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Google Earth has revealed the construction of a new system at the Russian Ministry of Defense's Krona space object recognition station.

An extensive investigation published by The Space Review using satellite imagery, as well as Russian financial documents and industrial contracts, uncovered the "strong evidence" for the development of an anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) laser system at the Krona facility. The laser system is called Kalina and will be able to target foreign imaging satellites' optical systems, effectively blinding them as they fly over Russian territory.

The intended purpose of the Kalina system is "electro-optical warfare." It would permanently blind satellites, in contrast to a Russian mobile laser "dazzler" called Peresvet, which temporarily blinds satellites. The Kalina project first began in 2011 but was delayed multiple times. However, it appears to be finally making significant progress.

A study on the entangled atoms titled "Entangling single atoms over 33 km telecom fibre" has been published in the journal Nature.

Researchers from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) in Germany have connected two atoms via quantum entanglement while separated by 33 kilometers (20.5 miles) of fiber optic cable. Quantum entanglement allows one to observe a particle in an entangled system, and instantaneously be able to derive information about the state of the entangled particle, regardless of distance.

The LMU team entangled two rubidium atoms kept in two different buildings 700 meters (2,297 feet) apart on the LMU campus, making up the 33-kilometer distance with extra spooled cable along the way. A laser pulse was used to excite both atoms, giving them more energy that is then released in the form of a photon, which is entangled with the atom that created it.

William Sachiti has acquired a large, decommissioned AMES Type 84 radar unit from an abandoned Royal Air Force (RAF) radar station.

The British entrepreneur and roboticist created a thread on Reddit's /r/electronics subreddit seeking advice on reviving the Cold-War-era technology, after living and working in RAF station for about three months. Sachiti initially posted anonymously, but was identified by users using the knowledge that only five Type 84s were ever built in Britain, and a May 2022 news story about Sachiti buying the radar station.

When queried by a user as to why he bought the Type 84, Sachiti replied with "Because I convinced myself it may be good fun to use to attempt to find UFOs?" Though it was said somewhat in jest, users have reached out to Sachiti about using the unit in the search for UFOs, as well as others who want to scan the Moon and more. The Type 84 is on the National Heritage List for England, and cannot be demolished due to its historical value.

A study on the pill titled "Chronic Uptake of A Probiotic Nutritional Supplement (AB001) Inhibits Absorption of Ethylalcohol in the Intestine Tract - Results from a Randomized Double-blind Crossover Study" has been published in the journal Nutrition and Metabolic Insights.

Myrkl's "pre-drinking pill that works" is a probiotic supplement containing two bacteria; Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus coagulans. The bacteria naturally break down alcohol to produce carbon dioxide and water, and the pill delivers them in an acid-resistant capsule, so they make their way past the stomach and to the intestine to break down alcohol, as this is where the majority of alcohol makes its way into your bloodstream.

Myrkl claims the pill allows someone to break down 70% of consumed alcohol after one hour. However, reducing the amount of alcohol absorbed by the body comes with the trade-off of preventing the sought-after effects of alcohol, such as enjoyment and disinhibition. Dehydration is the main driving factor of a hangover, which is lessened by absorbing less alcohol. Nevertheless, direct effects of alcohol on the stomach, such as nausea, can still be an issue.

Elon Musk, the world's richest individual, has moved to exit his deal to purchase Twitter, according to recent reports.

Reports have surfaced regarding Elon Musk's legal team that has sent a letter to Twitter's Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde, where it stated that Musk is terminating the $44 billion merger agreement to purchase Twitter. Musk's legal team writes that the deal has been terminated over Twitter making false and misleading representations of the company.

Musk's legal team states that due to Twitter's alleged misrepresentation of its company, Musk would be at risk of suffering a Company Material Adverse Effect. This news isn't surprising, considering that Musk's team was unable to determine if Twitter's total number of bot/spam accounts exceeded Twitter's officially estimated 5%. In response to Musk's legal letter, the chairman of Twitter's board of directors, Brett Taylor, stated that Twitter is still committed to closing the deal with the Tesla CEO.

Robocop Rogue City, a new first-person shooter set in the film's satirical futuristic dystopian vision of America, is coming soon.

Yesterday publisher Nacon announced Robocop Rogue City, a new FPS that explores the dark and gritty tech-city of Detroit. Gamers will take to the streets as the titular cyborg cop and gun down ne'er-do-wells and criminals while unraveling the deep webwork of corruption in the city. In short: You're going to blast a lot of people with Robocop's huge and massive arsenal of upgrades (will the jetpack show up?).

Robocop Rogue City is being developed by Teyon, the same devs who brought us the middling Terminator Salvation game, and will have multiple-choice dialog, too.

Brandon Sanderson is interested in creating a whole new world for a video game, similar to how George R. R. Martin helped shape the lore of Elden Ring.

