Alexander Graham Bell’s invention was supposed to make life under quarantine bearable. But AT&T ended up begging people to stay off the line.
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![]() Alexander Graham Bell’s invention was supposed to make life under quarantine bearable. But AT&T ended up begging people to stay off the line. No comment yet.
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![]() A team at Carnegie Mellon University has released an app that they say can determine whether you likely have COVID-19 — just by listening to your voice.
Al Cannistra's insight:
covid-19 by voice analysis - hope it works out.... . .
![]() The U.S. Space Force is scheduled to conduct its first launch on Thursday afternoon. It's expected to deliver the final part of a new communication network.
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Fulfilling the prophecy and “going where no man has gone before” . .
![]() Knowledge is power—and when it comes to the coronavirus, it can also save lives.
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and another app coming soon... COVID-19...
![]() When an Italian hospital started to run out of ventilator valves, 3D printing firms came in to make some more on the spot.
Al Cannistra's insight:
a nudge into the future = survival in Italy.... . .
![]() Combining wake-up receivers with the parasitic use of ambient radio waves could drastically slash IoT power consumption.
Al Cannistra's insight:
no battery? YEAH! . .
![]() A new European standard could ensure competing systems work together.
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i hope this gets built - experience riding hi-speed trains and the older network in Europe suggests this has a potential great benefit - economic and environmental... . .
![]() NASA equipped the 2020 Mars rover with a powerful laser, capable of vaporizing rocks. It's an extreme way of learning what they're made of.
Al Cannistra's insight:
oh lordy - we can now vaporize rocks! i think they do that on Star Trek - too.... they have this little hand held device called a phaser :-) just kidding around, well get there too with a smaller version of this thing one day! . .
![]() Now, the company is eyeing two sites for tiny nuclear power stations it calls “small modular reactors,” Popular Mechanics reports, in Wales and northern England — a program the UK government committed to funding in July 2019.
Al Cannistra's insight:
a nuclear renaissance? . .
![]() "Right now, traditional habitat designs for Mars are like a turtle — carrying our homes with us on our backs — a reliable plan, but with huge energy costs."
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mushroom moon base..... . .
![]() Google said its Chrome browser plans to make third-party cookies "obsolete" within two years.
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i like cookies - but not this kind.... glad to see them GO.... . .
![]() This year Nasa will send the Mars 2020 rover to the Red Planet. There's some serious tech involved
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for thousands of years we can look forward to going where no man has gone before - as long as we can figure out how to get there... the adventure is just beginning.... . .
![]() Exergy is the portion of energy that is entirely convertible into all other forms of energy; the remainder is anergy. That is,
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exergy problem - in need of a fix... . . |
![]() Zoom, the increasingly-popular video conferencing program, has extremely flawed cybersecurity in place. Companies like SpaceX have already banned it.
Al Cannistra's insight:
not my fav app - and usually avoid any webinar that uses it... if i must use it - i delete the app immediately after the webinar.... . there is a REASON some big companies are banning it's use . .
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Al Cannistra's insight:
grass roots perhaps - but what do you think - can we do this? do you have the knowledge and capacity to help? - i am already registered for Thursday... and i don't have a damn clue.... . .
![]() IBM's Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee has identified 77 drug compounds that could stop the coronavirus.
Al Cannistra's insight:
we may have a challenge like never before - but we have the power to fight back like never before - humanity is not toast yet! . .
![]() Austin-based Athena Security first gained recognition using AI to detect firearms. It’s now tackling another public health threat.
Al Cannistra's insight:
there is an app for just about everything - coming soon... COVID-19...
![]() Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft’s board, 45 years after co-founding the company with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Gates also announced that he is stepping down from the board of Berkshire Hathaway, led by his friend and philanthropic partner Warren Buffett. Gates, 64, wrote in a post on LinkedIn…
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WOW! . .
![]() A cyber attack is an attack launched from one or more computers against another computer, multiple computers or networks. Here are some of the major recent cyber attacks and what we can learn from them.
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when.... . .
![]() In the arms race to improve census outreach, few have paid attention to a looming cybersecurity threat that exists because the census is going online.
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scary thought! . .
![]() Canoo redesigns the electric car from the ground up. It redesigns the ownership model too.
Al Cannistra's insight:
it kinda does look like my toaster.... same color too..... . .
![]() Court documents reveal previously unreported instances of the so-called “reverse search warrant”: court orders demanding that tech firms provide all the information on users in a certain geographic area at a certain time. While this tactic is relatively rare today, it holds the power to transform every internet-enabled gadget into a government tracking device.
Al Cannistra's insight:
where are we headed? scary! . .
![]() With all of the challenges that keep arising, is it possible the Boeing 737 Max could be grounded forever?
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or perhaps it will be one of the safest planes to fly.... . .
![]() One year ago, Microsoft began the doomsday countdown for Windows 7, promising to end support for the stubbornly popular operating system. Today, that clock hit zero, leaving millions of Windows 7 holdouts vulnerable to future security risks.
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the end was inevitable - farewell Windows 7 (but it is NOT disappearing) . .
![]() Benefits beyond physics
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New York Site for Electron-Ion Collider |
today - we will be saved by AI - won't we?
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