NASA Begins Building Asteroid-Hunting Telescope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUfl1Eu8Z1A NASA has begun construction on a space telescope that is specifically designed to detect asteroids. Called the NEO Surveyor,...
Month: December 2022
Lawsuits Pile Up at End of Digital Asset Markets’ Rough 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWL-yS0PtdM 2022 was generally a rough year for digital asset markets. In May, the Terra stablecoin depegged, causing the Terraform...
U.S. Judge Recuses Herself From Sam Bankman-Fried Fraud Case
U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams recused herself from the Sam Bankman-Fried fraud case due to a potential conflict of interest....
Perseverance Rover Drops First Samples for Return to Earth Mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNnJBKR9lqY The Perseverance Rover dropped the first sample cache to be returned to Earth in a future mission. These tubes...
NASA Ends InSight Mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vnALPtdSH4 The InSight lander arrived at Mars on June 26, 2018. Since then, it has accomplished significant milestones like detecting...
NASA Considers “Air Taxi” System in New Study
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egRgkAdr620 Where’s my flying car? Everyone who’s grown up with the idea that you could commute to work in a...
Visa Promotes Idea of Recurring Payments for Ethereum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osc_gwNW3Fw In a blog post published on December 19, 2022, Visa described a system for automated Ethereum payments using the...
FTX Attempting to Consolidate Cash Into Approved Bank Accounts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94FNoGipzsk During a recent creditors’ meeting, FTX management revealed that it is working on consolidating about $1.2 billion in cash...
Elon Musk May Step Down as Twitter CEO After Poll
In the tumultuous couple of months since Elon Musk took charge of Twitter, he may have come across as a...
Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested in Bahamas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrNCA-9sTSg Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas and is likely to be extradited to the United States, where he...
Orion Spacecraft Returns to Earth Safely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzZPzmMtQA8 After 25 and a half days in space, a test version of the Orion spacecraft returned to Earth. It...
Perseverance Rover Gets Regolith Samples That Might Return to Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xLePuj8LaY The Perseverance Rover got two samples of dust and sand from a small, windblown, dune-like structure on Mars. One...
Ethereum Developers Set Staked Ethereum Withdrawals for March 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_shGuDfacVc Even before the Merge activated in September 2022, Ethereum stakers have been asking, "When unstaking?" Now Ethereum developers have...
Screenwriter Rob Edwards Joins Pre-Production Team for Historical Drama on Civil War Hero
Movie production company Legion M announced that screenwriter Rob Edwards joined the pre-production team for Defiant, a movie on Civil...
Artemis 1 Orion Prepares to Return to Earth After Impressive Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foKst4_Emf4 The uncrewed Orion launched by Artemis 1 on November 30, 2022, is now on its way back to Earth....
Spacewalkers Deploy New Solar Panels on International Space Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvxenTNLjWE How much would you like to have a solar panel that you could just unroll like a sleeping bag...
Ledger Hires iPod Creator Tony Fadell for New Hardware Wallet Model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNsSO7S8buk Remember the iPod? If you're used to using Apple's mobile devices, Ledger's upcoming hardware wallet is likely to have...
South Korea Drops Arrest Warrant for Terra Co-Founder Daniel Shin
A South Korean court has dropped an arrest warrant for a less well-known Terraform Labs co-founder, Daniel Shin. "Considering the...
CFTC Chairman Calls for Overhaul of Crypto Regulation Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZC_9o0nYww During testimony at a hearing held by the Senate Agriculture Committee, CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam called for an overhaul...
