August, 2018

Earth has a habit of picking up, and later discarding, small companions called "minimoons," and these tiny objects could help scientists solve the mysteries of asteroids.

A computer model that was originally developed in 1973 by a group of scientists at MIT is warning that our standard of living will start to decline dramatically around the year 2020, and we will witness the “end of civilization” around the year 2040.

Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey dropped $8.275 million on a secluded compound on Washington State’s postcard-ready Orcas Island, one of the four largest islands that comprise the San Juan Islands archipelago between Seattle and Vancouver.

“Productivity of American businesses surged to a 2.9% annual pace in the second quarter, reflecting the biggest gain in more than three years,” Jeffry Bartash writes in MarketWatch.

In Japan, Technocrats are restructuring the energy sector in order to upgrade older, more traditional cities, into Smart Cities by controlling every facet of living. In other words, a Scientific Dictatorship of technocrats will be ushered in through the guise of energy advancement, and the Japanese citizens have no idea what is happening under their noses.

The problem is “the lack of open standards around health data is a huge barrier for them to get into the $3 trillion health system.”.

• Patients face difficulty sharing medical records between doctors and hospitals.
• There are strong economic incentives that keep health tech incumbents and care providers from fixing the problem.
• Tech giants, including Alphabet, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and Salesforce, proposed a common set of standards and pledged to make products that support them.

A mysterious Russian satellite displaying "very abnormal behaviour" has raised alarm in the US, according to a State Department official. "We don't know for certain what it is and there is no way to verify it," said assistant secretary Yleem Poblete at a conference in Switzerland on 14 August.

Ms Poblete's comments were particularly interesting in light of President Donald Trump's decision to launch a sixth branch of the US armed forces named Space Force, added Ms Stickings. "The narrative coming from the US is, 'space was really peaceful, now look at what the Russians and Chinese are doing' - ignoring the fact that the US has developed its own capabilities."