IBM and the Holocaust…." It was just business", they said
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Only after Jews were identified — a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately — could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for acomputer. Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed.
But IBM’s Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company’s custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of thispuzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.
IBM and its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, one by one, anticipating the Reich’s needs. They did not merely sell the machines and walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees and became the sole source of the billions of punch cards Hitler needed.
IBM and the Holocaust takes you through the carefully crafted corporate collusion with the Third Reich, as well as the structured deniability of oral agreements, undated letters, and the Geneva intermediaries — all undertaken as the newspapers blazed with accounts of persecution and destruction.
Just as compelling is the human drama of one of our century’s greatest minds, IBM founder Thomas Watson, who cooperated with the Nazis for the sake of profit.
Only with IBM’s technologic assistance was Hitler able to achieve the staggering numbers of the Holocaust. Edwin Black has now uncovered one of the last great mysteries of Germany’s war against the Jews — how did Hitler get the names?
a must see video: Launch 2012
Was Gavin Welby a secret son of the Rothschild's?…Are the Rothschild's mixed with the Kennedy bloodline?
Secret life of the Archbishop’s father: Justin Welby’s parent was ‘dependent on alcohol’, dated Vanessa Redgrave. . . and had an affair with JFK’s sister
The incoming Archbishop of Canterbury spoke of his shock yesterday after learning of his ‘alcohol-dependent’ father’s secret life.
Bishop Justin Welby found out that his enigmatic father Gavin Welby’s surname was changed by deed poll from his birth name of Weiler.
The son of a German Jewish immigrant, his father had disguised his real name and his roots.
A master of reinvention, he had spun a false tale pretending to be descended from English aristocracy in Lincolnshire.
The deception meant that, when Gavin Welby died in 1977, his unsuspecting son gave inaccurate details of the father’s name and birth on the death certificate.
The next leader of the Anglican Church has also learned that his father was married briefly during a stint living in America, before he returned to England and married the woman who became Dr Welby’s mother.
Dr Welby now even wonders whether he might have a secret brother or sister.
He was brought up by his father from the age of three, but knew little about his background until recently.
His father was born Bernard Gavin Weiler in Ruislip, West London, in 1910. The Weiler name was later changed to Welby to deflect rising anti-German sentiment.
Does MIT think they are Jesus by creating robotic people?
World first as blind man reads braille with his EYES, using revolutionary implant
- Implant placed in the back of the eye enabled patient to read braille with his eyes rather than by touch
- Implant contains electrodes, which when stimulated, represent braille letters
- New technique allowed man to ‘see’ and understand words in seconds rather than minutes
- Could be combined with video glasses and text-recognition software to read street signs or other documents not available in braille
A blind man has been able to read braille with his eyes rather than by touch using a revolutionary device, say scientists.
In a world first, researchers streamed the letter patterns to an implant at the back of the patient’s eye. This allowed him to ‘see’ words that he could interpret in seconds with almost 90 per cent accuracy.
The development could revolutionise how degenerative eye diseases are treated and help thousands of patients in the UK.
The new technique helps a blind person to ‘see’ and understand words in seconds rather than minutes
It builds on technology already licensed in Britain, which uses a small camera mounted on a pair of glasses along with a retina implant made up of a grid of 60 electrodes.
A processor on the glasses translates the camera signal into light patterns that – when sent to the implant – allows the patient to see rough outlines of objects.
Although the Argus II system works to a point, patients have found it impractical for reading, as words need to be in large font and can take minutes to interpret.
So researchers at the Californian company Second Sight came up with an alternative. Braille letters are made up using different raised patterns on a six dot cell. The researchers realised they could therefore bypass the camera by simply stimulating six of the 60 electrodes directly, allowing the blind person to ‘see’ the patterns.
Research leader, Dr Thomas Lauritzen, said: ‘Instead of feeling the braille on the tips of his fingers, the patient could see the patterns we projected and then read individual letters in less than a second with up to 89 per cent accuracy.
‘There was no input except the electrode stimulation and the patient recognised the braille letters easily. This proves that the patient has good spatial resolution because he could easily distinguish between signals on different, individual electrodes.’
[Top]Caution, I think illegal thoughts!
Minority Report becomes reality: New software that predicts when laws are about to be broken
- U.S. funding research into AI that can predict how people will behave
- Software recognises activities and predicts what might happen next
- Intended for use in both military and civilian contexts
Ever vigilant: All CCTV cameras can do these days is watch, but soon they could be able to predict when targets are about to break the lawAn artificial intelligence system that connects to surveillance cameras to predict when people are about to commit a crime is under development, funded by the U.S. military.
The software, dubbed Mind’s Eye, recognises human activities seen on CCTV and uses algorithms to predict what the targets might do next – then notify the authorities.
