Senator Tammy Duckworth said Americans simply are not in touch with just how close we are to war on the Korean peninsula. Duckworth said Kim Jong-un poses a serious and deadly threat to millions of people on the Korean peninsula, the Pacific theater and in the United States, and the prospect of war is far …
Brian M. Rosenthal of the New York Times lists the causes of the $2.6 billion per mile New York subway construction. Excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York. At $2.6 billion per mile, New York’s Second Avenue Subway broke records for its costs. The …
A leaked memo that revealed the U.S. administration was considering building its own 5G network to bring super-fast Internet to consumers and businesses — a government effort designed to thwart what the Administration and some lawmakers say is potential Chinese espionage — was fast and pointed. A secure 5G network is critical to US competitiveness …
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have now unveiled the long-mysterious inner workings of these semiconductor elements, which can act like the short-term memory of nerve cells. Just as the ability of one nerve cell to signal another depends on how often the cells have communicated in the recent past, the …
Ursula Le Guin, a Grand Master SciFi writer, died last week. Her “greatest greats” bibliography: The Earthsea Cycle Disposessed Left Hand of Darkness Word for World is Forest Lathe of Heaven Orsinian Tales Annals of the Western Shore She was honored with the “Living Legend” Award from the US Library of Congress. Ursula Kroeber Le …
Nick Ayers, chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence has tweeted that there are major positive ramifications for the US space industry is this [SpaceX Falcon Heavy] launch goes according to plan. The SpaceX Falcon Heavy will be able to launch 63.8 tons to low earth orbit. SpaceX will try a first launch on …
The Micron 5200 series of SATA SSDs (solid state drives) use industry-leading 64-layer 3D NAND. The Micron 5200 SSD delivers best-in-class performance and capacity on the same proven architecture as the 5100 series. Designed for virtualized server workloads that power your business, such as OLTP, BI/DSS, VDI, block/object, and media streaming, the low-latency Micron 5200 …
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a superconducting switch that “learns” like a biological system and could connect processors and store memories in future computers operating like the human brain. Above – Illustrations showing the basic operation of NIST’s artificial synapse, which could connect processors and store memories in …
On January 4, 2018, Russia’s finance ministry said it had fully spent its reserve fund, as planned, in late 2017 to cover budget shortfalls. The finance ministry said it converted foreign currency it had in its reserve fund into rubles and channeled more than 1 trillion rubles ($17.53 billion) to cover budget deficit in December. …
The Economist had a special report which asserts that the odds of a great power conflict – US and allies versus Russia or US versus China have increased. One of the main points is that Russia did take Crimea from Ukraine and they now have a stalemate in that still active conflict. * The US …
the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a straightforward introduction to blockchain, which underpins Bitcoin and other digital currencies. (59 pages) A blockchain is essentially a decentralized ledger that maintains transaction records on many computers simultaneously. Once a group, or block, of records is entered into the ledger, the block’s information is …