Google reportedly cancelled a cloud project Intended for countries including China
Updated with Google’s full statement After reportedly spending a year and a half working on a cloud service meant for China and other countries, Google cancelled the project, called “Isolated Region,” in May due partly to geopolitical and pandemic-related concerns. Bloomberg reports that Isolated Region, shut down in May, would have enabled it to offer…
Shorthanded Net will be relying on Caris LeVert to lead
July 9, 2020 | 1:05am For long stretches over the past two seasons, the Nets have been without Caris LeVert because of injuries. So naturally, now that the team is falling apart at the seams because of coronavirus, opt-outs and injuries, the Nets will turn to LeVert to shoulder the load in Orlando, Fla. The…
MLS returns after 8-minute, 46-second moment of silence
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Nani called it beautiful and emotional. He wasn’t talking about either goal he played a part in during Orlando City’s 2-1 victory over Inter Miami on Wednesday night. Nearly 200 players took the field for an 8-minute, 46-second moment of silence to protest racial injustice before Major League Soccer’s return to action.…
Miguel Andujar has no problem being Yankees’ utility guy
July 9, 2020 | 1:29am You would think staring down Mike Trout from the pitching mound would be the answer. Or attempting to figure out what well-above-average pitch Gerrit Cole was going to throw to make you look ill. Yet, many players will tell you the most difficult thing to accomplish at baseball’s highest level…
Raheem Mostert requests trade from 49ers
July 9, 2020 | 1:48am San Francisco 49ers postseason breakout star Raheem Mostert requested a trade from the team after being unable to renegotiate his contract. Agent Brett Tessler made the request public on Wednesday after talks with the 49ers failed to lead to a new deal to replace the three-year contract Mostert signed in…
Food tech start-ups boosted by Covid-19 pandemic, says Prince Khaled
Start-ups that focus on food technology have benefitted from an increasingly health-conscious public during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, the founder and CEO of KBW Ventures. KBW Ventures has invested a number of companies that work in the food tech space, including Singapore-based biotech firm TurtleeTree Labs,…
Things Are Truly Unusual in The Outer Solar System, And May Have Figured Out
MICHELLE STARR 9 JULY 2020 Most of the Solar System is pretty well behaved, but in the distant reaches, out past the orbit of Neptune and far from the light of the Sun, things can get a little… strange. There are a bunch of rocks orbiting the Sun in patterns totally different from the objects…
Mars Alert: Why Three Spacecraft Must Leave For The Red Planet Within Weeks Or Miss Their Chance
Japan’s H-IIA rocket will launch the UAE’s Emirates Mars MIssion. JAXA 2020 is a big year for the solar system. July will see three spacecraft launch to Mars. First the Emirates Mars Mission, then China’s Huoxing-1, and finally NASA’s Mars 2020. They will all take turns to launch their respective missions to the “Red Planet.”…
‘The Sirens of Mars’ tells of the search for life on Mars
Home News Search For Lives “The Sirens of Mars” by Sarah Stewart Johnson. (Image: © Penguin Random House/NASA) Studying Mars has been by turns tantalizing and heart-breaking, a constant dance as improving technology builds or dims hopes of finding life on our red neighbor.Sarah Stewart Johnson, a planetary scientist at Georgetown University, shares the story…
5G networks have few health impacts, study finds
Adult zebrafish in the lab of Robyn Tanguay. Credit: Lynn Ketchum Fifth generation or 5G wireless technology, which began being deployed worldwide in 2019, provides faster connectivity and more bandwidth, meaning higher download speeds. But because 5G technology is so new, little is known about the potential health effects from its radiofrequency radiation, which is…
Trump’s threat to defund education adds pressure to schools
(CNN)President Donald Trump’s threat Wednesday to cut off federal funding for schools if they don’t open in the fall is the latest stress for schools already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic.The President can’t unilaterally cut current federal support of schools, and the federal government provided only 8.3% of funding for public elementary and secondary schools…
The President’s failure to ask the nation to make sacrifices that could quell the virus are consigning the US to a worsening pandemic with no route to health
(CNN)President Donald Trump’s fresh efforts to undermine medical and scientific experts and his failure to ask the country to make the sacrifices that could quell the coronavirus are consigning America to a constantly worsening pandemic with no clear route back to health.Trump recommitted to that strategy — which defies the example of nations that have…
360,000+ Home EV Chargers In UK By 2025?
