Russian military official has confirmed that they logged another technical flaw for its recently received the Terminator fire support vehicle. The strategic exercise Kavkaz-2020 that took place in October disclosed additional deficiency in the Terminator advanced tank support combat vehicle built by Uralvagonzavod, according to Russian Deputy Minister of Defense Lt. Gen. Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. “Nine units [Terminator vehicles] ]showed themselves there during the preparation and conduct […]
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Canada’s Housing Co-ops Find Success Despite Covid-19 Challenges By Anca Voinea, News Coop. November 26, 2020 Canada’s Housing Co-ops Find Success Despite Covid-19 Challenges2020-11-262020-11-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/canada-housing-e1606438935440.jpg200px200px Above photo: Fieldstone Co-op held a community sing-along with members taking part from a safe distance, on their balconies and in the garden. A recent survey finds the sector is optimistic after arrears remained unaffected by the pandemic. Housing co-ops in Canada […]
Scientists at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) have developed a unique technology to obtain a promising material: high-purity cubic tungsten carbide, which will be able to replace expensive platinum catalysts and reduce the cost of producing hydrogen fuel. Hydrogen is widely used in oil refining and fertiliser production. It is also a promising environmentally friendly fuel that produces clean water when burned. Hydrogen production cost directly affects […]
A team of Italian researchers has uncovered intact brain cells in the skull of a man who died nearly 2,000 years ago during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the city of Herculaneum, which was buried by ash. The man was believed to be around 20 years old when he died in the eruption, which took place in 79 AD. In a study published in January […]
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Madison police found no evidence to corroborate Althea Bernstein’s claim four white men tried to set her on fire during a night of riots in the Wisconsin capital in June, but will not charge her with filing a false report. Bernstein, 18, had claimed that four white men sprayed her with lighter fluid through the open window of her car as she sat at a red […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/1d/1080612603_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_9ba2d9553ded7dfcb1caea296569e217.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Max Gorbachev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/society/202009291080613385-musician-kid-cudi-reveals-how-he-managed-to-deal-with-mental-problems-and-find-happiness/ He used to be one of the most influential musicians in the hip-hop and rap genres. He sold millions of albums in the United States, won a Grammy award, started a movie a career but… in 2016 he disappeared. Singer, songwriter and actor Kid Cudi revealed how he managed to deal with his mental problems and regain […]
A Kansas man returned home from work on Friday evening with his 10-year-old to find that his wife and four other kids had not yet returned from a trip to buy groceries as expected. Soon after, he got a call from a friend about a terrible car crash near the house and rushed to the scene, where he learned his family’s car had collided with a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/1a/1080576952_0:52:1920:1132_1200x675_80_0_0_6e5bd421fee052e51543afa7d221d308.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202009261080577422-ukrainian-investigators-find-another-body-at-site-of-an-26-plane-crash-emergency-services-say/ MINSK (Sputnik) – Investigators in Ukraine have found the body of another individual who died as a result of an An-26 military plane crash in Kharkiv region, the press department of the State Emergency Service said on Saturday, adding that the search for two more bodies continues. “Kharkiv region: The body of a deceased individual was found under the […]
BASED has a new method for aligning decentralized finance (DeFi) projects with each other. At its core is a smart contract called Moonbase, CoinDesk has learned. Based.Money is a project of the Ghouls, a loose consortium of crypto developers, artists, designers and meme makers. Friday night, the outfit will release its newest project since BASED, the rebasing game dropped this summer during the boom of Weird […]
The day before, Marshall Billingslea, US special presidential envoy for arms control, said that Washington is offering Moscow to extend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) for less than five years in order to hammer out a new multilateral document as soon as possible. Russia will find effective ways to protect itself if no agreement is reached with the United States on extending the New […]
Have you taken a cryptocurrency course at university? Are interested in learning about blockchain for your career? What have you heard about the institutions with the best teachers, research centers, student clubs and networking opportunities? We want to hear from you. CoinDesk is on a mission to find out which U.S. university is doing the best overall job of teaching, researching and otherwise engaging on the […]
Police in the German city of Solingen have discovered the bodies of five children inside an apartment. Emergency services are at the scene and an investigation is underway. Cops made the horrific find early on Thursday afternoon. Upon entering the apartment, they discovered five children, with Bild reporting their ages as 1, 2, 3, 6, and 8. A local reporter told Germany’s NonstopNews agency that emergency workers […]
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Photos via the US Marshals Service The US Marshals Service Missing Child Unit rescued 39 missing children in a Georgia raid this month. “Operation Not Forgotten” resulted in the rescue of 26 children, the safe location of 13 children and the arrest of nine criminal associates. TRENDING: BREAKING: Violent Black Lives Matter Mob Attacks Sen. Rand Paul as He Leaves RNC in DC Via The US […]
From left, on stage, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Kamala Harris,and Doug Emhoff , wave to supporters connected virtually after Biden spoke Thursday night. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP From left, on stage, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Kamala Harris,and Doug Emhoff , wave to supporters connected virtually after Biden spoke Thursday night. Andrew Harnik/AP It turns out going virtual has its virtues. Just ask […]
Investors in the 2017 Paragon Coin token sale want their money back, but they can’t find the celebrity couple behind the operation. “The attorneys representing the defendants have withdrawn as counsel,” said attorney Donald Enright, who represents plaintiffs in this crypto-fueled legal dispute. Enright added the defendants “defaulted” by failing to appear in court and respond to the claims. The Northern District of California decided in […]
A team of astronomers has been able to verify that a newly-detected transient event is actually a cataclysmic variable (CV) star, prone to regular episodes of dramatic brightening and dimming. CVs are close binary systems consisting of a normal star and a white dwarf companion. The systems are known to irregularly increase their brightness before dropping to a quiescent state, according to Phys.org. The new find, […]
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By Phil Butler for New Eastern Outlook and VT When I read this week that Princess Ivanka Trump telling American workers they need to eat cake, I’ll admit still being surprised by the Trump White House. According to the reports, Ivanka told the country’s laid-off workers to consider alternative career paths because their old jobs won’t be coming back. For those of you in disbelief like […]
The unique tremor appeared to have turned around at some point near the fault zone and gone back with phenomenally increased velocity. Scientists have found evidence of a one-of-a-kind “boomerang” earthquake – a “back-propagating supershear rupture” that shook vast swathes of underwater terrain in the Atlantic Ocean near the equator in 2016. The results of respective research have been published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The […]
Cryptocurrency exchanges holding user funds have risked falling into numerous security pitfalls by failing to ensure security protocols are properly implemented, according to new research. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies […]
How many tens of thousands of Americans must die because of Dr. Fauci’s mistakes? It is becoming more and more apparent with each new day and as more information is accumulated that Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, the CDC and the FDA failed in their response to the China Coronavirus. Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx pushed a completely fraudulent Imperial College study to lockdown and destroy […]
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here. Grocery shopping on TV! Thinking too much about Zac Efron’s body. The ahmahzing Happy Endings reunion. Were there tights on the boat? Me, as groceries. You People and the Zac Efron […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/18/1079975603_0:319:2730:1855_1200x675_80_0_0_cefb5eb5d2c631e20ca188311b5562a3.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202007241079975639-reindeer-herders-find-mammoth-fossils-in-west-siberian-lake/ KHANTY-MANSIYSK (Sputnik) – Reindeer herders found this week what appears to be a complete skeleton of an ancient woolly mammoth in the lake in West Siberia, the National Center for Arctic Studies said. Bone fragments were discovered in the shallow waters of the Pechevalavato lake, some 16 miles from the village of Seyakha in Yamalo-Nenets region, the center said […]
California authorities on Thursday continued their desperate search for a special needs toddler who has been missing for over a week—a search made more difficult now that his parents have “stopped cooperating” with investigators. Thaddeus Sran, 2, was reported missing on July 15 after his parents said he vanished from their home in Madera, about 30 minutes outside Fresno, the City of Madera Police Department said […]
A security camera and flag adorn the entrance to the Russian Embassy in London. On Tuesday, lawmakers slammed the British government for failing to look into possible Russian interference in U.K. politics. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images A security camera and flag adorn the entrance to the Russian Embassy in London. On Tuesday, lawmakers slammed the British […]
The White House is allegedly considering a strategy that would allow it to bypass congressional approval to impose new migration policies, Axios broke on Sunday. Earlier, the US Supreme Court ruled that Trump cannot undo DACA which allows undocumented young people to avoid deportation. A retired ICE official has shed some light on the controversy. According to Axios, the president and administration officials have been inspired […]
Even as bitcoin prices languish below $10,000, North American cryptocurrency mining companies are tapping into a flurry of fresh financing from investors to pay for new equipment upgrades, bolstering the blockchain network’s resilience and reducing its reliance on Chinese operators. More than $1 billion of new bitcoin-mining computers will be purchased for North American bitcoin mining in the next two years, several people familiar with the […]
