#technologie

La prima via “smart” della Romania
▻https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Romania/La-prima-via-smart-della-Romania-216113

In Romania Cluj-Napoca è tra le città che più ha creduto nella progettazione europea. Ed ha investito i fondi ottenuti soprattutto in sostenibilità e nuove tecnologie

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#avenir, quel temps d’attente ?
▻https://laviedesidees.fr/Avenir-quel-temps-d-attente.html

Le temps que nous vivons, celui de la transition climatique et énergétique, se caractérise par les sentiments d’urgence qui accompagnent l’attente. Quand les changements si souvent annoncés auront-ils lieu, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire ? Comment concilier le temps de l’attente et celui de l’action ?

#Philosophie #Histoire #Entretiens_vidéo #réchauffement_climatique #technologie #droit #Sciences

Diminuez le salaire des commissaires européens !

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UQZSUHp03A

Pour la guerre, l’Union européenne trouve toujours de l’argent.
Pour les travailleurs, c’est toujours un problème.
Le député européen du PTB Marc Botenga, qui vit – lui – avec un salaire moyen de travailleur, a donc proposé de diminuer les salaires des commissaires européens pour les reconnecter à la vie réelle.

Ce qui ne leur a pas plu.

#privilégiés #privilèges #inégalités #politique #ue #union_européenne #commission_européenne #commissaires_européens #europe bonne #soupe et belle #gamelle #députés #corruption #PTB #guerre #ukraine #Marc_Botenga

Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, Les lumières et les ombres de la science, 2010 – Et vous n’avez encore rien vu…
▻https://sniadecki.wordpress.com/2022/04/21/levy-leblond-lumieres

De façon générale, les conditions de vie, tant domestiques que sociales, sont bien plus proches au XVIIIe siècle de ce qu’elles étaient dans l’Antiquité que de ce qu’elles seront au XXe siècle, et ce, dans tous les domaines – éclairage, hygiène, transports, nourriture, etc. Aussi n’est-il guère surprenant que les hommes des Lumières soient nettement plus réservés quant au progrès technique et surtout quant à son lien avec le progrès scientifique que ne l’étaient les protagonistes de la révolution scientifique au siècle précédent.

[…]

Ce n’est qu’à l’extrême fin du siècle des Lumières, une fois celles-ci bien passées de mode, que la science va rattraper puis commencer à guider les techniques, avec, par exemple, la nouvelle chimie de Lavoisier, Priestley, etc., qui fécondera rapidement l’industrie des colorants, des engrais et des explosifs. Et c’est à ce moment d’ailleurs – celui de la Révolution française très précisément, lorsque la bourgeoisie industrieuse s’empare du pouvoir – que commencera à être réaffirmée avec force la vocation appliquée des sciences.

[…]

Réalise-t-on assez qu’il y a moins de deux siècles encore, seules nous éclairaient (mal !) des flammes ? Et que nous étions entourés d’obscurités peuplées d’ombres, mobiles et instables, projetées sur les murs et dans les rues ? La littérature, celle de l’époque, ou celle d’aujourd’hui quand elle rend compte de ce passé, en témoigne éloquemment.

De la caverne de Platon aux histoires de fantômes, ces revenants du royaume des ombres errantes, une part essentielle de notre culture reflète encore ce temps désormais achevé. C’est donc tout récemment que la lumière a été véritablement domestiquée. Car l’électricité a tout changé : plus de flammes, dangereuses, voraces et vacillantes, mais des sources lumineuses stables, alimentées en permanence par un réseau général, et commandées à distance – et des ombres fixes, ou absentes. Dans son Éloge de l’ombre, Tanizaki montre la commotion qu’a représenté l’éclairage électrique pour la culture japonaise, où les espaces d’habitation sont structurés par de subtils et graduels passages de la lumière du jour à la pénombre

[…]

Crue et brute, la lumière électrique est bien celle du XXe siècle, cruel et brutal.

#Lumières #encyclopédie #D'Alembert #connaissances #Science #curiosité #technologie #électricité #lampe

Ubisoft : Bigger Isn’t Always Better In Game Design - GameSpot
▻https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ubisoft-bigger-isnt-always-better-in-game-design/1100-6502496

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“No part of a game should be driven by ’more is better.’ This is technology, and that does not dictate what games you build, but there are games that will definitely benefit from being bigger, more detailed, being able to scale and being greater than they are today,” he said. “I don’t think there’s a real connection between games being bigger and them being better or worse. It depends on the creators and how they want to spend their energy achieving their vision.”

Ubisoft’s new Scalar technology is a cloud-based production tool for developers to build games faster, more efficiently, and at a scale previously impossible, according to Ubisoft. But what does this look like in practice? We still don’t know, and Ubisoft’s team in Stockholm isn’t ready to show the fruits of its labor on its new IP using the technology.

Ubisoft Aiming To Make Games With « Limitless » Worlds Thanks To New Tech Scalar - GameSpot
▻https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ubisoft-aiming-to-make-games-with-limitless-worlds-thanks-to-new-tech-scalar/1100-6501642

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As part of the 2022 Game Developers Conference, Ubisoft has announced a new game development technology that the Assassin’s Creed giant says will allow the company’s teams to create “limitless” worlds. Ubisoft Scalar is the new “cloud-native” technology, and it’s already being used by Ubisoft’s teams in Stockholm, Sweden and other offices around the globe.

Si je comprends bien, Ubisoft développe la technologie Scalar qui permet de faire des jeux d’une taille encore jamais vue, tout en annonçant qu’il n’y a aucun intérêt à faire des jeux de grande taille ?

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #ubisoft #développement #technologie #scalar #ubisoft_scalar #ubisoft_massive #ubisoft_redlynx #ubisoft_production_technology #microservices #guillemette_picard

Retour de la navette électrique autonome de Bertolami en Vallée de la Drôme
▻https://ricochets.cc/Retour-de-la-navette-electrique-autonome-de-Bertolami-en-Vallee-de-la-Drom

C’est le grand retour de la génialissime navette autonome de Bertolami and co : Sur le Daubé, on apprend que la navette électro-numérique autoguidée veut revenir s’expérimenter sur les routes de la Vallée de la Drôme : Une flotte de navettes autonomes va partir à la conquête de la vallée de la Drôme Des infos sur cet engin sur le site du constructeur Bertolami : ▻https://navette-autonome.fr ▻https://navette-autonome.fr/deploiement/val-de-drome Bertolami a des agences à Valence, Romans et St Donat (...) #Les_Articles

/ #Technologie, #Ecologie

▻https://www.ledauphine.com/environnement/2022/03/30/la-navette-autonome-beti-se-multiplie
▻https://www.voyages-bertolami.fr/coordonnees/coordonnees
▻https://www.voyages-bertolami.fr

