bubmag

NOAA

Judge: Salvage Firm Can Recover Titanic’s Telegraph Machine

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a salvage firm can retrieve the Marconi wireless telegraph machine that broadcast distress calls from the sinking Titanic ocean liner. In an order released Monday, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith agreed that the telegraph is historically and…

bubmagMay 20, 2020

Privacy Concerns

Newsom raises record $26M in donations for Covid-19, some from companies lobbying state

Gov. Gavin Newsom | Rich Pedroncelli, Pool/AP Photo SACRAMENTO — Prominent social media, broadcasting and other major interests have poured nearly $26 million into Covid-19 efforts at Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request, a record amount that came as some of the companies lobbied the governor's office on data privacy and other…

bubmagMay 20, 2020

Self-driving Vehicles

GM Super Cruise is evolving into Ultra Cruise, for hands-off city driving

GM has a "big team" working on an advanced version of its hands-free driving assistance system, Super Cruise, that will expand its capability beyond highways and apply it to city streets, the automaker's vice president of global product development Doug Parks said Tuesday. GM is also continuing to improve its…

bubmagMay 20, 2020

Spanish Flu

How do viruses get their names? From Spanish flu to COVID-19

RMIT ABC Fact Check Updated May 20, 2020 11:07:28 In just a few short weeks, COVID-19 became part of the global lexicon, uttered daily in tones of dread and as shorthand for the pandemic now afflicting the world.But how was its name derived; likewise, the names of other fatal viruses?…

bubmagMay 20, 2020

Pikachu

Britney Spears Issues Powerful Statement on Bangs

Britney and her bangs. Photo: @britneyspears/Instagram On Tuesday, pop icon and accidental home gym arsonist Britney Spears posted a picture of herself wearing a puka-shell necklace on Instagram. The picture was accompanied by a lengthy caption that wasn’t actually about the necklace — although I’d love to hear more about…

bubmagMay 20, 2020

Nukes

The B-1B bomber’s days may be numbered, but the US Air Force is still keeping it busy

A 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron B-1B Lancer trains Japan, where it trained with the Japan Air Self Defense Force, May 12, 2020. US Air Force/Senior Airman River Bruce The Air Force has said it wants to start retiring the B-1B Lancer bomber, a workhorse aircraft that has played a major…

bubmagMay 20, 2020

Michelle Obama

Dear Nancy Pelosi, Not Even Trump Deserves to Be Fat Shamed

Anderson Cooper and Nancy PelosiSpeaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, has a number of achievements under her fashionable belt, and for this reason, it pains me to write this about a woman I admire. But yesterday, she was wrong. On Monday, Pelosi made waves in Washington when she razzed Donald Trump by calling…

bubmagMay 20, 2020

Hiroshima

WMD vs. Cyber Attacks: Similarities Suggesting a Cyber Arms Race

Similarities between a cyber-attack and a WMD attack push countries into a cyber arms race like the one between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War.By Julien Chesaux, Cyber Security ConsultantDifferent Types for Different MissionsA WMD is a powerful weapon that is capable of a high order of…

bubmagMay 19, 2020

Donald Trump

Opinion: The Trump crew’s Covid quackery

Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is the editor of the Coronavirus Daily Brief and author of the new book "Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos." The opinions expressed here are…

bubmagMay 19, 2020

Checkpoint

Howie Carr: Welcome to the commonwealth of micro-managing

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts will now be micro-managing everything in your life, including your health and your job, and what could possibly go wrong, comrade? After all, this is the same state government that has done such an incredible job regulating the state’s nursing homes that only 3,574 of MA’s…

bubmagMay 19, 2020

Judge: Salvage Firm Can Recover Titanic’s Telegraph Machine

Newsom raises record $26M in donations for Covid-19, some from companies lobbying state

GM Super Cruise is evolving into Ultra Cruise, for hands-off city driving

How do viruses get their names? From Spanish flu to COVID-19

Britney Spears Issues Powerful Statement on Bangs

The B-1B bomber’s days may be numbered, but the US Air Force is still keeping it busy

Dear Nancy Pelosi, Not Even Trump Deserves to Be Fat Shamed

WMD vs. Cyber Attacks: Similarities Suggesting a Cyber Arms Race

Opinion: The Trump crew’s Covid quackery

Howie Carr: Welcome to the commonwealth of micro-managing

General Information

Ask me anything