As NYPD detectives sought the black-clad monster who beheaded and dismembered 33-year-old tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh in his $2.2 million Manhattan apartment, his family issued a plea for justice. “No words or actions to provide any of us comfort except the capture of the person who exhibited nothing short of evil upon our loved one,” the family statement said. “We need and urge the NYPD and […]
Dissociated Press In a stirring statement sure to lift the flagging spirits of America’s tens of millions of unemployed people, Ivanka Trump has reminded them that there are still plenty of worms, insects, garbage, and other free food sources available. “All it takes is some good old fashioned American gumption, creativity, and can-do spirit,” Ivanka said at the press rollout for her Find Something New to […]
Indian security forces killed six Naga separatists during a three-hour gunfire battle near the Myanmar border on Saturday. A haul of weapons and two bombs were recovered at the scene, and one Indian soldier was injured. The deadly incident took place in Longding district in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh early on Saturday morning as part of a counterinsurgency operation with the police, the Indian […]
Nearly all of the attention is focused on Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson calling Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth—an Iraq War veteran who lost both of her legs in combat—a “coward” and a “fraud” who “hates America,” but don’t forget: He also called her an “unimpressive person.” If you have the unfortunate brain rot that comes with working in, regularly covering, or watching cable news then […]
Brazil may be getting its first token boom in 2020, three years after the trend swept Silicon Valley, powered by a growing interest in stablecoins. According to Binance’s representative in Brazil, Mayra Siqueira, the number of “Brazilian stablecoins traders” quadrupled since January 2020. The exchange’s two most popular stablecoins among Brazilians were Binance’s BUSD and tether (USDT), Siqueira said. Plus, Nash exchange co-founder Fabio Canesin said […]
The corporate office of US pizza chain Little Caesars has issued a statement saying it has “zero tolerance for racism and discrimination in any form” and fired the employees responsible for serving customers pizza with pepperoni arranged in the shape of a reversed swastika. Ohio resident Misty Laska took to social media on Sunday to express her displeasure with the “saddening and disturbing” actions of employees […]
President Donald Trump went postal on Twitter Monday morning over the threat he claims mailed ballots pose to the integrity of U.S. elections—but his family seems to have never gotten the message. The commander in chief fired off another social media fusillade against the practice of submitting ballots through the post, which he has previously labeled “horrible,” “terrible,” and “corrupt,” as well as “dangerous,” “fraudulent,” and […]
G-type main-sequence stars, often called yellow dwarfs, may indeed hide a plethora of planets drawn to them, yet it still remains to be seen if any of them, perfectly resembling our Solar System, are compatible with life. After years of exoplanet-hunting, researchers have made a breakthrough calculation suggesting there could be a myriad, as many as 6 billion, Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars in the Milky […]
Renovations Reveal Rare Maya Murals Hidden in Guatemalan Home by Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com In 2003, home renovations in a Guatemalan mountain village unearthed what researchers describe as “unparalleled” Maya murals. Now, reports broadcast network RT, a new analysis published in the journal Antiquity has revealed additional insights on the wall paintings, which date to the 17th or 18th century and blend Spanish colonial influences with local indigenous culture. Local historian […]
National Guard troops deployed to the US capital found broken glass in their pizza delivery, the Pentagon has confirmed, as nationwide protests against police brutality escalate into calls to get rid of law enforcement altogether. Some 1,500 troops from South Carolina, Indiana, Maryland and Tennessee were sent to the capital last week to reinforce 1,300 members of the DC National Guard deployed to assist law enforcement […]
The problem with paying gas to run transactions is that it discourages lots of transactions. The advantage of paying gas to run transactions, though, is that it discourages lots of transactions. This contradiction is captured well in a new paper examining transactions on EOS, Tezos and XRP Ledger (XRPL) over a seven-month period ending in April. Researchers from Imperial College London and University College London found […]
The Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine Runs on Horseshoe Crab Blood by Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com Humans owe a debt to the strange-looking, ancient horseshoe crab. Its blue blood is used in medicine to ensure that anything that gets injected or implanted into the human body is free of potentially life-threatening bacterial contamination. A special compound in the crab’s blood quickly clots in the presence of endotoxins, microbial byproducts that […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107819/56/1078195683_0:163:2422:1525_1200x675_80_0_0_9c3177c4c93e9a7836d80386e4d785a1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/environment/202006091079570467-bottom-feeder-living-great-white-sharks-feed-closer-to-seabed-aussie-researchers-find/ A new study published by University of Sydney researchers in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science has found that great white sharks off the Australian east coast spend more time feeding near the seabed than previously believed. “Within the sharks’ stomachs we found remains from a variety of fish species that typically live on the seafloor or buried in […]
