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Oct 28, 2020

You can now get a COVID-19 rapid antibody test for $25 at Kroger

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

If you think you may have been exposed to COVID-19 but were unable to access testing at the time, you’ll soon be able to get a 15-minute rapid antibody test at Kroger!

Oct 28, 2020

Russia Hacks Into U.S. Power Plants, But Nuclear Reactors Should Be Impervious

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, internet, nuclear energy

But what about nuclear? Are we at risk of cyber-induced meltdowns or releases of radiation?

No.

Fortunately, while the Russians may be able to disrupt electricity transmission in general, and electricity generation from many power plants like natural gas and wind farms, they can’t hack into nuclear power plant operations. Nuclear plants are still mostly analog and not connected to the Internet.

Oct 28, 2020

South Korean dog meat farms closing as attitudes change

Posted by in categories: food, sustainability

This was the 17th farm closure in South Korea that HSI has facilitated, and the latest indication that the market for dog meat, a traditional delicacy in South Korea, is rapidly declining.

Oct 28, 2020

World’s first-ever graphene hiking boots unveiled

Posted by in categories: materials, particle physics

Circa 2018


The world’s first-ever hiking boots to use graphene have been unveiled by The University of Manchester and British brand inov-8.

Building on the international success of their pioneering use of graphene in trail running and fitness shoes last summer, the brand is now bringing the to a market recently starved of innovation.

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Oct 28, 2020

Bloodhound SSC: 10 things they learned at 628mph ahead of 1,000mph land speed record attempt

Posted by in category: futurism

Chief engineer Mark Chapman talks about the lessons gained from last year’s runs of the jet-powered British land speed record contender.

Oct 28, 2020

Elon Musk’s SpaceX says it will ‘make its own laws on Mars’

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, government, law, space travel

“For services provided on Mars, or in transit to Mars via Starship or other colonisation spacecraft, the parties recognise Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities,” the governing law section states.

“Accordingly, disputes will be settled through self-governing principles, established in good faith, at the time of Martian settlement.”

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Oct 28, 2020

Fiat Chrysler announces Ram electric pickup truck coming

Posted by in category: transportation

Fiat Chrysler, a lagger when it comes to electrification, confirms that it plans to make an electric Ram pickup truck.

Almost every automaker under the sun is planning to make an electric pickup truck:

Oct 28, 2020

Inside OSIRIS-Rex’s Extraordinary Mission to Tag Asteroid Bennu

Posted by in category: space

This week, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft successfully touched and collected a sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu—without a human at the controls…

Oct 28, 2020

Rocket Lab launches 10 Earth-observation satellites into orbit

Posted by in category: satellites

Nine of them are “SuperDoves” built by San Francisco company Planet.


The satellites lifted off today (Oct. 28) atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster, which launched from the company’s New Zealand pad at 5:14 p.m. EDT (2114 GMT; 10:14 a.m. on Oct. 29 local New Zealand time).

Oct 28, 2020

DARPA Testing the Limits of Unmanned Ships in New NOMARS Program

Posted by in categories: military, robotics/AI

As the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) explores designs for a ship that could operate without humans aboard, the agency is keeping the Navy involved in the effort to ensure it progresses forward should the program’s work succeed.

While the Navy is creating unmanned surface vehicles based off designs meant for ships that could bring humans aboard, the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program is the first to pursue a design that takes humans out of the calculation.

Gregory Avicola, the NOMARS program manager, told USNI News in a recent interview that DARPA has had conversations with Navy offices like PMS-406, the service’s program executive office for unmanned and small combatants, and the Surface Development Squadron, which has been tasked with developing the concept of operations for unmanned surface vehicles, since the agency started the NOMARS initiative.