Northrop Grumman Corporation has selected Collins Aerospace Systems, a business unit of Raytheon Technologies Corp., as part of nationwide team to support Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program. Collins Aerospace Systems will play a key role in modernizing our nation’s current intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system under a contract awarded by prime contractor Northrop Grumman to support the U.S. Air Force Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program. […]
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Finnish defense contractor Patria has announced that it signed with Finland and Latvia agreement on developing common armoured vehicle system. The purpose of the product development agreement is to develop, in line with the common requirements of the countries, the prototype Patria 6×6 vehicle manufactured by Patria Land Oy to a common armoured vehicle platform, with an armoured personnel carrier and a command and control vehicle. The agreement […]
A New Zealand political party, Advance NZ, has cried foul after its Facebook page was removed, allegedly for containing falsehoods about the coronavirus pandemic. The ban comes just two days before a general election. In a statement, Facebook said that the page had been scrubbed due to “repeated violations” of its policy prohibiting misinformation about Covid-19 that could lead to physical harm. The move comes just […]
A potential partnership between Binance and TaoTao fell through, 10 months after first being revealed. Source link
A new cryptocurrency trading platform is gearing up to offer zero-fee trades to users in six countries in the Gulf Region. Announced on Thursday, the platform Fasset Exchange (FEX) has started sign-ups for its private beta and is planning a public rollout later this year. Source link
The startup formerly known as Nebulous has raised a $3 million funding round led by Paradigm with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, A.Capital, Collaborative Fund, Dragonfly Capital Partners, Hack VC, INBlockchain, First Star Ventures and others. The startup also rebranded, as Skynet Labs, to focus on promoting the namesake application hosting platform, which uses the token-fueled Sia network. Source link
A former YouTube mod has sued the Google-owned platform, claiming work exposure to child abuse, beheadings, and other vile content led to depression and PTSD. Her lawyers previously forced a large settlement out of Facebook. The unnamed ex-YouTube moderator is demanding compensation and treatment for the trauma she said she suffered, claiming in a lawsuit filed on Monday that her work left her with depression and […]
The inaugural project on ConsenSys’ anti-speculation platform, Activate, has completed a token sale with roughly 4,000 investors from 90 countries, the companies announced Monday. Around 13,000 investors with a total capital pool of $57 million had expressed interest in the Ethereum scaling project SKALE. Around $43 million of that pool was from 4,300 investors who made it through know-your-customer (KYC) checks. Ultimately, SKALE ended up raising […]
Binance continues to chase after decentralized finance, known as DeFi, by giving its new Binance Smart Chain access to its centralized exchange. Source link
Alain Cocq, 57, is trying to use his case to draw attention to the plight of terminally ill people and change French legislation on euthanasia and a law that prohibits doctors from hastening the death of dying patients. Facebook will not allow a terminally ill man in France to live stream his death on its website. The company said it respects Alain Coq’s decision and his […]
The exchange giant is hoping to capitalize further on the DeFi boom with a new centralized trading platform that makes it a rival of the likes of Uniswap. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1e/1080322663_0:0:1213:684_1200x675_80_0_0_56d817d94d350681fd3e7c8dc36e93c0.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Daria Bedenko. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202008301080322704-video-nypd-arrests-suspect-filmed-attempting-to-rape-woman-on-subway-platform/ Earlier in the day, the New York Police Department (NYPD) tweeted that it was seeking help from the public in identifying a man recorded on video sexually assaulting a woman on a subway platform. The suspect was wanted for attempted rape. The New York Police Department (NYPD) took into custody a man who attempted to rape a […]
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 and blockchain startups. Source link
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 and blockchain startups. Source link
