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Uber Adds Fuel Surcharge Due to Gas Prices

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The B‑52 bomber to get a new lease in life with Rolls Royce engine replacement

Digital modeling is playing a key role in the Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP) aimed at upgrading the U.S. Air Force’s B‑52 Bomber aircraft, Defense News reported. Introduced in 1955, the B‑52 strategic bomber needs no introduction and has been a critical part of the U.S. plans during the period of the Cold War and beyond. Last year, we reported how the B‑52 bombers even took down fighter aircraft in Vietnam and how the U.S. Air Force plans to extend the life of this iconic aircraft by powering it with fresh new engines.F130 enginesThe task of fitting new engines on this over half a century old aircraft has been assigned to Boeing, the original makers of the aircraft. While the original design featured engines from Pratt and Whitney, the Air Force conducted a vigorous multi-year competition before awarding Rolls Royce the contract for the new engines.On its part, Rolls Royce is banking on its F130 series of engines that also power the C‑37 and E‑11 BACN aircraft and have an impressive record of having achieved over 27 million hours of flight. The engines promise greater range and fuel efficiency while decreasing tanker requirements which will increase the flexibility of the B‑52 going forward. Digital engineeringRolls Royce is a …

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Putin Is Coming: Is Russia Getting Ready to Crush Kyiv?

Some Kyiv Residents Cling to Normality As Russians Continue Bombardment – On Thursday, a senior U.S. defense official told reporters that Russian forces had moved within 9 miles of the city center of Kyiv, Ukraine. Forces were coming from the northwest of the city, close to the Hostomel Airport. Troops have spent days fighting to encroach further into the center of the city.
Officials confirmed that over 775 missiles have been fired by Russian forces at Ukraine, an increase of 710 on Wednesday.
Life in Kyiv has changed dramatically, with most citizens having already fled and those remaining left without an income, safety, medical treatment, and more.
Half the Population Has Fled
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko told Ukrainian television on Thursday that almost two million people have left the city so far as Russian forces continue their advance. Before the war, the greater Kiev area had a population of around 3.5 million people.
Life in Kyiv has become almost impossible for those remaining, with two hospitals just west of the city bombed recently, according to the mayor. 18 attacks on medical facilities have already been confirmed by the World Health Organization since the invasion began, putting r …

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China is Outpacing the U.S. in Algorithmic Warfare

Algorithmic Warfare: China Outpacing U.S. in Key Science Metrics

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Bill Maher: Why Putin invaded Ukraine under Biden, not Trump, is ‘worth asking’

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“Real Time” host Bill Maher closed his show Friday night by suggesting it’s worth pondering why Russian President Vladimir Putin took action in Ukraine during the Biden presidency instead of the Trump presidency. Maher spent much of his monologue hitting partisans on both sides of the aisle for using the Russia-Ukraine war to prove “everything we already believed and everything goes back to what we already hate,” citing Republicans blaming President Biden for the ongoing war and Democrats blaming former President Trump. RUUSIA INVADES UKRAINE: LIVE UPDATESThe host dinged Biden for “dragging January 6th into this,” then quoted the president when he said, “Look, how would you feel if you saw crowds storm and break down the doors of the British Parliament, kill five cops, injure 145? Or the German Bundestag? Or the Italian Parliament? I think you’d wonder.”
President Biden is seen at the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Philadelphia, March 11, 2022. (Reuters)
“OK, but if Putin thought Trump was really that supportive of him, why didn’t he invade when Trump was in office?” Maher reacted. “It’s at least worth asking that question if you’re not locked into one intransigent thought.“WASHINGTON POST COLUMN KNOCKED FOR SUGGESTING PUTIN REGRETS NOT INVADING UKRAINE DURING TRUMP ADMINISTRATION‘Locked into one thought’“Now, one guy we know is locked into one thought is Donald Trump, who would ask what went wrong with Ukraine …

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More Microchip Headaches: Ukraine Halts Half of World’s Neon Output

Ukraine’s two leading suppliers of neon have halted their operations as Russia continues its attacks on the country. Neon is an essential component in microchips which were already struggling with severe shortages, harming American businesses in sectors ranging from consumer appliances to auto manufacturing.
CNN reports that Ukraine’s two largest suppliers of neon, an essential element in computer chip manufacturing, have halted operations as Russia’s invasion of the country continues. Around 50 percent of the world’s semiconductor grade neon comes from two Ukrainian companies, Ingas and Cryoin, according to figures from the market research firm Techcet.
An engineer of United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) holds a wafer pod at the company’s wafer factory in Tainan Science Park (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)
A burning building is pictured after shelling by Russian forces in Ukraine’s second-biggest city of Kharkiv on March 3, 2022. (Photo by Sergey BOBOK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images)
Last year global consumption of neon for chip production reached around 540 metric tons, according to Techcet. Both neon suppliers have shut down their operations according to company representatives. The decision to stop production comes as Russian troops escalate attacks on cities throughout Ukraine.
The stoppage will like …

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Putin Bombs The Disabled…

Russia has today blown up a disabled care home near the city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials have said, as Vladimir Putin’s troops stoop to a new low just 48 hours after shelling women as they gave birth in a maternity hospital.

