RTnews (T.me) Mother of Black Holes: Births Stars Instead of Pulling Them In

NASA astronomers have spotted a black hole that's engaged in forming new stars, instead of sucking them in. It's the first sighting of its kind using the Hubble Telescope.

Researchers observed gasses bumping into unexpected solid bodies, in the dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10, located about 30MN light years from Earth in the Pyxis constellation.

The discovery is quite paradoxical in nature, since black holes are usually known for their gravity being inescapable - even to light.

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RTnews (T.me) Antarctic Covid: Research Base Evacuation of Unvaccinated

The virus has broken out at the Argentine research base at the tip of the world. Just over half of the 43 scientists and military personnel stationed at the La Esperanza base in the Antarctic have been infected. (AFP)

Nine of 24 confirmed infections are unvaccinated, and have been taken to Buenos Aires as a precaution - despite all those who have tested positive showing no symptoms.

The first outbreak on the icy continent was at Chile's base in December 2020.

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RTnews (T.me) Amazon to open clothing store with algorithm-based fashion advice

The e-commerce giant is opening its first ever clothing store where algorithms will suggest to shoppers what item they should try on. (Independent)

The store is set to open near Los Angeles with a managing director saying, “We wouldn’t do anything in physical retail unless we felt we could significantly improve the customer experience.”

Each fitting room will have a touchscreen which shoppers can use to choose items to try on, with staff depositing them in a two-sided secure locker “within minutes,” Amazon said.

Amazon warehouse work atmosphere meets fashion, what could go wrong?

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RTnews (T.me) Alec Baldwin hit with $25 million lawsuit by family of Marine killed in Afghanistan

Family members of a Marine killed in Afghanistan filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against Baldwin, accusing the actor of calling them insurrectionists after learning one of them was in DC during the January 6 insurrection. (Insider)

Lance Corporal Rylee J McCollum was among 13 service members who were assisting Afghan refugees when they were killed in a suicide bomb attack August 26 at Kabul Airport.

Baldwin first donated $5K to McCollum’s wife according to the lawsuit, then turned on the family after he glanced the Marine’s sister wearing a MAGA hat at the Capitol on Jan 6.

“When I sent you the $ for your late brother, out of a real respect for his service to our country, I didn’t know you were a January 6th rioter,” Baldwin allegedly wrote.

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RTnews (T.me) Metaverse “rave” flops miserably — witnesses claim

What was supposed to be a treat to how fun the Metaverse is turned out to be quite the opposite, if the stories and videos of a rave party held there shared by some attendees are anything to go by.

The event was held Thursday in Decentraland, a virtual-reality platform similar to the one being developed by Facebook.

A 37-second clip titled “This is the Metaverse” showed a group of avatars on a dance floor, most of them completely stationary, with techno music blasting in the background.

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RTnew (T.me) IRS to start requiring facial recognition scans to access tax returns

The Internal Revenue Service is going to start requiring users of its online tax payment system to provide a selfie to a third-party company in order to access their accounts.

Beginning in summer 2022, users who need to log on to the IRS' website to access the Child Tax Credit Update Portal, check online accounts, get their tax transcript, receive an Identity Protection PIN or view an online payment agreement.

Existing online accounts, which currently only require a simple email and password to access, will no longer work beginning this summer, the IRS said.

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RTnews (T.me) Democrat lobbyist Podesta earned $1mn from blacklisted Chinese telecom giant for lobbying Biden WH (reports)

Tony Podesta reportedly raked in at least $1 million lobbying on behalf of Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, which was blacklisted under Trump. (Daily Caller)

Podesta, who is the brother of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign chairman John, raked in a cool $500K twice in 2021 from Huawei to lobby the Executive Office of President Biden, according to lobbying disclosures.

The Trump admin put Huawei on a trade blacklist for allegedly building backdoors in its technology which allowed the CCP to conduct economic espionage.

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RTnews (T.me) US carrier heads to surprise NATO wargames

USS Harry S. Truman joins Neptune Strike ‘22 wargames in the Mediterranean Sea amid tensions with Russia

The nuclear-powered fleet aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman will take part in next week’s NATO exercise in the Mediterranean Sea dubbed “Neptune Strike ‘22,” the Pentagon has announced.

The 12-day exercise kicks off Monday and is supposed to “demonstrate NATO's ability to integrate the high-end maritime strike capabilities of an aircraft carrier strike group to support the deterrence and defense of the alliance,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters Friday.

Though the Truman and its strike group will be placed “under NATO operational control,” the overall command of the exercise will be in the hands of Vice Admiral Eugene H. Black III, who commands the US Navy’s 6th Fleet.

Kirby called Neptune Strike a “long-planned activity” that has been under consideration since 2020 and is not related to the current tensions with Russia. “The exercise itself is not designed against the kinds of scenarios that might happen with respect to Ukraine,” Kirby said, but is intended to test “a wide range of maritime capabilities that we want to make sure we continue to improve.”

According to Kirby, the US discussed with its NATO allies whether to move ahead with the exercise “given tensions right now,” but ultimately decided to do so.

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