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 and blockchain startups. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107776/42/1077764229_0:0:1920:1081_1200x675_80_0_0_1b612823e3fa13a86b1e764c47a7365e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202008191080204359-fantasy-gaming-platform-dream11-wins-title-sponsorship-rights-for-worlds-richest-cricket-league/ New Delhi (Sputnik): The 13th edition of the world’s richest cricket tournament – the Indian Premier League – will get underway on 19 September. IPL’s governing body is all set to release the schedule of the IPL 2020, which will be played in the United Arab Emirates. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has awarded the title […]
The dapp platform will leverage Ontology’s experience in building decentralized identity solutions. Source link
Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov reported that the mass production of tanks and fighting vehicles based on the latest Armata combat platform under a contract signed with Russia’s Defense Ministry several years ago is already underway. “Yes, the work is underway,” the minister said, replying to a question about whether the production of these armored vehicles had begun in Russia. The developers of the latest […]
Tom Perez, Democratic National Committee chair, speaks during an event in February in Charlotte, N.C. Perez and other Democrats are approving their party platform on Monday. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images Tom Perez, Democratic National Committee chair, speaks during an event in February in Charlotte, N.C. Perez and other Democrats are approving their party platform on Monday. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Democrats […]
Craig DeWitt has unveiled the beta release of a personal peer-to-peer payments project that will work in popular web browsers. Source link
The American left does not even hide their hatred for white people anymore. The first rough drafts coming out on the DNC 2020 party platform include 15 mentions of whitey. All of them negative.The DNC capitalizes Blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans — but white is not capitalized. They really hate whitey. TRENDING: This Weekend: Please Send Us Photos of Leftist Mob Violence and Rioting from […]
As a registered broker-dealer, Watchdog Capital said it is in a position to offer a whole host of SEC-exempted offerings for security tokens. Source link
Leaked screenshots of Twitter’s internal systems indicate that the company keeps “blacklists” for users it deems undesirable, according to multiple reports. The leaks followed the largest hack in the platform’s history. The images, said to be screencaps of an internal control panel on the site’s back end, appear to show that Twitter marks user accounts with tags such as “Trends Blacklist,”“Search Blacklist” and “Compromised.” The visuals […]
Now three Tencent-backed companies are setting themselves up to become early-stage testers for China’s digital yuan initiative. Source link
Truth And Justice: Green’s Trailblazing World Peace Platform By Lauren Smith, Popular Resistance. July 14, 2020 Truth And Justice: Green’s Trailblazing World Peace Platform2020-07-142020-07-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/11/export-peace-stephen-melkisethian-cc-nc-nd-flickr-800×593-e1589133630105.jpg200px200px Above photo: By Stephen Melkisethian from cc-nc-nd-flickr. Knowing that without truth there can be no justice and without justice, there can be no peace, the Green Party Action Committee (GPAX) endorsed a trailblazing world peace platform on July 6 that aggressively fights back against […]
Oxfam Ireland, a Belfast-based charity fighting global poverty, has received a €1 million ($1.1 million) grant to fund the next phase of a blockchain aid distribution project. 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 […]
The Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka is close to starting development of a blockchain platform expected to speed up the processing of bank users’ ID information. 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 […]
Blockchain predictions platform Augur is launching a new version of its protocol next month, but users will have to migrate to a new token if they want to use it. The company announced Monday the “v2” rollout has been slated for release on July 28, and will represent an entirely new deployment of the Augur core protocol on the Ethereum network. Augur v1 will continue to […]
Blockchain analysis company Elliptic has added two privacy coins to its monitoring platform. Announced Tuesday, the addition of zcash (ZEC) and horizen (ZEN) will provide exchanges and institutional investors insight into when a transaction trail ends so they can take additional due-diligence measures. Privacy is a core tenet of crypto, and firms looking to shine a light on shielded transactions must walk a fine line. “We […]