Sabotage de la production de deux géants des semi-conducteurs à Villard-Bonnot, en Isère
▻https://ricochets.cc/Sabotage-de-la-production-de-deux-geants-des-semi-conducteurs-a-Villard-Bo

Les calamités électorales ne sont pas le seul événement du moment : Sabotage de la production de deux géants des semi-conducteurs à Villard-Bonnot, en Isère (...) L’incendie rappelle celui ayant touché la société ST Micro à Crolles, ce lundi 4 avril. Le lien entre les deux événements a été fait, annonce Eric Vaillant, le procureur de Grenoble. La section de recherches de la gendarmerie a été saisie. Ce mardi matin, de la fumée se dégageait encore des câblages incendiés, le pont de Brignoud étant fermé à la (...) #Les_Articles

/ #Technologie, #Résistances_au_capitalisme_et_à_la_civilisation_industrielle

▻https://mars-infos.org/sabotage-de-la-production-de-deux-6302

Workers Have Been Fighting Automation Ever Since Capitalism Began
▻https://jacobinmag.com/2022/04/automation-capitalism-technology-glassblowers-craftsmen-workers

8.4.2022 by Alison Kowalski - The history of capitalism is one of constant revolution in the way goods are produced, transported, and sold. Every turn of the wheel has dramatic implications for workers who may find their bargaining power and livelihoods dissolving virtually overnight. The shift away from coal as an energy source left mining communities high and dry; the use of standardized shipping containers helped employers to break the strength of dockers’ unions.

It’s hard now to imagine a world without cheap, mass-produced glass bottles. Anyone who visits a supermarket or a grocery store will see shelves groaning with them. But the story of how they came to be so ubiquitous and unremarkable is also a story of how capitalists use new technology to gain control over their workers. At a time when the shadow of automation hangs over so many workers, this is a very modern tale.

Before plastic was an option, before Tetra Paks and pop-top cans, one of the best ways to store liquid was in glass bottles. Since antiquity, people had used them to preserve olive oil and wine. In nineteenth-century America, glass bottles were a choice container for commercial writing ink, shoe polish, and whiskey.

Demand for bottles skyrocketed in the late 1800s after railroads stretched across the country, allowing for unprecedented distribution of goods. The market flooded with branded and patented products, from Coca-Cola to Dr Shoop’s Cough Remedy. To maximize sales, all these competing sodas and snake oils had to be bottled by the thousands and shipped around the nation.

However, these bottles weren’t made by the massive iron, steam-spewing machines we might associate with the industrial era. They were made by hand with the same techniques used by artisans in ancient Rome, requiring simple tools, dexterous hands, strong muscles, and powerful lungs.

First, a metal blowpipe was dipped into a furnace to gather a precise amount of molten glass. Next, a mold was closed over the glass gob and air was blown into the pipe, inflating the gob to fill the mold. Finally, the mouth of the bottle was shaped using hand tools.

The process may sound simple enough. In reality, however, it was no mean feat to maneuver a long unwieldy pipe unbalanced by a red-hot blob on the move, quickly coaxing it into shape without ever actually touching it. In nineteenth-century America, glassblowers were so skilled and so hard to come by that entrepreneurs sent agents to Europe to scout talent and lure them overseas.

These sought-after workers were some of the highest-paid artisans in the United States, earning as much as two-thirds more than other skilled artisans. In the 1890s, bottle blowers commonly earned well over $100 a month — the equivalent of over $3,000 today.

The high cost and limited supply of glassblowers irked entrepreneurs who were eager to fulfill the ever-growing demand for glass bottles. With automation pervading all sorts of industries, from agriculture to newspaper publishing, the obvious remedy was some sort of machine that could reduce labor and increase output. Despite efforts to mechanize the glassblower’s work, and progress made in fits and starts, no machine found commercial success or destabilized the centuries-old hand traditions in the nineteenth century.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, in Toledo, Ohio, Michael J. Owens patented a machine that changed glass-bottle production forever. A first-generation Irish American, Owens had begun working in the glass industry as a child laborer at the age of ten, shoveling coal into the furnace. At fifteen, he worked his way out of the unskilled ranks to become a glassblower.

By the time he was in his thirties, in the 1890s, he had climbed a long ladder and landed a position as factory superintendent at the Libbey Glass Company. Shortly thereafter, with financial backing from his boss Edward Drummond Libbey, Owens tackled the problem troubling glass entrepreneurs.

After years of trial and error, in 1903 Owens unveiled what would become the first commercially successful automatic bottle-making machine. In the following decades, he introduced a series of newer models, each reducing labor and increasing productivity, and went on to make millions of dollars.

The largest of the Owens machines was more than sixteen feet wide and weighed more than seventeen elephants. A cylindrical agglomeration of pipes, pumps, and levers, it rotated above a pool of molten glass. Fifteen radial arms pumped down to dip into the pool and suck up just enough glass to make a single bottle. Each arm then rapidly blew a bottle to shape with a series of molds and compressed air.

The machines Owens patented ran twenty-four hours a day, requiring only a modicum of low-wage labor, and no artisans. They transformed the industry. A single one could produce as many bottles as fifty glass workers.

In 1905, before the machines infiltrated the industry, there were nine thousand glass bottle artisans in the United States. By 1917, the number had dwindled to two thousand, at which point Owens machines made half of all glass containers in the country. By 1920, they had displaced most bottle artisans, forcing them into jobs classified as unskilled. Among the unskilled ranks were operators of Owens machines, who worked longer hours and earned two-thirds less a day than glassblowers.

It’s tempting to accuse the machines of obliterating the craft of bottle making. Before we jump to that conclusion, we need to think about what we mean when we use the word “craft,” and why we lament the loss of handwork at the expense of mechanization. In the modern sense of the word, craft typically implies a degree of freedom, creativity, and autonomy. You might think of a craftsperson as someone who has a say in what they make, what it looks like, and how they make it.

Glass bottle artisans had none of these allowances, even before machines entered the workshop. Glassblowers worked in teams because the work was nearly impossible to do alone. Before 1870, a team usually consisted of one skilled artisan and two boy assistants. Thereafter, to increase productivity, employers divided labor so that three skilled artisans and three or four boys made a single bottle together.

The boys were used for the unskilled tasks, like opening and closing the molds, carrying finished bottles to a cooling area, and cleaning blowpipes. Workers made the same products day after day. In a ten-hour shift, a team of six made up to 2,880 identical beer bottles.

Handling hot viscous glass was dangerous work, done in the sweltering heat of furnaces exceeding two thousand degrees Fahrenheit. The real experience of these glass workers lacks the romance we might associate with artisanal labor.

Nonetheless, throughout the nineteenth century, glassblowers were able to maintain relatively high wages and a say in how they worked because their skills were so valuable and rare. Organized labor played a key role in this, with unions fighting to counter the perpetual push by employers to lower costs, increase output, and gain ever greater control over production. Before their work was automated, glassblowers had power if not the upper hand in their relationship with their employers.

