Sacramento constructing $5.6M tiny home community for homeless…
March 6, 2020
St. Paul Church of God is leasing a plot of land to the city to house 24 tiny cabin-like structures, each for two people, between the ages of 18 to 24 years old, according to the local news.
Trump signs $8.3B coronavirus spending bill…
Global Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Surpass 100,000; US Death Toll Hits 14 As Cases Near 250...
Tennessee man with coronavirus traveled through Boston airport...
Rabbi for synagogue at center of New York coronavirus outbreak tests positive...
2,773 People Are Under Quarantines in New York City...
An employee at the Seattle Seahawks' stadium tested positive for coronavirus...
Trump scraps trip to CDC...
White House concedes US lacks enough test kits...
China Accuses U.S. of Botching Coronavirus Response, Claims Virus Came from America...
Adviser to Iran’s Foreign Minister Dies of Coronavirus
March 6, 2020
Suicide bombers kills 5 police officers near US Embassy in Tunisia…
March 6, 2020
Tunisia’s interior ministry says two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the U.S. Embassy in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, Friday, killing five police officers. A ministry statement said the attackers both died. A civilian was slightly injured.
Someone just uploaded open-source nuclear power plant blueprints to the web…
March 6, 2020
There’s no getting around it: The news that someone has posted open-source blueprints for a functional nuclear power plant online sounds like the evil scheme of a James Bond villain. In fact, it could turn out to be a game-changer for affordable, clean, sustainable nuclear energy...
US Navy warns China ‘you don’t want to play laser tag with us’ after a Chinese destroyer fired a military-grade laser at a US aircraft…
March 6, 2020
Lawsuit: Twitter Blacklisted Data Analyst Who Researched Fake Accounts…
March 6, 2020
... data analyst Geoff Golberg, who alleges that Twitter engages in “deceptive practices” as defined by New York consumer protection laws. Golberg was investigating the problem of “bot” accounts on the social media platform, and had spent $35,000 in advertising before his blacklisting.
Job growth smashes expectations for February as unemployment falls back to 3.5%…
March 6, 2020
The Labor Department reported Friday that the U.S. economy added 273,000 new jobs during the month, while the unemployment rate was 3.5%, matching its lowest level in more than 50 years. An alternative measure of joblessness that counts those not looking for work and holding part-time jobs for economic reasons edged higher to 7%.
Google’s DeepMind just shared AI-generated predictions about the coronavirus that could help researchers stem the global outbreak…
March 6, 2020
These predictions were drawn from DeepMind's new deep learning system but have yet to be experimentally verified, DeepMind noted in a blog post announcing their findings.
Elon Musk’s brother wants to transform farming with eco-friendly indoor vertical production…
March 6, 2020
Musk said the company plans to open a Square Roots "Super Farm" — with 25 climate-controlled shipping containers, cold storage, biosecurity infrastructure and everything else needed to run a vertical farm at scale — in less than three months...
Researchers create Bendable, Green, and Cement-Free Concrete Created to Better Withstand Earthquakes – The product is 400 times more bendable than conventional concrete and far less polluting…
Read the study on Sci-Hub from ScienceDirect...
March 6, 2020
Apparently it has a similar strength profile to regular concrete which is the actual innovation. You have to go into the referenced study but apparently that was the big stride, rather than the bendiness itself as the article implies.