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American Airlines Passenger Jet Reports Possible UFO Encounter

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Roswell NM, the FBI is not responding to a UFO sighting in New Mexico on Sunday. An American Airlines passenger jet traveling from Cincinnati to Phoenix encountered an apparent UFO over northeastern New Mexico Sunday afternoon.

The pilot on flight 2292 radioed around 1:00 p.m. CST and said that the unidentified object was flying right on top of them, according to a transmission recorded by Steve Douglass on his blog, Deep Black Horizon. American Airlines verified to Fox News that the transmission is from flight 2292.

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Star Trek Type Food Replicators Make “Meat” Out of Thin Air

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Ridgewood NJ, we are not sure what it tastes like but all this talk of space travel following NASA’s landing on Mars  but using space-age technology to make “meat” out of thin air is science, not fiction. Sounding like the food replicators on the TV Star Trek a new entrant to the edible protein scene, the Berkeley-based startup Air Protein makes a meat alternative using NASA-inspired fermentation technology to transform CO2 — what we exhale into the air — into a complete edible protein.

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NASA Releases Video Last Week’s Mars landing

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Ridgewood NJ, NASA has released a video showing several viewpoints of last week’s Mars landing. The video shows the descent starting from the release of the parachute. About 30GB of data was captured during the descent. The footage will be used to sharpen knowledge about future entry, descent, and landing technology. One problem identified by the footage is the large amount of dust that was kicked up by the descent stage, which will be an important issue for larger spacecraft. The video of the landing is available in the article.

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NASA’s Mars Rover Successfully Touches Down on Mars

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Ridgewood NJ, Perseverance successfully landed on Mars on Thursday at around 3:55 PM ET. It is the fifth rover to land on Mars. The rover will now begin its two-year mission to roam the surface of the planet and search for signs of ancient microbial life. It will spend the next few days taking pictures of the Jezero Crater, where it landed. Jezero’s lakebed is one of the best places to look for biosignatures. The rover is also carrying Ingenuity, a small helicopter, which could be the first controlled aircraft on another planet. Earlier this month, spacecraft launched from the United Arab Emirates and China reached Mars and moved into orbit around the planet.

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FDIC Appoints First Chief Innovation Officer to help ,”reimagine the nation’s banking system”

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Washington DC, the FDIC named Sultan Meghji as its first Chief Innovation Officer, charged with leading the agency’s drive to promote the adoption of innovative technologies across the financial services sector.

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North Korean Military Hackers Indicted in Wide-Ranging Scheme to Commit Cyberattacks and Deploy Multiple Malicious Cryptocurrency Applications

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Washington DC, a federal indictment unsealed today charges three North Korean computer programmers with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently market a blockchain platform.

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Americans More Pessimistic About Economic Future

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Ridgewood NJ according to Rasmussen Reports more Americans are pessimistic about the future of the U.S. economy, and a majority don’t think today’s children will be better off than their parents.

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U.S. Leads World in Greenhouse Gas Reductions Without the Paris Climate Accord

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Ridgewood NJ, in the latest analysis from the International Energy Administration on CO2 emissions for 2020:

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Bergen County Code Ninjas offering President’s Day Activities for Kids

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Saddle Brook NJ,  are you looking for something for your kids to do during President’s Day break? Code Ninjas in Saddle Brook is offering two virtual camps on February 15 and 16. The half day camps are $179 each for ages 7 – 14.  

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Tesla Inc. Buys $1.5 billion in Bitcoin

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Ridgewood NJ,  Laszlo Hanyecz said he wouldn’t spend his Bitcoins on a Tesla. Laszlo Hanyecz knows what he’s talking about, in 2010, Hanyecz paid 10,000 Bitcoins, worth about $446 million at current prices, for two pizzas.

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Drones Deliver Covid Vaccine in Africa

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Democratic Republic of the Congo , first it was pizza now its vaccine , according to Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Drones have previously been used for the delivery of medical supplies, including vaccines, to areas that are remote or difficult to access. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recently announced a partnership between VillageReach, Swoop Aero, and the DRC Ministry of Health—“Drones for Health”—will use drone to promote equitable access to healthcare for half a million people in remote communities of the Equateur province. In addition to standard medical supplies, the new program is expected to support SARS-CoV-2 vaccination efforts in the country. These drones will be used to deliver medicine and other supplies to 75 health facilities in the province.

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PSE&G to Jump-Start Electric Vehicle Charging in New Jersey

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Ridgewood NJ,  the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities today approved a settlement that will enable PSE&G to develop electric vehicle charging infrastructure in New Jersey. With this approval, the state’s largest utility is expected to invest $166 million over an expected six years and create about 270 direct clean energy jobs while helping to build out the state’s EV charging infrastructure.

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Department of Justice Launches Coordinated International law Enforcement Action Against NetWalker Ransomware

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Washington DC, the Department of Justice today announced a coordinated international law enforcement action to disrupt a sophisticated form of ransomware known as NetWalker.

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Former Director of a New Jersey Pharmaceutical Company was Arrested on Charges of Stealing Trade Secrets

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Newark NJ, A former director of medical and scientific affairs at a New Jersey pharmaceutical company was arrested today on charges of stealing and illegally transmitting trade secrets, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.

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