There is a confounding twist in the biography of Michael J. Owens himself. He had been one of the most forceful leaders in a national glass union before rising to white-collar ranks. The machines he patented irrevocably wrested control from those he had previously fought alongside.

For the glassblowers who managed to keep their positions in the decades after the Owens machines disrupted hand production, circumstances deteriorated. Unions accepted lower wages year after year in a desperate effort to maintain a small foothold in the industry. Glass workers also gave up the long-held custom of “summer stop,” when glass factories shut down for the two hottest months of the year because work conditions were intolerable.

Mechanization, in the hands of Owens, made the skills of bottle artisans obsolete, robbing them of their value and leverage in a capitalist economy. Well before the hand was up against the machine, the worker was up against the capitalist. Automation tipped the scale.

Most writers who have recounted the history of glass bottle making in the United States have not been concerned with the workers or the idea of craft. Since the early twentieth century, accounts have largely focused on Michael J. Owens, praising him for revolutionizing glass bottle production.

Recent popular history books (and some academic ones) still portray him as a brilliant inventor and a self-made man. Despite being born into poverty, the story goes, Owens picked himself up by his bootstraps, worked hard, and took advantage of the fruits of industrial capitalism. It’s the stuff of American Dreams.

The tale has been told on local public television in Ken Burns–style documentary shorts and on the website of an Ohio community college named after Owens. His legacy also lives on through the business he founded in 1903 to license the rights to his bottle machines. The company is still around today, now called O-I (short for Owens-Illinois, the company’s name as of 1929), and is headquartered just outside Toledo.

The corporation’s reach has only grown since Owens was at the helm. A Fortune 500 company, O-I is the world’s largest manufacturer of glass containers. To make our wine bottles and jam jars, the company employs 26,500 people in twenty-three countries across four continents. O-I’s sprawl around the globe has carried with it the Owens tale, promoted as the company’s origin story throughout the O-I website and YouTube channel.

This version of the story is more myth than history. Economic historian Warren Scoville offered a more measured account seventy-five years ago in his book Revolution in Glassmaking. Scoville’s research showed that Owens was the one who managed to procure capital to fund engineering experiments and then fabricate and patent the machine, but the machine itself was a group effort.

His background as a glassblower was critical, giving him the material knowledge necessary to translate handwork into machine work. But the knowledge of the engineers with whom he collaborated was equally vital. Typically, Owens would come up with a vague idea and leave it to his engineering team to see if his vision could be worked out.

On top of this, the first automatic machine Owens patented, the one that is memorialized for igniting the revolution, relied on three recent inventions developed by other people. The novel thing about his patent was that it brought these earlier innovations together into a single automated machine.

It was also novel that he patented it. US patent law is premised on and fosters the myth of the lone inventor, according to legal scholar Mark A. Lemley. The law assumes that inventions are the products of individuals: a patent is filed by and awarded to one person, who then controls who is allowed to use the technology, and collects profits made off it. That person is also the one who goes down in the annals as the inventor.

In defiance of this legal logic, innovation tends to be both collaborative and incremental. The vast majority of significant modern inventions have been the result of teams working together to take a critical step that stood on the shoulders of previous developments. Usually, the inventions we remember as revolutionary are the ones that made an emerging technology practical and commercially viable.

Such was the case with Owens and his bottle machines. He secured his place in popular history and made his millions by obtaining patents, thereby legally controlling who could use the technology. US law empowered Owens to monopolize bottle production.

According to the Owens myth, not only was he a scrappy genius, but his machines helped put an end to child labor in the glass industry. The notion of machines as labor liberators is flawed in multiple ways. His machines — the ones that changed the industry — first and foremost replaced the highly skilled and highly paid glassblowers. These artisans were the real problem for capitalists, not the low-wage, unskilled assistants.

Labor historian Timothy Messer-Kruse has shown that the early Owens machines relied on more child laborers than had been the case for hand production. In the 1910s, the number of child laborers in the glass industry began to go down, but not necessarily because of mechanization. Rather, these declining numbers correlate with the introduction of Progressive Era child labor laws. The glass industry was an obvious target for Progressive reformers because it employed three times more children than the average industry.

In fact, Owens was a vocal supporter of child labor. In 1922, he told The American Magazine:

Young or old, work doesn’t hurt anybody. . . . One of the greatest evils of modern life is the growing habit of regarding work as an affliction. When I was a youngster, boys wanted to work. . . . In the factory, I went through all the jobs which boys performed; and I enjoyed every bit of the experience. . . . The hard work I did as a boy never injured me.

Rather than being a beneficent industrialist who cared about the well-being of his workers, Owens had long prioritized productivity and profit over such considerations. In the early 1890s, shortly after his promotion to factory superintendent at Libbey Glass, his mold boys (the child workers who opened and closed the molds) went on strike. Instead of negotiating with them, Owens enlisted a blacksmith to develop a tool that could replace them. This was his first foray into mechanization, after which he soon set his sights on automating the artisans’ work.

Eliminating children from a workforce, whether they were displaced by laws or machines, did not address the reason those boys had to work in the first place. When the children lost their jobs, they didn’t take home a severance package that could buy their families food, shelter, and clothing.

Michael J. Owens is by no means a household name like Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, or other figures mythologized as benevolent capitalists, self-made industrialists, or lone inventors. But cities all over the country have their own equivalents of Owens — Great Men believed to have brought wealth and renown locally while contributing toward the greater march of technological and social progress.

Those who perpetuate the Owens myth today — corporate mouthpieces, writers, historians, archivists, and educators — can’t resist giving us a hero. The message they relay, however, is not the only one preserved in the history of glass bottles. A closer look at what remains from the past makes it plain that Owens was able to overpower and overshadow artisans, laborers, and engineers not because he worked harder or was more intelligent than them, but because capitalism enabled him to do so.

About the Author

Alison Kowalski is a historian who studies design and material culture from the late nineteenth century to present day.

#USA #Kapitalismus #Lohn #Profit #Produktivität #Arbeitslosigkeit #Wissenschaft #Fortschritt #Technologie #Disruption

City Sample in Engine Feature Samples - UE Marketplace
▻https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/city-sample
▻https://cdn1.epicgames.com/item/ue/City_05_Featured_v1_894x488-77e52accd4ab5e449293a618df211a71

This downloadable project reveals how the city scene from The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience was built and demonstrates how we used Unreal Engine 5 to bring it to life.

The City Sample is a free downloadable sample project that reveals how the city scene from The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience was built. It consists of a city, complete with buildings, vehicles, and crowds of MetaHuman characters. The project demonstrates how we used new and improved systems in Unreal Engine 5—including World Partition, Nanite, Lumen, Chaos, Rule Processor, Mass AI, Niagara, MetaHumans, MetaSounds, and Temporal Super Resolution—to create the experience.

