Nicholas Chaillan, the former software chief from the Pentagon, said in an interview published Monday that China has already won the artificial intelligence race with the U.S. and will likely further its lead in other technologies in the future. “We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years,” he told The Financial...
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CHINA/TAIWAN TENSIONS AT ALL-TIME WORST, COMMANDER SAYS
Taiwan’s top military official said last Wednesday that the country’s military “situation” is at its worst in four decades. Chiu Kuo-cheng’s comments came after China flew 150 aircraft near the island over the previous four days, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the rise of China and its growing influence in the region...
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CHARGER DELIVERS 60 MILES OF EV RANGE IN 3 MINUTES
A new electric vehicle charging station from global technology company ABB promises to solve two of drivers’ biggest EV concerns at once: fear of running out of juice between charging stations and having to wait half an hour or more while a booster charge trickles into the vehicle’s battery pack. ABB’s Terra 360 charger can...
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AIRBUS ACCEPTS THE CHALLENGE: IS A HYDROGEN-POWERED AIRLINER POSSIBLE?
Airbus, Europe’s largest aircraft builder, announced plans to begin building an all-hydrogen-powered passenger jetliner this decade and have it in service by 2035. The plan is part of the company’s commitment to converting to airplanes by 2050 that don’t give off carbon dioxide or other harmful emissions. Now Airbus has to face the hard realities...
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COMPUTERS THAT THINK LIKE WE DO
Conventional computers, even those running artificial intelligence programs, plod through calculations by sending ones and zeros along electronic pathways, one after the other. In contrast, the brains of mammals think and remember by activating networks of neurons, or brain cells, which then activate and communicate with similar networks across the brain. That’s what neuromorphic computers...
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FACE MASKS: ENOUGH ALREADY
By Michael J. Talmo It’s been over a year-and-a-half since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the battle over wearing masks is still going on. Who would have thought. Cities and school boards in some states like Florida are defying governors who got rid of mask mandates claiming that they have...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
A “TIK-TOK” WITH TOKENOMICS. Inspired by blockchain fueled gaming sensation Axie Infinity, Chingari, an Indian short-video sharing site, is looking to integrate blockchain “tokenomics” into its platform The firm announced on Friday that it has raised $19 million in financing to build its mainnet and hold a token sale for its Solana-based GARI token. The...
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THE EROTIC BLOCK
A few months ago one of the web’s larger platforms for independent adult content, OnlyFans.com, got blowback for banning explicit content—something on which their site was basically predicated. The ban, which turned out to be temporary, was the result of pressure by financial institutions including Bank of New York Mellon and JPMorgan Chase. Some are...
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A PERVERSION OF CRYPTOCURRENCY
As the U.S. and China, the two major global powers, grow more alike in their appetite for surveilling and controlling their own citizenries, China has decisively banned crypto and aggressively rolled out a digital Yuan. The U.S. is facing increasing pressures to come up with its own CBDC (Central Bank Digital currency). So what are...
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TECHNO EUGENICS: SUPERIOR BABIES JUST A POLYGENIC RISK SCORE AWAY
“Don’t tempt me Frodo. Understand that I would use this Ring from a desire to do good. But through me… it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine.” Gandalf, from J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord Of The Rings The siren song of power is always that it can be effectively wielded by good...