Archive for February, 2020
Rumor: Tesla’s Secret Battery Project Will Produce Cells at $100 per kWh on a Massive Scale
February 27th, 2020Via: Electrek: Now sources have told Electrek that the secret project is called “Roadrunner,” and it will aim to achieve mass production of a new battery cell that will be more energy-dense and cheaper. The cells are using technologies developed by Tesla’s internal teams, including work from its research lab in Canada led by Jeff […]
Lawyer Claims U.S. ‘Plotted to Kill Julian Assange and Make It Look Like an Accident’
February 26th, 2020Via: Daily Mail: US spies hatched a plot to kidnap or even poison Julian Assange using shady Spanish private detectives after he leaked 250,000 top secret documents online, his extradition hearing was told yesterday. The WikiLeaks founder’s human rights barrister Edward Fitzgerald, who has previously represented Moors Murderer Myra Hindley and hate preacher Abu Hamza, […]
U.S. Car Industry Most Reliant on Chinese Parts
February 26th, 2020Via: Statista: China is among the world’s largest suppliers of car parts, exporting motor vehicle parts and accessories worth $34.8 billion in 2018, according to the UN’s Comtrade database. As the following chart shows, the U.S. car industry is theoretically most at risk of production outages as it relies heavily on parts sourced from China.
SpaceX Rocket Production Facility Approved by Port of Los Angeles
February 26th, 2020Via: Reuters: SpaceX, the private rocket company of high tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, won final approval on Tuesday to build a research and manufacturing plant for its deep-space Starship project on a tract of vacant land at the Port of Los Angeles.
Polio Vaccine Caused Polio Outbreak in Pakistan
February 25th, 2020Via: Guardian: According to the source within the programme, the renewed outbreak of the P2 strand came from a mismanagement of vaccines, which carry a live strain of the disease to create immunity. After the strand was eliminated from Pakistan five years ago, all P2 vaccines should have been collected from hospitals and clinics and […]
U.S. Health Officials Urge Americans to Prepare for Spread of Coronavirus
February 25th, 2020Via: Reuters: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday alerted Americans to begin preparing for the spread of coronavirus in the United States after infections surfaced in several more countries. The announcement signaled a change in tone for the Atlanta-based U.S. health agency, which had largely been focused on efforts to […]
Pentagon Preps Nuclear Moon Rocket
February 25th, 2020Via: Daily Beast: The U.S. government is working on an atomic rocket to send satellites into the vast space between Earth and the moon—before Beijing gets there with its own spacecraft.
Video Content Producers Increasingly Trying to Work Around YouTube Censorship
February 25th, 2020Here are three videos in a row that I just watched with people trying to dance around YouTube’s censorship and demonetization systems. In the first one, Dana Ashlie goes as far as showing a white board to convey a glossary of terms!
The Last Gas Cars Roll Off GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Plant This Week
February 24th, 2020Via: Electrek: Last Thursday, the body of the last Chevrolet Impala inched down the assembly line at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck plant. Employees gathered around the car, snapping pictures of the final internal-combustion vehicle to be made at the storied Detroit plant. It will roll off the assembly line this week. On Friday, roughly 800 General Motors […]
The China They Don’t Want You to See
February 24th, 2020I’ve been waiting a long time for Winston to finally let it rip. Via: serpentza:
