Tag Archives: Interviews

Interview with Signal’s New President

Posted on by

Long and interesting interview with Signal’s new president, Meredith Whittaker:

WhatsApp uses the Signal encryption protocol to provide encryption for its messages. That was absolutely a visionary choice that Brian and his team led back in the day ­- and big props to them for doing that. But you can’t just look at that and then stop at message protection. WhatsApp does not protect metadata the way that Signal does. Signal knows nothing about who you are. It doesn’t have your profile information and it has introduced group encryption protections. We don’t know who you are talking to or who is in the membership of a group. It has gone above and beyond to minimize the collection of metadata…

Continue reading Interview with Signal’s New President→

Museum Security

Posted on by

Interesting interview:

Banks don’t take millions of dollars and put them in plastic bags and hang them on the wall so everybody can walk right up to them. But we do basically the same thing in museums and hang the assets right out on the wall. So it’s our job, then, to either use technology or develop technology that protects the art, to hire honest guards that are trainable and able to meet the challenge and alert and so forth. And we have to keep them alert because it’s the world’s most boring job. It might be great for you to go to a museum and see it for a day, but they stand in that same gallery year after year, and so they get mental fatigue. And so we have to rotate them around and give them responsibilities that keep them stimulated and keep them fresh…

Continue reading Museum Security→

T-Omega re-thinks floating offshore wind turbines for huge cost savings

Posted on by

All the world’s greatest wind power resources are offshore – often a long way offshore, where the water’s so deep that it’s impractical to build typical fan-on-a-stick wind turbines with bases sunk deep into the sea floor. Floating wind, at this stage,… Continue reading T-Omega re-thinks floating offshore wind turbines for huge cost savings→

A deeper dive into World Wide Wind’s colossal, contra-rotating turbines

Posted on by

We interviewed the core team at Norway’s World Wide Wind (WWW) to learn more about its floating, tilting, contra-rotating, double turbine design, which it says can unlock unprecedented scale, power and density to radically lower the cost of offshore wi… Continue reading A deeper dive into World Wide Wind’s colossal, contra-rotating turbines→

TAE ahead of schedule on billion-degree hydrogen-boron fusion

Posted on by

Some fusion projects aim to create hundred-million degree working temperatures in magnetically confined plasma. The CEO of TAE Technologies tells us his team’s aiming for 10 times that temperature, targeting cheaper, easier and safer boron fuel.Continu… Continue reading TAE ahead of schedule on billion-degree hydrogen-boron fusion→

Horizon presents a 50% scale prototype of its badass Cavorite X5 eVTOL

Posted on by

Toronto’s Horizon Aircraft has unveiled a 50% prototype of its gorgeous – and very unique – electric VTOL air taxi. The Cavorite X5 separates itself from the pack as the only eVTOL that completely covers its lift fans for super low-drag cruise flight.C… Continue reading Horizon presents a 50% scale prototype of its badass Cavorite X5 eVTOL→

Archer outlines what its early eVTOL air taxi service will look like

Posted on by

The eVTOL age is just a couple of years from dawning. We caught up with Archer’s Director of Business Development, Andrew Cummins, to learn what the first steps will look like when electric air taxis begin taking to the skies in 2024-25.Continue Readin… Continue reading Archer outlines what its early eVTOL air taxi service will look like→

20th Anniversary Retrospective: Unconventional wisdom

Posted on by

Over the past 20 years we’ve crossed paths with all manner of passionate people blazing their own trails, so we thought this would be a good opportunity to revisit some of the more eccentric characters we’ve been lucky enough to chat with over the jour… Continue reading 20th Anniversary Retrospective: Unconventional wisdom→

Lightning Strike targets 250 mph with upcoming electric land speed run

Posted on by

Lightning Motorcycles once had the fastest motorcycle you could buy in its barnstorming electric LS218, a ride on which remains to this day a solid top-ten highlight in my four and a half decades on this planet. The 218 mph (351 km/h) run that gave the… Continue reading Lightning Strike targets 250 mph with upcoming electric land speed run→