The White House is pushing ahead with a second tax cut package. They plan to have a new tax package ready for a vote around September or October. National Economic Director Larry Kudlow told FOX Business in March that part of the second round of reforms could involve making individual tax cuts, and other provisions, …
US oil production set a new record back in February, 2018 to surpass the previous oil production peak set in the 1970s. EIA estimates that U.S. crude oil production averaged 10.9 million barrels per day (b/d) in June. EIA projects that U.S. crude oil production will average 10.8 million b/d in 2018, up from 9.4 …
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A recent study of about 4000 ‘super-elderly’ people in Italy, all aged 105 and older predicts that the chance of death reaches a peak of 50% each year. Yearly risk of death climbs from * 10% chance of someone age 85 not dying by the time they are 86 * 15% chance of someone age …
Google is choosing to not help the US military with AI but is indirectly helping the Chinese military. Former deputy secretary of defense Bob Work points out * Google opened up an AI center in China * China will be able to steal anything that is developed in the Google AI Center in Beijing * …
The US State Department announced on Tuesday that they aim to cut off all Iranian oil exports by November. The US has launched an economic offensive to collapse the Iranian government, which already has an economy with 10% inflation and 12% unemployment. One-third of Iran’s under-30s are out of work. Chanting at recent protests in …
A Columbia University-led team of astrophysicists has discovered a dozen black holes gathered around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Thsi supports the theory that there are tens of thousands of blackholes in he milky way galaxy. In the past, failed attempts to find evidence …
Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord have looked at the wide range of possible probabilities for each part of the Drake Equation estimate of technological civilizations in the universe. They analyzed the wide ranges of answers for each parameter. They incorporate models of chemical and genetic transitions on paths to the origin of life, …