Mistborn and Stormlight Archive writer Brandon Sanderson is apparently working on a video game, but if he had his way he would be building a brand new IP or series from the ground up. In a recent Reddit AMA, Sanderson said he'd ideally like to create something brand new for the game and not have it based on his books.

"[If it were 100% up to me I would prefer] a separate story set in the same world as one of my books, or a completely new story in a new place. I think I'd like a new story in a new place the most, as I could design something for a game really well, I think. A world that lends itself to that kind of storytelling. I think B is more likely, though, as people would prefer a publicity boost from the IP associated," Sanderson said in the AmA in a paraphrased quote.

E3 is coming back, and will now be hosted by PAX showrunner company ReedPop.

E3 2023 is officially returning in June 2023 as an in-person event. The show will be held at the traditional Los Angeles Convention Center venue and is now being hosted by ReedPop, the same company that puts out big events like the Star Wars Celebration, PAX, and the New York Comic-Con.

The event is described as "recognizably epic" and will make use of feedback and trends gleaned over the last few years without E3, which has culminated in a mish-mash of disparate showcases and reveals. E3 2023 will aim to rally the banners and bring the biggest games and publishers home to one spot once again, however big players like Sony and Nintendo will likely stick to their own shows.

A study on the launcher titled "An Explosively Driven Launcher Capable of 10 km/s Projectile Velocities" has been accepted for publication into the journal Shock Waves.

Engineers from McGill University and the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) have created what they call the Implosion-Driven Launcher (IDL), capable of firing magnesium projectiles at up to 10 kilometers per second (36,000 kilometers per hour, 22,370 miles per hour). The launcher is designed to simulate the damage small space debris particles could inflict upon spacecraft like satellites and future space stations.This clip shows the IDL projectile and collision in action.

According to the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office (SDO), about 31,630 debris objects orbiting the Earth are tracked by various networks. However, these make up part of the estimated 36,500 objects spanning at least 10 centimeters (~4 inches) in diameter and don't account for the estimated 1 million space debris objects measuring 1-10 centimeters or 130 million objects measuring 1 millimeter to 1 centimeter.

A new Department of Defense (DoD) project involves high-altitude balloons to help protect the United States from weapons developed by China and Russia.

The high-altitude balloons are planned to operate in the stratosphere at between 60,000 feet (18,288 meters) and 90,000 feet (27,432 meters). They would join the Pentagon's surveillance network, where they could track things like hypersonic missiles. Approximately $3.8 million has been funneled toward balloon projects in the past two years by the Pentagon, which aims to ramp that number up to $27.1 for the 2023 fiscal year.

The International Space Station (ISS) has successfully ejected trash from an airlock for the first time.

The Bishop Airlock aboard the station was built by Nanoracks and was used to test Nanoracks' new orbital waste-disposal technology on July 2nd, 2022, at 7:05 PM Central Time. The test saw approximately 172 pounds (78 kilograms) of trash jettisoned toward Earth. Contained inside the "specially designed waste container" was foam, packing materials, hygiene products, office supplies, clothing, and more, which will burn up in the atmosphere upon re-entry.

The Nanoracks waste container can be packed full of up to 600 pounds (272 kilograms) of trash and is an alternative method of waste disposal for the space station to the currently used Cygnus cargo vehicle. The Cygnus docks at the space station to be packed with months' worth of accumulated trash before it leaves the space station to re-enter Earth's atmosphere and burn away.

The European Parliament voted on Wednesday, July 6th, 2022, to label some natural gas and nuclear power projects as "green."

The change will allow such projects to receive subsidies and cheap loans amounting to billions of euros. The decision aims to help transition the European Union (EU) from relying on fossil fuel imports from Russia, as a consequence of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The EU banned the majority of coal and oil coming from Russia but continued to allow gas. However, Russia reduced its gas flow into the EU, which supplied roughly 40% of all of the EU's gas before the invasion began.

A study on the cloned mice titled "Healthy cloned offspring derived from freeze-dried somatic cells" has been published in the journal Nature Communications.

Researchers from the University of Yamanashi in Japan have successfully cloned mice that retain the ability to breed, created from freeze-dried somatic cells, cells from the body that are not sperm or eggs. The freeze-dried cells are a cheaper and more reliable alternative to DNA for cloning, as storing DNA is expensive and requires unreliable ultra-low temperatures. However, the freeze-dried cells can be stored at only -30°C (-22°F) and remain viable for nine months.

The freeze-drying process kills the cells, though researchers could still transfer the nucleus, where the DNA is stored, from the frozen, dead cells into non-frozen egg cells. This produced mice embryos that developed into cloned mice with a 0.2-5.4% success rate, creating identical mice to those from which the cells were sourced. Three cloned males and nine cloned females were then bred together, resulting in every female delivering a litter.

SpaceX has showcased the power of Starlink by displaying the massive increase in bandwidth quality livestream viewers get when watching the company's rocket launches/landings.

