Most of the aerospace world is expected to be watching the skies over Antarctica and New Zealand over the next few hours. Earlier this week, LeoLabs Inc, a company that tracks objects in Low Earth Orbit, issued a statement regarding two large objects which posed a “high risk” of collision at 00:56:40 UTC on 16 October 2020 (8:56:40 pm EDT on 15 October). The two objects, as of publication at 3pm EDT, held a greater than 10% chance of colliding 991 km above Antarctica. Both objects, an old Soviet-era satellite and the upper stage of a Chang Zheng 4C Chinese rocket, […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106912/61/1069126119_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_062454e3baad79839c52802b4610d9da.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202010041080664311-russian-navy-tracking-movements-of-uks-dragon-warship-in-black-sea-mod-says/ MOSCOW(Sputnik) – Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is tracking the movements of the UK warship HMS Dragon, which has entered the Black Sea, the Russian Ministry of Defence said on Sunday. “The forces of the Black Sea Fleet have begun to monitor the activities of the UK Navy’s Dragon destroyer vessel, which entered the Black Sea on October 4,” a statement read. Use of the Black Sea by non-Black Sea-adjacent states is limited by the Montreux Convention of 1936, which allows warships from outside powers to remain in the body of water for no more […]
Earlier, German media reported that Berlin had offered Washington a concession worth $1.2 billion for the financing of the construction of two ports for the import of US LNG in exchange for a rejection of US sanctions against Nord Stream 2. The Gazprom-owned Ivan Sidorenko offshore supply ship has departed from St. Petersburg, Russia and is heading toward Mukran, the German port containing pipes and other equipment used in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, data from the Marine Traffic and MyShipTracking portals shows. The Russian-flagged vessel is said to be traveling at about 14.5-15 knots west through the […]
Colleges and Universities Openings Have Created Increase in COVID-19 Cases Here are the latest results of our coronavirus survey of more than 1,500 U.S. colleges and universities:— at least 51,000 cases since the pandemic began— at least 60 deaths— dozens of recent spikes as dorms have reopened and classes have started. https://t.co/WbWYuLh3no — NYT Graphics (@nytgraphics) September 3, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: The New York Times survey of 1,500 universities and colleges reports 51,000 coronavirus cases and 60 deaths. Spikes in cases have occurred as dorms have reopened and face to face classes began. Some of the states which have the […]
Dr. Deborah Birx speaks to reporters this week outside the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock. Birx indicated that data on U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations will move back to the CDC under a “revolutionary new data system” the agency is developing. Andrew DeMillo/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew DeMillo/AP Dr. Deborah Birx speaks to reporters this week outside the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock. Birx indicated that data on U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations will move back to the CDC under a “revolutionary new data system” the agency is developing. Andrew DeMillo/AP The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working “to […]
Update: VT has been tracking COVID stats and disinformation/censorship since day one. Now, in light of the Beirut attack (Trump backs us up), we now view the release of a hybridized version of COVID 19 on the New York metropolitan area as a terror attack. Stats on hospitalization and deaths there have been altered/censored which prove this was a biological attack. Death rates were many times higher than elsewhere and even target specifically the Jewish population, something Israel has done before. We have watched Google Corporation manipulation of the internet, we have tracked them and find clear and absolute evidence that […]
Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc have been accused of pervasively – and illegally – tracking the activities of millions of people even when they turn tracking off in a lawsuit demanding $5 billion in damages. Filed with a US district court in San Jose on Tuesday, the complaint states that Google has violated the American federal wiretap law and the California privacy law by collecting information about what people look at in the news, search for online or do in their mobile apps – even when they turn off tracking in their account settings or switch browsers to private […]
The ‘Krasnaya Zvezda’ newspaper cited Russia’s Aerospace Force Commander-in-Chief Colonel General Sergei Surovikin as saying that Russian specialists are developing a new radar system for tracking hypersonic-speed threats include in near space. “Work is underway to develop a new radar station Nioby for radio-technical troops using the latest components. The radar system’s technical characteristics will surpass the capabilities of the operational Nebo-M radar by the range of detecting various types of aircraft, including hypersonic targets,” the general said in an interview published in the newspaper. The new radar system is creating for improve the tracking accuracy of hypersonic sliding target in […]
