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Electrek: General Electric’s profitability collapse over the past few
years can be largely attributed to the company’s inability to judge the
accelerating pace of the global energy transition away from fossil fuels
and toward renewables, a new study claims. The analysis comes from the
Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), which
says […]
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Electrek: Toyota and Subaru, which is partly owned by the latter, have
announced that they are partnering to develop a new electric platform in
order to launch a couple of all-electric SUVs under each brand. The two
Japanese automakers have been increasingly collaborating over the past
decade, including on some hybrid vehicle projects. Both […]
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Independent: Nasa will allow tourists to live inside the International
Space Station. The space agency plans to open the floating lab up to
private astronauts as well as commercial companies, it said. That could
include film crews, for instance, who could be allowed to make ads or
whole films in space. The first space […]
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Bloomberg: Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend billions of dollars building a
network of thousands of satellites to provide broadband internet
service, Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos said. The Project Kuiper
initiative, disclosed earlier this year, is the type of big bet the
company needs to keep making as its massive scale renders smaller
endeavors […]
As
usual, never hold your breath waiting for disruptive battery technology
to transition from the lab to a product that you can buy. But this is a
weird one… Via: IEEE: Is there such a thing as a battery whose capacity
to store energy increases with age? One respected team of researchers
say they have […]
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Stanford: In television and film, actors often flub small bits of
otherwise flawless performances. Other times they leave out a critical
word. For editors, the only solution so far is to accept the flaws or
fix them with expensive reshoots. Imagine, however, if that editor could
modify video using a text transcript. Much like […]
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Bloomberg: “To make it economically feasible, the iceberg will have to
be big,” Sloane says. Ideally, it would measure about 1,000 meters
(3,281 feet) long, 500 meters wide, and 250 meters deep, and weigh 125
million tons. “That would supply about 20% of Cape Town’s water needs
for a year.” Sloane has already assembled […]
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USA Today: Within a matter of months, your future Amazon orders could
be delivered by a self-driving drone. Officials with the online shopping
giant unveiled the latest Prime Air drone design Wednesday at Amazon’s
re:MARS Conference (Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics and Space) in
Las Vegas. “We’ve been hard at work building fully electric drones […]
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Washington Examiner: The federal agency tasked with overseeing security
at transportation hubs has been violating its own policy by allowing
migrants who have been released from federal custody onto flights
despite not having required documents, according to several Department
of Homeland Security officials. For the past six months, the
Transportation Security Administration has allowed […]
In
other news: Maybe Africa Really Will Be the New China. Via: Reuters:
The U.S. Department of Defense has held talks with Malawi’s Mkango
Resources Ltd and other rare earth miners across the globe about their
supplies of strategic minerals, part of a plan to find diversified
reserves outside of China, a department official said […]
Jun 05
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Cnet: While residential neighborhoods aren’t usually lined with
security cameras, the smart doorbell’s popularity has essentially
created private surveillance networks powered by Amazon and promoted by
police departments. Police departments across the country, from major
cities like Houston to towns with fewer than 30,000 people, have offered
free or discounted Ring doorbells to citizens, […]
A
$20 million fine isn’t even a slap on the wrist for Carnival. On
revenue of $18.8 billion, I wonder, in which column on their spreadsheet
this will go? Chicken Feed? Pocket Lint? F-U-We’ll-Do-It-Again? Via:
NPR: The cruise line giant Carnival Corporation and its Princess
subsidiary have agreed to pay a criminal penalty of $20 […]
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ABC: Australian Federal Police officers have left the ABC’s Sydney
headquarters more than eight hours after a raid began over a series of
2017 stories known as the Afghan Files. The stories, by ABC
investigative journalists Dan Oakes and Sam Clark, revealed allegations