Mutual fund giant Vanguard has completed another blockchain pilot that aims to change the risk profile of foreign exchange (FX) transactions. The Valley Forge, Pa.-based investment firm ran the pilot on Symbiont’s Assembly blockchain with participation from State Street, BNY Mellon and investment firm Franklin Templeton. Vanguard and Franklin Templeton acted as dealer banks and State Street and BNY Mellon acted as counterparty banks as well […]
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Compound saw its governance token, COMP, skyrocket in price when it launched last week. Now, decentralized options marketplace Opyn has launched put options on COMP that will provide a safety net of sorts by helping holders mitigate some of the risk should COMP’s fortunes take a turn for the worse in the next few days. “We’re excited to launch @compoundfinance COMP put […]
A seemingly random combination of words “oxygen” and “frequency” has triggered Twitter to automatically flag tweets with a Covid-19 fact-check warning. Users responded by gaming the algorithm into absurdity. The strange message began appearing under tweets on Friday. Within hours, people were testing it with random posts that mentioned the trigger words but weren’t related to the coronavirus in the least. “Post anything random about oxygen […]
Helen Buyniski is an American journalist and political commentator at RT. Follow her on Twitter @velocirapture23 “Free speech driven” social network Parler is being smeared as a “far right” cesspool as a Twitter crackdown drives conservative signups – even as its new users include milquetoast Republican politicians like Ted Cruz. Like Gab before it, Parler has attracted celebrity Twitter and Facebook rejects, lured by the promise of […]
The liquidity mining boom may be upon us. Balancer Labs, the maker of an automated portfolio management tool, has confirmed with CoinDesk it has begun distribution of its BAL token. Following the persistent mania around last week’s debut of Compound’s COMP token, BAL will be the second governance token earned by a decentralized finance (DeFi) app’s most valuable users. Since June 1, liquidity providers for Balancer’s […]
Citing regulatory concerns, Berlin-based security token startup Neufund has announced plans to freeze its fundraising campaigns and sideline future tokenized equity offerings. “Many European countries had aspirations to become a blockchain-friendly hub … [T]he authorities have stifled this plan, blocking the innovation in its tracks,” the firm wrote in a blog post Monday. Launched in 2016, Nefund helped allocate some $19 million in capital through novel […]
Fans of South Korean professional soccer will now be able to collect and trade digital tokens representing league players and use them to play fantasy soccer games run by the firm Sorare. The South Korean soccer association K League announced a licensing agreement with the blockchain enabled fantasy soccer platform on Wednesday. The agreement gives Sorare the right to include over 400 players from the league’s […]
Decentralized blogging is coming to a URL near you thanks to a partnership between Unstoppable Domains and Protocol Labs. Launched Thursday, San Francisco blockchain firm Unstoppable Domains has released its decentralized blog (dBlog) service hosted on Protocol Lab’s InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), complete with the .crypto domain. “No one can take it down,” Unstoppable Domains co-founder Brad Kam said in a phone interview. “We expect over […]
US 00:03 GMT 28.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106982/83/1069828323_0:313:6000:3688_1200x675_80_0_0_ea04cf4b740eb486e597222a6ae7d424.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202005281079437291-zuckerberg-says-platform-companies-shoudnt-be-arbiter-of-truth/ Zuckerberg’s remarks come as President Trump is set to sign an Executive Order concerning social media companies after Twitter placed “fact-checks” on a couple of his tweets. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday his company did not share views of Twitter on fact-checking, adding that he does not think that Facebook, or […]
US 03:04 GMT 25.05.2020Get short URL The reported renovation apparently arrives in light of the upcoming US presidential election, in which the incumbent president, Donald Trump, will most likely face presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The son-in-law and senior advisor to the US president, Jared Kushner, is reportedly launching an overhaul of the GOP platform with Trump’s top campaign officials, according to Axios. The Trump campaign’s […]
…from TASS, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: This is an old story but I am publishing it because it was a front and center topic at the Eighth Moscow Conference on International Security conference held on April 23-25. It seems to have not gotten much coverage in the West despite defense ministers from 35 countries attending, and a 1000 experts from a 100 countries participating. Western media […]