Designers and developers alike can use this playground to explore how to use Unreal Engine 5 to create expansive and engaging environments.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #développement #technologie #démo #démo_technologique #téléchargement #gratuit #unreal_engine #unreal_engine_metahuman #unreal_engine_world_partition #unreal_engine_nanite #unreal_engine_lumen #unreal_engine_chaos #unreal_engine_rule_processor #unreal_engine_mass_ai #unreal_engine_niagara #unreal_engine_metahumans #unreal_engine_metasound #unreal_engine_temporal_super_resolution #the_matrix_awakens_un_unreal_engine_5_experience

La promesse illusoire de la conduite high-tech
▻http://carfree.fr/index.php/2022/04/06/la-promesse-illusoire-de-la-conduite-high-tech

« Les bases ont été posées pour une autonomie totale, » annonçait #elon_musk en 2016, lorsqu’il assurait au monde entier que #tesla aurait une flotte de voitures sans conducteur sur les Lire la suite...

#Fin_de_l'automobile #Livres #critique #futur #industrie #technologie #voiture_autonome

“Can it run Doom” will never be the same, thanks to new ray-tracing mod | Ars Technica
►https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/04/doom-1-1993-gets-full-ray-tracing-dlss-support-in-fan-made-patch

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Since the launch of Quake II RTX in 2019, fans have kept their eyes peeled for similar ray- and path-tracing updates for other classic ’90s shooters. It’s fertile upgrade territory, since modern machines push vanilla versions of Doom and Quake to over 1,000 fps by default—that’s wiggle room for computationally expensive lighting techniques—but those games’s official handlers haven’t really moved the ray-tracing needle.

Instead, Friday’s good news comes from the Doom community: The first three episodes of Doom 1 (1993) can now be played with top-to-bottom ray tracing enabled. Yes, I know, I see the date at the top of this article, but I swear: I installed and tested Doom within the new PRBoom+RT engine, and the results have not only looked quite good but felt surprisingly performative.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #jeu_vidéo_doom #jeu_vidéo_prboom_rt #jeu_vidéo_quake_ii_rtx #culture #histoire #performance #ray-tracing #technologie #développement #mod #nvidia_dlss #amd_fsr #fps #first_person_shooter

Drone Terror from Turkey. Arms buildup and crimes under international law - with German participation

In Kurdistan, Libya or Azerbaijan, Turkish “#Bayraktar_TB2” have already violated international law. Currently, the civilian population in Ethiopia is being bombed with combat drones. Support comes from Germany, among others.

For almost two decades, companies from the USA and Israel were the undisputed market leaders for armed drones; today, China and Turkey can claim more and more exports for themselves. Turkey is best known for its “Bayraktar TB2,” which the military has been using since 2016 in the Turkish, Syrian and now also Iraqi parts of Kurdistan in violation of international law. In the four-month #Operation_Olive_Branch in Kurdish #Rojava alone, the “TB2” is said to have scored 449 direct hits four years ago and enabled fighter jets or helicopters to make such hits in 680 cases. It has a payload of 65 kilograms and can remain in the air for over 24 hours.

The Turkish military also flies the “#Anka”, which is also capable of carrying weapons and is manufactured by #Turkish_Aerospace_Industries (#TAI). In a new version, it can be controlled via satellites and thus achieves a greater range than the “#TB2”. The “Anka” carries up to 200 kilograms, four times the payload of its competitors. The newest version of both drones can now stay in the air for longer than 24 hours.

Drone industry is dependent on imports

The “Anka” is also being exported, but the “TB2” is currently most widely used. The drone is manufactured by #Baykar, whose founder and namesake is #Selçuk_Bayraktar, a son-in-law of the Turkish president. The “TB2” also flew attacks on Armenian troops off #Nagorno-Karabakh, for the Tripoli government in Libya and for Azerbaijan; there it might have even - together with unmanned aerial vehicles of Israeli production - been decisive for the war, according to some observers.

The aggressive operations prompted further orders; after Qatar, Ukraine, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkmenistan, Baykar is the first NATO country to sell the drone to Poland. About a dozen countries are said to have already received deliveries, and about as many are said to be considering procurement. Interest is reportedly coming from as far away as Lithuania and even the United Kingdom.

The comparatively young Turkish drone industry is able to produce many of the components for its unmanned aerial vehicles itself or buy them from domestic suppliers, but manufacturers are still dependent on imports for key components. This applies to engines, for example, which are also produced in Turkey but are less powerful than competing products. For this reason, the “TB2” flew with Rotax engines from Austria, among others. Following Turkey’s support for the Azerbaijani war of aggression, the company stopped supplying Baykar.

Canada imposes export ban

According to the Kurdish news agency ANF, Baykar has also made purchases from Continental Motors, a U.S. corporation partly based in Germany that took over Thielert Aircraft Engines GmbH eight years ago. A cruise control system made by the Bavarian company MT-Propeller was found in a crashed “TB2”. According to the Armenian National Committee of America, a radar altimeter manufactured by SMS Smart Microwave Sensors GmbH and a fuel filter made by Hengst were also installed in the drone.

However, exports of these products are not subject to licensing, and sales may also have been made through intermediaries. Hengst, for example, also sells its products through automotive wholesalers; the company says it does not know how the filter came into Baykar’s possession.

Originally, the “TB2” was also equipped with a sensor module from the Canadian manufacturer Wescam. This is effectively the eye of the drone, mounted in a hemispherical container on the fuselage. This so-called gimbal can be swiveled 360° and contains, among other things, optical and infrared-based cameras as well as various laser technologies. Wescam also finally ended its cooperation with Baykar after the government in Ottawa issued an export ban on the occasion of the war over Nagorno-Karabakh. The country had already imposed a temporary halt to deliveries following Turkish operations in the Kurdish region of Rojava in North Syria.

“Eye” of the drone from Hensoldt

Selçuk Bayraktar commented on the decision made by the Canadian Foreign Minister, saying that the required sensor technology could now also be produced in Turkey. In the meantime, the Turkish company Aselsan has also reported in newspapers close to the government that the sensor technology can now be produced completely domestically. Presumably, however, these devices are heavier than the imported products, so that the payload of small combat drones would be reduced.

Hensoldt, a German company specializing in sensor technology, has been one of the suppliers. This was initially indicated by footage of a parade in the capital of Turkmenistan, where a freshly purchased “TB2” was also displayed to mark the 30th anniversary of the attainment of independence in Aşgabat last year. In this case, the drone was equipped with a gimbal from Hensoldt. It contains the ARGOS-II module, which, according to the product description, has a laser illuminator and a laser marker. This can be used, for example, to guide a missile into the target.

