Bitcoin will never be widely used as a payment system because it is inefficient and carries high environmental costs, Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, said last week in comments quoted by the Financial Times. Bankman-Fried is “one of crypto’s most influential chief executive officers,” the FT noted. The “proof of work” system...
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CBDC OUT TO PRESERVE STATUS QUO FOR HAVE AND HAVE NOT COUNTRIES, SAYS NEW STUDY
Countries with relatively strong fiat currencies are moving to CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies) at a higher clip than countries with weak fiat currencies. They’re out to try to lead in establishing their digital forms of money versus competitors, and to try to undercut the use of cryptocurrencies. Those are the findings of a study...
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NSF WILL FUND REGIONAL “INNOVATION ENGINES”
A new National Science Foundation program will fund “innovation engines” in parts of the U.S. that now lack the kind of development and commercialization infrastructure that defines Silicon Valley, Boston’s Route 128, and Raleigh’s Research Triangle Park. “We spin out a dozen companies a year,” vice-chancellor Evan Facher at the University of Pittsburgh told Science...
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IMPLANTABLE POWER CELL RUNS ON THE BODY’S ENERGY
Pacemakers and other medical implants run on electricity. You can’t plug them in, so earlier versions required batteries, which needed to be surgically replaced every so often and could leak toxic chemicals into the patient’s body. In recent years, scientists have dabbled in ways to borrow the body’s own energy to run the devices. Scientists...
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TOYOTA TAKES A DIFFERENT ROUTE TO GREEN FUELS
A long-time skeptic of electric vehicles’ green credentials, Toyota is turning its focus to hydrogen fuel cells. In 2014, the company became the first to introduce a commercially available hydrogen-powered car: the zero-emission Toyota Mirai, a fuel-cell sedan that can travel more than 400 miles on a five-minute pit stop at a hydrogen pump, Toyota...
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NO “MAGIC NUMBER” OF REPETITIONS
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato We recall reading an article years ago that stated that to become proficient in any given physical technique (regarding a sport, a discipline of another kind, or a combat technique, etc.) one needed to do at least 3,000 repetitions. We cannot recall the author of this article, nor can...
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AIPAC ATTACKS U.S. CANDIDATES CRITICAL OF ISRAEL
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) injected itself into House primaries by donating millions from a political action committee to defeat progressive candidates who are critical of Israel. The Times of Israel reported that donations from AIPAC’s new political action committee went to moderate candidates with a more centrist view of Israel, which means...
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TWITTER RAMPS UP CENSORSHIP TO STOP WHAT IT IDENTIFIES AS “MISINFORMATION”
Twitter, the social media giant that may be acquired by Elon Musk, announced last week that it will refocus its effort to prevent the spread of what it considers misinformation. The “crisis misinformation policy” takes aim at information involving COVID-19 and the Ukraine War. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and integrity, referenced the Ukraine...
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DOJ GROUP WANTS BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO ALLOW TIME OFF FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WHO WANT OUT-OF-STATE ABORTIONS
A group inside the Justice Department has urged the Biden administration to allow federal workers a few days off for out-of-state abortions if needed. The Department of Justice Gender Equality Network, an employee-run organization in the DOJ, sent the Biden team a letter and brought up how federal workers were allowed time off to receive...
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ABORTION BAD, WAR GOOD. ARCHBISHOP REFUSES TO GIVE PELOSI COMMUNION
Despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a longtime champion of America’s wars that killed millions—along with her latest push sending tens of billions of dollars of lethal weapons to Ukraine to keep bloodying the killing fields—last week Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone refused to give Pelosi Communion because of her support of abortion. Cordileone wrote an open letter...