SpaceX is moving forward with Starlink's full rollout into various use cases such as boats, planes, ships, and drone ships that are out at sea, providing rockets with landing locations. Elon Musk's company took to its Twitter account to tout some of the best qualities of Starlink, such as its ability to withstand extreme cold, heat, hail, sleet, heavy rain, and strong winds while also being "rugged enough to withstand rocket landings".

Some Twitter users misinterpreted the wording used by SpaceX, and, to be completely honest, SpaceX probably could have made their message a lot more clearer by stating that Starlink is providing a much more stable internet connection. Starlink also has a service latency of 50 milliseconds, which is a massive improvement on the 1-2 second delay on older systems. Furthermore, the satellite internet service increased download throughput on drone ships to 40Mb/s, which gives enough bandwidth for much more detailed image.

A photographer has used an ultra macro lens to take photographs of ants, showcasing a close-up image of their faces.

The photographer, Joshua Coogler, got into contact with PetaPixel regarding the selection of newly released images and explained that they were taken using a Laowa 25mm Ultra Macro lens on a Nikon D75000. Notably, Coogler explained that he used a macro rail that moves the camera very slowly, taking a picture every time it has shifted position.

Coogler explained to the publication that to get one image of a subject, he may have to take anywhere between 30 to more than 300 images as all of the images are stacked through a process called focus stacking. Essentially, when the photo is taken, only a small strip of area is in focus, but the area is extremely detailed. Coogler took multiple images of the ant face and stacked all of these highly detailed areas on top of each other to form a complete image, hence the impeccable detail in the pictures below.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has taken to his personal Twitter account to reveal that Starlink is now available for boats.

SpaceX is moving forward with Starlink becoming available to trains, RVs, planes, and ships, with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announcing that the satellite internet service is now available for boats. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently approved SpaceX to bring Starlink internet to the aforementioned modes of transportation, specifically planes, with SpaceX already entering into deals with airlines for Starlink internet service across a fleet of jets.

Musk has said in the past that the Starlink internet connection for moving vehicles such as cruise ships and planes "does work", but isn't working at an efficient enough speed to be called reliable. Now, SpaceX has revealed Starlink Maritime, which will provide buyers with high-speed, low-latency internet with speeds of up to 350 Mbps. The service will be available to "merchant vessels to oil rigs to premium yachts".

Johnny Depp recently went through a public defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, and now that has concluded, we are starting to hear about Depp's upcoming role.

Reports have surfaced from Bloomberg that reveal Netflix is involved in a deal to help produce Johnny Depp's first film following the lawsuit, and according to these reports, Netflix has put money down for French actress and director Maiwenn Le Besco's period film La Favorite.

The film focuses on France's King Louis XV, who will reportedly be played by Depp, and the relationship between the king and his third mistress, Madame Jeanne Becu du Barry, played by Le Besco. Ultimately the relationship between the king and the mistress leads to her beheading during the French Revolution.

Most major car manufacturers are hopping on the electric vehicle (EV) trend in one way or another, and as demand for EVs increases, so does the demand for charging stations.

Tesla is pioneering and popularizing electric vehicles and has already rolled out a network of charging stations in numerous countries around the world, but when these charging stations were implemented, the company never thought that third-party EVs would be using them.

With the rise in EV popularity, Tesla has already enabled an "open" Supercharger network in 13 European countries, which means non-Tesla EV drivers are able to charge at Tesla charging stations. According to a White House fact sheet, Tesla will begin production of a new Supercharger network that allows non-Tesla EV owners to charge their vehicles at Telsa charging stations by simply downloading and installing the latest Tesla app and selecting "Charge Your Non-Tesla".

Sources close to Elon Musk's deal to purchase the world's second-largest social media company, Twitter, have said that the $44 billion deal is in peril.

According to a report from The Washington Post, who spoke to people familiar with the inner working of the deal, and decided to discuss it under the provision of remaining anonymous, Musk's team is struggling with analyzing Twitter's "fire hose" of data for spam accounts - in hopes of finding out that more than 5% of Twitter's total users are bots.

These individuals that are close to the deal told WAPO that because Musk's camp has doubts regarding the data that was given to them, they will soon say they don't have enough information to correctly evaluate Twitter as a business, which will result in Musk's team switching gears to a different approach that is expected to be "drastic". It should be noted that if Musk doesn't follow through with the acquisition of Twitter, he will have to pay a $1 billion breakup fee.

The world's richest individual, Elon Musk, has said that there are far too many people under the "illusion" that Earth is overpopulated.

Elon Musk has taken to Twitter, once again, to shine a spotlight on declining birthrates across - a stance the Tesla CEO has taken publicly for many years now. It was just in May Musk said on stage that the biggest issue that the population will face will be "population collapse", and then reiterated that the speed at which the population will decrease will drastically speed up to the point of "accelerating collapse".

Online Musk has pointed out that official birthrate numbers for places such as the US are drastically low, and that the birthrate across the US has been below the "replacement" level for 50 years. A country being below the replacement level means that it hasn't produced enough babies to replace the previous generation.