Rendering of the “knitter”Bloomberg’s Business Week – by Ashlee Vance

Elon Musk tantalized the world in August with his plans for the Hyperloop, a mode of travel that would blast people between cities at 800 miles per hour in capsules zipping through an above-ground tube. In a 58-page report, Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Motors (TSLA) and SpaceX, outlined his vision for the technology, which would use supercharged electric motors for propulsion. Musk’s paper called on the public to help refine the design and bring the Hyperloop to fruition. Armchair advisers have since arrived en masse.   Continue reading “Autodesk’s Idea to Knit the Hyperloop Out of Carbon Fiber”

Business Insider – by KIRSTEN ACUNA

Last weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” opening skit poked fun at the difficulty people had gaining access to the Obamacare HealthCare website.

In the skit below Kate McKinnon portrayed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in the cold open joking the site “was only designed to handle six users at a time.”   Continue reading “Here’s The ‘SNL’ Skit That Correctly Predicted How Few Users Would Sign Up For Obamacare”

Activist Post – by Chris Dougherty

NSA hacks Google. How could it affect you? Emails? Online searches? Think bigger…

Recently it was leaked that the National Security Agency tapped into primary overseas communication links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world. According to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the agency has access to raw data from hundreds of millions of Internet users, and many of them are Americans.   Continue reading “NSA Hacks Google, You Need To See The Bigger Picture”

An inmate looks out from his cell in the Secure Housing Unit (SHU) at Corcoran State Prison in Corcoran, California October 1, 2013.(Reuters / Robert Galbraith)RT News

A US federal court has released new video footage showing California prison guards repeatedly spraying mentally ill inmates with pepper spray in an apparent attempt to convince the prisoners to take their medication.

California policy requires officers in the Department of Corrections to film all cell extractions. The footage in question was played in court in October as part of an inmate’s lawsuit seeking to halt the use of pepper spray against the growing mentally ill prison population.    Continue reading “Graphic court video shows prison guards deploying pepper spray on mentally ill inmate”