Cars Published on July 8th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan July 8th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan There are currently 120,000 or so EV charging stations in the UK. A producer and installer of high-end EV chargers in the UK, Andersen, forecasts there will be 360,000+ by 2025. There are approximately 28 million households in the…
San Diego police release video of suspect shooting
SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego police on Wednesday released video of officers shooting a man who they say managed to slip his handcuffs while in a patrol car at police headquarters and grab an officer’s gun.Keith Bergman, 25, fired a round and got out of the car with the gun in his waistband before…
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2,281 of 2,281 precincts – 100 percent 52 of 0 Delegates allocated Joe Biden 44 – 0 percent Bernie Sanders 8 – 0 percent Uncommitted 0 – 0 percent Michael Bennet 0 – 0 percent Michael Bloomberg 0 – 0 percent Cory Booker 0 – 0 percent Pete Buttigieg 0 – 0 percent Julian Castro…
Australia ends Hong Kong extradition treaty, extends visas
Rod Mcguirk, Associated Press Updated 9:58 pm PDT, Wednesday, July 8, 2020 Journalists take picture and video over the water-filled barriers after an opening ceremony for China’s new Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. China’s new national security office in Hong Kong got off to an early start on Wednesday…
NASA Divides $17M into four small companies with Artemis ambitions
NASA awards millions of dollars a year to small businesses through the SBIR program, but generally it’s a lot of small awards to hundreds of companies. Breaking with precedent, today the agency announced a new multi-million-dollar funding track and its four first recipients, addressing urgent needs for the Artemis program. The Small Business Innovation Research…
What Telescope Will Be Needed to See the First Stars in the Universe? The Ultimately Large Telescope
The oldest stars in the Universe are cloaked in darkness. Their redshift is so high, we can only wonder about them. The James Webb Space Telescope will be our most effective telescope for observing the very early Universe, and should observe out to z = 15. But even it has limitations. To observe the Universe’s…
Nyx: Stellar Stream of Stars Discovered in Milky Way That Originated in Another Galaxy
Still from a simulation of individual galaxies forming, starting at a time when the Universe was just a few million years old. Credit: Hopkins Research Group, Caltech Caltech researchers use deep learning and supercomputing to identify Nyx, a product of a long-ago galaxy merger. Astronomers can go their whole career without finding a new object…
Face masks: These are the best and worst materials for protecting against coronavirus
Some masks protect better against the coronavirus than others. Dan Ackerman/CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. Everyone should wear nonmedical face masks when interacting with others during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the material your mask…
VERITAS: Exploring the Deep Truths of Venus
Under consideration to become the next Discovery Program mission, VERITAS would reveal the inner workings of Earth’s mysterious “twin.” Imagine Earth. Now fill the skies with thick, Sun-obscuring clouds of sulfuric acid; boil off the oceans by cranking up the temperature to 900 degrees Fahrenheit (nearly 500 degrees Celsius), and boost the air pressure high…
Supergenes play a larger role in Development than previously thought
Supergenes play an outsized role in maintaining wild sunflowers’ extensive variation, according to University of British Columbia research in Nature. Credit: Marco Todesco, University of British Columbia. Massive blocks of genes—inherited together ‘plug and play’ style—may play a larger role in evolutionary adaption than previously thought, according to new research in Nature. Biologists identified 37…
The Way the small Arab nation built a Mars mission from scratch in six years
Beyond petroleum Much of the UAE is so new it feels like the future. But Dubai’s Burj Khalifa — the world’s tallest building — and driverless metro system are a long way from the country’s beginnings as a group of impoverished communities from distinct tribes that joined forces in the wake of independence from the…
NASA’s InSight Flexes Its Arm While Its ‘Mole’ Hits Pause
Now that the lander’s robotic arm has helped the mole get underground, it will resume science activities that have been on hold. NASA’s InSight lander has been using its robotic arm to help the heat probe known as the “mole” burrow into Mars. The mission is providing the first look at the Red Planet’s deep…
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