Oleg Sinegubov, an official from Kharkiv which has been under siege by Russian forces for days, accused Putin’s men of committing a ‘war crime’ by launching air strikes against the facility in the town of Oskil which had 330 residents inside at the time the bombs hit.

Sinegubov said 63 care home residents have since been evacuated, but could give an update on the other 267. Ten of those living at the home require wheelchairs, he said, while another 50 have reduced mobility. Ihor Terekhov, mayor of the city, said another 48 schools have been destroyed by Russian missiles.

Just 48 hours before the care home was destroyed, Russian jets had bombed a maternity hospital in the southern city of Mariupol as women gave birth inside. The Kremlin has sought to paint those wounded in the attack as ‘crisis actors’ as part of a vile propaganda attempt to dismiss allegations its troops are attacking women and children.

Ukraine says Russian attacks have now killed more civilians than soldiers — without giving an exact figure for either — as the Kremlin’s generals pivot from shock-and-awe-style precision strikes to ‘medieval’ siege warfare. Dnipro, hundreds of miles to the south of Kharkiv, was hit by three strikes early Friday that damaged a kindergarten, a civilian apartment block, and a shoe factory — killing at least one person.

But Ukrainian forces continue to fight back, saying successful counter-attacks around the northern city of Chernihiv has recaptured five villages after Russian units took such heavy casualties that they were no longer able to attack effectively. It comes after another successful counter-attack in the same region on Thursday, and a counter-attack to the west of Kyiv which ground a Russian offensive to a halt.

Meanwhile footage showed a Russian Mi‑8 helicopter being downed earlier this week, as western-supplied anti-aircraft missiles continue to inflict a heavy toll on Putin’s air forces. It is unclear exactly when or where the footage was taken, though it was first posted to TikTok two days ago before circulating widely today.

Chernihiv is located around 80 miles to the north of Kyiv, where attacks are also underway today in an effort to surround the capital and subject it to the kind of siege already underway elsewhere. Satellite images revealed a 40-mile ‘death convoy’ that had previously clogged up highways nearby is now moving into attack positions.

Ukraine believes the capital — which is currently home to around 2million people — could soon be surrounded, after which it faces the same punishing fate meted out to the cities of Mariupol, which has been without water or power for 11 days, Kharkiv, and Sumy, where thousands of civilians have been killed.

Putin’s men are now facing a long and bloody mission to try and take the capital, which is thought to be the main target of their ‘special military operation’ — with the goal being to topple the government and install a puppet regime friendly to Moscow.

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BREAKING: Jussie Smollett sentenced — yells

On Thursday, disgraced actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in Cook County jail, and 30 months of felony probation, as well as restitution of $120,106 and a $25,000 fine.After receiving his sentence, Smollett broke out in shouts of “I am not suicidal. I am innocent”“If I did this, that it means that I stuck my fist in the fears of black Americans in this country for over 400 years and the fears of the LGBTQ. Your Honor, I respect you and I respect the jury, but I did not do this and I am not suicidal. If anything happens to me when I go in there. I did not do it to myself. And you must all know that,” Smollet said.The defense took issue with the appointment of a special prosecutor prior to the sentencing and also had a stack of mitigations, including that the jury was not a jury of Smollett’s Chicago peers, and that this could be surmised just by looking at them.The defense …

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Jussie Smollett Sentence Revealed

Actor Jussie Smollett has learned his fate after being convicted of staging a hate crime hoax back in December.

The former “Empire” actor was sentenced to 150 days behind bars, 30 months felony probation a $25,000 fine and restitution to the city of Chicago by Judge James Linn on Thursday after he was convicted last year of lying to Chicago police about being the victim of a hate crime.

Smollett shouted after the verdict “I am not sucidial,” as he continued to proclaim his innocence. “I DID NOT DO THIS. I’m not suicidal. If anything happens to me when I go in there, you must all know that. Jail time, I am not suicidal,” he said.

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Russian economy in ‘shock

(Reuters) — The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia’s economy was experiencing a shock and that measures were being taken to soften the impact of what it described as an “absolutely unprecedented” economic war being waged against Moscow.The West has imposed sweeping sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.“Our economy is experiencing a shock impact now and there are negative consequences, they will be minimised,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.He described the situation as turbulent, but said that measures to calm and stabilise it were already being taken.“This is absolutely unprecedented. The economic war that has started against our country has never taken place before. So it is very hard to forecast anything.”(Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge) …

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