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Feb 27, 2020

This Restored Footage of New York City is From 1911

Posted by in category: futurism

This colorized, 4K footage of New York City in 1911 will transport you to a different era.

Feb 27, 2020

Wearable chair

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, wearables

This wearable chair will help doctors through long surgeries.

Feb 27, 2020

The boss who put everyone on 70K

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Hopefully as we continue to automate more employers follow this example. Article.


A tech boss introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all his staff — by cutting his own wages. Five years, on he has no regrets.

Feb 27, 2020

Pope Francis, 83, cancels event as he’s taken ill amid Italy coronavirus crisis

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

POPE Francis cancelled a church service today after he was struck down with illness.

The 83-year-year-old pontiff was not well enough to attend the mass, although there is no suggestion at this stage he has coronavirus as the outbreak in Italy topped 500 cases.

The Pope covered his mouth as he coughed.

Feb 27, 2020

Trump says coronavirus will ‘disappear’ eventually

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Wuhan coronavirus pandemic — US strategic response.

“It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear,” said Trump.

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Feb 27, 2020

Earth captures new ‘mini moon’

Posted by in category: space

Earth has acquired a second “mini-moon” about the size of a car, according to astronomers who spotted the object circling our planet.

The mass—roughly 1.9−3.5 meters (6−11 feet) in diameter—was observed by researchers Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona on the night of February 15.

“BIG NEWS. Earth has a new temporarily captured /Possible mini-moon called 2020 CD3,” likely to be a C-type asteroid, Wierzchos tweeted on Wednesday.

Feb 27, 2020

Should the US Have a Secretary For Influence Operations?

Posted by in category: military

Two former top special operations officials say their job was too junior and the Pentagon isn’t taking information warfare seriously enough.

Despite shifting military budgets to better keep up with competitors, there’s one area where countries like China, Russia, and even Iran are proving nimble and frustrating for the Department of Defense: influence operations.

In this new age of information warfare, the military art of influence ops — otherwise sometimes called psychological ops, information ops, or most-recently, military information support ops — lacks the senior level leadership it deserves, say two former Pentagon officials who were in charge of special operations policies. According to them, the position they once held is too junior for the seriousness of the threat and mission, and influence ops is spread so wide, that nobody is sure who is really in charge.

Feb 27, 2020

Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the Universe

Posted by in category: cosmology

Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang.

Feb 27, 2020

Recycled Nuclear Waste Will Power a New Reactor

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

Last week, the Department of Energy gave a commercial company the green light to test fuel made from spent uranium.

Feb 27, 2020

Physicists may have accidentally discovered a new state of matter

Posted by in categories: climatology, computing, mobile phones, physics

Humans have been studying electric charge for thousands of years, and the results have shaped modern civilization. Our daily lives depend on electric lighting, smartphones, cars, and computers, in ways that the first individuals to take note of a static shock or a bolt of lightning could never have imagined.

Now, physicists at Northeastern have discovered a new way to manipulate . And the changes to the future of our technology could be monumental.

“When such phenomena are discovered, imagination is the limit,” says Swastik Kar, an associate professor of physics. “It could change the way we can detect and communicate signals. It could change the way we can sense things and the storage of information, and possibilities that we may not have even thought of yet.”