Archive for August, 2020
Heron Systems AI Defeats Elite U.S. Air Force Pilot in Simulated Dogfight
August 20th, 2020Final round: Via: Defense Daily: Heron Systems Inc. took first place in the third and final competition in DARPA’s AlphaDogfight trials (ADT) on Aug 20 between artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled F-16 simulators and U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps pilots. Founded in 1993, Heron is a small AI firm located near Patuxent Naval Air Station, […]
Bill Gates Caught Off Guard When Questioned About Vaccines
August 20th, 2020Uhhh, uhhh, uhhh. Via: John Lovell:
Scotiabank to Pay $127M in Fines for Traders’ Price Fixing of Precious Metals
August 20th, 2020Via: CBC: The Bank of Nova Scotia has agreed to pay more than $127 million US in fines to settle criminal investigations into a price manipulation scheme in the price of precious metals that some of its traders were engaged in. The bank has agreed to a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) to settle separate probes […]
Alexei Navalny: Russian Opposition Leader Poisoned
August 20th, 2020The Kremlin said that it wished Mr Navalny a “speedy recovery”. Via: BBC: Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is unconscious in hospital suffering from suspected poisoning, his spokeswoman has said. The anti-corruption campaigner fell ill during a flight and the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, Kira Yarmysh said, adding that they suspected something […]
Live French Air-to-Air Missile Sent to Florida Company
August 20th, 2020There are many stories about this incident that don’t mention anything at all about how this could have happened. The Popular Mechanics piece below offers: The Matra Super 530 is an older, obsolete radar-guided missile. Draken flies the French-made Mirage F1M multi-role fighter, which was equipped with the Matra Super 530 during its military service. […]
Study: Everyone Develops Long-Term Coronavirus Immunity After Infection
August 20th, 2020Via: Business Insider: A study published Friday in the journal Cell suggests that everyone who gets COVID-19 – even people with mild or asymptomatic cases – develops T cells that can hunt down the coronavirus if they get exposed again later. “Memory T cells will likely prove critical for long-term immune protection against COVID-19,” the […]
Doctors Write Open Letter to Fauci Regarding Use of Hydroxychloroquine for Treating COVID-19
August 20th, 2020Via: The Desert Review: Dear Dr. Fauci: You were placed into the most high-profile role regarding America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have relied on your medical expertise concerning the wearing of masks, resuming employment, returning to school, and of course medical treatment. You are largely unchallenged in terms of your medical opinions. You […]
What’s Behind the Fed’s Manufactured Coin Shortage?
August 20th, 2020Via: BestEvidence:
Big Pharma’s Covid-19 Profiteers
August 20th, 2020Via: Rolling Stone: The business model for Big Pharma is brilliant. A substantial portion of research and development for new drugs is funded by the state, which then punts its intellectual work to private companies, who are then allowed to extract maximum profits back from the same government, which has over decades formalized an elaborate […]
“National Debt To Surpass $78 Trillion By 2028: What It Means For Americans”
August 20th, 2020So it goes… Via: Forbes: The coronavirus pandemic pushed the government into the proverbial corner, prompting it to borrow heavily from the future to ward off a serious threat today. Without this intervention, the U.S. economy would be in a much worse recession or possibly even a depression. Even though borrowing excessively may have been […]
