The US government has blocked a Texas-based company from distributing details online of how to make a plastic gun using a 3-D printer [...]
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The US government has blocked a Texas-based company from distributing details online of how to make a plastic gun using a 3-D printer [...] It seems like we’re not done with the “horses and bayonets” meme quite yet. Instead of a political dig though, diagnosis the “old-fashioned” battle equipment is showing up in another unlikely place: a video game. Although it’s not expected to be the most popular of video games depicting war, find which today usually involve computer-graphics [...] IBM has unveiled a new experimental computer chip that it says mimics the human brain in that it perceives, search acts and even thinks. It terms the machines built with these chips “cognitive computers”, claiming that they are able to learn through experience, find patterns, generate ideas and understand the outcomes. In building this new [...] The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making “illegal streaming” of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers. In a 20-page white paper (PDF), the Obama administration called on the U.S. Congress to fix “deficiencies that could hinder enforcement” of intellectual property laws. [...] Its time once again to celebrate the turning of the Unix system time. Usually we just celebrate the turning of some aesthetically pleasing number of seconds (like 1234567890), but far less often are we privileged to celebrate the number of epoch days turning a significant number. Epoch days being the number of days since January [...] The U.S. military has been making a strong push lately into building on top of existing systems like the Android OS in order to increase capabilities while keeping costs low. The Army recently wrapped up its “Apps for Army” competition in which Army soldiers and civilians were asked to create apps that were of use [...] At the moment the tiny robot – a sheet just half a millimetre thick, scarcely thicker than a piece of paper – only folds itself into a boat, like a child’s toy, or a “paper glider” plane shape. But it is anticipated that in future it will be used to create full-sized cars and aircraft [...] The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, clinic legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive. “The legislation says [...] While you’re reading this, a criminal could be logging in to your router and using it as a porn server. He could be using a Bluetooth “sniper rifle” (like the one shown below) to tap into your phone while you chat by the window. He could even physically steal your printer and capture [...] Hewlett-Packard is investigating a claim that Webcams built into its PCs are incapable of tracking the facial movements of black individuals and only function properly when Caucasians or people of other lighter-skinned races are in the frame. The probe was prompted by a YouTube video in which a black man named Desi demonstrates the problem. [...] |
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