Sergey Brin’s secretive airship company LTA Research and Exploration is planning to power a huge disaster relief airship with an equally record-breaking hydrogen fuel cell. From a report: A job listing from the company, which is based in Mountain View, California and Akron, Ohio, reveals that LTA wants to configure a 1.5-megawatt hydrogen propulsion system for an airship to deliver humanitarian…
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Ohio Man Arrested For Running Bitcoin Mixing Service That Laundered $300 Million
U.S. authorities have arrested Larry Harmon of Akron, Ohio, for running a “Bitcoin mixer” service on the dark web that helped criminals disguise the origin of Bitcoin transactions. Harmon is “accused in a three-count indictment (PDF) for operating Helix, an online website located on the dark web,” reports ZDNet. It is the first case the DOJ has brought against a Bitcoin…
Anonymous Hacker Gets Six Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: An Ohio man was sentenced last month to six years in prison for a series of DDoS attacks against websites for the city of Akron, Ohio, and the Akron police department. The man, 33-year-old James Robinson, was arrested in May 2019 and pleaded guilty to all accusations, most of which were easy to…
Akron’s ‘Pond Monster’ Versus Ohio’s Many Water Cryptids
Have you ever wondered why Ohio doesn’t have an official state monster? Me neither, but one reason might be it has too many mythical creatures, swimming monsters and other strange cryptids to choose just one. If the Loveland Frogman, the Minerva Monster, the Grassman or any other Buckeye State beasts are planning to lobby the… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/akrons-pond-monster-versus-ohios-many-water-cryptids/…