#techbrofascism — Public Fediverse posts
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The new #Epstein playbook: a state archive of every citizen’s movements, formatted for extortion. #Flock mutated from car-tracking to scanning bodies—tattoos, race, attire. Mapping your life in real-time isn’t crime-fighting; it’s stockpiling leverage. When anonymity dies, surveillance becomes blackmail. The infrastructure of total control is live #SurveillanceCapitalism #SusanKlopferTruth #ALPR #Privacy #Palantir #trump #thiel #lonsdale #musk #zuckerberg #techbrofascism
https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/
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The new #Epstein playbook: a state archive of every citizen’s movements, formatted for extortion. #Flock mutated from car-tracking to scanning bodies—tattoos, race, attire. Mapping your life in real-time isn’t crime-fighting; it’s stockpiling leverage. When anonymity dies, surveillance becomes blackmail. The infrastructure of total control is live #SurveillanceCapitalism #SusanKlopferTruth #ALPR #Privacy #Palantir #trump #thiel #lonsdale #musk #zuckerberg #techbrofascism
https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/
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The new #Epstein playbook: a state archive of every citizen’s movements, formatted for extortion. #Flock mutated from car-tracking to scanning bodies—tattoos, race, attire. Mapping your life in real-time isn’t crime-fighting; it’s stockpiling leverage. When anonymity dies, surveillance becomes blackmail. The infrastructure of total control is live #SurveillanceCapitalism #SusanKlopferTruth #ALPR #Privacy #Palantir #trump #thiel #lonsdale #musk #zuckerberg #techbrofascism
https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/
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The new #Epstein playbook: a state archive of every citizen’s movements, formatted for extortion. #Flock mutated from car-tracking to scanning bodies—tattoos, race, attire. Mapping your life in real-time isn’t crime-fighting; it’s stockpiling leverage. When anonymity dies, surveillance becomes blackmail. The infrastructure of total control is live #SurveillanceCapitalism #SusanKlopferTruth #ALPR #Privacy #Palantir #trump #thiel #lonsdale #musk #zuckerberg #techbrofascism
https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/
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The new #Epstein playbook: a state archive of every citizen’s movements, formatted for extortion. #Flock mutated from car-tracking to scanning bodies—tattoos, race, attire. Mapping your life in real-time isn’t crime-fighting; it’s stockpiling leverage. When anonymity dies, surveillance becomes blackmail. The infrastructure of total control is live #SurveillanceCapitalism #SusanKlopferTruth #ALPR #Privacy #Palantir #trump #thiel #lonsdale #musk #zuckerberg #techbrofascism
https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/
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Wire • Secure Messenger
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.wire#privacy #foss #security #safety #SurveillanceCapitalism #messaging #DataSovereignty #boycottusa #opensource #swiss #gdpr #activism #activist #AntiFascist #ngo #techbrofascism #techbroligarchy #google #apple #ios #microsoft #meta #boycottmeta #elbowsup
Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), world governments including Germany and militaries (including Canada's) and many agencies and large multinational organizations and NGOs that require secure and private communications rely on Wire.
The US Air Force uses it too, which means that Wire is what HEGSETH should've used instead when he caused signalgate (no shade on signal for that!).
It is free for personal use. It is Swiss, governed by Swiss privacy law. Cross platform, and works great on #grapheneos
https://wire.com/en/compare-wire-vs-alternatives
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Wire • Secure Messenger
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.wire#privacy #foss #security #safety #SurveillanceCapitalism #messaging #DataSovereignty #boycottusa #opensource #swiss #gdpr #activism #activist #AntiFascist #ngo #techbrofascism #techbroligarchy #google #apple #ios #microsoft #meta #boycottmeta #elbowsup
Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), world governments including Germany and militaries (including Canada's) and many agencies and large multinational organizations and NGOs that require secure and private communications rely on Wire.
The US Air Force uses it too, which means that Wire is what HEGSETH should've used instead when he caused signalgate (no shade on signal for that!).
It is free for personal use. It is Swiss, governed by Swiss privacy law. Cross platform, and works great on #grapheneos
https://wire.com/en/compare-wire-vs-alternatives
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Wire • Secure Messenger
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.wire#privacy #foss #security #safety #SurveillanceCapitalism #messaging #DataSovereignty #boycottusa #opensource #swiss #gdpr #activism #activist #AntiFascist #ngo #techbrofascism #techbroligarchy #google #apple #ios #microsoft #meta #boycottmeta #elbowsup
Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), world governments including Germany and militaries (including Canada's) and many agencies and large multinational organizations and NGOs that require secure and private communications rely on Wire.