The technology has echoes of the Hollywood film Minority Report, where people are punished for crimes they are predicted to commit, rather than after committing a crime.
Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have presented a paper demonstrating how such so-called ‘activity forecasting’ would work.
Their study, funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, focuses on the ‘automatic detection of anomalous and threatening behaviour’ by simulating the ways humans filter and generalise information from the senses.
The system works using a high-level artificial intelligence infrastructure the researchers call a ‘cognitive engine’ that can learn to link relevant signals with background knowledge and tie it together.
The signals the AI can recognise – characterised by verbs including ‘walk’, ‘run’, ‘carry’, ‘pick-up’, ‘haul’, ‘follow’, and ‘chase’, among others – cover basic action types which are then set in context to see whether they constitute suspicious behaviour.
The device is expected to be used at airports, bus and train stations, as well as in military contexts where differentiating between suspicious and non-suspicious behaviour is important, like when trying to differentiate between civilians and militants in places like Afghanistan.
Tom Cruise in Minority Report: In the Hollywood film, Cruise’s character must go on the run after authorities predict he is about to commit murder`Project LOLA`….are the moon landings a hoax or a cover-up for a bigger project?!
NASA’s ingenious moon simulator that helped prepare Apollo astronauts to land where no one had gone before
How do you prepare to land a space craft on the surface of a moon that no one has ever gone to before?
One answer to that question lay in the development of NASA’s Lunar Orbit and Let-Down Approach Simulator (LOLA), which at the time set back the space agency $2 million.
The high-tech simulator was designed to represent the view an Apollo astronaut would see if they were looking at the lunar surface just prior to establishing orbit of the moon.
Project LOLA or the Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley Research Center to study problems related to landing on the lunar surface. It was a complex project that cost nearly $2 million dollars.
The pilot of the LOLA was sat atop a gantry staring at a detailed visual encounter with the lunar surface.
The machine was built to boast a cockpit, a closed-circuit television system and four large murals or scale models which represented portions of the lunar surface as seen from various altitudes.
The would-be astronaut in the cockpit simulator would have seen the cratered lunar surface track past him on a revolving conveyor-belt which was supposed to accustom him to the visual clues a pilot would see upon arrival at the moon.
Built at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, the LOLA was one of many projects dedicated to proving the success of the ambitious Apollo program announced by President Kennedy in 1961.
Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell would have sat in this early simulator while they accustomed themselves to the surface of the moon
The lunar surface for the simulator is laid out to be attached to the high rise board at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia
Comprising the Lunar Landing Research Facility and conceived in 1962 the gigantic centre was designed to help develop techniques to land the rocket powered lunar module onto the moon’s surface.
With only one-sixth of the Earth’s gravity experienced on the moon, piloting any craft to the surface would be unlike any other atmospheric descent before.
Another issue NASA scientists anticipated was the harsh light and glare created by the lack of an atmosphere and the simulator was tweaked to allow the astronaut pilots to experience these conditions.
[Top]Will Project Blue-Beam let us believe that the religions around the world coalesces in a supreme being from Mars?
Mars Rover Scientists Say They’re Sitting On A Discovery For The ‘History Books’
The scientists in charge of NASA’s Curiosity rover are sitting on some exciting, but not-yet-confirmed news, NPR’s Joe Palca reports.
The major discovery involves the biggest instrument on the Mars rover called the Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM.
The purpose of SAM is to determine what minerals and chemicals are in the sand, rocks and atmosphere of Mars by collecting and processing samples.
SAM ingested its first soil sample from a wind-blown patch of sand known as “Rocknest” on Nov. 9. Apparently, the results are very cool, and we guess, might provide some indication as to whether Mars was ever able to support life, which is the purpose of the entire two-year Curiosity mission.
John Grotzinger, the lead project scientist for the Mars mission, tells Palca, “this data is gonna be one for the history books. It’s looking really good.”
The reason NASA is staying tight-lipped about the new data is because SAM previously examined samples of the Martian air, sparking rumblings that their might be methane on Mars. But to much dismay, Curiosity turned up no methane, a that gas would have been a sign of life on the Red Planet.
Then there’s the “arsenic-life” debacle. In 2010, NASA made a huge deal over arsenic-eating bacteria found in a California lake. A press release sent out by the space agency before a news conference called the discovery “an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.” Well, it turns out the microbes didn’t only live on arsenic. The findings were debunked in a set of papers published in the journal Science in July.
[Top]"The World in 2030" by Dr. Michio Kaku (video)
I love the way Dr. Michio Kaku is explaining science…funny, simple and intelligent.
But don’t forget, Dr. Kaku is talking about the dark site of the future.
In his speech he is talking about how we are going to transform in to human robots…about time-travel and about the combination between technology and your health.