Hensoldt was formed after a spinoff of several divisions of defense contractor Airbus, including its radar, optronics, avionics and electronic device jamming businesses. As a company of outstanding security importance, the German government has secured a blocking minority. The Italian defense group Leonardo is also a shareholder.

Rocket technology from Germany

The ARGOS module is manufactured by Hensoldt’s offshoot Optronics Pty in Pretoria, South Africa. When asked, a company spokesman confirmed the cooperation with Baykar. According to the company, the devices were delivered from South Africa to Turkey in an undisclosed quantity “as part of an order”. In the process, “all applicable national and international laws and export control regulations” were allegedly complied with.

The arming of the “TB2” with laser-guided missiles was also carried out with German assistance. This is confirmed by answers to questions in the German Bundestag reported by the magazine “Monitor”. According to these reports, the German Foreign Ministry has issued several export licenses for warheads of an anti-tank missile since 2010. They originate from the company TDW Wirksysteme GmbH from the Bavarian town of Schrobenhausen, an offshoot of the European missile manufacturer MBDA.

According to the report, the sales were presumably made to the state-owned Turkish company Roketsan. Equipment or parts for the production of the missiles are also said to have been exported to Turkey. The TDW guided missiles were of the “LRAT” and “MRAT” types, which are produced in Turkey under a different name. Based on the German exports, Roketsan is said to have developed the “MAM” missiles for drones; they are now part of the standard equipment of the “TB2”. These so-called micro-precision munitions are light warheads that can be used to destroy armored targets.

Export licenses without end-use statement

Roketsan sells the MAM guided missiles in three different versions, including a so-called vacuum bomb. Their development may have been carried out with the cooperation of the Bavarian company Numerics Software GmbH, according to ANF Deutsch. Numerics specializes in calculating the optimal explosive effect of armor-piercing weapons. According to the German Foreign Ministry, however, the company’s products, for which licenses have been issued for delivery to Turkey, are not suitable for the warheads in question.

When the German government issues export licenses for military equipment, it can insist on a so-called end-use declaration. In the case of Turkey, the government would commit to obtaining German permission before reselling to a third country. The Foreign Ministry would not say whether such exchanges on missiles, sensors or other German technology have taken place. In total, export licenses for goods “for use or installation in military drones” with a total value of almost 13 million euros have been issued to Turkey, according to a response from last year.

Deployment in Ethiopia

As one of the current “hot spots”, the “Bayraktar TB2” is currently being deployed by Ethiopia in the civil war with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). As recently as December, the Tigrinese rebels were on the verge of entering the capital Addis Ababa, but the tide has since turned. Many observers attribute this to the air force. The Ethiopian military has 22 Russian MiG-23 and Sukhoi-27 fighter jets, as well as several attack helicopters.

But the decisive factor is said to have been armed drones, whose armament allows far more precise attacks. “There were suddenly ten drones in the sky”, the rebel general Tsadokan Gebretensae confirmed to the New York Times in an interview. In a swarm, these had attacked soldiers and convoys. The Reuters news agency quotes a foreign military who claims to have “clear indications” of a total of 20 drones in use. However, these also come from China and Iran.

Evidence, meanwhile, shows that the Turkish combat drones are used as before in Kurdistan and other countries for crimes under international law. On several occasions, they have also flown attacks on civilians, including in convoys with refugees. Hundreds of people are reported to have died under Turkish-made bombs and missiles.

After the “TB2” comes the significantly larger “Akıncı”

In the future, the Turkish military could deploy a significantly larger drone with two engines, which Baykar has developed under the name “Akıncı”. This drone will be controlled via satellites, which will significantly increase its range compared to the “TB2”. Its payload is said to be nearly 1.5 tons, of which 900 kilograms can be carried under the wings as armament. According to Baykar, the “Akıncı” can also be used in aerial combat. Unarmed, it can be equipped with optical sensors, radar systems or electronic warfare technology.

Baykar’s competitor TAI is also developing a long-range drone with two engines. The “#Aksungur” is said to have capabilities comparable to the “#Akıncı” and was first flown for tests in 2019.

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#Turquie #Kurdistan #Kurdistan_turque #drones #armes #Allemagne #drones_de_combat #drones_armés #industrie_militaire #Rotax #Continental_Motors #SMS_Smart_Microwave_Sensors #Hengst #Wescam #Aselsan #technologie #ARGOS-II #Airbus #Optronics_Pty

CD Projekt will swap REDengine for Unreal Engine 5 to create the next Witcher saga
▻https://www.gamedeveloper.com/production/cd-projekt-will-swap-redengine-for-unreal-engine-5-to-create-the-next

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The company said the project will begin “a new saga for the franchise,” and explained development will be shifting from its proprietary REDengine to Unreal Engine 5 as part of a “multi-year strategic partnership with Epic Games.”

That’s a notable pivot given CD Projekt has leveraged REDengine to develop the bulk of its major projects, including Cyberpunk: 2077, The Witcher 3, and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #cd_projekt #cd_projekt_red #redengine #unreal_engine #unreal_engine_5 #epic_games #jeu_vidéo_cyberpunk_2077 #jeu_vidéo_the_witcher_3 #jeu_vidéo_the_witcher_2 #développement #business #partenariat #technologie #jeu_vidéo_the_witcher

Encore un porte-conteneurs de 12 000 EVP échoué
Un plan pour sortir l’« Ever Forward », enkysté au large de Baltimore Le Marin.Ouest.France
▻https://lemarin.ouest-france.fr/secteurs-activites/shipping/42950-un-plan-pour-sortir-l-ever-forward-enkyste-au-large-de-ba

#Evergreen, un an après l’accident à Suez de l’#Ever Given est confronté au difficile renflouement de l’#Ever Forward, un porte-conteneurs de taille moindre qui s’est échoué le 13 mars après son escale à Baltimore.

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L’objectif est de déballaster le navire et de draguer le sol vaseux de la baie autour du porte-conteneurs afin de laisser de l’espace entre l’hélice et le safran et le fond marin. Il conviendra ensuite d’attendre une pleine mer pour sortir le porte-conteneurs de 334 mètres de long en faisant de nouveau appel à tous les remorqueurs portuaires disponibles dans la zone.

Les explications sur l’accident ne sont pas claires. Une tempête de fin d’hiver passée le 12 mars a pu modifier les niveaux des marées. Mais selon Sal Mercogliano, un historien maritime de l’université Campbell en Caroline du Nord, qui publie des vidéos sur l’accident, le navire allait trop vite et est sorti du chenal. Il s’est échoué par 7,50 mètres d’eau alors qu’il affichait un tirant d’eau de 13 mètres.

L’Ever Forward est affecté à une des lignes Asie - côte-est des Etats-Unis via Panama de l’Ocean alliance (Evergreen, #CMA #CGM et #Cosco-OOCL ).

