Today's Tech News

1) Aevum - space startup, launches world's first fully autonomous orbital rocket launching drone.
  


                Aevum's innovative launch vehicle design that combines uncrewed aircraft with horizontal take-off and landing capabilities. It also deploys secondary stage at high altitude and can carry small payloads such as small satellites to space. Aevum named it's space vehicle as Ravn X. Aveum's CEO jay skylus said Ravn X will be ready for it's  operations  in within next 18 months.
     Aircraft is 80 ft long with a 60 ft wing span and 18 ft tall with it's gross takeoff weight of 55,000 lbs. It is able to get small satellites to orbit in as little as 3hrs.

2)waymo building a new replica city to test it's driverless technology.



Waymo LLC  is an  American autonomous driving technology development company which  is Google's one of the subsidiary. Waymo is working with Transportation Research center  (TRC) in east liberty - ohio to open it's own new testing environment for waymo driverless tech. It'll be built according to waymo's specific requirements for it's autonomous vehicles and with different types of environment. Waymo will use TRC's other facilities, including it's truck testing tracks. The main goal is the production of driverless trucks - based on the Freightliner cascadia on sale in US.
                       

3)china using CRISPR to create super soldier.


              John Ratcliffe - Director of National intelligence penned an op-ed in the wall Street journal claims that Chinese government using genetic engineering to enhance the capabilities of the soldiers. This is not only the first claim that was made. CRISPR - Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats  is a bacterial defence system that forms the basis of CRISPR cas19 genome editing technology. It has many applications such as treating the diseases, preventing the spread of the diseases, correcting genetic defects. However, it is ethical in medical concerns but unethical to manipulate the genes to boost human performance. 
            The US also creating it's own captain America with United States special operations command announced in 2018. Which they spend $15 million for the research to create a "bio-enhanced soldiers".


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