UK engineers have completed the build of the novel Quantum satellite. The telecommunications platform will be the first fully software-defined spacecraft.
Archives for January 13, 2019
Facebook Is a Social Menace
Back in 2011, The Onion’s now-defunct TV series ran a sketch in which then–CIA director Leon Panetta bestowed a “medal of intelligence commendation” on “the Overlord,” Mark Zuckerberg, for inventing the “single most powerful tool for population control” the agency had ever enjoyed.
America Needs Economic Rights. Now Is the Time to Push for Them.
Seventy-five years ago today, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his State of the Union address to declare that the government should guarantee a basic floor of well-being. Political rights alone, he argued, could not assure “equality in the pursuit of happiness,” he argued.
To Israel ‘the mere existence’ of a Palestinian Muslim Congresswoman is a menace
One of the founding myths of Israel is the non-existence of the Palestinian people.
How to end the government shutdown — with neither side losing
The government shutdown has already caused significant hardship — and promises more. Many federal employees missed their first paychecks Friday, and negotiations to reopen the government are stalled.