Dr. Kaku explains in this clip how dangerous the technology really is.
But you have to learn to listen between the lines…and that’s not so difficult when you know the history of technology and the existence of today’s technology.
At a certain point in the video he gives you an example about how to use future technology (the speech is from 2009), at a historical place like the ruins of a Roman city.
He speaks about glasses that will be connected to internet and has the ability to recreate the Roman city…that means that you are walking in a cyber-world, right at that moment.
Knowing the psyche of man…addiction to this way of life is not hard to imagine.
This example can be applied to almost anything because…people don’t want to life in a world without colors or nice smells and sounds.
After hearing his speech twice, that he brings with a funny and positive attitude, it’s impossible not to understand that the internet is a `war machine` and that we have to deal with a cyber-war…a war that is based on our own greed!
NO, I’m not against progress and technology…I’m against the meaning behind all of this.
I’m against the fact that people won’t use their own minds because their app’s took over!
Educate yourselves and learn to see their dark plans…see that you will be hooked up on the net 24/7.
Don’t walk into their deathtraps!
DON’T STOP THINKING!!!!
[Top]3D hologram conversations?…we are already living in a virtual world, so who needs a `real` human being to talk to
Get ready for mobile phones that BEND, stretch, and even fold into your wallet! Samsung unveils plan for smartphones with bendable screens ‘next year’
- Breakthrough made by the use of organic light-emitting diodes
- Samsung say new technology could be used in the S4
- Announcement comes as tech firms rush to innovate mobile devices
Next year could bring a new twist in the evolution of the smartphone.
Samsung are gearing up to produce flexible, unbreakable mobile phone screens that can be bent, twisted and even folded up and put in your wallet.
The South Korean tech giant reportedly has the flexible screens in the final stage of development and will be ready to ship them next year.
Bendy: Samsung is gearing up to produce the next generation of mobile phone screens that can be bent and twisted by early next year, according to reports
The breakthrough has been made by through the use of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), which are thin and can be put on flexible material such as plastic or metal foil.
Samsung is not the only company to have invested heavily in research into flexible screens using OLEDs. Companies including Japan’s Sony and LG Display, also of South Korea have launched prototypes.
However Samsung is the first to promise a launch date for the technology, with an unnamed source ‘familiar with the situation’ telling the Wall Street Journal they will ship in the first half of 2013.
Looking at the release dates of the company’s flagship smartphones, the S series, that suggests that the first device to feature the flexible screen technology could be the yet to be announced S4.
The company’s move to produce the flexible displays comes as smartphone and tablet makers search for ways to differentiate their products in a market where customers face a glut of almost identical products.
[Top]The rise of the machine is NOT over 20 years…it's NOW!!!!
The rise of the machine is NOT over 20 years…it’s NOW!!!!
Japan: http://youtu.be/-V-2sAJNXFE
Russia: http://youtu.be/xbGx6fcgxSU
America: http://youtu.be/gOkXRXZIFxs
Do you really believe that science stood still in the last couple of years?
Yes?…dumb sheep!…of cause not!
The rising of the machines not only DARPA but also IBM, MIT, NASA etc!
Are we going to be transformed in to robots?
Is this going to be the top layer of the future life-naut police state?
How long will it take for those lunatics to convince us that live pets are dangerous?…How long will it take before we all have “Re-Pets” in our homes instate of a real Boris the dog?
Are the life-nauts of Japan and DARPA’s war robots getting their artificial skin that can feel and heal itself? Are these robots our future Martians?
Are we going to have access to our own personal medical lab, while a virtual doctor is making a diagnose?
The big trade-in promotion of people to robots has begun!
Rise of the Machines: Autonomous killer robots ‘could be developed in 20 years’
- Militaries around the world ‘very excited’ about replacing soldiers with robots that can act independently
- U.S. leads the way with automated weapons systems, but drones still need remote control operator authorisation to open fire
- Human Rights Watch calls for worldwide ban on autonomous killing machines before governments start using them
Fully autonomous robots that decide for themselves when to kill could be developed within 20 to 30 years, or ‘even sooner’, a report has warned.
Militaries across the world are said to be ‘very excited’ about machines that could deployed alone in battle, sparing human troops from dangerous situations.
The U.S. is leading development in such ‘killer robots’, notably unmanned drones often used to attack suspected militants in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere.
Rise Of The Machines: The third instalment of the Terminator film franchise imagines the chain of events that leads to death-dealing computers taking over the planet using robot soldiers
Drones are remotely controlled by human operators and unable to kill without authorisation, but weapons systems that require little human intervention already exist.
Raytheon’s Phalanx gun system, deployed on U.S. Navy ships, can search for enemy fire and destroy incoming projectiles by itself.
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