The US Air Force uses it too, which means that Wire is what HEGSETH should've used instead when he caused signalgate (no shade on signal for that!).
It is free for personal use. It is Swiss, governed by Swiss privacy law. Cross platform, and works great on #grapheneos
https://wire.com/en/compare-wire-vs-alternatives
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Wire • Secure Messenger
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.wire#privacy #foss #security #safety #SurveillanceCapitalism #messaging #DataSovereignty #boycottusa #opensource #swiss #gdpr #activism #activist #AntiFascist #ngo #techbrofascism #techbroligarchy #google #apple #ios #microsoft #meta #boycottmeta #elbowsup
Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), world governments including Germany and militaries (including Canada's) and many agencies and large multinational organizations and NGOs that require secure and private communications rely on Wire.
The US Air Force uses it too, which means that Wire is what HEGSETH should've used instead when he caused signalgate (no shade on signal for that!).
It is free for personal use. It is Swiss, governed by Swiss privacy law. Cross platform, and works great on #grapheneos
https://wire.com/en/compare-wire-vs-alternatives
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Wire • Secure Messenger
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.wire#privacy #foss #security #safety #SurveillanceCapitalism #messaging #DataSovereignty #boycottusa #opensource #swiss #gdpr #activism #activist #AntiFascist #ngo #techbrofascism #techbroligarchy #google #apple #ios #microsoft #meta #boycottmeta #elbowsup
Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), world governments including Germany and militaries (including Canada's) and many agencies and large multinational organizations and NGOs that require secure and private communications rely on Wire.
The US Air Force uses it too, which means that Wire is what HEGSETH should've used instead when he caused signalgate (no shade on signal for that!).
It is free for personal use. It is Swiss, governed by Swiss privacy law. Cross platform, and works great on #grapheneos
https://wire.com/en/compare-wire-vs-alternatives
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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seize their fucking assets, they are parasites and conmen #aibubble
#techbrofascism #techbroscum #techbros #PeterThiel #ai #aiCon #trumpfascism -
seize their fucking assets, they are parasites and conmen #aibubble
#techbrofascism #techbroscum #techbros #PeterThiel #ai #aiCon #trumpfascism -
seize their fucking assets, they are parasites and conmen #aibubble
#techbrofascism #techbroscum #techbros #PeterThiel #ai #aiCon #trumpfascism -
seize their fucking assets, they are parasites and conmen #aibubble
#techbrofascism #techbroscum #techbros #PeterThiel #ai #aiCon #trumpfascism -
seize their fucking assets, they are parasites and conmen #aibubble
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@Joe_0237 Should have been pretty obvious to everyone that something shady would be going on with any kind of software or service that as "Google" in it's name.
Every software and security person should know that everything that has Google's fingerprints on it needs to be treated as hostile spyware unless definitively proven otherwise.
#Google #enshittification #techbros #techbrofascism #cyberpunk
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@Joe_0237 Should have been pretty obvious to everyone that something shady would be going on with any kind of software or service that as "Google" in it's name.
Every software and security person should know that everything that has Google's fingerprints on it needs to be treated as hostile spyware unless definitively proven otherwise.
#Google #enshittification #techbros #techbrofascism #cyberpunk
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@Joe_0237 Should have been pretty obvious to everyone that something shady would be going on with any kind of software or service that as "Google" in it's name.
Every software and security person should know that everything that has Google's fingerprints on it needs to be treated as hostile spyware unless definitively proven otherwise.
#Google #enshittification #techbros #techbrofascism #cyberpunk
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@Joe_0237 Should have been pretty obvious to everyone that something shady would be going on with any kind of software or service that as "Google" in it's name.
Every software and security person should know that everything that has Google's fingerprints on it needs to be treated as hostile spyware unless definitively proven otherwise.
#Google #enshittification #techbros #techbrofascism #cyberpunk
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Reminder, Thiel is an evil little miscreant.
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Reminder, Thiel is an evil little miscreant.
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Reminder, Thiel is an evil little miscreant.
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From 2017: #Google has finally found a buyer for its amazing, scary robot companies, #BostonDynamics and #Schaft: #SoftBank
The companies are not disclosing a price.
by April Glaser
Updated Jun 8, 2017, 10:07 PM EDT"Japan’s big-betting holding firm SoftBank is buying Boston Dynamics, one of the most highly regarded robotics labs in the world, from Google’s parent company #Alphabet for an undisclosed price.
"Google acquired Boston Dynamics in 2013 under the leadership of Andy Rubin, the co-inventor of #Android, who was leading a wave of acquisitions of robotics companies under the search giant.
