Julian Assange has been holed up in a room in London for years after being given refuge by Equador in their London embassy building. In 2010, he was charged with sex crimes in Sweden — a couple of women he was involved with at the time made complaints not long after Wikileaks published video and … Read more
In the middle of the night Wednesday morning in New Orleans cranes removed Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard’s statue. Police and snipers were in place during the operation to ensure no one interfered. The city council and mayor plan to remove the statue of General Robert E. Lee next. Read more
Musk announced this week via Twitter that his solar roofs were now for sale globally, and Tesla would start delivering them probably at the end of this year in the States and overseas next year. And on the Tesla website there was information about the warranty for the roof tiles: “Glass solar tiles are so … Read more
He sent a message to the third meeting of the Russia – Islamic World strategic world group in Grozny, Chechnya (held there for the first time), which was later published by the Kremlin website. The message included the following statement: “Today, many Muslim countries are facing serious challenges, including terrorism and violent extremism, growing ethnic … Read more
The New York Times has reported that, according to James Comey, Trump tried to get a “pledge of loyalty” from the former FBI head, which Comey would not give, days before Trump fired Comey. There were questions flying around if the reason for the firing was Comey’s refusal. NYT reported that Comey became concerned about … Read more
White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster made a public statement in response to the Washington Post and other news organisations stories this week that Trump told Russian officials information he say he shouldn’t have, denying the news. McMaster stated: “The story that came out tonight, as reported, is false. The President and the Foreign … Read more
Microsoft issued a large Windows update days after the WannaCry malware pandemic infected thousands of computers and led to a huge wave of Windows users updating their OSs to close the SMBv1 exploit left open by Windows until March when a leak of NSA intel made the vulnerability, as well as the NSAs exploit tool, … Read more
Two days before the French Election, there is a media blackout for anything political. This is supposed to provide a few days of uninterrupted consideration of the candidates, without the distraction of big news headlines, scandalous revelations, or campaigning last minute. Similar things are done in other countries. In the UK, for example, on the … Read more
Many parties are concerned about hacking having an effect on the election, and there are questions about whether false material is mixed in with the email leaks, which are purported to be from four top-level members of the Macron campaign. Macron is the front-runner in the the election, which is itself a runoff (with Macron … Read more
The 39-year-old centrist independent will win, it looks like, by a decisive margin of 65% to 35%. Le Pen’s 35% is seen as still being an important indicator of political feeling in the country. Read more
2017 marks the first offshore windfarm in the U.S. The wind farm, located off Block Island, isn’t providing all of the island’s power, but whereas before the island’s grid was isolated from the mainland, the windfarm allowed Block to be connected to the New England power grid for the first time, and therefore the island’s … Read more
China, the world’s biggest solar power market, added 21.4b kilowatt-hours in the three months before March 31, compared with a year earlier, according to the NEA. It’s total installed capacity is now 85gw. Their increase is despite an unused capacity (congested transmission infrastructure) worth 2.3b kilowatt-hours in the first quarter. Read more