New medical research is predicting that the upper limit to human life expectancy could increase up to 130 years old within the next century. Currently the world’s oldest living person is Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman who is 118 years old. She is approximately 4 years shy of the record for oldest person in the modern era held by a French woman named Jeanne Calment, who lived to be 122 years old and died in 1997. Most scientists agree that our present limit to life expectancy is approximately 110 years old so that a 15 to 20 year leap over the next century would be substantial.

A federal judge said Google must face much of a lawsuit accusing the company of illegally recording and disseminating private conversations of people who accidentally trigger its voice-activated Voice Assistant on their smartphones.

In January 2021 COVID-19 was the number one cause of daily deaths in the US, and by the end of last month, June 2021, COVID-19 has dropped to the number seven cause of daily deaths. This change is largely being attributed to the vaccine that was recently released and widely taken across the US. In fact the average daily deaths in the US has fallen by close to a factor of ten since the beginning of the year.

The US Navy has put an indefinite halt on developing a prototype electromagnetic rail gun weapon system in favor of investing funds and research into developing hypersonic missiles. The halt comes after ten years of research and development as well as millions of dollars in funding. Experts estimate that approximately $500 million has already been given to the program. The Navy has not said that the program is completely scrapped but that for now it is not cost effective to continue with the prototype weapon system.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Ever wondered how astronauts aboard the International Space Station do their laundry? Well, they don’t, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is working hard to solve what is one of the most thorny tasks in space – washing clothes. The space agency is planning to conduct a series of experiments using specially designed detergents from Procter and Gamble to […]

Jeff Bezos recently retired as the President and CEO of the commercial giant Amazon which he originally founded in his garage in 1994. His replacement will be Andy Jassy, the former head of Amazon’s Web Services who first started working at Amazon in the marketing department in 1997. Jassy slowly worked his way up through the ranks at Amazon and in February Bezos announced to employees that he had picked Jassy as his replacement to take effect this month, July 2021.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an updated report on Thursday estimating that the US Deficit will hit three trillion dollars in 2021. The CBO indicated that the most significant portion of that deficit consists of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief and stimulus plan that the government passed at the beginning of the year. The good news is that the COVID-19 relief and stimulus measures are only temporary and that as they expire the US deficit will steadily decline.

As anti-police protests continue throughout Minneapolis, Minnesota and violent crime sees a sharp increase throughout the city, a Minneapolis Judge has ordered the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) to hire more officers in order to stay in line with the municipal charter. Following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by former police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020 protests and riots have run rampant throughout Minneapolis over the past year. In addition, there have been widespread public calls for the reform, defunding, and abolishment of the police.