"Boston Dynamics’ robots routinely make headlines, including a high-profile demo at this year’s TED conference. The company, led by CEO Marc Raibert, has made a robotic cheetah that can run 28 miles per hour, a robotic dog that it recently used to deliver packages to doorsteps in Boston, and most recently a massive legged and wheeled robot that can clear hurdles and walk down stairs.
"The firm has been hailed by other roboticists for its ability to blend hardware and #ArtificialIntelligence to make machines capable of dynamic, agile movements. Its most recent wheeled robot, Handle, can manipulate objects that are comparable to its own weight, and its four-legged, animal-like robots can maneuver over different types of terrain.
"One industry source said earlier this year that Boston Dynamics’ most recent machine 'changes the whole ballgame.'
"SoftBank is also buying Schaft, a Japan-based robotics firm that unveiled a bipedal walking robot last year, from Alphabet. A source close to the matter said Schaft, which was part of Google, never fully integrated into the company and operated as a sort of separate entity taking a different approach to robotics than the rest of Google.
"The deal makes sense for SoftBank, which has been working in robotics for years, having acquired a majority stake in the robotics company #Aldebaran in 2012. Aldebaran makes the humanoid robot Pepper, which is being used in retail and customer service settings throughout Japan, and increasingly in the U.S. SoftBank has also invested in related technologies, including buying chip design firm #ARMHoldings last year for more than $30 billion. SoftBank also led a $20 million investment round in #FetchRobotics, a company that makes warehouse logistics robots, in 2015.
"Rubin left Google in 2014 after driving a string of robotics acquisitions, which, sources have told Recode, left a number of the companies without much direction about what their role at Google would be.
"Prior to being acquired by Google, Boston Dynamics largely operated on military research contracts. Its humanoid #Atlas robot was used in #DARPA’s robotics challenge in 2015."
https://www.vox.com/2017/6/8/15766440/softbank-alphabet-google-robotics-boston-dynamics-schaft
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From 2017: #Google has finally found a buyer for its amazing, scary robot companies, #BostonDynamics and #Schaft: #SoftBank
The companies are not disclosing a price.
by April Glaser
Updated Jun 8, 2017, 10:07 PM EDT"Japan’s big-betting holding firm SoftBank is buying Boston Dynamics, one of the most highly regarded robotics labs in the world, from Google’s parent company #Alphabet for an undisclosed price.
"Google acquired Boston Dynamics in 2013 under the leadership of Andy Rubin, the co-inventor of #Android, who was leading a wave of acquisitions of robotics companies under the search giant.
"Boston Dynamics’ robots routinely make headlines, including a high-profile demo at this year’s TED conference. The company, led by CEO Marc Raibert, has made a robotic cheetah that can run 28 miles per hour, a robotic dog that it recently used to deliver packages to doorsteps in Boston, and most recently a massive legged and wheeled robot that can clear hurdles and walk down stairs.
"The firm has been hailed by other roboticists for its ability to blend hardware and #ArtificialIntelligence to make machines capable of dynamic, agile movements. Its most recent wheeled robot, Handle, can manipulate objects that are comparable to its own weight, and its four-legged, animal-like robots can maneuver over different types of terrain.
"One industry source said earlier this year that Boston Dynamics’ most recent machine 'changes the whole ballgame.'
"SoftBank is also buying Schaft, a Japan-based robotics firm that unveiled a bipedal walking robot last year, from Alphabet. A source close to the matter said Schaft, which was part of Google, never fully integrated into the company and operated as a sort of separate entity taking a different approach to robotics than the rest of Google.
"The deal makes sense for SoftBank, which has been working in robotics for years, having acquired a majority stake in the robotics company #Aldebaran in 2012. Aldebaran makes the humanoid robot Pepper, which is being used in retail and customer service settings throughout Japan, and increasingly in the U.S. SoftBank has also invested in related technologies, including buying chip design firm #ARMHoldings last year for more than $30 billion. SoftBank also led a $20 million investment round in #FetchRobotics, a company that makes warehouse logistics robots, in 2015.
"Rubin left Google in 2014 after driving a string of robotics acquisitions, which, sources have told Recode, left a number of the companies without much direction about what their role at Google would be.
"Prior to being acquired by Google, Boston Dynamics largely operated on military research contracts. Its humanoid #Atlas robot was used in #DARPA’s robotics challenge in 2015."
https://www.vox.com/2017/6/8/15766440/softbank-alphabet-google-robotics-boston-dynamics-schaft
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From 2017: #Google has finally found a buyer for its amazing, scary robot companies, #BostonDynamics and #Schaft: #SoftBank
The companies are not disclosing a price.
by April Glaser
Updated Jun 8, 2017, 10:07 PM EDT"Japan’s big-betting holding firm SoftBank is buying Boston Dynamics, one of the most highly regarded robotics labs in the world, from Google’s parent company #Alphabet for an undisclosed price.
