Hawaii missile false alarm due to badly designed user interface, reports say
The user was to select from a menu of options including “Missile Alert” and “Test Missile Alert”, which were next to each other on the options menu. The system also…
Google claims its Spectre and Meltdown mitigation results in no performance degradation | TechCrunch
Source: Google claims its Spectre and Meltdown mitigation results in no performance degradation | TechCrunch Intel posts a table of benchmark results – which are a mixed bag of okay…
Increasing minimum wage leading to more automation
If workers can keep their jobs, they’ll enjoy higher wages. But rising labor costs are pushing employers toward robots. Source: California’s $15 minimum wage may mean more automated jobs |…
Author advocates more control and censorship over Youtube video content
In a free advertisement courtesy of USA Today, author Andrew Keen, who has made his living writing books condemning the Internet is quoted: Andrew Keen says the real problem lies…
Will virtual reality lead to more effective propaganda? | SocialPanic.org – Occupy Propaganda
By “effective” we mean, propaganda that is more successful at persuading someone to adopt someone else’s agenda: “What really makes people trust VR more is that it creates a… Source:…
Dean Kamen, his organization, the magic of invention
Some of the best inventors I know didn’t have a deep knowledge of any particular technology. They had a deep understanding of what the need is and what we would…