hackingbear writes: Huawei has told Verizon that the U.S. carrier should pay licensing fees for more than 230 of the Chinese telecoms equipment maker’s patents and in aggregate is seeking more than $1 billion, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday. Verizon should pay to “solve the patent licensing issue,” a Huawei intellectual property licensing executive wrote in February,…
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Researchers Propose Solar Methanol Island Using Ocean CO2
A PNAS paper published this week outlines a plan to establish 70 islands of solar panels, each 328 feet in diameter, that sends electricity to a hard-hulled ship that acts as an oceanic factory. “This factory uses desalinization and electrolysis equipment to extract hydrogen gas (H2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) from the surrounding ocean water,” reports Ars Technica. “It then uses…
New Law Could Make Verizon Pay a Decade’s Worth of Taxes It Avoided
Verizon has avoided paying local taxes on telecom equipment in many New Jersey municipalities over the past decade, but a proposed state law would force the company to pay back taxes for all the payments it didn’t make. Ars Technica reports: The bill, filed on May 23 by Assemblyman John Burzichelli (Dâ”Paulsboro), “would force Verizon to pay local taxes on telephone…
Scammers Try Elaborate Fake Job Interviews On Google Hangouts
Ars Technica documents “a new breed of digital fraudsters” using a complicated scam to prey on white-collar job-seekers. It involves setting up a fake job interview process and the promises of high-paying work: Like most successful cons, this one involved gaining the willing consent of its victim through some combination of greed, fear, or desperation… The recruiter was responding to the…
NASA plans to send equipment to Moon from 2020
For the first time since the 1970s, the United States is planning to send equipment to the surface of the Moon in 2020 and 2021, in anticipation of a crewed lunar mission in 2024, NASA said Friday. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-05-nasa-equipment-moon.html…
Mystery shipwreck found in the Gulf of Mexico
Researchers discovered the unidentified 200-year-old wreck during an equipment test earlier this month. Found 1,460ft down along an underwater cliff k… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/328143/mystery-shipwreck-found-in-the-gulf-of-mexico…
IEEE Bans Huawei From Peer-Reviewing Papers, Chinese Scientists Quit To Protest
New submitter AntiBrainWasher writes: Running away from the fear of legal/political persecution, the New York City-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) told editors of its roughly 200 journals yesterday that it feared “severe legal implications” from continuing to use Huawei scientists as reviewers in vetting technical papers. They can continue to serve on IEEE editorial boards, according to the…
Huawei’s Ace In the Hole: Undersea Cables
While the United States is banning the use of Huawei equipment from its fifth-generation infrastructure, the Chinese telecommunications company is working to expand its share in the undersea cable market, which is dominated by the U.S., Europe and Japan. Nikkei Asian Review reports: About a decade ago, Huawei entered the business by setting up a joint venture with British company Global…
The First Usable Electric Car Was Invented In Britain In 1884
“Thomas Parker, sometimes described as the ‘Edison of Britain’, was a British engineer and electrical technologies inventor working in the 1800s who was also one of the world’s first environmentalists,” remembers Slashdot reader dryriver. Parker had been troubled by the pollution in coal-burning cities around London — and decided to do something about it:
Parker was very adept both at inventing new…
China Unveils 373 MPH Maglev Train Prototype
China has unveiled a new floating bullet train capable of hitting speeds of about 372 mph (600 km/h). CNN reports: On Thursday, the body prototype for the country’s latest high-speed magnetic-levitation (maglev) train project rolled off the assembly line in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao. Developed by the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) — the world’s largest supplier…