"Google acquired Boston Dynamics in 2013 under the leadership of Andy Rubin, the co-inventor of #Android, who was leading a wave of acquisitions of robotics companies under the search giant.
"Boston Dynamics’ robots routinely make headlines, including a high-profile demo at this year’s TED conference. The company, led by CEO Marc Raibert, has made a robotic cheetah that can run 28 miles per hour, a robotic dog that it recently used to deliver packages to doorsteps in Boston, and most recently a massive legged and wheeled robot that can clear hurdles and walk down stairs.
"The firm has been hailed by other roboticists for its ability to blend hardware and #ArtificialIntelligence to make machines capable of dynamic, agile movements. Its most recent wheeled robot, Handle, can manipulate objects that are comparable to its own weight, and its four-legged, animal-like robots can maneuver over different types of terrain.
"One industry source said earlier this year that Boston Dynamics’ most recent machine 'changes the whole ballgame.'
"SoftBank is also buying Schaft, a Japan-based robotics firm that unveiled a bipedal walking robot last year, from Alphabet. A source close to the matter said Schaft, which was part of Google, never fully integrated into the company and operated as a sort of separate entity taking a different approach to robotics than the rest of Google.
"The deal makes sense for SoftBank, which has been working in robotics for years, having acquired a majority stake in the robotics company #Aldebaran in 2012. Aldebaran makes the humanoid robot Pepper, which is being used in retail and customer service settings throughout Japan, and increasingly in the U.S. SoftBank has also invested in related technologies, including buying chip design firm #ARMHoldings last year for more than $30 billion. SoftBank also led a $20 million investment round in #FetchRobotics, a company that makes warehouse logistics robots, in 2015.
"Rubin left Google in 2014 after driving a string of robotics acquisitions, which, sources have told Recode, left a number of the companies without much direction about what their role at Google would be.
"Prior to being acquired by Google, Boston Dynamics largely operated on military research contracts. Its humanoid #Atlas robot was used in #DARPA’s robotics challenge in 2015."
https://www.vox.com/2017/6/8/15766440/softbank-alphabet-google-robotics-boston-dynamics-schaft
#Terminator #TechBroFascism -
From 2017: #Google has finally found a buyer for its amazing, scary robot companies, #BostonDynamics and #Schaft: #SoftBank
The companies are not disclosing a price.
by April Glaser
Updated Jun 8, 2017, 10:07 PM EDT"Japan’s big-betting holding firm SoftBank is buying Boston Dynamics, one of the most highly regarded robotics labs in the world, from Google’s parent company #Alphabet for an undisclosed price.
"Google acquired Boston Dynamics in 2013 under the leadership of Andy Rubin, the co-inventor of #Android, who was leading a wave of acquisitions of robotics companies under the search giant.
"Boston Dynamics’ robots routinely make headlines, including a high-profile demo at this year’s TED conference. The company, led by CEO Marc Raibert, has made a robotic cheetah that can run 28 miles per hour, a robotic dog that it recently used to deliver packages to doorsteps in Boston, and most recently a massive legged and wheeled robot that can clear hurdles and walk down stairs.
"The firm has been hailed by other roboticists for its ability to blend hardware and #ArtificialIntelligence to make machines capable of dynamic, agile movements. Its most recent wheeled robot, Handle, can manipulate objects that are comparable to its own weight, and its four-legged, animal-like robots can maneuver over different types of terrain.
"One industry source said earlier this year that Boston Dynamics’ most recent machine 'changes the whole ballgame.'
"SoftBank is also buying Schaft, a Japan-based robotics firm that unveiled a bipedal walking robot last year, from Alphabet. A source close to the matter said Schaft, which was part of Google, never fully integrated into the company and operated as a sort of separate entity taking a different approach to robotics than the rest of Google.
"The deal makes sense for SoftBank, which has been working in robotics for years, having acquired a majority stake in the robotics company #Aldebaran in 2012. Aldebaran makes the humanoid robot Pepper, which is being used in retail and customer service settings throughout Japan, and increasingly in the U.S. SoftBank has also invested in related technologies, including buying chip design firm #ARMHoldings last year for more than $30 billion. SoftBank also led a $20 million investment round in #FetchRobotics, a company that makes warehouse logistics robots, in 2015.
