Monthly Archives: August 2022

Key Russian official confirms his country’s commitment to the space station

Enlarge / Roscosmos cosmonaut and Executive Director for Piloted Spaceflights Sergey Krikalev speaks during an astronaut panel discussion at the 70th International Astronautical Congress in 2019. (credit: NASA) A senior Russian official on Thursday said that his country’s space program intends to cooperate with NASA and other partners on the International Space Station for as…

Biden administration declares monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency

Enlarge / Health workers sit at a check-in table at a pop-up monkeypox vaccination clinic, which was opened by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health at the West Hollywood Library on August 3, 2022, in West Hollywood, California. (credit: Getty | Mario Tama) The Biden administration on Thursday declared the explosive monkeypox outbreak…

Meta’s threat report highlights clumsy attempt to manipulate Ukraine discourse

Meta’s quarterly “Adversarial Threat Report” paints a somewhat depressing picture of the once feared global troll ecosystem: A number of outfits “relatively low in sophistication” attempting fruitlessly to spam their way to relevance. But just because they’re bad at their jobs doesn’t mean we can let our guard down. Various forms of hackery and attempts…

Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy backs Terabase’s robot-built solar farms

Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a climate-focused VC firm linked to some of Earth’s wealthiest individuals, has joined a $44 million bet on solar startup Terabase Energy. Terabase aims to rapidly build new solar farms “at the terawatt scale,” CEO Matt Campbell said in a statement. The startup claims its automated, on-site factory can already speed up…

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A bull rally in stocks will be unsustainable until the Fed has ‘undoubtedly pivoted’ from its rate-hike campaign, says UBS

U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his re-nominations hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., January 11, 2022. Brendan Smialowski/Reuters A durable bull market will likely be elusive until the Fed signals a clear shift away from plans for future rate hikes, says…

Sen. Raphael Warnock wants to tweak Manchin inflation deal to expand government-funded healthcare to 4 million people

Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat of Georgia, questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as she testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Tom Williams/Pool via AP Sen. Raphael Warnock is readying an amendment to the inflation deal that would expand Medicaid. An estimated…

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