TECHNOLOGY

In a major vote of confidence for Elon Musk's SpaceX, NASA has awarded the private space company a contract worth nearly $1 billion. This contract is for developing a "Deorbit Vehicle," which will be responsible for steering the International Space Station out of orbit by the end of the decade.

"NASA announced SpaceX has been selected to develop and deliver the US Deorbit Vehicle that will provide the capability to deorbit the space station and ensure avoidance of risk (more…)

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,

Last week a cyberattack hit a huge number of car dealers in the United States. The software designed by the company CDK was completely disabled, affecting the whole of an integrated process of purchasing and processing. Sellers could not process sales, loans, insurance, registrations, and much more. It happened suddenly, lasted two and a half days, came back, then went down again.

How did car dealers function? They wrote it all out on (more…)

Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,

When I first started researching this, I could hardly believe that it was true. A company in Switzerland known as “Final Spark” has constructed a bizarre hybrid biocomputer that combines lab-grown miniature human brains with conventional electronic circuits.  This approach saves an extraordinary amount of energy compared to normal computers, but there is a big problem.  The lab-grown miniature human brains keep wearing out (more…)