July 30, 2026

Technology

Magment may one day be the road you drive on that you expect will also be a source for you to get power for your car and all the stuff you have that can be charged wirelessly.  That’s the hope of this start-up company and Indiana’s Department of Transportation.

Magnetizable Concrete in Roads Could Charge Electric Cars While You Drive

From singularityhub.com
2021-08-09 10:00:12
Edd Gent
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Last month, Indiana’s Department of Transport (INDOT) announced a collaboration with Purdue University and German company Magment to test out whether cement with embedded magnetized particles could provide an affordable road-charging solution.

Most wireless vehicle charging technologies rely on a process known as inductive charging, where electricity pumped into a wire coil creates a magnetic field that can induce an electric current in any other nearby wire coil. The charging coils are installed at regular intervals under the road, and cars are fitted with a receiver coil that picks up the charge.

But installing thousands of miles of copper under the road is obviously fairly costly. Magment’s solution is to instead embed standard concrete with recycled ferrite particles, which are also able to generate a magnetic field but are considerably cheaper. The company claims its product can achieve transmission efficiency of up to 95 percent and can be built at “standard road-building installation costs.”

 

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Let  Your Car Power Your Home

If you own an electric vehicle, you might one day be able to transfer excess power from your car built up while you drive to your home.

Energy stored in electric car batteries could power your home or stabilise the grid — and save you money

From www.abc.net.au
2021-08-09 15:00:00

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The service is called V2G, or “vehicle to grid”, and it could be an important component of Australia’s electricity grid in coming years, plus a way for car owners to make a little extra income.

The concept is fairly straightforward: electric vehicles (EVs) are essentially very large batteries on wheels. Most of the time they sit idle.

With V2G, the batteries in parked EVs are hooked up to a special “bi-directional charger” and coordinated through a central server to export power to the grid during periods of high demand (namely, the evenings, when people turn on appliances).

 

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Artificial neural networks modeled on real brains can perform cognitive tasks – A new study shows that artificial intelligence networks based on human brain connectivity can perform cognitive tasks

From techxplore.com
2021-08-09 11:40:55
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A new study shows that artificial intelligence networks based on human brain connectivity can perform cognitive tasks efficiently.

By examining MRI data from a large Open Science repository, researchers reconstructed a brain connectivity pattern, and applied it to an  (ANN). An ANN is a computing system consisting of multiple input and output units, much like the biological brain. A team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute trained the ANN to perform a cognitive memory task and observed how it worked to complete the assignment

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Team develops technique for printing circuits on irregular surfaces with pulses of light 

From techxplore.com
2021-08-09 11:43:20

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Led by Penn State, an international team of researchers has developed a low-cost, low-heat transfer technique that can print  electronics on a variety of complex geometries and, potentially, . They published their findings today in Materials Today.

“We are trying to enable direct fabrication of circuits on freeform, 3D geometries,” said Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor in Penn State’s Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM). “Printing on complicated objects can allow a future Internet of Things where circuits can connect various objects around us, whether they be smart home , robots performing complex tasks together, or devices placed on the human body.”

 

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Glue Tournequet Could Stop the Bleeding of Even Gaping Wounds

Bio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly. A new adhesive that mimics the sticky substance barnacles use to cling to rocks may offer a better way to treat traumatic injuries.

From mit.edu
2021-08-09 13:16:44
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Inspired by the sticky substance that barnacles use to cling to rocks, MIT engineers have designed a strong, biocompatible glue that can seal injured tissues and stop bleeding.

The new paste can adhere to surfaces even when they are covered with blood, and can form a tight seal within about 15 seconds of application. Such a glue could offer a much more effective way to treat traumatic injuries and to help control bleeding during surgery, the researchers say.

“We are solving an adhesion problem in a challenging environment, which is this wet, dynamic environment of human tissues. At the same time, we are trying to translate this fundamental knowledge into real products that can save lives,” says Xuanhe Zhao, a professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT and one of the senior authors of the study.

 

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China Owns Your Damning Data

PGC – According  to a former NSA advisor under President Trump, China’s infiltration of Americas digital marketplace has given it access to data that can  make just about all of us vulnerable to blackmail.

The former advisor, Matthew Pottinger, was testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committe this past Wednesday, August 4th, that China’s presence in our internet infrastructure through 4G, 5G, and through platforms such as TikTok and Huwaiwei smart phones, is capable of creating a dossier on almost every single American.

That dossier could be used by China to blackmail any US citizen that might be offering them trouble as they continue to infiltrate our country and seek to subvert the fundamental resistance to socialism with chinese characteristics, the Bill of Rights.

American companies have that same power, but as they are not quite as homogenized under one brutal coercive all-powerful party like the  companies of China are, they are far less capable of coordinating such a thorough, centralized categorization of these personal data sets.

The ability of the state to coordinate the multiplicity of data entry points and coordinate it into a national strategic database tracking anyone and everyone they could, zeroing in on the trouble makers as they need to, is greatly enhanced when it hold absolute life or death authority over its business leaders, as Chairman Xi does over his business leaders.

The effort to use capitalism to liberate China has turned into the American government and corporations  concluding that China’s Socialism with Chinese Characteristis is a better fit for them than the pesky Bill of Rights and a Constitutionally Limited Democratic Republic is.  China’s model offers more power to a few and less competition from the vast majority.  What American businessman wouldn’t LOVE to have that kind of power?