 #transport_maritime #pollution #transport #porte-conteneurs #transports #conteneurs #mondialisation #mer #container #environnement

Documentaire Secrets Toxiques : pesticides illégaux et dangereux en vente libre
▻https://ricochets.cc/Documentaire-Secrets-Toxiques-pesticides-illegaux-et-dangereux-en-vente-li

L’organisation « Secrets toxiques » mène campagne contre les pesticides. Alors que la loi exige qu’aucun pesticide ne soit autorisé si son innocuité sur la santé ou l’environnement n’a pas été prouvée, comment est-il possible que des publications scientifiques les rendent responsables de cancers, de maladies respiratoires, de troubles cognitifs et autres. Depuis le 21 février, ce film documentaire sur les pesticides est disponible en accès libre sur YouTube. Comment sommes-nous arrivés à retrouver des (...) #Les_Articles

/ #Agriculture, #Ecologie, #Technologie

▻https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB-_OBVQBTB5dL2gIUTickg
▻https://secretstoxiques.fr/projections-du-film-secrets-toxiques
▻https://secretstoxiques.fr
▻https://ricochets.cc/IMG/distant/html/watchvQ0-7iufaf0-7a797d5.html

Des nanorobots mortels et autonomes, pire que des bombes nucléaires
▻https://ricochets.cc/Des-nanorobots-mortels-et-autonomes-pire-que-des-bombes-nucleaires.html

Les développements meurtriers passés et présents de la civilisation industrielle sont largement assez flippants pour motiver une révolution radicale. Mais de nouveaux champs de dévastation et de violences antisociales fleurissent toujours dans les cerveaux techno-scientifiques criminels ravagés par le pouvoir et la puissance : Nanotechnologies : applications, implications et risques Quelques extraits choisis « Plusieurs pays développent des nanoarmes. Ces dernières pourraient être utilisées pour (...) #Les_Articles

/ #Technologie, #La_civilisation,_la_civilisation_industrielle, #Guerres

▻https://greenwashingeconomy.com/nanotechnologies-applications-implications-et-risques-par-nicho

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Hilarant ! : l’intelligence artificielle devrait contribuer pour environ 14.000 milliards d’euros à l’économie mondiale, d’ici à 2030 Par Jean-François Noulet - RTBF

Proximus lance « ADA » pour miser sur l’intelligence artificielle et la cybersécurité
▻https://www.rtbf.be/article/proximus-lance-ada-pour-miser-sur-lintelligence-artificielle-et-la-cybersecurit
L’intelligence artificielle et la cybersécurité sont au cœur du développement actuel de nos économies. L’intelligence artificielle, ce sont des en quelque sorte des ordinateurs robots, alimentés par des données numériques qui permettent de développer de nouvelles solutions dans de nombreux domaines, tels que la santé, l’énergie, la mobilité, notamment. Cette exploitation de quantités gigantesques données numériques va de pair avec un risque pour la sécurité informatique. La cybersécurité est un enjeu. C’est logique, les risques de cyberattaques augmentent avec l’accroissement de l’utilisation des données numériques. C’est pour se renforcer sur ces deux tableaux et devenir un acteur de premier ordre que Proximus lance « ADA », une filiale dédiée à l’intelligence artificielle et à la cybersécurité.

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Pour créer sa filiale, qui démarrera ses activités le 1er avril, Proximus est parti d’un constat : l’intelligence artificielle et la cybersécurité gagneront en importance dans les années à venir. Que ce soit pour aider à réduire la consommation d’énergie, prédire des erreurs dans les systèmes techniques, améliorer la détection de fraudes, l’intelligence devrait, selon les chiffres cités par Proximus, contribuer pour environ 14.000 milliards d’euros à l’économie mondiale, d’ici à 2030. En Belgique, cela représenterait une contribution de 330 millions d’euros à l’horizon 2024, selon Proximus.

Parallèlement au développement de cette nouvelle économie numérique, la cybersécurité est essentielle pour lutter contre les cyberattaques et protéger les activités et les données des particuliers et des entreprises.

Dans ces domaines où les données sont importantes, Proximus estime être « bien placé pour y jouer un rôle de plus en plus important ». Le groupe belge a développé ces dernières années de l’expertise en la matière, tant en Belgique qu’à l’étranger, via certaines de ses filiales. Ainsi, TeleSign, spécialisé dans les services d’identité digitale et des solutions logicielles « est un partenaire de confiance pour 8 des 10 plus grandes entreprises du monde », affirme Proximus. BICS, autre filiale, est un leader mondial dans le domaine des communications digitales.

La création de Proximus ADA devrait, selon Guillaume Boutin, le CEO de Proximus, « permettre d’accélérer cette position de leader » et « contribuer à faire de la société belge une société prête au futur ».

Pour permettre à ce projet de se développer, le CEO de Proximus insiste sur la nécessité d’avoir « des réseaux de dernière génération » pour « permettre cette sécurisation des données ». Avoir des réseaux de « très haut débit » est, explique le CEO, essentiel. Il rappelle l’importance du déploiement de la fibre optique. 

Miser sur les talents belges
A son lancement, ADA emploiera une cinquantaine de collaborateurs. L’objectif est d’arriver à 150 personnes d’ici trois ans. Ce que recherche Proximus, ce sont des « experts locaux ». L’idée est de nouer « des collaborations avec le tissu éducatif belge », selon Guillaume Boutin pour qui il s’agit de « former et retenir les talents belges » pour renforcer les équipes d’experts de Proximus. Ingénieurs, spécialistes en cybersécurité et autres en formation sont donc dans le viseur des recruteurs du groupe de télécommunication.

Ce que Proximus espère, c’est placer la Belgique au centre de l’échiquier mondial dans les deux domaines clés de la cybersécurité et de l’intelligence artificielle.

