Elon Musk trades jabs with Moscow over SpaceX success
- Elon Musk shot a jab at Russia during a post-flight press conference after the Crew Dragon Launch.
- Roscosmos fired back, noting that the agency doesn’t understand why the launch was such a big deal.
- Both the United States and Russia are moving rapidly to get humans back to the Moon.
NASA made history over the weekend by launching SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to the International Space Station with astronauts on board. It was the first crewed launch from US soil since the end of the Space Shuttle program and the first crewed launch of NASA’s Commercial Crew program, which tasked both SpaceX and Boeing with producing crew-capable spacecraft to send into space.
Russia was apparently not impressed.
In a press conference after the successful launch, SpaceX boss Elon Musk said “the trampoline is working.” It was a reference to some disparaging remarks made by Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. This comment appeared to spark a very casual war of words between the US and Russia’s space group.
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A third of coronavirus unemployment benefits have yet to be paid
- Bloomberg reports that about a third of unemployment benefits have yet to be paid out to Americans who lost their jobs as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
- The Treasury Department says that it disbursed $146 billion from March through May, but Bloomberg’s calculations suggest that it owned jobless Americans about $214 billion.
- Congress is now debating whether or not to extend the additional unemployment benefits provided by the CARES Act beyond their July expiration.
As nightmarish as this pandemic has become for countless Americans who were furloughed or laid off, it would have been even worse if not for the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which significantly increased unemployment benefits for virtually everyone in the country. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean much to the millions of Americans that have yet to see any money after losing their jobs.
Bloomberg reports that nearly a third of unemployment benefits owed to Americans have yet to be paid. On Monday, the Treasury Department released data showing that it disbursed $146 billion in unemployment benefits from March through May, which is more than was sent out in all of 2009. But based on Bloomberg’s calculations, the Treasury owed about $214 billion over those three months, which means $67 billion is unpaid.
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This is the wrong way to disinfect your home if you want to stay safe from coronavirus
- The coronavirus’ US toll is continuing to get worse, both here and abroad, while we’re also learning more about the virus and how to keep ourselves safe from it.
- For example, the news about whether you can contract the virus from packages delivered to your home is good, but also a little inconclusive.
- Speaking of your home, here’s one thing you absolutely shouldn’t do when you’re disinfecting everything.
The county that encompasses my city of Memphis, Tennessee, just reported its highest one-day total of new coronavirus cases (190) on Tuesday since April 24, one of the many reminders out there, both big and small, that we remain in the throes of a deadly pandemic. As of the time of this writing, in fact, the number of coronavirus infections in the US has topped 1.82 million, while the number of reported deaths here has surpassed 105,000 (according to the latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University).
All of which is to say, it sounds like people still need a few reminders of best practices right now, including things like the wearing of a face mask when you’re outside your home. Anecdotally, I saw pretty widespread adherence to this in public for a while, until things seemed to drop off in this regard over the last several days (in situations completely separate from protests taking place). Among the other things we’re continuing to learn about the virus, meanwhile, like places to avoid and all the ways the virus can affect you — here’s a recommendation on how to disinfect the spaces and things around you to remain safe from the virus.
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NASA’s coronavirus ventilator is going into production
- NASA’s coronavirus ventilator called VITAL was announced back in April, but it’ll finally enter production thanks to eight manufacturing partners.
- The eight US companies are located in a number of different states and were selected from a pool of over 100 applications.
- A modified version of the VITAL ventilator that uses compressed air is currently under review with the FDA.
Back in April, in the heart of the coronavirus pandemic, NASA stepped up to help by developing a ventilator specifically designed for COVID-19 patients. The device was nicknamed VITAL (short for Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally) and it was meant to be a low-cost, easy-to-build piece of life-saving medical hardware. Now, as the pandemic continues to rage on, the space agency has announced the companies that have been chosen to manufacture the VITAL ventilators.
In a new blog post, NASA reveals that over 100 companies submitted applications to be chosen as manufacturers for VITAL. After narrowing down the dozens of options, the Office of Technology and Corporate Partnerships at Caltech, which manages NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and holds the patents on VITAL, selected a total of eight companies as manufacturing partners.
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Facebook finally made it easier to delete all of your old posts
- Facebook just introduced a new feature that makes it easier to archive or delete old posts.
- The Manage Activity feature lets Facebook users manage everything they’ve ever posted on Facebook and sort all of their posts to find exactly what they’re looking for.
- Manage Activity will be available on mobile first, and then desktop and Facebook Lite.
Facebook, for all of its innumerable flaws, is a platform billions of people all around the world use to stay in touch with one another and share moments of their lives with friends and family members. But chances are that if you have been using Facebook since you were young (or you’ve just had an account for a while), there are posts you wouldn’t want potential employers to see or you would simply like to have stricken from the record.
Purging a Facebook account that has existed for months or years has never been especially easy, but this Tuesday, Facebook introduced a new tool called Manage Activity that greatly simplifies the process of removing old posts from your profile. Facebook says that whether you’re graduating or going through a breakup, it wants “to make it easy for you to curate your presence on Facebook to more accurately reflect who you are today.”
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Fauci just criticized vaccine maker Moderna for doing the same thing he did
- The first novel coronavirus vaccine that reached human trials in the US comes from Moderna. It’s an mRNA drug that shows promise, according to an announcement from the company that delivered partial results.
- Moderna’s coronavirus drug announcement was incomplete and prompted some criticism from scientists who wanted access to the full data set.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci just expressed his own dissatisfaction at seeing Moderna’s press release but reiterated his conviction that the treatment is promising.