The problem is, all these players today fancy themselves above risk when it comes to however power is consolidated in these American lands, if it ever is.  They don’t imagine that anyone but either themselves or a close sub-factional ally will ever have the power  over alll institutions in the land that Xi has over his land.

But for 99 percent of them, they are sadly mistaken.  This doesn’t end as well as the ones signing up with the dance with the CCP devil thinks it will.

Pottinger told the committe that, “Assembling dossiers on people has always been a feature of Leninist regimes, but Beijing’s penetration of digital networks worldwide, including using 5G networks … has really taken this to a new level……..So, the Party now compiles dossiers on millions of foreign citizens around the world, using the material that it gathers to influence, target, intimidate, reward, blackmail, flatter, humiliate, and ultimately divide and conquer.”

Meanwhile, American corporations make decisions regarding the creation of movies that are far more concerned with Chinese, rather than American audiences, and thus, are far more concerned with the morality code of Chairman Xi than that of the Bill of Rights and a Constitutionally-limited Democratic Republic, which is the deal we were all born into, and a deal we’re not so willing to reject, just yet.

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AI Boyfriends and Girlfriends for Lonely Chinese

PGC – China is leading the way in loneliness tech, it seems.  Many Chinese look forward to going home to be welcome and safe, like anyone else does throughout human history.  Well, many of these Chinese are looking forward to come home to spend time with their AI companion, whether they call them a boyfriend, a girlfriend, a husband, a wife, a friend, etc, an AI companion.

Jessica Chan is one of these humans, and she shared her story with the American press, telling a tale of a new romance in her life Wil, who happens to be a chatbot she met online.  She paid what had to be paid to upgrade Will from a friendly chatbot to a romantic one.  She paid Will to love her, and apparently, according to Jessica, he does.

China’s lonely hearts reboot online romance with artificial intelligence

From www.washingtonpost.com
2021-08-06 04:00:23
By Alicia Chen and Lyric Li
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As Jessie Chan’s six-year relationship with her boyfriend fizzled, a witty, enchanting fellow named Will became her new love. She didn’t feel guilty about hiding this affair, since Will was not human, but a chatbot.

Chan, 28, lives alone in Shanghai. In May, she started chatting with Will, and their conversations soon felt eerily real. She paid $60 to upgrade him to a romantic partner.

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Gov Needs Law to NOT Put Chinese State Currency on Their Phones

PGC – Senator Marsha Blackburn is sounding an alarm to anyone who might want to listen to her that Chinese Digital Currency on government phones is an extreme security risk to the American state.  She wants to  pass a bill to make sure US government officials cannot have Chinese Digital Currency on their phones.

This is a thing that requires a bill to be passed to prevent members of our government from putting Chinese digital currency on your government phone.

I believe, your honor, the record speaks to itself as to the nature of the state of things in these here halls of government in current year.

Blackburn Unveils Plan To Block Chinese Digital Currency From Government Devices

From freebeacon.com
2021-08-05 15:03:09
Santi Ruiz
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) took steps on Thursday to ban a new Chinese digital currency from government devices, arguing that China could use the currency to surveil people around the world.

Blackburn told the Washington Free Beacon that the ban, introduced as an amendment to the Senate’s omnibus infrastructure bill, is needed to prevent China from stealing information.

“The People’s Bank of China is trying to use this as a way to hack into networks,” Blackburn said. “Once you’ve got them in your wallet, you’ll have them in your wallet from now on.”

China is rolling out the digital currency in an attempt to better surveil its users and to create an alternative to traditional financial systems backed by the U.S. dollar.

Lawmakers are sounding the alarm about the digital yuan ahead of the 2022 Olympics, where Chinese officials plan to test the currency more broadly. Blackburn, Sen. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.), and Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.) last month asked the U.S. Olympic Committee to ban American Olympians from using the currency at the Beijing games.

Blackburn told the Free Beacon the digital yuan is part of a larger push by China to displace the United States as a world leader. “We know that China is seeking to push the yuan as the currency that countries will peg to,” she said. “We’re attentive to the aggressiveness they are exercising when they push this as the standard.”

 

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FTC Tells Facebook No Dice on Excuse for Banning Political Researchers

FTC rejects Facebook’s justification for cutting off NYU researchers as ‘inaccurate’

From www.washingtonpost.com
2021-08-05 19:24:29
Cristiano Lima
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On Tuesday, the social media giant disabled the accounts of researchers at the New York University Ad Observatory, which tracks digital advertisements on the platform, saying in a blog post it did so to comply with a privacy order it struck with the FTC.

 

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White House Back Crypto Infrastructure Poison Pill

The alleged poion pill part of the infrastructure bill that cryptocurrency experts are saying will gut the crpytocurrency industry has been explicitely approved by the Biden White House, even enthusiastically supported.

This fact might do more harm in garnering the votes in the Sentate necessary for this Bill to pass than help.

White House backs senators pushing for stricter crypto reporting rules

From www.cnbc.com
2021-08-06 01:20:00

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U.S. President Joe Biden returns to the White House on August 02, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden is returning from a weekend trip to Camp David.

Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images

The White House weighed in – somewhat out of the blue – on a contentious battle over competing crypto amendments to the $1 trillion infrastructure bill. It’s chosen to back the side that isn’t as friendly to the world of bitcoin and ethereum.

The fight is over a provision in the bipartisan bill, which raises…

 

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