Saudi and US support of Israel would make multiple strikes on Iran Nuclear facilities feasible

The Iranian nuclear program is spread across dozens of sites over an area that is bigger than France, Germany and Spain combined and located 1,000 miles away from Israel. Israel could and did use military strikes to take single facilities in Syria and Iraq to delay their nuclear programs. An effective Israeli attack would require …

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Mastercard has patent which could enable blockchain currency credit cards

Mastercard has a patent managing fractional reserves of blockchain currency. The Mastercard patent deals with: * storing, in a first central account, a fiat amount associated with a fiat currency; * storing, in a second central account, a blockchain amount associated with a blockchain currency; * storing a plurality of account profiles, each profile including …

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Graphene foam for wearables and with scalable 3D production

A Glasgow University team has developed medical sensors powered by a porous foam of graphene and silver, an advance with potential applications in the wearable device market. They used a commercially available graphene foam to make a layered structure with a silver-containing epoxy resin to form supercapacitors capable of storing three times as much power …

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Russia and the Black Widow red head female spies

The Marvel comics character of Natasha Romonava was created in 1964 as a red-head russian spy. There are now two famous example red-head female russian spies in real life. Maria Butina is another red-headed russian female spy, who was recently charged. In 2010, Anna Chapman was arrested as a Russian spy. There were ten other …

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Doubling or tripling the pace of robotics and AI should not cause mass unemployment

Productivity growth (a.k.a. “automation”) has been very weak for the last decade, averaging just over 1.0 percent annually. The Congressional Budget Office is only forecasting 1.8% per year productivity growth. Productivity growth averaged 3.0% annually from 1947 to 1973 which had low unemployment and rapid wage growth. Tripling the robots in manufacturing would be the …

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DivvyCloud provides insight into the cloud computing world

DivvyCloud, a cloud security and compliance company, is expanding to support Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group. More businesses are shifting to the cloud globally, DivvyCloud’s software will help customers achieve continuous security governance in Alibaba Cloud. DivvyCloud already supports AWS, Azure, and GCP clouds. Earlier in 2018, Alibaba surpassed IBM as …

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