In the United States, President Trump has caused outrage after suggesting that it was a “great day” for George Floyd – the black man whose death at the knee of a police officer sparked days of protests and unrest across the country. Mr Trump was hailing new figures showing a surprise drop in US unemployment – but refused to take any questions from reporters. Campaigners described […]
US Park Police found “baseball bats & metal poles hidden along the street” near the White House on Tuesday evening. Smoke canisters and pepper balls were used to disperse the rioters and prevent them from using their secreted weapons. Via Paul Sperry. BREAKING: US Park Police chief says USPP & Secret Service found “baseball bats & metal poles hidden along the street” near the White House. […]
Concept to represent the 2020 virus threat Coronavirus, blood in a test tube. __________Times of IndiaWest Bengal To Start Plasma Therapy To Treat COVID-19 Patients The therapy involves taking antibodies from the plasma of a person who has recovered from COVID-19 and transfusing those antibodies into an active coronavirus patient to help the immune system fight the infection. Kolkata: West Bengal has taken a major step […]
Tired Of ‘Writing Obituaries For Coral Reefs,’ Surfing Scientists Find Ways To Save Them By Raul Quintana, Conservation. May 24, 2020 Tired Of ‘Writing Obituaries For Coral Reefs,’ Surfing Scientists Find Ways To Save Them2020-05-242020-05-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ci_43766044_large-e1590338347960.jpg200px200px Above photo: A coral reef in Timor Leste © Cristina Mittermeier/sealegacy. Grim reports and unsettling headlines paint a bleak future for Earth’s coral reefs, which are projected to be wiped out by the end of the […]
Two major aviation organisations have joined forces to issue a report aimed at restoring business to the ailing travel industry amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has grounded around 95 percent of aircraft worldwide and brought the industry to a standstill, according to recent reports. The Airports Council International (ACI) World and International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced on Tuesday a roadmap to reopen the global […]
A probable Iron Age or Roman enclosed settlement (red arrows) and associated field system (blue arrows), as revealed by LiDAR data (University of Exeter) Amateur Archaeologists Studying Aerial Maps of the U.K. Spot Dozens of Hidden Historical Structures by Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com With archaeology digs on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cooped-up history buffs are making their mark. As Steven Morris reports for the Guardian, volunteers […]
Opinion 00:55 GMT 16.05.2020Get short URL Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) recently stepped down as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee after he was accused of selling hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock before the US COVID-19 outbreak, a symptom of inherent corruption in the US political system, Jim Kavanagh, the editor of ThePolemicist.net, told Sputnik Friday. “The problem for Burr is that he made these […]
Dutch authorities have decided that sex is a necessity, even in times of lockdown. Ever the pragmatists, they suggest that quarantined singletons “make arrangements” with a willing partner. With more than 43,000 people infected with the coronavirus and a death toll of 5,600, the Netherlands has been on lockdown since late March. Citizens are allowed to have up to three visitors in their homes, provided they […]
A nurse and National Guard medic interview a patient before taking a swab for a coronavirus test last month at Gallatin High School in Gallatin, Tenn. The state of Tennessee started picking up the tab for testing in April. Blake Farmer/WPLN hide caption toggle caption Blake Farmer/WPLN A nurse and National Guard medic interview a patient before taking a swab for a coronavirus test last month […]
Top Shelf It seems like enterprise blockchain is between finding its “killer app” and being killed. “Everyone had a killer app three years ago. That was the state of blockchain business,” Shyam Nagarajan, a director at IBM, said during a marathon session at Consensus: Distributed. “People have wisened up since then.” There are a number of roadblocks obstructing the possibility of adoption and successful implementation of business-grade […]
Discovering that the cruelty visited on Julian Assange by Western democracies had been premeditated has heightened the fear of learning more about how those democracies operate, the UN’s rapporteur on torture has admitted. For years Nils Melzer has been researching on behalf of the UN just how vile and degrading the mistreatment of prisoners can become. But learning that states that are supposed to be champions […]
While the pandemic is raging across the world, some facts about the virus remain unclear and new studies may reveal truly bizarre details about the disease. Chinese scholars have found coronavirus material in the sperm of infected men, new research, published on Jama Network says. According to a paper written by Weiguo Zhao and Shixi Zhang, “SARS-CoV-2 can be present in the semen of patients with COVID-19, and […]
Scientists have detected an antibody that blocks the coronavirus from entering cells, providing a much-needed shield for severely ill patients. While not a cure or vaccine, it is still a significant development. “This is clearly a breakthrough that shows that we are on the right track for the development of a drug against Covid-19,” said virologist Professor Luka Cicin-Sain. “In repeated experiments, we were able to […]