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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – December 30, 2022
Greetings from Tyler, Here we are, days after the most promoted holiday of the year, and stranded airline passengers are still trying to get home. Not that they ever got to their intended destination in the first place. Canceled flights number into the thousands. People are throwing fits from coast to coast. Yes we know…
Magnitude-7.6 earthquake in Japan prompts tsunami warning and evacuation order for 90,000 people
A magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck off northern Japan late Monday, injuring more than 20 people and triggering a tsunami of up to 70 centimetres in Pacific coast communities, according to the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA). Reuters reported that about 90,000 people were ordered to evacuate after the quake struck at 11:15pm local time on Monday. Japan…
Northern Ireland political party agrees to end 2-year boycott that caused the government to collapse
The breakthrough came after the U.K. government last week gave Northern Ireland politicians until Feb. 8 to restore the collapsed government in Belfast or face new elections. Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party has agreed to end a boycott that left the region’s people without a power-sharing administration for two years, it said Tuesday — a breakthrough that could…
In a global first, scientists create, store, and retrieve quantum data
Quantum dots, generated in the device were passed through a quantum memory system that stored them with the help of rubidium atoms. A collaboration of scientists from various universities in the UK and Europe have stored and retrieved data from quantum computers, marking a “crucial connection for ‘quantum internet,’” in a global first. This is…
UN atomic agency chief visits Fukushima nuclear plant, supports wastewater release
The head of the United Nations’ atomic agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, conducted a tour of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Wednesday and expressed satisfaction with a controversial plan to release treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. Grossi observed the facilities where the water will be treated and diluted with seawater before being released…
Italy parliament rejects ESM reform, irking Brussels
ROME, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Italy’s lower house of parliament voted on Thursday against a long-awaited reform of the euro zone bailout fund, throwing into doubt ratification of a European Union treaty that is designed to provide help for failing banks. The vote confirmed the deep hostility within Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s ruling coalition to…
