Archive for the 'Technology' Category
India Lifts Ban on Cryptocurrency Trading
March 4th, 2020Via: Techcrunch: India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned central bank’s two-year-old ban on cryptocurrency trading in the country in what many said was a “historic” verdict. The Reserve Bank of India had imposed a ban on cryptocurrency trading in April 2018 that barred banks and other financial institutions from facilitating “any service in relation to […]
SpaceX Aims to Launch 70 Missions a Year from Florida’s Space Coast by 2023
March 4th, 2020Via: Space.com: SpaceX is planning a huge boost to the number of rocket launches from its Florida launch sites in the next few years as the company builds its Starlink satellite megaconstellation while meeting flight demands from its customers, according to a federal environmental report. The missions for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets […]
Honeywell Says it Built the World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer
March 3rd, 2020Via: Engadget: When it comes to quantum computers, we tend to think of companies like Google and IBM as the big players in the field, but there could soon be more competition in the space. Honeywell says sometime in the next three months it will unveil a quantum computer that is at least twice as […]
Tesla and PG&E to Build 1GWh Energy Storage System, Largest In the World
March 2nd, 2020Via: Electrek: According to Tesla’s plan, they will deploy 449 Megapacks at the site… Tesla is listing the project as having a total capacity of 1,200MWh, which would mean that each Megapack has a capacity of 2,673kWh. That’s more than 12 times the capacity of Powerpack 2 in a package that could potentially fit about […]
United Launch Alliance Factory Tour
March 2nd, 2020Via: Smarter Every Day:
China’s Factory Activity Slumps in February to Weakest Reading on Record
March 1st, 2020I happened to be listening to this in the background: Via: CNBC: A private survey showed China’s manufacturing activity slumped in February, as the coronavirus outbreak hit the world’s second largest economy. On Monday, the Caixin/Markit Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) came in at 40.3 for February — the lowest reading since the survey was […]
FliteTest on FAA’s Proposed Remote ID
February 27th, 2020Via: FliteTest:
Starlink: The Air Force And SpaceX Are Teaming Up For A ‘Massive’ Live Fire Exercise
February 27th, 2020Remember the one about better broadband Internet options for rural customers? haha Via: The Drive: As space continues to play an increasingly important role for the United States armed forces, the Department of Defense has been also increasingly engaging with the private aerospace and communications sector to develop and implement solutions that better help it […]
Rumor: Tesla’s Secret Battery Project Will Produce Cells at $100 per kWh on a Massive Scale
February 27th, 2020Via: Electrek: Now sources have told Electrek that the secret project is called “Roadrunner,” and it will aim to achieve mass production of a new battery cell that will be more energy-dense and cheaper. The cells are using technologies developed by Tesla’s internal teams, including work from its research lab in Canada led by Jeff […]
U.S. Car Industry Most Reliant on Chinese Parts
February 26th, 2020Via: Statista: China is among the world’s largest suppliers of car parts, exporting motor vehicle parts and accessories worth $34.8 billion in 2018, according to the UN’s Comtrade database. As the following chart shows, the U.S. car industry is theoretically most at risk of production outages as it relies heavily on parts sourced from China.
