The drones are coming as Amazon announces Monday that it’s launching a fleet of delivery drones. The retail giant will test its new Amazon Prime Air delivery system in Lockeford, California, the company said. Amazon worked with the Federal Aviation Administration and local officials in Lockeford, a small town south Read more…
The New York Times tells the story of crop circles, “the mysterious patterns that regularly intrigued people around the world in the 1980s and ’90s, prompting speculation about alien visitors, ancient spiritual forces, weather anomalies, secret weapons tests and other theories.” They call the phenomenon “a reminder that even before Read more…
The state of Utah has the largest saltware lake in the entire western hemisphere — but it’s like the tide went out and never came back, warns the New York Times. “If the Great Salt Lake, which has already shrunk by two-thirds, continues to dry up, here’s what’s in store.” Read more…
It’s Warren Buffett versus Google, Facebook and Microsoft, according to a recent article by Bloomberg. Google, Facebook and Microsoft Corp. — three of the world’s biggest corporate buyers of clean power — are sounding the alarm that a nearly $4-billion, Warren Buffett-backed renewable-energy project proposed in Iowa isn’t necessarily in Read more…
“Power-hungry, fossil-fuel dependent Japan has successfully tested a system that could provide a constant, steady form of renewable energy, regardless of the wind or the sun,” For more than a decade, Japanese heavy machinery maker IHI Corp. has been developing a subsea turbine that harnesses the energy in deep ocean Read more…
The first global survey of marine RNA viruses has discovered thousands of new viruses, some of which play a central role in locking away carbon at the bottom of the sea. Between 2009 and 2012, researchers aboard a ship called Tara collected seawater samples from all the world’s oceans. Guillermo Read more…
Jack Dorsey’s beef with Web3 has never been a secret. In his view, Web 3 — blockchain boosters’ dream of a censorship resistant, privacy-focused internet of the future — has become just as problematic as the Web2 which preceded it. Now, he’s out with an alternative. At CoinDesk’s Consensus Festival Read more…