Science & Technology – Week of 08.14.16

Losing Louisiana: Shocking Images Of Life After A 1000-Year Flood
Zero Hedge | 20 August 2016
Check out the Aqua Dam at the end.

How Beverly Hills Billionaires Built A Water Empire In California With Taxpayer Money
Zero Hedge | 20 August 2016
Thirstiest Californians…

NASA Plans to Hand Over the ISS to a Private Corporation
Engadget | 19 August 2016
Research could continue in LEO…

Anti-Google Research Group in Washington is Funded by Oracle
Ars Technica | 19 August 2016
Other funders…

Launch Schedule: Latest Changes
SFN | 19 August 2016
Situational Awareness Program…

NASA Prepares to Launch First US Asteroid Sample Return Mission
Space Daily | 19 August 2016
Understanding of…

Russia Develops Protected Alternative to Satellite Communication
Sputnik | 19 August 2016
Triples…

A Battery Story with a Happy Ending
Revolution Green | 18 August 2016
Battery that offers double…

Russian Space Corporation, US Boeing Reach Deal on Dispute Over Sea Launch
Sputnik | 18 August 2016
Subsidiary of Energia…

UK to buy additional Zephyr ‘Pseudo Satellite’
Janes | 18 August 2016
45 days… over-the-horizon…

Vector Space Launches New Software Platform and Satellite Design Division to Enable Space Entrepreneurs
Yahoo Finance | 17 August 2016
What was before beyond their…

California’s Blue Cut Fire Explodes to 30,000 Acres; Over 82,000 Evacuated
Weather | 17 August 2016
San Bernadino County…

Inside Goldman Sachs’ Program to Develop a New Generation of Coders
BI | 17 August 2016
Third of…

Swiss Re: H1 Cat Losses Up 51% to $31bn
Ins Insider | 18 August 2016
First half…

What the World’s First Quantum Satellite Launch Means
Fortune | 16 August 2016
Appropriate descriptor would be…

Powerful NSA Hacking Tools have been Revealed Online
Washington Post | 16 August 2016
Government and corporate…

Icahn Sees ‘Eye-to-Eye’ With AIG’s Chief After $3.4 Billion Deal
Bloomberg | 16 August 2016
Icahn applauded AIG’s…

Edward Snowden: Russia Probably Behind NSA Leak
BBC | 17 August 2016
Counter-response to…

Snowden: Alleged NSA attack is Russian Warning
CNET | 16 August 2016
Diplomatic signaling…

Taylor Swift Donating $1 Million to Louisiana Amid Flooding
Bloomberg | 16 August 2016
Help out and send your…

America to Hand Off Internet in Under Two Months
Washington Examiner | 16 August 2016
Agency could be used by…

Blockchain: What You Need to Know
Banking Exchange | 16 August 2016
Underpinnings that must…

A New Space Age Race: Interplanetary Investments
NY SSA | 16 August 2016
Thursday September 15, 2016 5:30 PM…

Pesticides on Planes: How Airlines Are Softly Killing Us
Truth Out | 16 June 2015
(2015 ) Willingly agree to be exposed to…

China Launches Quantum-enabled Satellite Micius
BBC | 16 August 2016
“Hack-proof”…

New Study: Neonicotinoid Insecticides Linked to Wild Bee Decline Across England
Center for Ecology and Hydrology | 16 August 2016
Three times stronger…

Scientists Finally Found Zenkerella, the World’s Most Mysterious Mammal
Washington Post | 16 August 2016
Discoveries that can still…

21 Gravity-defying Photos of Olympians Soaring Through the Water and Air
BI | 15 August 2016
Need to know…

These Photos of Louisiana’s Deadly Floods Are Terrifying
Mother Jones | 15 August 2016
Rainfall radar image…20,000 people…

Can Singapore’s Labor Crunch Spark a Robot Revolution?
Yahoo | 15 August 2016
Look to non-human…

How Silicon Valley’s Palantir wired Washington
Politico | 14 August 2016
Couldn’t win a contract…

Google Fiber Rethinking its Costly Cable Plans, Looking to Wireless
Market Watch | 14 August 2016
Initial rollouts proved more…

You Could Soon be Traveling from Chennai to Bangalore in Just 30 mins with Hyperloop Technology
Economic Times India | 13 August 2016
500 km, it is aiming for ticket price under…

George Soros’s Open Society Hacked and Information Leaked Online
Gateway Pundit | 13 August 2016
Network, sensitive docs, and…


Re-thinking the Water Crisis: With a Little Creativity, We Can Meet Our Water Needs

Regeneration International | 10 August 2016
Once we understand…

‘Artificially Sick’: Genetic Experiments on Animals Triple in Germany
RT | 10 August 2016
Death rate…

Elon Musk Announces ‘Solar Roof’ Product, Tesla/SolarCity Will Go After the Roof Industry
Electrek |09 August 2016
“Huge” market…