The FAA just approved Amazon to deliver packages by drone across the United States. But a small scale drone trial in Australia caused such a noise nuisance locals threatened to…
Category: Technology
THE BLOB! – Google’s new threat to Internet privacy and security
“Google is proposing a new standard called WebBundles,” according to Brave’s senior privacy researcher. Brave is an alternate web browser, competition to Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. From the Brave website: WebBundles…
“The future is going to be weird”: Elon Musk Wants to Plant a Chip in Your Head
Last Friday Elon Musk showed off his neural implant chip for pigs, and expressed hope that one day people with silicon chips in their brains would be able to summon…
Astronaut Christina Koch Services a 3-D Biological Printer
From NASA In this image from Dec. 2019, astronaut Christina Koch handles media bags that enable the manufacturing of organ-like tissues using the BioFabrication Facility (BFF), a 3-D biological printer…
A first: New “helper” satellite extends life of failing geosynchronous IntelSat 901
DULLES, Va. – Feb. 26, 2020 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, SpaceLogistics LLC, have successfully completed the first docking of the Mission Extension Vehicle-1…
AI could deceive us as much as the human eye does in the search for extraterrestrials
FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology An artificial neural network has identified a square structure within a triangular one in a crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, with…
New “exascale” supercomputer can run incorrect climate models even faster
Exascale system expected to be world’s most powerful computer for science and innovation. OAK RIDGE, TN – The U.S. Department of Energy today announced a contract with Cray Inc. to…
Flying cars, sustainability, climate, and all that…
From the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN and the department of “where the heck is that flying car promised 50 years ago?” department. A Jetsons future? Assessing the role of flying cars…
The Guardian: Green Car Maker Tesla Just Laid Off a Quality Control Department
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – According to The Guardian, Tesla’s recent layoffs include an entire quality control department. ‘How do they expect to run without us?’ Tesla…
Give thanks that we no longer live on the precipice
Fossil fuels helped humanity improve our health, living standards and longevity in just 200 years Paul Driessen Thanksgiving is a good time to express our sincere gratitude that we no…
Does the U.S. (and green tech) have a looming technology-security minerals crisis?
Foreword Impacts from the 1973 OPEC oil embargo could pale by comparison to an embargo or other disrupted access to the exotic, critical and strategic metals and minerals that are…
Despite a mishap, GOES-17 is online and producing imagery
GOES-17, the western USA-centric twin satellite to GOES-16 looking at the east and midwest suffered some sort of mishap during launch and deployment. NASA and NOAA just announced they are…
NOAA’s newest GOES 17 weather satellite may not be fixable, and a loss
From NOAA and NextGov reports. The second satellite in NOAA’s $11 billion GOES program continues to experience issues with its most important instrument and officials still aren’t sure what’s wrong.…
Pipe dream: Norway wants electric airplanes to provide passenger service
WUWT reader “Non Nomen” writes: Norway now wants to electrify domestic air traffic by 2040. Will they be able to recharge at every overhead power line? If they are on…
Where Rivers Run North
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See updates at the end] In the continental US, most of the rivers run east, west, or south. But in the Yukon and in Alaska,…
Our newest GOES-R and GOES-S weather satellites will greatly enhance search and rescue capabilities @NASAsocial
Readers may recall that last week I was the guest of NASA KSC to watch the launch of GOES-S, which is going to be a boon for mapping and alerting…
Study: smartphones and massive data centers harm the environment
From MCMASTER UNIVERSITY Data centres and smartphones will be the most damaging information and communications technologies to the environment by 2040, according to new research from W Booth School’s Lotfi Belkhir.…
Apple admits they throttled #iPhones – one graph tells the whole story of why they are slow
While this isn’t our normal fare here, the Internet is abuzz today over the admission from Apple Inc. that they purposely slowed down older iPhones, and I have something VERY…
Microsoft Invests $50 Million in Our New Green AI Overlord
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to advocates the “AI For Earth” is here to help – but human Behaviour must Change to save the planet. Microsoft is Expanding “AI…
Cool tech: a switchable solar window
Demonstration device dynamically responds to sunlight by transforming from transparent to tinted while converting sunlight into electricity Thermochromic windows capable of converting sunlight into electricity at a high efficiency have…
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