One of Europe’s top hotels has admitted they had to pay thousands in Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack their electronic key system, locking hundreds of guests in or out of their rooms until the money was paid.
My name is Stanford Mings.
I am a survivor living in St. Thomas, USVI
I am broadcasting on all Social Media.
I will be at the Lindquist Beach (now called Smith Bay Beach)
some days at sometime…
… when the sun is highest in the sky.
If you are out there…
If anyone is out there…
I can provide food.
I can provide warm weather.
I can provide beer.
If there’s anybody out there…
… anybody…
Please.
You are not alone.
How do I not know this guy ?!
Since age 15 or so, the main goal of professor Jürgen Schmidhuber has been to build a self-improving Artificial Intelligence (AI) smarter than himself, then retire.
[via idsia.ch ]
MEPs have called for the adoption of comprehensive rules for how humans will interact with artificial intelligence and robots.
The report makes it clear that it believes the world is on the cusp of a “new industrial” robot revolution.
It looks at whether to give robots legal status as “electronic persons”.
Designers should make sure any robots have a kill switch, which would allow functions to be shut down if necessary, the report recommends.
Meanwhile users should be able to use robots “without risk or fear of physical or psychological harm”, it states.
Lorna Brazell, a partner at law firm Osborne Clarke, was surprised by how far-reaching the rules were.
But questioned the need to give future robots legal status.
[via BBC]
I finished listening to The Three-Body Problem (Unabridged) by Cixin Liu, narrated by Luke Daniels on my Audible app.
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Linus is my spirit engineer.
“I’m actually not a people person. I don’t really love other people. I love computers,” the legendary software engineer Linus Torvalds said in an interview with Chris Anderson at the TED conference.
People hear that I am technology consultant, and ask me to fix their computers. This is my questionnaire from now on.
Which brings up to the big question….
To repeat ……
Want to blame someone ?
#CRISPR
#Genetic Engineering
Jennifer Doudna, Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Two guys are running in different directions from something. One is chief engineer Scotty and the other is captain Kirk.
Who are you going to follow?
Our New Year’s guide to hacker-friendly single board computers turned up 90 boards, ranging from powerful media playing rigs to power-sipping IoT platforms.
Community backed, open spec single board computers running Linux and Android sit at the intersection between the commercial embedded market and the open source maker community. Hacker boards also play a key role in developing the Internet of Things devices that will increasingly dominate our technology economy in the coming years, from home automation devices to industrial equipment to drones.