of unlawful killings and misconduct by Australian special forces in
Afghanistan […]
Jun 04
I
hope Catherine Austin Fitts investigates California’s spending on the
homeless situation. Something is obviously very wrong. Who is winding up
with the billions of dollars? Via: KTLA: The number of homeless people
counted across Los Angeles County jumped 12% over the past year to
nearly 59,000, with more young and old residents and families […]
Just
a few days ago, someone was asking me how to sign into the AirBNB app
on her iPhone without using Google or Facebook credentials. I thought
that there would be an option to enter her email and password, but there
wasn’t. That app forces users to supply either Google or Facebook
credentials. I don’t […]
Jun 03
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Reuters: Three decades after China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy
protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, increased
government suppression of rights activism has pushed the demonstrators’
original goals further away than ever. In April 1989, weeks before
Chinese leaders ordered a military assault to clear the protesters from
central Beijing, tens of thousands of […]
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Quartz: Katharine Abraham, an economics professor at the University of
Maryland, was chatting with her hairdresser one night about retirement
plans. The economist said she plans to continue working because she
wants to and has no plans for retiring. The hairdresser agreed but for
different reasons: She needs the money. Both scenarios are contributing
[…]
Jun 02
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OilPrice: US-led forces have blown up three oil tankers in Syria as the
United States increases its pressure on Syria by thwarting the oil
trade between the PKK/YPG and the Assad regime, according to local
sources quoted by several media sources. The strike was carried about by
coalition planes, which hit three oil tankers, […]
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The Intercept: There is no discernible evidence that he ever worked for
a government UFO program, much less led one. Yes, AATIP existed, and it
“did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial
phenomena,” Pentagon spokesperson Christopher Sherwood told me. However,
he added: “Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the
AATIP program […]
Jun 01
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The Hill: The net worth of the average 18- to 35-year-old has plummeted
34 percent since 1996, according to new study from accounting group
Deloitte. Despite stereotypes that millennials overspend on
entertainment and dining out, the Deloitte study found that the
generation is paying more for education, food, transportation and other
basic needs, while […]
If
you don’t believe in the Devil, you might after watching this. Via:
Daily Mail: Televangelist Kenneth Copeland has appeared in a bizarre
interview where he defends using three private jets to travel the world
after previously claiming he didn’t want to fly commercial with
‘demons’. The 82-year-old’s chat with Inside Edition features him
angrily […]
May 31
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AFP: The US Department of Justice is preparing an antitrust
investigation of Internet titan Google, the Wall Street Journal reported
on Friday. The Journal cited unnamed sources close to the matter as
saying the department would look into Google practices related to web
search and other businesses. Justice department officials share
antitrust oversight with […]
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Guardian: Julian Assange is showing all the symptoms associated with
prolonged exposure to psychological torture and should not be extradited
to the US, according to a senior UN expert who visited him in prison.
Nils Melzer, UN’s special rapporteur on torture, is expected to make his
appeal to the UK government on Friday. It […]
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Reuters: President Donald Trump, incensed by a surge of illegal
immigrants across the southern border, vowed on Thursday to impose a
tariff on all goods coming from Mexico, starting at 5% and ratcheting
higher until the flow of people ceases. … Higher tariffs will start at
5% on June 10 and increase monthly until […]
May 29
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9to5Google: Back in January, Google announced a proposed change to
Chrome’s extensions system, called Manifest V3, that would stop current
ad blockers from working efficiently. In a response to the overwhelming
negative feedback, Google is standing firm on Chrome’s ad blocking
changes, sharing that current ad blocking capabilities will be
restricted to enterprise users.
It’s
as if California fought a war with some external enemy and lost.
Except, most Californians didn’t notice. And now… Via: AP: The
California Assembly voted Tuesday to extend the state’s Medicaid program
to eligible adults who are in the country illegally. Democratic Gov.
