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The paradox of American restaurants
The Atlantic
The quality and variety of food in the U.S. has never been better. The business seems to be struggling. What’s really going on?
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House passes bill to create national quantum computing program
The Wall Street Journal
The House voted 348-11 for a bill speeding U.S. development of quantum computing, an emerging technology with potentially revolutionary uses. President Trump is expected to sign the measure.
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NASA administrator: 'The US is returning to the surface of the moon, and we're doing it sooner than you think!'
Business Insider
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine is about to reveal partnerships with Astrobotic and other US companies that hope to return the US to the moon.
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The two fastest supercomputers in the world now belong to the United States
Popular Mechanics
The most recent TOP500 supercomputer list shows that two IBM machines are the world's fastest mega-machines.
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US overtakes Chinese supercomputer to take top spot for fastest in the world
Teslarati
Two US supercomputers have taken the top two spots in the TOP500 list of fastest computers in the world. Both are IBM machines.
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How American space launch left Europe in the dust
Popular Mechanics
The view of the resurgent U.S. spaceflight is raising alarms across the Atlantic.
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US will rewrite safety rules to permit fully driverless cars on public roads
The Verge
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is moving ahead with its plans to revise safety rules that bar fully self-driving cars from the roads without equipment like steering wheels, pedals, and mirrors.
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U.S.: The White House takes a quantum leap
Stratfor
Spurred by competition from China, U.S. government, technology and academic leaders are coming together to boost next-generation technology out of its infancy.
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House passes $1.275B national quantum initiative
HPC Wire
Last Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives passed the National Quantum Initiative Act (NQIA) intended to accelerate quantum computing research and
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We are NASA
NASA
We’ve taken giant leaps and left our mark in the heavens. Now we’re building the next chapter, returning to the Moon to stay, and preparing to go beyond. We ...
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The new supercomputer behind the US nuclear arsenal
Verge Science
“Sierra” was just crowned the second-most powerful supercomputer on the planet. And while most of its peers use their power for climate simulations, astrophy...
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U.S. House Democrats propose electric vehicle charging network
Reuters
Two U.S. lawmakers on Thursday unveiled legislation that would create a nationwide electric vehicle (EV) charging network to promote the shift from gasoline-powered vehicles and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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The US government will be scanning your face at 20 top airports, documents show
Buzzfeed News
“This is opening the door to an extraordinarily more intrusive and granular level of government control.”
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From 2022, new Ford vehicles in the U.S. will ‘talk’ to road infrastructure
Intelligent Transport
Cellular vehicle-to-everything technology is soon to be integrated into vehicles; letting drivers know what’s ahead of them even before they encounter it.
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Nasa plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022
Straits Times
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - Nasa will send a golf cart-sized robot to the moon in 2022 to search for deposits of water below the surface, an effort to evaluate the vital resource ahead of a planned human return to the moon in 2024 to possibly use it for astronauts to drink and to make rocket fuel, the US space agency said on Friday (Oct 25).. Read more at straitstimes.com.