 #intelligence_artificielle #humour #algorithme #surveillance #ia #biométrie #vidéo-surveillance #bigdata #santé #technologie #facial #en_vedette #ai #transhumanisme

Macronisme et #Agriculture : un désastre criminel pour la santé, le climat, la biodiversité, les sols, la paysannerie, l’avenir...
▻https://ricochets.cc/Macronisme-et-agriculture-un-desastre-criminel-pour-la-sante-le-climat-la-

LREM essaie de faire son auto-promo au salon de l’agriculture 2022 pour tenter de redorer son image avant les élections et racler les électeurs FNSEA, mais le bilan du macronisme pour l’agriculture est criminel, catastrophique, et ils promettent de continuer à fond sur cette voie en intensifiant les technologies, l’industriel et les convergences NBIC. Il est temps de mettre le macronisme, ses complices et avatars à la décharge, section non recyclable, direct pour l’incinération, et les résidus 6 (...) #Les_Articles

/ Agriculture, #Le_monde_de_L'Economie, #Technologie

▻https://reporterre.net/L-agriculture-numerique-ou-la-fin-des-paysans
▻https://reporterre.net/Agriculture-le-bilan-desastreux-du-quinquennat-de-M-Macron
▻https://basta.media/enquete-cooperatives-agricoles-derives-FNSEA-agriculteurs-adherents-Triskal
▻https://reporterre.net/Les-industriels-se-jettent-sur-les-terres-agricole

Clearview AI vise 100 milliards de portraits dans sa base de données, afin de pouvoir identifier « tout le monde »
▻https://www.lesnumeriques.com/vie-du-net/clearview-ai-vise-100-milliards-de-portraits-dans-sa-base-de-donnees-

En toute discrétion, Clearview AI tente de séduire de nouveaux investisseurs afin de bâtir une base de données inédite de 100 milliards de photos, …

#Intelligence_Artificielle #Technologie #Reconnaissance_faciale

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Livron & Loriol : médecins en téléconsultation avec dispositifs connectés, les start-up à fond sur le marché
▻https://ricochets.cc/Livron-Loriol-medecins-en-teleconsultation-avec-dispositifs-connectes-les-

À Livron et Loriol, une borne de téléconsultation est installée en guise de médecin. Les médecins sont en nombre insuffisants, pour diverses raisons pas vraiment traitées, du coup les déserts médicaux s’étendent. Mais les start-up et la « french tech » de la « startup nation » sont sur les dents pour prendre ces nouveaux marchés juteux pour le privé à l’aide de techno-innovations disruptives, et fourguer des appareils électroniques, des objets connectés, de la déshumanisation supplémentaire sources de (...) #Les_Articles

/ #Technologie, #Le_monde_de_L'Economie

▻https://www.exmed.org/archives17/circu1016.html
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sertification_m%C3%A9dicale_en_France
▻https://www.medadom.com
▻https://www.maquestionmedicale.fr
▻https://www.agri71.fr/articles/24/02/2021/Avant-la-telemedecine-ici-c-etait-pire-que-le-desert-medical-52939
▻https://www.tessan.io
▻https://region-aura.latribune.fr/innovation/innovation-technologique/2020-10-29/auvergne-rhone-alpes-un-marche-prioritaire-pour-les-cabines-de
▻https://www.laquadrature.net/2022/02/18/ia-et-reforme-de-letat-vers-des-bureaucraties-sans-humains

#Robo_Dogs and Refugees: The Future of the Global Border Industrial Complex

The future is here, and it’s a nightmare for migrants. Robo-dogs are joining the global arsenal of border enforcement technologies. The consequences will be deadly.

A painting of an eye shedding a single tear adorns the concrete rampart of the rusty wall bisecting the city of Nogales at the U.S.-Mexico border. Elsewhere, other kinds of eyes scan the Sonoran Desert—drones, artificial intelligence (AI) surveillance towers, and now military-grade “robo-dogs,” which, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in a February 1 article, might soon be deployed in this vast area of the Arizona-Mexico borderlands, a frequent crossing point for refugees and people on the move from Latin America, the Caribbean, and beyond.

The robo-dogs, built by Ghost Robotics, are the latest border tech experiment. Originally designed for combat and tactical training operations, these quadruped autonomous machines are strong, fast, and sometimes armed. They can break down doors and right themselves when kicked over. Police departments are already using them, such as in Honolulu and New York (although the latter city cut short its use of them after a public outcry). On the border, DHS first tested what they call “programmable pooches” in El Paso, but officials didn’t give a clear indication of when nor where the machines would eventually be deployed.

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While these mechanical dogs may be a surprising addition to U.S. border enforcement, they join a technological infrastructure on the U.S.-Mexico border that has been developing for decades, often constructed by private companies and now championed by the Biden administration. The idea of mechanized Border Patrol agents is not exactly new either; in 2015, for example, the GuardBot company proposed that rolling, rubber spheres full of surveillance cameras (first designed for exploring Mars) “swarm” the borderlands in packs of 20 or 30. While that contract was never issued, it was a preamble to the robo-dogs. Here, now, is a glimpse into the future: an aggressive techno border fueled by a global industrial complex.

The robo-dogs form part of a long process of border robotization on the U.S. Mexico border—from autonomous and integrated fixed towers (built by Anduril and Elbit Systems, respectively) to Predator B and medium-size drones (General Atomics), to university experiments to create miniature drones the size of locusts (as was done at the University of Arizona via a grant it received from the Department of Homeland Security for R&D).

Petra, who was at the Arizona-Mexico border when DHS announced the robo-dogs, has been studying surveillance technologies and their effects on people crossing borders for years in Europe and globally, focusing on the real harms of automation, surveillance, and border tech experiments in spaces that have become testing grounds for innovation. The very real impacts these technologies will have is all the more stark, given the sheer number of people dying in the desert. In 2021, deaths at the U.S.-Mexico border were the highest ever recorded. Thus, although it is difficult to write about surveillance technologies—since they are hidden by design—the real-world impacts of “technosolutionism” are clear enough.

On the rumbling roads of the West Arizona desert, Petra and colleagues traced the routes that people take after crossing the border, and this led them to various gravesites, like the modest orange cross that marks the arroyo where Elías Alvarado, a young husband and father, perished in 2020. His son was never able to see him again, only leaving a scratchy voice recording saying “I love you, papa,” which was played at Alvarado’s ceremony by a group called Battalion Search and Rescue, whose volunteers comb the desert for survivors and remains. It’s terrifying to imagine a not-so-distant future in which people like Alvarado will be pursued by high-speed, military-grade technology designed to kill. The future is not just more technology, it is more death.

Virtual Fortress Europe

The U.S.-Mexico frontier is by no means the only place where experimental border technology is being tested. For example, the European Union has been focusing on various surveillance and high-tech experiments in migration and border enforcement, including maritime and land drone surveillance; long-range acoustic devices (LRADs), or sound cannons; and AI-type technologies in newly built camps in Greece. The violence in many of these technologies is obvious: the sound cannons that were rolled out at the land border between Greece and Turkey emit a high-pitched sound that can hurt people’s eardrums in an attempt to deter them from getting close to the EU’s border, while AI “threat detection” surveillance monitors refugees in Greece’s new prisonlike refugee camps on the Aegean Islands. AI-driven surveillance using unpiloted drones and other types of technologies is also increasingly used along Europe’s maritime borders by actors such as Frontex, the EU’s border enforcement agency. As in the U.S.-Mexico desert, border surveillance makes the crossing more dangerous, since it forces them to take riskier routes to avoid detection.

