Rare Griffon Vulture Saved With Help From an Israeli Military Drone
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Technology
Tech War With China?
Alexander Hall papundits.wordpress.com President Donald Trump’s WeChat executive order shows the war on Chinese subterfuge is bigger than just TikTok. Trump issued two different executive orders on Thursday evening: The “Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok” placed a ban on TikTok from being used
The High Costs and Low Benefits of Electric Vehicles
Duggan Flanakin papundits.wordpress.com The rush to decarbonize every nation in the world in one or maybe two decades reflects the “I want it all NOW!” philosophy imbued through modern education systems. Current and recent former students – and their teachers – demand a perfect world (since they can envision one)
Why Diversity Is Garbage (As an Ex-google Tech Lead)
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Letter from the North: July 20
Following on from my previous letter regarding China, there are now interesting developments in the UK. It has ditched Huawei from the 5G programme and is looking to remove Huawei’s influence from the current infrastructure over the next few years. The UK’s mobile providers are being banned from
Facebook Caves to Liberal Pressure and Agrees to Censor Trump
Corinne Weaver papundits.wordpress.com Corinne Weaver is a staff writer for MRC TechWatch and she works as a senior analyst for the Media Research Center at the NewsBusters site. As the Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow, her coverage on tech censorship, media bias, and pro-life issues have been cited
Uber, WeWork, Airbnb – How Coronavirus Is Bursting the Tech Bubble
John Colley Warwick Business School, University of Warwick A handful of technology companies have benefited from coronavirus. Amazon has profited handsomely, as have streaming and video conferencing platforms like Netflix and Zoom. But the pandemic has laid bare the shaky foundations of a number of other platforms that bill themselves
A Question of Trust
Val Hooper, Victoria University Gordon Anderson, Victoria University Stephen Blumenfeld, Victoria University Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s novel 1984 will relate to the menace of Big Brother watching their every keystroke and mouse click. For a growing share of the workforce that dystopian reality arrived while most of us
Smugmobile Owners Paid To Charge Cars Over The Holiday Weekend
The renewable energy pricing anomalies strike again. Not only does the long-suffering taxpayer shell out to windfarms operators to not produce electricity it appears they may be subsidising the smugmobile owners as well. When the ‘renewable utility companies have more electricity available than they need to meet demand, what do
The BFD Video: A Flock of Angry Birds Attack a 5G Tower
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Did You Hear the One About the Super Model and COVID-19?
No, not that sort of super model, the super computer model that was the basis for the lockdown which trashed the economy – that model. Apparently the decisions in New Zealand were based on models by a group called Te Punaha Matatini, a “Centre of Research Excellence” at Auckland University. Their
The Australian Government Launches Its Pandemic App
One thing that has been obvious about the response to the Chinese virus pandemic is how willing the public has been to co-operate with government restrictions that would normally be associated with totalitarian states. There have been some rumblings, particularly with over-zealous police fining people for anything from washing their
Scott Mclaughlin Wins First Indycar Race: Sort Of
Well anyone who likes a bit of sport knows that there isn’t much going on anywhere in the world at the moment. Football is cancelled, rugby is a goner, yachting, mountainbiking, skiing, all gone. But what about motor racing? Well sure, the actual belting around racetracks is right out,
Why Are We Calling It ‘Social Distancing’?
Katharine H. Greenaway University of Melbourne Alexander Saeri Monash University Tegan Cruwys Australian National University We are now a society at a distance. As of this week, New South Wales has closed restaurants, bars, gyms, and entertainment venues where people gather in large numbers. Victoria has similarly implemented a shut
OK, You Need to Just Chill, Not Netflix Too.
Reports out of Europe this week say that as a result of the lockdowns over there, too many people are using Netflix and YouTube, and as a result, the Internet is becoming overloaded and slow. As a result, YouTube and Netflix will temporarily reduce video quality in the United Kingdom
Even Bots Are Catching Coronavirus
Now that Facebook has sent home its human workers and all that’s left are Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow bots, a curious phenomenon has emerged. Tech giant Facebook recently admitted that it marked posts linking to genuine information and articles about the Wuhan coronavirus as spam, blaming a “bug