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Apr 7, 2021

Guangzhou moves to establish Chinese commercial space cluster

Posted by in categories: business, government, robotics/AI, satellites

HELSINKI — Guangzhou is developing a major space cluster in the city by hosting new projects including the new headquarters for the space business of Geely Technology Group.

Geely, a major automaker which owns Volvo Cars and part of Daimler AG, is to establish a space headquarters in Nansha district to oversee development of its satellite and communications technologies, local government said March 30.

Geely is developing a low Earth orbit constellation for navigation, connectivity and communications needed for self-driving cars. The group recently gained approval to begin manufacturing satellites.

Apr 6, 2021

Satellite images show huge Russian military buildup in the Arctic

Posted by in categories: climatology, military, nuclear energy, robotics/AI

Russia is amassing unprecedented military might in the Arctic and testing its newest weapons in a region freshly ice-free due to the climate emergency, in a bid to secure its northern coast and open up a key shipping route from Asia to Europe.

Weapons experts and Western officials have expressed particular concern about one Russian ‘super-weapon,’ the Poseidon 2M39 torpedo. Development of the torpedo is moving fast with Russian President Vladimir Putin requesting an update on a “key stage” of the tests in February from his defence minister Sergei Shoigu, with further tests planned this year, according to multiple reports in state media.

This unmanned stealth torpedo is powered by a nuclear reactor and intended by Russian designers to sneak past coastal defences — like those of the US — on the sea floor.

Apr 6, 2021

Iran espionage-linked ship attacked at sea

Posted by in category: military

An Iranian military ship linked to alleged spying activities was attacked Tuesday by Israeli forces as it was stationed in the Red Sea, according to U.S. and Iranian officials.

Pentagon spokesperson Commander Jessica L. McNulty said in a statement to The Hill that the U.S. was “aware of media reporting of an incident involving the Saviz in the Red Sea.”

“We can confirm that no U.S. forces were involved in the incident,” McNulty continued, adding, “We have no additional information to provide.”

Apr 6, 2021

A New Russian Weapon Can Flood Coastal Cities With ‘Radioactive Tsunamis’

Posted by in category: military

Russia’s upgrading its arctic military arsenal! Check out its latest tactical nuclear weapon.

Apr 6, 2021

The US says China is committing genocide against the Uyghurs. Here’s some of the most chilling evidence

Posted by in categories: government, terrorism

Here’s what you need to know:

The Uyghurs are a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority who live in what China refers to as the Xinjiang region, but what some Uyghurs call East Turkestan. There are an estimated 11 million Uyghurs in Xinjiang, a large patch of land in western China that shares a border with Pakistan, Kazakhstan and. The Uyghurs speak a Turkic language and have a different cultural identity than the Han Chinese population, which speaks Mandarin and is generally not religious.

The Chinese Communist government views the Uyghurs as a threat in part because some have sought greater autonomy or even a separate state. Chinese government officials allege there are extremists within the Uyghur community and have said their campaign to “re-educate” the Uyghurs is justified by terrorism concerns.

Apr 6, 2021

China ‘secretly builds 260 prison camps to hold a million Uighur Muslims’

Posted by in categories: government, law enforcement

SATELLITE images show that China has built 260 fortified prison camps capable of holding hundreds of thousands of Uighur Muslims in the last three years.

The revelations come after months of growing international condemnation over China’s internment, indoctrination, and abuse of Uighur people across the Xinjiang province.

Up to 1.5million people are thought to have been detained in the province since 2017 as part of an attempt by the Chinese government to crack down on long-running separatist movements.

Apr 6, 2021

Companies are racing to bring A.I. to the masses with no code software

Posted by in categories: ethics, information science, robotics/AI

But will the effort undermine A.I. ethics?


Primer, the San Francisco A.I. company, is the latest to launch a no-code software system that lets non-experts create and train A.I. algorithms.

Apr 6, 2021

2 cases of new COVID variant identified in Colorado

Posted by in category: futurism

The two cases of P.1 found in Boulder County are the first of this variant detected in the state, according to the state health department.

Apr 6, 2021

Covid: Brazil has more than 4,000 deaths in 24 hours for first time

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Brazil daily Covid deaths top 4000 for first time.

Hospitals are overcrowded, with people dying as they wait for treatment, as cases continue to surge.

Apr 6, 2021

Global Recycling Day news | Veolia set to produce over 100 million recycled plastic milk bottles each year

Posted by in category: sustainability

Resource management company, Veolia, is set to make a major increase to the amount of recycled plastic used in milk bottles and close the UK to UK recycling loop for the UK dairy industry.

The project will see over 100 million new recycled bottles created each year by ensuring that they are produced, distributed, consumed, collected, sorted, washed & reprocessed and made into bottles in the UK.

Every year three hundred million milk bottles arrive at Veolia’s plastic recycling facilities. After being collected and compressed into bales, the bottles are ground into flakes. They are washed several times to remove label residue and clean the plastic.