What’s the coolest thing you’ve made at home? Meet the 26 year-old hack who built a self-driving car in his garage!
George Hotz, the first person to hack the iPhone, says he built a self-driving car in a month. How did he do it? Bloomberg’s Ashlee Vance went to Hotz’s home to find out… and took his retrofitted Acura for a test-drive. (Video by David Nicholson) -YouTube description
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Asgardia, a private ‘space nation’ founded by a group of scientists, is hoping to launch a data storage satellite that will be out of the reach of Earth’s regulations. “If Asgardia can find a launching country that is not a signatory to the space treaties, there are no international law…
With the recent commuting of Rod Blagojevich’s sentence, Trump has already been freeing up several of his buddies. Now, he’s implicated in one particular opportunistic pardoning scheme. According to Julian Assange’s lawyer, the founder of the notorious whistle-blowing website Wikileaks was allegedly offered a pardon by former Republican California U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher supposedly…
This Is The Net Neutrality Discussion You Were Looking For: Readers of the Libertarian Republic have been writing to us requesting to have a discussion about net neutrality. Today’s episode of the Freedom Report podcast examines the threat to the free market posed by further regulation, as well as examines possible solutions to the mess…
By Ramez Naam Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates have recently expressed concern that development of AI could lead to a ‘killer AI’ scenario, and potentially to the extinction of humanity. None of them are AI researchers or have worked substantially with AI that I know of. (Disclosure: I know Gates slightly from my…
With talk of Elizabeth Warren running for president, as well as our President’s recent (amazing) meme tweet, there seems to be plenty talk in recent days of DNA and DNA testing. What isn’t brought up too often though is the sinister truth of what these companies that test our DNA do with said information and genetic profiles of…
Chris White on May 3, 2019 Snoop Dog blasted Facebook in an Instagram post Thursday night after the social media giant banned Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan for promoting “hate.” Snoop Dog also instructed his 32 million followers to post Farrakhan videos on his Instagram ostensibly in a ploy to entice the big tech…
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