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- CES 2022 will close a day early because of COVID concerns
- Biden administration will continue ISS cooperation through 2030
- Colorado fires close out a year of disastrous drought
- Plans to capture CO2 from coal plants wasted federal dollars, watchdog says
- Why Theranos failed, but other researchers might not
| CES 2022 will close a day early because of COVID concerns Posted: 31 Dec 2021 11:53 AM PST  CES has dropped the last day of its 2022 tech conference in Las Vegas, and the show will now end on January 7th, the Consumer Technology Association announced today. The shorter schedule is "an additional safety measure" in the face of a surge of COVID-19 diagnoses. Over the last two weeks, a number of large companies — including BMW, Intel, AMD, GM, Google, T-Mobile, Amazon, Microsoft and the company formerly known as Facebook — have dropped their physical presences at the conference. It's the largest tech conference in the world, which typically pulls more than 10,000 people in each year. Yesterday the US set a grim new record in COVID: the highest number of... |
| Biden administration will continue ISS cooperation through 2030 Posted: 31 Dec 2021 11:15 AM PST  The US will continue to work with other countries' space programs on the International Space Station through 2030, NASA announced today. That will allow for an uninterrupted transition to a planned commercial space station (or stations!) in the late 2020s. Funds for the ISS have already been approved through 2024. NASA administrator Bill Nelson told The Verge in May that he wants to continue work on the ISS through 2030. The ISS's future was called into question in 2018, when a draft budget proposal from President Donald Trump's administration had scheduled ending support for the space station in 2025. More recently, escalating tensions between the US and Russia have threatened the... |
| Colorado fires close out a year of disastrous drought Posted: 31 Dec 2021 10:34 AM PST  Devastating fires in Colorado cap off a year of awful drought across the US. Dry conditions helped set the stage for blazes that scorched hundreds of homes and forced tens of thousands to evacuate just ahead of New Year's Eve. The fires have been raging through suburbs near Denver since December 30th. Strong winds fanned the flames and knocked out power. About 6,000 acres and at least 500 homes had burned by Friday morning. But there were no casualties, which Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle called "miraculous" given the severity of the fire in a press briefing. Families had "minutes" to evacuate their homes, Governor Jared Polis said. More than two-thirds of Colorado's land is experiencing "severe" drought, according to the US Drought... |
| Plans to capture CO2 from coal plants wasted federal dollars, watchdog says Posted: 30 Dec 2021 11:32 AM PST  The Biden administration wants to shove more money into projects that are supposed to capture CO2 emissions from power plants and industrial facilities before they can escape and heat up the planet. But carbon capture technologies that the Department of Energy has already supported in the name of tackling climate change have mostly fallen flat, according to a recent report by the watchdog Government Accountability Office. About $1.1 billion has flowed from the Department of Energy to carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration projects since 2009. Had they panned out, nine coal plants and industrial facilities would have been outfitted with devices that scrub most of the CO2 out of their emissions. Once captured, the CO2 can be sent... |
| Why Theranos failed, but other researchers might not Posted: 30 Dec 2021 07:00 AM PST  Jurors are still deliberating over the fate of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of defunct biotech company Theranos. They're deciding if she intentionally misled investors, patients, and doctors about what her company's blood testing technology could do. Because despite big promises, the tech the company claimed to have invented... didn't actually exist. And the technology might never be a reality — at least not in the way Holmes described it. In this episode of our three-part series on Theranos, we look at what researchers actually think is possible in the field of blood testing and what the future could look like. |
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