#Letters to the Editor — Aug. 17, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — Aug. 17, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — Aug. 17, 2021” The Issue: The Taliban’s capture of Kabul, Afghanistan, after President Biden’s removal of US troops. Are we the greatest country in the world with the strongest military power (“Kabul falls,” Aug. 16)? Seems hard to believe. No disrespect to our brave men and women. The problem goes…

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#Officials vow to ‘secure’ Kabul airport to help Americans flee

#Officials vow to ‘secure’ Kabul airport to help Americans flee

“#Officials vow to ‘secure’ Kabul airport to help Americans flee” US officials vowed Sunday to “secure” the chaotic Kabul International Airport while “taking over air traffic control” in order to evacuate Americans —  as hundreds of people tried frantically to flee the Afghan capital amid a Taliban takeover. Thousands of military troops will be deployed…

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#Robot funded by US military successfully runs 5K

#Robot funded by US military successfully runs 5K

“#Robot funded by US military successfully runs 5K” Students at Oregon State University created a bipedal robot that used machine learning to teach itself how to successfully complete a 5K racecourse, the school announced.  The history-making bot, dubbed Cassie, traversed 5 kilometers, or 3.1 miles, of gravel, sidewalk, and fields and completed the course on…

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#Pentagon nixes contract that pitted Amazon against Microsoft

#Pentagon nixes contract that pitted Amazon against Microsoft

“#Pentagon nixes contract that pitted Amazon against Microsoft” The Department of Defense announced Tuesday that it’s nixing the $10 billion cloud computing contract that it awarded to Microsoft in 2019 and that drew legal complaints from market leader Amazon. The JEDI, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, deal was meant to modernize the Pentagon’s IT operations…

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#Cotton, Crenshaw tout success of Pentagon whistleblower line

#Cotton, Crenshaw tout success of Pentagon whistleblower line

“#Cotton, Crenshaw tout success of Pentagon whistleblower line” A pair of GOP lawmakers who launched a whistleblower campaign last month for active military members to report critical race theory in “diversity training” programs say they have received hundreds of tips. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who set up the tip line with Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas)…

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#Government’s UFO report can not explain aerial phenomena

#Government’s UFO report can not explain aerial phenomena

“#Government’s UFO report can not explain aerial phenomena” The truth is out there, but it might not be in this report. The US intelligence community has not found evidence that unexplained aerial phenomena seen by Navy pilots are from outer space, but they can’t rule out the possibility or explain the mysterious vehicles, said officials…

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