Invisible Glass
More videos of people with coffee walking into doors of that stuff, please
Something to do with the refractive index of the glass and of the fluid (which may or may not be water)?
Exactly. You know, for when in the future when people live under seas of oil and need glass steps to walk on…
Sweet TCAS! We can make airliners go up-diddly-up whenever we want, say infosec researchers
Not only can malicious people make airliners climb and dive without pilot input – they can also control where and when they do so, research from Pen Test Partners (PTP) has found.
TCAS spoofing, the practice of fooling collision detection systems aboard airliners, can be controlled to precisely determine whether an airliner fitted with TCAS climbs or descends – and even to produce climb rates of up to 3,000ft/min.
Not that dangerous as long as competent pilots are at the controls, but damn.
Maybe a thing in Sydney? Here’s another:
Tom Cruise to increase in stature thanks to ISS jaunt? Now that’s a mission impossible
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has confirmed that sofa-jumping Top Gun star Tom Cruise is working with the agency on a film aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Yes, we had to check our calendars too, but we’d already done the Saturn V thing back on 1 April. Our sources have confirmed that Tom’s people, Elon’s people and Jim’s people are talking about a real space-based project for the Eyes Wide Shut star.
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We’re sure there are other tech moguls and billionaires that could do with being fired into space. We might even let some have a spaceship.
Uber, Lyft struck by sue-ball, no, sue-meteorite in California after insisting their apps’ drivers aren’t employees
Ride-sharing app makers Uber and Lyft have been hit with a massive lawsuit from the US state of California for failing to recognize their drivers as employees.
The Golden State is asking for $2,500 for each violation of its Unfair Competition Law, and up to another $2,500 for violations perpetrated against senior citizens or individuals with disabilities. The eventual bill could be massive, if the lawsuit succeeds.
If at first you don’t succeed… IBM finds Watson a new job: IT ops and cloud-to-the-edge computing in the 5G era
Since it burst onto the scene as a Jeopardy-winning AI in 2011, IBM’s Watson has been top of the league for interesting solutions in search of a problem.
Enter new IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and the company is ready to have another crack: this time it is talking up a mixed bag of IT ops, hybrid cloud, edge computing and 5G.
If “normal” equals “terrifying”, yeah, sure, that’s normal.
A bit of natural resonance and they’ll have a whole new problem…
Or aeroelastic flutter (see also: Galloping Gertie).
Erm, terrifying IS the new normal now, aye? (For me it sure is.)
Smells like phrenology.