The increasing reliance on automation in border enforcement also brings with it a host of concerns, from privacy infringements when data is shared with repressive governments to discrimination and bias, particularly against groups that have historically borne the brunt of violent state action. For example, facial recognition has proved time and again to be biased against Brown and Black faces, as well as female faces, and yet it is increasingly used for migration control in the U.S., Canada, and soon various EU countries. These issues around discrimination and bias are not merely theoretical; they have had palpable impacts on people on the move such as Addisu, a young man from East Africa in his early 30s. He was living in an occupied building in Brussels when he told Petra, “We are Black, and border guards hate us. Their computers hate us too.”

Tech pilot projects have also introduced AI-type lie detection into border enforcement, relying on emotion recognition and micro-expressions to apparently determine whether someone is telling the truth at the border. Yet what about differences in cross-cultural communication? Or the impact of trauma on memory, or the overreliance on Western norms of plausibility and lie detection grounded in biased and discriminatory determinations? Immigration and refugee decision-making by border enforcement officers is already replete with discretionary, opaque, and often biased reasoning that is difficult to challenge.

Through the phenomenon of “border externalization,” the EU is also pushing its geographic borders further and further afield through biometric data collection and migration surveillance into North and sub-Saharan Africa. The United States is extending its border as well into southern Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, among other places. As these sorts of technological systems extend all over the world, so does the global border industrial complex, which is worth billions of dollars. Each new place becomes a testing ground for the next one.

A Regulatory Free-for-All: Border Tech Unchecked

Border technologies are political; they are developed and deployed in an ecosystem of private and public partnerships that are largely unregulated and unchecked. Big Tech interests are given free rein to develop and deploy technologies at the border and set the agenda of what counts as innovation and whose perspectives really matter when conversations around borders happen in national, regional, and international policy circles.

There is big money to be made in the sharpening of borders with draconian technologies. According to the market forecast company Market and Markets, the global homeland security market will grow more than 6 percent by 2026, reaching $904.6 billion. As border and immigration budgets only continue to rise in Europe, the United States, and places beyond, there will only be more armed “robo-dogs,” drones with tasers, and border AI-lie detectors filling border zones. This coincides with forecasts for more and more people on the move in the coming decades—for various reasons, including catastrophic climate change. The collision of aggressive tech borders with human mobility has the makings of a monumental human rights disaster.

Participation in discussions around technologies at the border is still limited to a select few, often in the suffocating constraints of the public-private nexus. The viewpoints of those most affected are routinely excluded from the discussion, particularly regarding no-go zones and ethically fraught uses of technology. Much of the discussion, such as it is, lacks contextual analysis or consideration of the ethical, social, political, and personal harm that these new technologies will have. While border and immigrant rights groups such as Mijente, Just Futures Law, the Immigrant Defense Project and others have been fighting the use of high-risk surveillance along the U.S.-Mexico border, the lucrative political climate of exclusion and border enforcement at all costs is what animates the move toward a surveillance dragnet. This dragnet will only increase the suffering and death along the frontier. “It’s a slow-motion genocide,” James Holeman, founder of Battalion Search Rescue, recently told Petra Molnar in the Arizona desert.

Borders are the perfect testing ground for technologies: unregulated, increasingly politicized, and impacting groups already struggling with adequate resources. Ultimately, Big Tech and quick fixes do not address the systemic causes of marginalization and migration—historical and present-day decisions that perpetuate vast inequalities in the world and that benefit the fortressed West while disenfranchising and displacing the rest. Whether it be armed agents, imposed walls, or robo-dogs, border militarization ensures that rich countries can keep looting, exploiting, and polluting the rest of the world.

▻https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/robo-dogs-and-refugees-the-future
#robots_dogs #complexe_militaro-industriel #robots #robots_chiens #frontières #surveillance #technologie #asile #migrations #réfugiés #robo-dog #Ghost_Robotics #Nogales #Mexique #USA #Etats-Unis #désert_du_Sonora #DHS #El_Paso #programmable_pooches #GuardBot #Anduril #Elbit_Systems #Predator_B #general_atomics #drones #robo_dog

Pollution numérique : la fabrication, principale responsable
▻https://www.maddyness.com/2022/02/14/pollution-numerique-impact-green-it

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Il y a cependant une véritable avancée : celle de l’obligation de sensibiliser les jeunes à la sobriété numérique du primaire au lycée et de former les ingénieurs à l’analyse du cycle de vie et à l’éco-conception. J’espère que cela incitera les générations futures à être plus raisonnables dans leur rapport au numérique et à envisager la low tech partout où la high tech n’est pas indispensable. En Europe, notre utilisation du numérique atteint 40% du forfait GES soutenable, alors qu’il ne devrait pas dépasser les 5% ! Le forfait GES soutenable est la quantité de gaz à effet de serre qu’un citoyen peut émettre chaque année avant d’atteindre le seuil limite fixé par les Accords de Paris pour rester sous les 1,5°C de réchauffement global. Ce seuil de 40% est faramineux !

#Numérique #Pollution #Technologie #Enseignement #SobriétéNumérique

Fragilité de la techno-industrie
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Depuis quelques années Elon Musk, le fondateur de la société Tesla, pollue notre ciel avec ses chapelets de satellites. Le projet Starlink vise avec à créer une couverture Internet mondiale sans passer par un réseau de câbles. Musk aimerait placer en orbite basse (environ 210km d’altitude) 12.000 satellites. Il en a actuellement positionné un peu moins de 2.000. Dans un remarquable silence de la presse généraliste, il s’est pourtant passer en ce mois de février un événement significatif et (...) #Les_Articles

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Nos emplois valent plus que nos vies ? On fait juste notre boulot ?
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Cet article aborde plusieurs sujets fondamentaux, vitaux, difficiles et complexes, qui sont rarement abordés par la gauche, les travailleurs et les syndicats. Des questions sur l’emploi, l’industrie et ses ravages, qui devraient tarrauder sans cesse tout anticapitaliste, antiproductiviste et écologiste qui se respecte. Des sujets à creuser pour s’éviter l’enlisement dans les contradictions et pour penser/préparer sérieusement une sortie du capitalisme et de tout productivisme. Car taxer les riches, (...) #Les_Articles

/ #Résistances_au_capitalisme_et_à_la_civilisation_industrielle, #Technologie, Le monde de (...)

#Le_monde_de_L'Economie
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La Confédération paysanne de la Drôme investit des locaux de la DDT mercredi 9 février à #Valence
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Des personnes de divers collectifs, dont XR, des paysanNEs et des amiEs de la Confédération paysanne de la Drôme ont investi ce mercredi 9 février des locaux de la DDT de la Drôme à Valence. Elles ont déployé des banderoles. Voici leurs messages : 📣[ACTION EN COURS] ✊ Prise de la DDT de la Drôme contre le plan de relance, Robotique Numérique Génétique ! Cette 3e révolution nous fera perdre ce qui nous reste encore d’autonomie de penser et de décision dans notre travail. Nous voulons une #Agriculture (...) #Les_Articles

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