Tehran: We took accurate satellite pictures of the American occupation in SyriaTehran revealed today, Monday, that the military satellite, “Noor”, which was launched recently, sends daily accurate pictures of the movements of the American occupation forces in Syria, in addition to pictures from the occupied Palestinian territories and the United States of America. The secretary of the Expediency Council, Mohsen Rezaei, said: The “Noor” military satellite sends daily accurate pictures of the United States of America and Israel when it passes over them. He added: his country is monitoring the atmosphere of the Israeli occupation entity and America, “far beyond our […]
Bitcoin has has long been feted as a new form of money, a two-finger salute to the establishment, even as a digital equivalent to gold, but it’s not often prized for its stability. That could change with the introduction of a new futures contract. Crypto exchange BTSE has taken the unorthodox decision to price tether gold futures contracts in bitcoin, rather than in the more conventional U.S. dollar. Here’s how it works: It’s a perpetual contract – a future without expiry – that tracks the value of one tether gold (XAUT) token, which itself tracks the value of one troy ounce […]
The Offshore Operators Committee, a nonprofit organization focused on offshore energy, has found a blockchain management system reduces costs and time for transporting wastewater. The (OOC)’s Oil and Gas Blockchain Consortium has completed its first pilot of a produced water haulage management system using blockchain technology. The pilot, the first industry-wide use of a blockchain-native network for produced water haulage, essentially tried to streamline the process of transporting wastewater byproducts collected during the extraction of oil and natural gas, referred to as produced water. The pilot automatically measured volume and generated invoices during the transportation process. Developed in partnership with Data […]
Business 09:46 GMT 03.06.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107802/22/1078022271_0:128:3224:1942_1200x675_80_0_0_39fd2f9de08913543a073eb537f8c48a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/business/202006031079505975-google-faces-5bln-lawsuit-in-us-for-tracking-private-internet-use/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US tech giant Google has been sued for $5 billion for breaching the privacy of its users by tracking their activities through the Chrome browser despite having activated the so-called incognito mode, media reported on Wednesday, citing a lawsuit filed with California’s San Jose federal court. According to the Republic TV news channel, the lawsuit against Google’s Alphabet unit claims that it secretly gathered information about people’s activities through Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager and other applications and website plug-ins, including apps. The complaint said […]
With solar panels flooding power grids with more electricity than some utilities companies may know how to handle, telecom giant Vodafone and blockchain nonprofit Energy Web have devised a communications solution. This SIM-based identity system could turn grids’ increasingly distributed capacity into an information and control boon for the utility, said Walter Kok, CEO of the Zug, Switzerland-based Energy Web Foundation. Grids now feature solar panels and electric cars and wind turbines and heat pumps that could all carry SIM cards, said Kok, who used to work at Vodafone. If they did, then they could also carry proof of identity to […]
A team affiliated with the University of Cambridge has released a new bitcoin data tool showing the countries with the highest concentration of mining activity. The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), which is based at the Cambridge Judge Business School, said Wednesday the Bitcoin Mining Map would visualize countries’ monthly share of global hashrate for the very first time, as well as provide more in-depth data for comparing Chinese provinces. On a global scale, the map shows China making up 65% of total global hashrate, with the U.S. and Russia back on 7%. While China is still way out in […]
This page is updated regularly. Since the new coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December, the infectious respiratory disease COVID-19 has spread rapidly within China and to neighboring countries and beyond. The first confirmed coronavirus cases outside China occurred on Jan. 20, in Japan, Thailand and South Korea. On Jan. 21, the first case in the U.S. was identified in Washington state. On Jan. 24, the first two European cases were confirmed in France. By Feb. 1, eight European nations had confirmed cases of COVID-19, and a month later that count had risen to 24 countries with at least […]