Archive for March, 2020
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 […]
“How the Other Half Lives” in 1890s NYC
March 4th, 2020Via: My Modern Met: Like the hundreds of thousands of other immigrants who fled to New York in pursuit of a better life, Riis was forced to take up residence in one of the city’s notoriously cramped and disease-ridden tenements. Living in squalor and unable to find steady employment, Riis worked numerous jobs, ranging from […]
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 […]
Coronavirus: Italy Will Close All Schools and Universities
March 4th, 2020Via: Daily Mail: Italy will close all schools and universities, the government said today, to protect against the coronavirus which has infected more than 2,500 in the country and killed 79. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government is also expected to release new rules which will tell the nation they cannot kiss because of the virus. […]
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 […]
Fed: Coronavirus Emergency Rate Cut, 50 Basis Points
March 3rd, 2020Via: Yahoo Finance: The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 50 basis points in an impromptu meeting on Tuesday as a response to the coronavirus. The Fed said the “fundamentals of the U.S. economy remain strong” but that the coronavirus “poses evolving risks to economic activity.” The cut, which amounts to a half percentage point, […]
Missouri Farmer Wins $265 Million Verdict Against Monsanto
March 2nd, 2020Via: Sierra Club: A Missouri peach farmer notched a rare courtroom victory this month, defeating the former Monsanto Co. and chemical giant BASF in the first of what is expected to be a series of court fights over claims that the companies are responsible for pesticide damage that has wiped out orchards, gardens, and organic […]
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 […]
China Sending Uighurs to Factories
March 2nd, 2020Via: AFP: China is transferring tens of thousands of Uighur detainees out of internment camps and into factories that supply some of the world’s leading brands, an Australian think tank said Monday. Top global brands such as Apple, BMW and Sony have been accused of getting supplies from factories using the forced labour, an explosive […]
United Launch Alliance Factory Tour
March 2nd, 2020Via: Smarter Every Day:
