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by James Hickman If you’ve ever been on a road trip through Pennsylvania, Ohio, or Indiana, you’ve probably driven past a billboard advertising Amish furniture, quilts, or cheese. You may have even driven past a horse and buggy, driven by someone who looks straight out of the 1800s. The Amish are a Christian sect known for …
US STOCK MARKET BUBBLE WARNING: Top 10 US stocks valuation is now higher than in the 1990s Dot-Com Bubble. The only year when P/E ratio was higher than today was in 2020. Are US stocks in a bubble again after 24 years since the last burst?👇👇https://t.co/tfdmBRdskF — Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) September 10, 2024 #recession …
One month after a judge declared Google’s search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech giant faces another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company, this time over its advertising technology. The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintains a monopoly over the technology that matches online publishers …
SARASOTA, Fla., Aug. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Trump Media & Technology Group (Nasdaq: DJT) (“TMTG” or the “Company”), operator of the social media platform Truth Social, announced today that the Company has commenced the phased rollout of its streaming platform, Truth+. Today, TMTG begins moving existing beta testing of its Truth Social linear TV …
A New Hydrogen Combustion Engine Is Legitimately Heating Up Will it actually transform the future of driving? – As automobile makers look for alternatives to gasoline, hydrogen combustion is starting to gain traction. – The hydrogen combustion engine is said to have the same… pic.twitter.com/7chUnmzQij — Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) May 29, 2024
Scientists have made “significant” strides in the field of reading people’s minds. Researchers from California were able to decode the thoughts of participants into words with 79 per cent accuracy. The device has been developed by Caltech’s T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Centre and will help patients with speech and non-verbal disorders. These ‘speech decoders’ act …
via naturalnews: Microsoft Research Asia is forging on with a new transhumanist program called VASA that creates “lifelike talking faces of virtual characters with appealing visual effective skills (VAS), given a single static image and a speech audio clip.” The artificial intelligence (AI) division of Microsoft in Asia has been working on the program by …
This represents a highly efficient aspect of the propaganda machine that is widely used to generate comments across social media. Viewers will find it interesting since it confirms people are using GPT generated pre set messages to rapidly comment on all social media platforms. h/t Joshistotle
RFK Jr said Bill Gates is putting 5G chips in your brain to steal your bank account. This is straight up QAnon. pic.twitter.com/cnl1FO7pP5 — RealSandiBachom 📹 (@realsandibachom) April 2, 2024 In footage captured by journalist and filmmaker Sandi Bachom, independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can be seen telling a crowd that shadow forces …
“Photoshopping the then-missing princess of Wales. The press twisting Donald Trump’s “bloodbath” comment out of context. AT&T Wireless down for hours. And (gasp!) Instagram offline. Is anything reliable anymore? Reliability is a lost art. Our electricity used to be so steady that plugged-in wall clocks rarely needed adjusting. That’s funny now because power outages are …
The smartphone in your hand enables you to record a video, edit it and send it around the world. With your phone, you can navigate in cities, buy a car, track your vital signs and accomplish thousands of other tasks. And so? Each of those activities used to demand learning specific skills and acquiring the …
There’s now the ability for 911 dispatchers to see what’s happening on a scene by using the caller’s cellphone camera. It’s already being used to save lives and catch criminals in the act. Orange County just got online, but the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has been on board for a year now. “Hey, sheriff’s deputy,” …
“An appliance used to be a machine. Now it’s a bureaucracy.” “Things used to work in this country. This is the stock complaint of the Baby Boomers, and if you are lucky enough to inherit a piece of their technology, you may find yourself agreeing. But when I say ‘things used to work,’ the object …
During an interview on FOX Business’ “The Big Money Show,” JKC Trucking co-owner Mike Kucharski explained that while he supports the integration of green energy, new EPA regulations are “extremely frustrating” and cautioned that technology could come at a “catastrophic” price. He warned that the trucking industry is particularly susceptible to the consequences of pushing …
Green Fail: Tesla Supercharging Stations Packed as Dead Cars Line Parking Lot Due to Frigid Temps OAK BROOK, Ill. – Electric vehicles may be the way of the future, but many EV owners are having trouble dealing with Chicago’s bitterly cold temperatures. Public charging stations have turned into car graveyards over the past couple of …
by Chris Black All founding-stock Americans (or Germans by the way) who built bleeding edge US tech back in the day died of old age and the new generation of engineers don’t understand their work and can’t replicate it. This is really bad. U.S. Strategic Command on the Minuteman III "there are also no technicians …
AI/Robotics will have a huge influence in many jobs. It's coming. Elon said it can be for good or bad. pic.twitter.com/TgcrHTgakS — floridanow1 (@floridanow1) December 25, 2023
by ChampionshipUsed9855 Historically MU insiders had good timing and sold large amounts at price peaks.
In a stunning move, President Biden has declared a national emergency and invoked Cold War-era wartime powers to restrict access to heating and cooling technology. Ali Zaidi, who serves as Biden's national climate advisor, said the president was "using his wartime emergency powers under the Defense Production Act to turbocharge U.S. manufacturing of clean technologies …
via naturalnews: While the majority of American workers are not worried about being replaced by rapidly advancing technology, a poll has revealed that the number of those who fear a trend has risen to its fastest rate ever. The Gallup Poll, which started in 2017, showed that fear of becoming obsolete (FOBO) has grown more in the …
Coles is “aggressively” rolling out new technology that will track shoppers’ every move from the moment they walk into a store. Overhead cameras, trolley locks, smart gates and, perhaps most bizarrely, fog machines will be introduced in a desperate bid to tackle rising theft. The changes are set to leave your average supermarket feeling more …
Radar modules in tail lamps. I never heard of a locator fee for parts, $350 h/t CharlieFoxtrot
A federal judge has ruled that art that was wholly created by artificial intelligence technology is not protected by copyright law — a decision that could have far-reaching implications for Hollywood as studios continue to adopt AI as a creative tool. https://t.co/nQ49Vk4xZL — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 21, 2023
‘An Australian woman was fired from her job after 18 years when her boss used keystroke technology to check how much work she was actually doing. One of the biggest insurance companies in Australia had a claim of unfair dismissal made against them rejected after it was judged that there was a ‘valid reason of …
Home Office officials have drawn up secret plans to lobby the independent privacy regulator in an attempt to push the rollout of controversial facial recognition technology into high street shops and supermarkets, internal government minutes seen by the Observer reveal. The covert strategy was agreed during a closed-door meeting on 8 March between policing minister …
Companies are increasingly mentioning "AI" on their earnings calls. Nvidia, $NVDA, mentioned it 83 times on their most recent call. This earnings season should be extremely interesting, to say the least. Follow us @KobeissiLetter for real time analysis as we track this. pic.twitter.com/fjuk5a9wUm — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) July 18, 2023 Bulls, who gets out …
via NYPOST: Big Apple grocers who have been using facial-recognition technology to battle a citywide shoplifting epidemic are fuming over a City Council proposal that would ban the software — just as shopkeepers say it is beginning to prove effective. The proposed bill — which follows the city’s feud with Madison Square Garden owner James …
Starts at around time code 30:30 BEWARE of the Apple Vision Pro, engineer warns of capacity to “mind read” and manipulate pic.twitter.com/Hm7wo63RHy — Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) June 9, 2023 Here is the discussed tweet although Liz Wheeler (see OP) breaks down the ethics and how this could be exploited for nefarious purposes in the original …