Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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#MorningMonarchy: January 19, 2016
Planetary alignments, grid attacks and rise of the robots + this day in history w/the League Of Nations and our song of the day by Lily & Madeleine on your Morning Monarchy for January 19, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: January 12, 2016
Biometrics, invisible barcodes and crime-fighting robots + this day in history w/the Harrisburg Seven and our song of the day by Merz on your Morning Monarchy for January 12, 2016.
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FAA Announces Online Registration Process For Drones
The Federal Aviation Administration announced a new drone registration process Monday aimed at helping federal officials keep track of the growing number of drone owners. Source: FAA Announces Online Registration Process For Drones
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Arrests Made In 2014 JPMorgan Hack
In a massive attack originally blamed on China… and Russia …and (Insert Enemy Du Jour Here), Reuters reported this week that three arrests have been made.
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Police Departments To Equip Patrol Cars With Guns That Shoot GPS Projectiles
from copblock.org: A company by the name of StarChase has developed what is being claimed as a high-tech way to safely deal with high speed car chases. The Virginia Beach company describes itself as a “pursuit-management technology company” and says that over 55,000 injuries occur each year due to high-speed pursuits. The technology will fire…
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#NewHorizons Reveals Eerie Haze, Earth-Like Ice Flows On Pluto
from hngn.com: NASA’s New Horizons mission has been revealing stunning details of Pluto, and the latest observations have shown it is an “icy world of wonders.” The most recent New Horizons discoveries indicate the presence of flowing ice and haze on the mysterious dwarf planet, NASA reported. “We knew that a mission to Pluto would…
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TPP Likely To Force Canada To Repeal Local Data Protection Laws
from techdirt.com: Techdirt has written a couple of times about European sensitivities regarding data protection, in particular when it comes to privacy rules requiring local storage of personal data. It turns out that Europe is not alone in its concern that agreements like TAFTA/TTIP and TISA could jeopardize this approach. An article in The Tyee…
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Activist group tells Google to offer ‘#RightToBeForgotten’ in USA
from 9to5google.com: It was ruled as part of the ‘right to be forgotten‘ case in Europe last year that individuals could request to have links removed from Google search results, and now another group is calling for that right to be expanded to the United States. An activist group on Tuesday filed a complaint with…
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Google’s AI Bot Thinks The Purpose Of Life Is ‘To Live Forever’
from businessinsider.com: This week, Google released a research paper chronicling one of its latest forays into artificial intelligence. Researchers at the company programmed an advanced type of “chatbot” that learns how to respond in conversations based on examples from a training set of dialogue. And the bot doesn’t just answer by spitting out canned answers…
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#X37B Still Largely Unexplained
X-37B Still Largely Unexplained: “The fourth mission of the X-37B robot spaceplane is well underway. We know much of what is happening with the flight. There’s a test of a Hall Effect thruster for the US Air Force and a set of materials samples provided by NASA. Beyond this, little else is known. On previous…
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‘Intruder Spray’: Subway Restaurant Armed With Traceable Synthetic DNA Mist
from RT.com: A Subway restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee is now equipped with a product known as SelectaDNA, which aims to tag anyone who breaks in with an identifying spray containing a DNA code viewable only under ultraviolet light. The “intruder spray,” as it is nicknamed, contains “a unique DNA code which can be used to…
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: $9 Microcomputer Kickstarting a Revolution?
from cnet.com: What can you do with a $9 computer? Just about anything. A new microcomputer called Chip is hot on crowd-funding site Kickstarter. It promises an easy way to learn how to program with a tiny board that packs Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and internal storage — something you don’t find in another popular microcomputer, Raspberry…
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Metallica Sued Napster 15 Years Ago Today
…and the fight between Tech and Media has continued ever since. from theverge.com: April 13th, 2000. The day the music industry and the internet became best frenemies forever. That’s the day Metallica v. Napster, Inc. was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California — a case that would come to…
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#NASA Creates Open Database of Space Station Research
from al.com: NASA is opening its files on research conducted aboard the International Space Station. The space agency hopes the crowdsourcing will stimulate new research on the orbiting laboratory. The information database is called Physical Science Informatics and was created by specialists at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. All search results at…
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Japan Slams Brakes On Uber Taxi Service
from channelnewsasia.com: Japan has slammed the brakes on taxi service Uber less than a month after it launched a pilot programme in the country, with a government official saying Wednesday (Mar 4) it likely violates transport laws. The development marked another blow for the web-based taxi app, which has become an object of scorn from…