"Rubin left Google in 2014 after driving a string of robotics acquisitions, which, sources have told Recode, left a number of the companies without much direction about what their role at Google would be.
"Prior to being acquired by Google, Boston Dynamics largely operated on military research contracts. Its humanoid #Atlas robot was used in #DARPA’s robotics challenge in 2015."
https://www.vox.com/2017/6/8/15766440/softbank-alphabet-google-robotics-boston-dynamics-schaft
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From 2017: #Google has finally found a buyer for its amazing, scary robot companies, #BostonDynamics and #Schaft: #SoftBank
The companies are not disclosing a price.
by April Glaser
Updated Jun 8, 2017, 10:07 PM EDT"Japan’s big-betting holding firm SoftBank is buying Boston Dynamics, one of the most highly regarded robotics labs in the world, from Google’s parent company #Alphabet for an undisclosed price.
"Google acquired Boston Dynamics in 2013 under the leadership of Andy Rubin, the co-inventor of #Android, who was leading a wave of acquisitions of robotics companies under the search giant.
"Boston Dynamics’ robots routinely make headlines, including a high-profile demo at this year’s TED conference. The company, led by CEO Marc Raibert, has made a robotic cheetah that can run 28 miles per hour, a robotic dog that it recently used to deliver packages to doorsteps in Boston, and most recently a massive legged and wheeled robot that can clear hurdles and walk down stairs.
"The firm has been hailed by other roboticists for its ability to blend hardware and #ArtificialIntelligence to make machines capable of dynamic, agile movements. Its most recent wheeled robot, Handle, can manipulate objects that are comparable to its own weight, and its four-legged, animal-like robots can maneuver over different types of terrain.
"One industry source said earlier this year that Boston Dynamics’ most recent machine 'changes the whole ballgame.'
"SoftBank is also buying Schaft, a Japan-based robotics firm that unveiled a bipedal walking robot last year, from Alphabet. A source close to the matter said Schaft, which was part of Google, never fully integrated into the company and operated as a sort of separate entity taking a different approach to robotics than the rest of Google.
"The deal makes sense for SoftBank, which has been working in robotics for years, having acquired a majority stake in the robotics company #Aldebaran in 2012. Aldebaran makes the humanoid robot Pepper, which is being used in retail and customer service settings throughout Japan, and increasingly in the U.S. SoftBank has also invested in related technologies, including buying chip design firm #ARMHoldings last year for more than $30 billion. SoftBank also led a $20 million investment round in #FetchRobotics, a company that makes warehouse logistics robots, in 2015.
"Rubin left Google in 2014 after driving a string of robotics acquisitions, which, sources have told Recode, left a number of the companies without much direction about what their role at Google would be.
"Prior to being acquired by Google, Boston Dynamics largely operated on military research contracts. Its humanoid #Atlas robot was used in #DARPA’s robotics challenge in 2015."
https://www.vox.com/2017/6/8/15766440/softbank-alphabet-google-robotics-boston-dynamics-schaft
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@caseynewton This does not surprise me. #Alphabet (#Google's parent company) was in bed with #DARPA for many, many years... #KillerRobots #Terminator #TechBroFascism
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@caseynewton This does not surprise me. #Alphabet (#Google's parent company) was in bed with #DARPA for many, many years... #KillerRobots #Terminator #TechBroFascism
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@caseynewton This does not surprise me. #Alphabet (#Google's parent company) was in bed with #DARPA for many, many years... #KillerRobots #Terminator #TechBroFascism
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@caseynewton This does not surprise me. #Alphabet (#Google's parent company) was in bed with #DARPA for many, many years... #KillerRobots #Terminator #TechBroFascism
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@caseynewton This does not surprise me. #Alphabet (#Google's parent company) was in bed with #DARPA for many, many years... #KillerRobots #Terminator #TechBroFascism
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Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff
The self-described free speech champion is not pleased that the public has learned the identities of his young henchmen
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-prosecutor-identities-doge-staff-1235255556/
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Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff
The self-described free speech champion is not pleased that the public has learned the identities of his young henchmen
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-prosecutor-identities-doge-staff-1235255556/
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Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff
The self-described free speech champion is not pleased that the public has learned the identities of his young henchmen
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-prosecutor-identities-doge-staff-1235255556/
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Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff
The self-described free speech champion is not pleased that the public has learned the identities of his young henchmen
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-prosecutor-identities-doge-staff-1235255556/
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Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff
The self-described free speech champion is not pleased that the public has learned the identities of his young henchmen
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-prosecutor-identities-doge-staff-1235255556/
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