Skynet is coming.

[krenshala]

This video of a drone with a gun will freak you the h3ll out

If you were already feeling a little paranoid about drones, this video will put you into complete terror mode. It's a DiY drone with a gun. What could go wrong? Find out, in this slo-mo capture of a drone on a shooting rampage.

http://io9.com/this-video-of-a-drone-wi ... -513442074

So, its a video advertising a cell phone screen protector that will protect your phone from 1 to 2mm pellets fired from a pistol (on an octo-copter) at 20 meters or so distance.

[scalziand]

Skynet's takeover of the markets is nearly complete.

Microwave Balloons Could Form New Super-Fast Transatlantic Trading Line

Microwave transmission is much faster than other methods, which matters a great deal in modern, algorithm-accelerated high-frequency trading, in which price changes of fractions of a cent can be exploited by a fast algorithm to generate thousands of trades. Faster trading, and the ability to transmit those trades by ultra-fast microwaves, gives a company major competitive advantage. While this is just starting to take off on Wall Street, some firms are looking to bring it to international stock markets.

Enduring Quest for Superfast Trading Takes to the Air

If Skynet develops neutrino beams for financial transactions (and UAV control) before we do, it's all over.

The marginal utility of HFT is diminishing though.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... e-and-fall

[Diogenes]

License-plate readers let police collect millions of records on drivers

When the city of San Leandro, Calif., purchased a license-plate reader for its police department in 2008, computer security consultant Michael Katz-Lacabe asked the city for a record of every time the scanners had photographed his car.

The results shocked him.

The paperback-size device, installed on the outside of police cars, can log thousands of license plates in an eight-hour patrol shift. Katz-Lacabe said it had photographed his two cars on 112 occasions, including one image from 2009 that shows him and his daughters stepping out of his Toyota Prius in their driveway.

That photograph, Katz-Lacabe said, made him “frightened and concerned about the magnitude of police surveillance and data collection.” The single patrol car in San Leandro equipped with a plate reader had logged his car once a week on average, photographing his license plate and documenting the time and location.

At a rapid pace, and mostly hidden from the public, police agencies throughout California have been collecting millions of records on drivers and feeding them to intelligence fusion centers operated by local, state and federal law enforcement.

http://cironline.org/reports/license-pl ... ivers-4883

[DeltaV]

DARPA's ATLAS robot unveiled (w/ Video)

[Diogenes]

DARPA's ATLAS robot unveiled (w/ Video)

You beat me to it. I was going to post that myself.


I'll have to settle for this as a consolation prize.

DARPA Pushes Bionic Arm Boundaries

Both limbs offer unprecedented range of motion and control. The Gen-3 "Luke" Arm—produced by DEKA Research and Development—is first and foremost a commercial device to be used by amputees. By contrast, the Modular Prosthetic Limb, completed in December 2010 by a team from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has been used as a research tool.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science ... =pm_latest

[Diogenes]

CYBERDYNE MAKES ROBOT EXOSKELETON.

The Hybrid Assisted Limb (HAL) robotic suit has passed German safety tests, increasingly the chances of it being sold in other parts of Europe
Worn as an exoskeleton, it responds to signals sent from a wearer's brain, enabling those who has lost the use of their legs to walk again

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... le-UK.html



You just can't make this sh*t up.

[hanelyp]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/0 ... m-hosting/

Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malicious software that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor anonymity network.

The malware showed up Sunday morning on multiple websites hosted by the anonymous hosting company Freedom Hosting. That would normally be considered a blatantly criminal “drive-by” hack attack, but nobody’s calling in the FBI this time. The FBI is the prime suspect.

It apparently attacks Microsoft systems via. infected web hosts. Guess which OS I avoid for mission critical operations.

[Diogenes]

DARPA, IBM Neurosynaptic Chip and Programming Language Mimic the Brain

Last year, scientists working on SyNAPSE announced they’d simulated 100 trillion synapses from a monkey brain on Sequoia, one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Now, instead of simply writing brain-inspired algorithms for traditional systems, they’ve invented an entirely new “neuromorphic” chip, True North, and an accompanying programming language to build applications on it.

http://singularityhub.com/2013/08/11/da ... the-brain/

[DeltaV]

Researcher controls colleague's motions in first human brain-to-brain interface (w/ Video)

[paperburn1]

Now I will be ever afraid to shop online again, "wait why did I click that...Nooooooo"

[paperburn1]

(It is vast, obviously constructed with ceiling lights and a power plant in the background. In the foreground is a transparent dome with three yellow brains in it.)
KIRK: The power source. Shielded by solid rock.
ONE [OC]: (a brain pulsates red) We are one thousand of your metres beneath the surface.
KIRK: Primary mental evolution. Incredible.
TWO [OC]: (pulsing green) That is not true, Captain. Once we had humanoid form, but we evolved beyond it.
THREE [OC]: (yellow) Through eons of devoting ourselves exclusively to intellectual pursuits, we became the physically simple, mentally superior creatures you see before you.
KIRK: A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior, mentally or otherwise.
ONE [OC]: The thralls are necessary to the games. We have found athletic competitions our only challenge, the only thing which furnishes us with purpose.
KIRK: It's an unproductive purpose, unworthy of your intellect.
ONE [OC]: We use only inferior beings.
THREE [OC]: A hundred quatloos on the newcomers.
ONE [OC]: Four hundred quatloos against the newcomers.
TWO [OC]: Two hundred quatloos against!
THREE [OC]: Five hundred for the newcomers. Contest by multiple elimination.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23870462
Scientists have grown a miniature "human brain" the size of a pea, in a feat they hope will transform the study of neurological disorders.

The structures have reached the same level of development as that of a nine-week-old foetus, but are incapable of thought.

The team from the Austrian Academy of Sciences have already used the technique to study certain developmental defects, and say they hope to be able to use it to research disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.

[Stubby]

[Diogenes]

This is pretty cool. Hand operated laser.





http://youtu.be/E3YCACZQ72Q

[GIThruster]

4 hand and foot thumbs and thumbtoes up for paperburn for an hilarious and exceedingly appropriate post!

And as always, didn't Kirk suck face with the girl, kick ass in a fight and otherwise prove his "purpose"?

[Schneibster]

You gotta be kidding.