
Significant reduction of stress, tension and confusion. -
Img 1: Spiritualism Seance in Berlin (1930) - Img 2: Macy Conferences on Cybernetics (1946-1953)
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Want: A VLF Radio Receiver (less than 1kHz range) such as Explorer E-202 or WR-3 - A simple but effective portable device for natural radio signal reception.
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Apple To Pay $113 Million Settlement Over Its iPhone 'Batterygate' Slowdowns (cnet.com)
The settlement involves the 2017 revelation that Apple was purposely slowing older phones when their batteries began to degrade.
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The week in review, focus on #Science, #Technology & #Biotech
Self-replicating molecules show signs of metabolism for the first time
In a chance discovery, researchers have for the first time observed the emergence of something akin to metabolism in molecules that also self-replicate. The replicator molecules catalyse a reaction that produces compounds that help to make the replicator’s own building blocks. It might be one of the most lifelike chemical systems ever created, combining two of life’s three essential features – replication, metabolism and compartmentalisation.
Scientists Create a Self-Replicating Reproductive Genome in the Lab
For the first time ever, a genome can reproduce itself like a natural one.
Interesting in this context, the following remark by Prof. Dr. Günter von Kiedrowski
"Why replication at all? In the natural context, replication has the same meaning as integration in electronics. I mean, if you are able to do integrate electronic circuitry, you can establish Moore's Law and in chemistry this kind of replication was not addresses so far. But if it is possible to replicate objects, then it is possible to make things cheaper, to pay for complexity"
Do Origin-of-Life Researchers Now Accept Intelligent Design?
As our understanding of cellular biology increases, researchers continuously find that the only framework capable of understanding life’s origin is design-based, and they increasingly have to smuggle design into their research hidden in the language of natural selection, evolution, and self-organization. With time, larger numbers of careful readers will see the true source of the creative power behind life.
Biotech future of promise and peril looms larger and closer
Emerging technology poses new and novel questions. Unfortunately, the time to answer them is growing short.
Cyborg cockroaches could soon be unleashed in homes to complete tasks. Scientists programmed them to transport objects, along with other skills. The team calls them 'Calmbots,' which can reach places other robots cannot
The First Quantum Computer You Own Could Be Powered by a Time Crystal
We're just scratching the surface of what these bizarre creations can do.
Desktop speaker creates a personal sound bubble without need for headphones. It directs ultrasonic waves that are converted in audible sound next to user's ear. Lack of headphones means it's possible to hear other sounds in the room clearly
Dutch Advisory Panel Calls for Caution on 5G
Don’t Use Millimeter Band Pending More Research
Peter Thiel on the Failures and “Self-Hatred" of Big-Tech
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Subscriber City: What happens when you need an app to access anything (reallifemag)
"Apps merge the need to isolate with a celebration of convenience, as though having our access to the world mediated by tech companies were the silver lining" ... "Once consumers were trapped in the garden, lured in by ease of use and escape from the chaos of the open web, platforms could treat users however they wanted to" ... "In the emerging subscriber city, segregation will be obscured by a screen-thin veil of convenience and optimization"
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The Great Firewall of America is turning out to be even more comedic then the Chinese one. The President of the United States is currently censored in his own country - by Twitter & many others. The aspirational freedom of speech narrative of the west is collapsing.
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The Pauli effect or Pauli's Device Corollary is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing numerous instances in which demonstrations involving equipment suffered technical problems only when he was present.
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Question: In a world dominated by totalitarian central bank digital currencies (CBDC) that are backed by universal biometric ID and pervasive surveillance - the power of hackers is...?
Send me your answer: s AT this domain
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The iPhone peaked in 2017. Apple has not had a truly original idea since 2007. Their supply chain is highly exposed to a predictably worsening china/us trade environment. Magical times ahead!
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"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"
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EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US
25 EU countries signed a joint declaration pledging public money to power up the cloud sector and establishing the "European Alliance on Industrial Data and Cloud".
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Blockchain Chicken Farm, and Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside - The Untold Technological Revolution Sweeping Through Rural China (NYtimes)
So Jiang turned to high-tech chicken surveillance. He outfitted his chickens with wearable legbands that record their movements — “a chicken Fitbit of sorts” — and worked with a tech start-up to record the data on a blockchain.
"To increase the yield of pork farms, Alibaba trained a new artificial intelligence, “ET Agricultural Brain,” on vast amounts of data from pork operations, the better to predict how to increase yield."
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The Quantum Butterfly Noneffect (scientificamerican)
A familiar concept from chaos theory turns out to work differently in the quantum world
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Nat Friedman, the CEO of GitHub, frequently comes across as an old-school tech-bro idiot. Microsoft (Github's owner) "embracing open source" is truly an exercise in deceptive bullshit.
