Posted on Apr 16, 2021 | Comments Off on Uncanny Valley: A Webcam That Looks Like A Human Eye
Are you being monitored all of the time? You certainly are, by both corporations and the government. It just may not be obvious in the U.S., whereas in London you are filmed by government 300 times each day, and that concerns privacy advocates.What if the spying were more obvious? Like a webcam that looks like human eye?read...
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Posted on Apr 14, 2021 | Comments Off on Can AI Help Slow Future Pandemics?
If you missed the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, wait a few years and catch the next one. One happened in 2012, and in 2003, and since it was only discovered as distinct from the common cold in the 1960s, they may have been happening forever.If it isn't coronavirus, it could be a new flu. read...
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Posted on Jan 28, 2021 | Comments Off on An Alternate Approach To Stopping Mosquitoes That Spread Zika – Using CRISPR To Make Them Resistant To Carrying It
The mosquitoes that carry zika, like Aedes aegypti, are considered by all but the most activist ecologists to be useless disease vectors. There is nothing they do in nature that isn't easily done by other mosquitoes and they can safely join the 99.999999999% of species that have gone extinct without causing a cascade of doom. Seriously, Send me your hate mail, @ me on Twitter, try to cancel...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2021 | Comments Off on The First 3D Printed House Is On The Market, And It Still Costs $300,000
If you are thinking you might buy a Creality 3-D printer to save money making stuff at home, a new MLS listing may make you change your mind. It is the first 3D-printed home to get a government permit in the United States and is on sale for a whopping $299,999. The house $213 per square foot, and you are so far from Manhattan you might as well live in Scranton, but whether it sells right away or...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2021 | Comments Off on The First 3D Printed House Is On The Market, And It Still Costs $300,000
If you are thinking you might buy a Creality 3-D printer to save money making stuff at home, a new MLS listing may make you change your mind. It is the first 3D-printed home to get a government permit in the United States and is on sale for a whopping $299,999. The house $213 per square foot, and you are so far from Manhattan you might as well live in Scranton, but whether it sells right away or...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2021 | Comments Off on Twitter Was Telling The World About COVID-19 When China Was Still Suppressing Information
In January of 2020 we began to write about "coronavirus 2019" due to concern regarding increased cases of pneumonia during a mild flu season, while the Chinese dictatorship was denying there was any problem at all. Just over a week later a key whistleblower in Wuhan, Li Wenliang, turned up dead after being arrested and held prisoner for a month by the communist government for...
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