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It's not the typical tech company acquisition. Microsoft has agreed to purchase 10 million strands of lab-created DNA from biotech company Twist Bioscience. The goal is to research how to encode digital data on genetic material.
Yes, it sounds like science fiction, but it marks a new development in how to store large quantities of digital data. The companies announced Wednesday that Microsoft agreed to purchase 10 million long oligonucleotides -- or shortened DNA strands that are used for genetic research -- from Twist.
"Today, the vast majority of digital data is stored on media that has a finite shelf life and periodically needs to be re-encoded. DNA is a promising storage media, as it has a known shelf life of several thousand years, offers a permanent storage format and can be read for continuously decreasing costs," Emily M. Leproust, CEO of Twist Bioscience, said in a press release. "Our silicon-based DNA synthesis platform offers unmatched scale and product quality that vastly accelerates the ability to write DNA at a cost enabling data storage. We are thrilled to work with Microsoft, and University of Washington researchers, to address the growing challenge of digital data storage."
If the lab-leak explanation proves accurate, history may credit Demaneuf and his fellow doubters for breaking the dam—not that they have any intention of stopping. They are now knee-deep in examining the WIV’s construction orders, sewage output, and cell phone traffic. The thought driving Paris Group cofounder Virginie Courtier forward is simple: “There are unanswered questions,” she says, “and a few human beings know the answers.”
Financial chiefs from the Group of Seven major economies will discuss rules for digital currencies issued by central banks, hoping to bring China's digital yuan into an international regulatory framework.
The G-7 finance ministers, who kicked off a two-day meeting in London on Friday, will sort out potential issues arising from state-issued digital currencies, with the aim of announcing new rules as soon as this fall
China's aggressive push to issue a digital yuan has raised concerns that it could give rise to a new economic zone centering around nations taking part in its Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. Such a framework could undermine the current currency system based on the U.S. dollar.
If such a digital yuan economic zone becomes a formidable presence, Western sanctions, such as blocking transactions in dollars or other key currencies -- a typical tool of punishment for countries that violate international rules -- would become toothless.
Seven central banks in Western nations and Japan have formed a joint research group with the Bank for International Settlements that has outlined foundational principles for central bank digital currencies.
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
Technocracy Inc. formed in 1931 to promote the ideas of Howard Scott. Scott saw government and industry as wasteful and unfair and believed that an economy run by engineers would be efficient and equitable. He called for the "price system" and fiat currencies to be replaced with a system based on how much energy it takes to produce specific goods. Scott called for engineers to run a continental government, which he termed a technate, to "optimize the use of energy to assure abundance." Virtually unknown today, the organization boasted over half a million members in California alone at its peak in the 1930s and 1940s.
originally posted by: 13Kiwi20qYes
a reply to: crankyoldman
Lol giving myself a brain freeze contemplating how much is going on behind the scenic Illusion provided atm, 4AM narrative has hit rockies bottom, feel we are nearing % wise, the point.
Yeah no idea what the point is or will be but we imo we are soso close.
Sorta do continue to expect military perfection though.
Watching the ramp up of Fauxci two narratives is so awkward looking, may be just me.
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Jun 4 2020 18:49:59 (EST)
EAM LOYALISTS:
RED1: POTUS twitter removal
RED2: Central communications blackout [continental US]
RED3: CLAS movement PELOSI or PENCE
RED4: Movement of MIL assets [10th Mountain_1st Marine_CPSD_Marine_QVIR] to central locations under guise of citizen riot control.
RED5: NAT MIL COM CEN
RED6: SEC OF DEF _instruct1
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Nov 1 2017 00:41:54 (EST)
Think about it logically.
The only way is the military. Fully controlled. Save & spread (once 11.3 verifies as 1st marker).
Biggest advanced drop on Pol.
originally posted by: pteridine
a reply to: Nunyabizisit
Soon, Fauci will be thrown into the volcano to purge the Biden/Harris administration and appease the masses. He will be tied to Trump who will be blamed for everything....of course.
originally posted by: carewemust
THREATS are Democrat's #1 Tool for getting what they want.