Gavin Newsom wants to spend about $98 million a year to […]
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ZeroHedge: The bond market is telling us, that the markets… and the
economy… are both in very serious trouble. The difference between the
yield on the 3-month Treasury and the 10-year Treasury (called the yield
curve) is inverted. What this means is that yield on the 10-Year
Treasury is LOWER than the yield on […]
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Bloomberg: Beijing is gearing up to use its dominance of rare earths to
hit back in its deepening trade war with Washington. A flurry of
Chinese media reports on Wednesday, including an editorial in the
flagship newspaper of the Communist Party, raised the prospect of
Beijing cutting exports of the commodities that are critical […]
May 28
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Los Angeles Times: Researchers have found high levels of radiation in
giant clams near the Central Pacific site where the United States
entombed waste from nuclear testing almost four decades ago, raising
concerns the contamination is spreading from the dump site’s tainted
groundwater into the ocean and the food chain. The findings from the […]
May 27
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NPR: American soil. Those are two words that are commonly used to stir
up patriotic feelings. They are also words that can’t be be taken for
granted, because today nearly 30 million acres of U.S. farmland are held
by foreign investors. That number has doubled in the past two decades,
which is raising alarm […]
Well,
it’s not just me. Via: Forbes: SpaceX had kept the logistics of each
satellite under wraps prior to the launch, but following the launch it
was revealed that each satellite had a relatively large solar panel,
perfect for not only gathering but reflecting sunlight back to Earth.
This means anyone looking up at the […]
May 26
My
best guess is that this Pentagon/CIA/To the Stars operation is a
limited hangout, but to what end, I have no idea. A limited hangout is:
“Spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the
clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and
they can no longer rely on a phony […]
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CleanTechnica: EVs are the future, and Tesla is the undisputed market
leader, especially in the US, but also globally. If you’re an automaker
on the wrong side of this trend, it must be terrifying!
May 25
My
children and I like to look at the stars on most clear nights. There is
no ambient light pollution where we are so the views are breathtaking.
I’ll have to tell them to try to remember the sky as it is now, because
it will soon be crisscrossed by thousands of satellites. Ironically,
we’ve […]
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USA Today: Automation has made planes safer and more efficient, but the
crashes of two Boeing 737 Max jets is leading some to wonder if there
is a dangerous flip side. While advanced autopilots and computers are
now considered an integral part of any modern jetliner, many pilots
worry that the systems are detracting […]
“Individual
users won’t be identified in the research, according to the Navy.” Via:
Bloomberg: The U.S. military plans to analyze 350 billion social-media
posts from around the world to help it track how popular movements
evolve. A tender for the project, based at the Naval Postgraduate School
in Monterey, California, calls for screening messages from […]
I
only included the first two responses with this screenshot. At the
link, you can keep scrolling down until your mouse wheel falls off if
you want to see more. Via: @USArmy:
Via: Lauren Southern:
May 24
Mmm
hmm. Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump, declaring a national
emergency because of tensions with Iran, swept aside objections from
Congress on Friday to complete the sale of over $8 billion worth of
weapons to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. The Trump
administration informed congressional committees that it will go ahead
[…]
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Wired: A new network of 3D-printed gun advocates is growing in America –
and this time things are different. Unlike previous attempts to
popularise 3D-printed guns, this operation is entirely decentralised.
There’s no headquarters, no trademarks, and no real leader. The people
behind it reckon that this means they can’t be stopped by governments.
[…]
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CBS: Merck made a “hit list” of doctors who criticized Vioxx, according
to testimony in a Vioxx class action case in Australia. The list,
emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors’ names with the
labels “neutralise,” “neutralised” or “discredit” next to them.
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CNBC: American have an average of $6,506 in credit card debt, according
to a new Experian report out this week. But which expenses are adding
to that balance the most? A full 23% of Americans say that paying for
basic necessities such as rent, utilities and food contributes the most
to their credit card […]
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Reuters: SpaceX, the private rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur
Elon Musk, launched the first batch of 60 small satellites into
low-Earth orbit on Thursday for Musk’s new Starlink internet service. A
Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellites blasted off from Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station at about 10:
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