- Fauci did the same thing himself a few weeks ago when he released preliminary results about remdesivir without waiting for the full study to be ready.
When Dr. Anthony Fauci announced the promising results of a massive remdesivir trial that the National Institutes of Health conducted, he did so without waiting for the proper research to be published in a medical journal. The remdesivir study results weren’t published until several weeks later, delivering the same conclusions Fauci offered from the White House in late April. But Fauci is now unhappy with vaccine maker Moderna for the way it announced promising results for what could end up being one of the first vaccines for the novel coronavirus.
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Here’s what NASA astronauts are saying about SpaceX’s Crew Dragon
- NASA astronauts dish on the Crew Dragon ride to the International Space Station, including how it felt compared to the Space Shuttle.
- Astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken said the spacecraft worked well and ISS commander Chris Cassidy said it was like a new car.
- The astronauts will remain in space for up to several months.
By now you’ve seen the history-making SpaceX/NASA launch of the Crew Dragon, but views from the outside of the spacecraft as it cruised skyward don’t offer a clue as to what it felt like for the astronauts who were actually inside it. In an interview with reporters on Monday, astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken were happy to share their experience as the first humans to travel into space in SpaceX’s shiny new spacecraft.
So what was it like? Apparently pretty nice, according to the two men, and it even had the classic “new car smell,” according to Chris Cassidy, the current commander of the International Space Station.
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The Air Force has a bomb detector that can sniff out life-threatening coronavirus cases
- Early detection of severe coronavirus symptoms could help doctors better prepare therapies for patients at risk of developing respiratory complications.
- The Air Force Research Laboratory has been working on repurposing a device for COVID-19, a chemical sensing device that can detect bombs and other dangerous substances by analyzing the air in a room.
- This breathalyzer-like device might be able to deliver early alerts for life-threatening complications like ARDS that is often associated with COVID-19 deaths.
One of the problems with the novel coronavirus is that some people will experience a more severe case of the disease, especially the elderly and people suffering from other medical conditions. This typically involves respiratory issues that may require oxygen therapy including invasive ventilation, and can often lead to death. Incidentally, that’s why coronavirus testing is so important. The earlier you diagnose COVID-19, the faster you can begin treating it.
Doctors studying the COVID-19 pathology have already found ways to reduce the risk of complications. They are testing methods that could offer ways to predict which patients might be prone to developing severe respiratory issues. Physicians in the UK are testing a T-cell program that can help them predict severe cases and provide effective treatment. Separately, researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) think they can repurpose a tool made for bomb detection to identify chemical substances indicative of severe COVID-19 complications.
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Insane video shows LA cops interrupting live news and handcuffing the wrong people
- For yet another night in the US, police protests have continued as countless Americans marched, demonstrated, and rioted in anger stemming from the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis.
- On Monday night, a TV news crew in LA showed how quickly things can go wrong.
- Footage captured by the crew shows LA police rolling up to a business, whose owners had just appeared to run off a group of looters, and proceed to put them up against the wall on live TV.
It’s been an extraordinary 72-hours or so in America, with journalists and social media documenting in unsettling, dramatic, and historic detail the unrest that’s consumed the country since the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police last week. Police protests, demonstrations, and outright riots have been multiplying and escalating around the country.
On Monday night, meanwhile, I saw one of the most surreal things ever captured by a television news crew — in this case, a TV news crew from the LA neighborhood of Van Nuys. You can watch it via the tweet below from Los Angeles Times sports columnist Arash Markazi, and what it shows is the aforementioned news crew documenting what appears to be a standoff between armed business owners who are trying to dissuade what purport to be looters. As the crew continues to film, the cops eventually roll up, having been waved down for help in protecting the business. But it got surreal from there.
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The Echo Dot for cars is down to its lowest price ever, just $19.99
- Often called the Echo Dot for cars, the Roav Viva by Anker is on sale right now at its lowest price ever — just $19.99 when you use a special coupon code.
- The device looks like an oversized car charger of sorts, and it does have two USB ports so you can charge your mobile devices while you drive.
- There are several other nifty features to be found, but the best part is the fact that the Roav Viva offers hands-free access to Alexa and all of its skills, just like an Echo Dot would in your home.
If you’re a user of Amazon’s beloved virtual personal assistant Alexa, you undoubtedly couldn’t even begin to imagine life without it at this point. From answering your pressing questions — and your not-so-pressing questions — to controlling all of the cool smart home devices in your house or apartment, Alexa does it all. That’s why you have multiple Echo smart speakers strategically placed throughout your home, so that you can speak a command or ask a question and no matter where you are, Alexa will get to work.
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The Roav Viva by Anker looks like an oversized car charger, and it is. You’ll find two USB ports to plug in your mobile devices and there are also a bunch of additional features that Anker offers on some of its other car charger models. But the real reason to pick up a Roav Viva is Alexa. Just like the Echo Dot in your home, the Roav Viva allows you so speak commands or questions and get hands-free access to Alexa.
Whether you need an answer to a pressing question like “Hey Alexa, what’s the official bird of Louisiana?” or you want to tell Alexa to make sure the lights in your bedroom at home are turned off or ensure the garage door is closed, the Roav Viva has you covered. And yes, you can indeed use Alexa to open and close your garage if you have a device like the Nexx NXG-200 or the MyQ, though a monthly subscription is required to use Alexa with the MyQ.
The Roav Viva by Anker is a fantastic accessory that’s must-have for any Alexa lover. It’s also on sale right now at the lowest price of 2020. Use the coupon code VIVACAR199 at checkout between now and the end of the day on June 7, and you’ll only pay $19.99 for this awesome accessory.
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