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This Week in 2016 FBI Won’t Tell Me How Much It Paid To Break Into Syed Farook’s iPhone, Saying It Might Jeopardize Its Investigation RIAA Demands Takedown Of ThePirateBay.org, But EasyDNS Refuses Over Lack Of Due Process Web Sheriff Accuses Us Of Breaking Basically Every Possible Law For Pointing OutContinue Reading

SAIC Motor to build Its first electric vehicle plant in Spain

The government of Spain’s Galicia region recently announced that China’s SAIC Motor will build its first electric vehicle manufacturing plant in Europe in the region. Speaking to the media, Galicia President Alfonso Rueda said the project will involve an initial investment of €200 million and is expected to create more than 2,300 local jobs…Continue Reading

Lunar Meteorite Preserves Evidence of Colossal Asteroid Strike

Planetary scientists analyzing a lunar meteorite known as Northwest Africa (NWA) 12593 have uncovered evidence of an asteroid impact that occurred 3.5 billion years ago on the Moon, helping to reconstruct a period of intense bombardment that left lasting marks across the inner Solar System. The post Lunar Meteorite PreservesContinue Reading

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 214 — Moon Man

Moon Man – With Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine – YouTube Watch On On Episode 214 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine about his past and the space agency’s future. There are NASA Administrators, and then there are NASA Administrators—all are very accomplished individualsContinue Reading

Closer every day: A spectacular 30-day collage of the Venus-Jupiter conjunction (photo)

Astrophotographer Soumyadeep Mukherjee has shared a spectacular 30-day collage of the western night sky titled “Closer, Everyday”, which captures the subtle motion of Jupiter and Venus as they danced through the skies above Kolkata, India, ahead of a dramatic planetary conjunction. The photos used to create the collage were taken with a Nikon Z6II cameraContinue Reading