Tag: oct 12 2021

Home oct 12 2021
Post

TEACHERS: “WE SPEW OUT CRAP, CENSOR THOSE WHO DEFY US”

Have you heard of the “Slap a Teacher Challenge”? Allegedly, it’s one of several “challenges” issued to users of the social media platform TikTok, daring them to carry out various activities and post videos of themselves doing so.  So far there have been only a couple of incidents that might be attributed to this “challenge,”...

Post

PROTESTERS KILLED IN INDIA: FARMERS FIGHT TO THE FINISH

Eight protesters were killed in northern India when vehicles drove into them while they peacefully marched on a road last week, sparking a new round of outrage in the country since the son of a government official is accused of being in one of the cars. The Wall Street Journal reported that two-thirds of the country...

Post

CHINA/TAIWAN TENSIONS AT ALL-TIME WORST, COMMANDER SAYS

Taiwan’s top military official said last Wednesday that the country’s military “situation” is at its worst in four decades. Chiu Kuo-cheng’s comments came after China flew 150 aircraft near the island over the previous four days, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the rise of China and its growing influence in the region...

Post

CHARGER DELIVERS 60 MILES OF EV RANGE IN 3 MINUTES

A new electric vehicle charging station from global technology company ABB promises to solve two of drivers’ biggest EV concerns at once: fear of running out of juice between charging stations and having to wait half an hour or more while a booster charge trickles into the vehicle’s battery pack. ABB’s Terra 360 charger can...

Post

AIRBUS ACCEPTS THE CHALLENGE: IS A HYDROGEN-POWERED AIRLINER POSSIBLE?

Airbus, Europe’s largest aircraft builder, announced plans to begin building an all-hydrogen-powered passenger jetliner this decade and have it in service by 2035. The plan is part of the company’s commitment to converting to airplanes by 2050 that don’t give off carbon dioxide or other harmful emissions. Now Airbus has to face the hard realities...

Post

COMPUTERS THAT THINK LIKE WE DO

Conventional computers, even those running artificial intelligence programs, plod through calculations by sending ones and zeros along electronic pathways, one after the other. In contrast, the brains of mammals think and remember by activating networks of neurons, or brain cells, which then activate and communicate with similar networks across the brain. That’s what neuromorphic computers...

Post

FACE MASKS: ENOUGH ALREADY

By Michael J. Talmo It’s been over a year-and-a-half since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the battle over wearing masks is still going on. Who would have thought. Cities and school boards in some states like Florida are defying governors who got rid of mask mandates claiming that they have...

Skip to content