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Dec 22, 2021

WIRED Peers Into the Future of Reality

Posted by in category: futurism

Two decades after ‘The Matrix,’ technologies have emerged that make us question what is real—in ways stranger, if less sinister, than the movie imagined.

Dec 22, 2021

Canada’s Project Arrow EV Benchmarked Against Tesla, Volkswagen

Posted by in category: transportation

The new vehicle is being developed by the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA), expected to debut in 2023.

Dec 22, 2021

UN talks adjourn without deal to regulate ‘killer robots’

Posted by in categories: drones, geopolitics, governance, robotics/AI, treaties

In Machinia, Damon learns that the robot uprising was the result of the weapons of war simply refusing to wage war. In the article that follows, the UN is already very concerned about autonomous weapons being deployed that do not require human governance. #war, #UN


GENEVA — Countries taking part in UN talks on autonomous weapons stopped short of launching negotiations on an international treaty to govern their use, instead agreeing merely to continue discussions.

The International Committee of the Red Cross and several NGOs had been pushing for negotiators to begin work on an international treaty that would establish legally-binding new rules on the machine-operated weapons.

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Dec 22, 2021

Cultivated seafood company announces first U.S. retail partners

Posted by in category: futurism

Wildtype, a startup creating sushi-grade cultivated salmon, has announced distribution agreements with SNOWFOX and Pokéworks.

Dec 22, 2021

Chinese spies have penetrated Taiwan’s military, case documents reveal

Posted by in categories: government, military

Taiwan’s spycatchers are battling a sustained Chinese espionage campaign. Even the security detail of President Tsai Ing-wen has been compromised.


The operation detailed in these documents shows how Beijing allegedly sought out commanders in the Taiwan military and induced them to become spies. It comes amid a series of convictions for military espionage in Taiwan in recent years. Those cases reveal that China has mounted a broader campaign to undermine the democratic island’s military and civilian leadership, corrode its will to fight, extract details of high-tech weapons and gain insights into defense planning, according to senior retired Taiwanese military officers and current counter-espionage agents, as well as former U.S. military and intelligence officers with experience in Taiwan.

Taiwan’s spycatchers are battling a campaign that has compromised senior officers at the heart of the island’s armed forces and government agencies, a steady stream of convictions handed down in the courts shows.

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Dec 22, 2021

Putin threatens “retaliatory military-technical” measures as standoff with U.S. and NATO over Ukraine escalates

Posted by in categories: electronics, military

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Moscow — President Vladimir Putin used some of his most direct language to date on Tuesday in his escalating standoff with the U.S. and its European allies. The Russian leader warned that if the U.S. and NATO do not halt what Moscow considers aggressive actions along the country’s border with Ukraine 0, Russia would respond in a “retaliatory military” manner.

“If the obviously aggressive line of our Western colleagues continues, we will take adequate, retaliatory military-technical measures [and] react toughly to unfriendly steps,” Putin told senior military officials during a meeting in remarks carried by Russian state TV. “I want to emphasize that we have every right to do so.”

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Dec 22, 2021

Returning Samples Collected by the Perseverance Rover from Mars to Earth

Posted by in category: space

A Sample Receiving Facility for returned samples from Mars to Earth should be built right now, for more info see.


The Design and Construction of the Sample Receiving Facility must start now.

Dec 22, 2021

Elon Musk Company News | Will Starship problems lead to SpaceX bankruptcy?

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space travel, supercomputing

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You are on the PRO Robots channel and in this video we invite you to find out what is new with Elon Musk, what has been done and what is yet to come. What are the difficulties with the Starlink project and why the problems with the launch of Starship may lead to the bankruptcy of SpaceX, what is new with Tesla, what new products will please the company next year — and this is not just about electric cars! All this and much more in this issue of news from Elon Musk!

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Dec 22, 2021

SpaceX ends the year

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability

SpaceX launches, more lawsuits for Tesla, Elon Musk will pay his taxes.


SpaceX completes two Falcon 9 missions in 15 hours, Tesla is hit with lawsuits from former employees and shareholders, Elon Musk is prepared to pay his taxes.

Dec 22, 2021

Swedish company offers a COVID pass that gets under the skin

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, health, mobile phones

Dystopian nightmare or a simple convenience? A Swedish company implanting microchips under the skin has is promoting its devices for use as a COVID-19 health pass in a country with thousands of early adopters.


Amanda Back uses her smartphone to scan a microchip implanted in her hand to reveal her health pass.