Archive for the 'Technology' Category
All New Cadillac Vehicle Models Will Be All-Electric
April 22nd, 2021Via: Electrek: GM’s Cadillac brand is going electric, as the automaker confirmed that every new vehicle will be all-electric starting now. Today, Cadillac unveiled the production version of the Lyriq, its first all-electric vehicle. Yesterday, the company held a virtual unveiling of the electric vehicle, during which it also announced plans to move the brand […]
NASA Rover Makes Oxygen From Martian Atmosphere
April 22nd, 2021Via: NPR: After making the first powered flight on another world, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has managed another key first that could pave the way for future astronauts by making breathable oxygen out of the wispy Martian air. NASA announced that an instrument aboard the rover had successfully extracted carbon dioxide from the atmosphere on […]
Digital Yuan Can Be Turned Off Like A Light Switch
April 22nd, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: As the WSJ reported, “the money itself is programmable. Beijing has tested expiration dates to encourage users to spend it quickly, for times when the economy needs a jump start.” That’s just the start. … As Bloomberg details, instead of challenging U.S. dollar dominance and neutralizing sanctions, “the digital yuan appears potentially more […]
The Postal Service Is Running a ‘Covert Operations Program’ that Monitors Americans’ Social Media Posts
April 21st, 2021Via: Yahoo News: The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News. The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not […]
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Successfully Hovered for 40 Seconds in Mars’s Thin Atmosphere
April 20th, 2021Via: Scientific American: NASA has pulled off the first powered flight on another world. Ingenuity, the robot rotorcraft that is part of the agency’s Perseverance mission, lifted off from the surface of Mars on 19 April, in a 40-second flight that is a landmark in interplanetary aviation. “We can now say that human beings have […]
SpaceX Wins $2.9 Billion NASA Moon Lander Contract
April 17th, 2021Via: Reuters: NASA awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon as early as 2024, the agency said on Friday, picking it over Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics Inc.
Man Found in Hudson River Identified as Cryptocurrency Mathematician
April 14th, 2021Via: New York Post: The man whose body was found floating in the Hudson River Monday has been identified as a mathematician working with cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, according to police sources and his “devastated” family. Sources identified the remains found off West 45th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan as Shuvro Biswas, 31, adding […]
Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Buys Microsoft Ahead of Big Govt Contract
April 14th, 2021Via: The Street: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband purchased millions of dollars worth of Microsoft (MSFT) and Roblox (RBLX) shares last month, new financial disclosures form reveal. Paul Pelosi exercised call options and paid $1.95 million to buy 15,000 shares of Microsoft at a strike price of $130 on March 19, according to an April […]
DARPA Is Working On COVID Vaccine, Implantable Microchip To Detect Virus
April 13th, 2021Via: Summit News: The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a COVID vaccine that will work on all variants and has developed an implantable microchip that it says will continuously monitor the human body for signs of the virus. Retired Colonel Matt Hepburn, an army infectious disease physician heading up DARPA’s […]
U.S. COVID Contract Details Are a “Trade Secret” – According to the Contractors
April 12th, 2021Via: MIT Technology Review: As the US government pumps billions of dollars into projects aimed at curbing the pandemic, from vaccine development to genomic sequencing, officials claim they are being transparent about how money is being spent. But government contractors have a lot of leeway to hide things, as shown by a recent records request […]
