Army base pulls Chinese security cameras over ‘negative perception’

If it wasn’t already clear that concerns over the security of Chinese equipment are reaching a fever pitch, it is now. The US Army has pulled five of Hikvision’s surveillance cameras from Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri not because they pose an active security risk (they were on a closed network and monitored the roads), […]

First-ever ‘negative emissions’ power plant goes online

Unfortunately, it’s no longer enough to cut CO2 emissions to avoid further global temperature increases. We need to remove some of the CO2 that’s already there. Thankfully, that reversal is one step closer to becoming reality. Climeworks and Reykjavik Energy have started running the first power plant confirmed to produce “negative emissions” — that is, […]

Newcastle News: ‘God’ Rafa Benitez slammed by Jamie Carragher for being too negative

The Toon have started the season poorly, losing to Tottenham 2-0 on the opening day and 1-0 to fellow promoted side Huddersfield yesterday. Benitez has been vocal in his unhappiness at the transfer business he has been able to complete at Newcastle this summer. But Carragher, who played under Benitez for six years whilst the […]

Negative mass swing beats the uncertainty principle

Enlarge (credit: Christopher Gutiérrez, Daniel Walkup/NIST) Quantum mechanics comes with something called the uncertainty principle. This states that there are pairs of properties that cannot be simultaneously known to arbitrary precision. This is not due to the way a measurement changes the properties of what it measures. Instead, it is due to how quantum mechanics […]

Romelu Lukaku could have negative effect on Marcus Rashford at Man Utd – Rene Meulensteen

That is according to former Manchester United assistant manager Rene Meluensteen, who is worried for Rashford. Lukaku joined the Red Devils from Everton last Monday, signing a five-year deal with Jose Mourinho’s side. The Belgian is set to replace last season’s top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic who left the club at the end of his contract […]

XI WARNS TRUMP: ‘Negative factors’ are hurting US-China relations

REUTERS/Carlos Barria BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping warned President Donald Trump on Monday that “some negative factors” are hurting U.S.-China relations, as tensions flare anew over a slew of long-standing sore points. Xi’s comments in a phone call with Trump follow Beijing’s displeasure over U.S. arms sales to rival Taiwan, U.S. sanctions against […]

‘All Russian World Cup 2014 doping tests negative’ – FIFA head Infantino

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has confirmed that all of the doping tests from the 23 Russian players taking part in Brazil’s 2014 World Cup had come back negative. Speaking at the closing press conference for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup at St. Petersburg Stadium ahead of the competition’s final on Sunday, Infantino said it made […]

Every Russia player’s World Cup 2014 doping probe negative, despite reports – FIFA

Every doping probe of Russian national football team players before and during the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Rio was negative, the FIFA press service told TASS on Sunday. Late on Saturday, Daily Mail chief sports news correspondent Nick Harris published a story revealing “every member of Russia’s World Cup team is under investigation in […]

On ‘Colbert,’ Oliver Stone Has Nothing Negative… At All… to Say About Vladimir Putin

“When I have an Oliver Stone [film] on, I want to talk about politics, I want to talk about philosophy, I want to talk about what is truth, what is not truth,” Stephen Colbert said on the Late Show last night, prefacing his talk with the director on his Showtime documentary series — an unprecedented collection […]

ANZ: China’s downgrade by Moody’s risks creating ‘a negative feedback loop’

Guang Niu/ Getty Images After placing China’s sovereign credit rating on watch negative 15 months ago — laying the potential trigger for a ratings downgrade — ratings agency Moody’s followed through today, downgrading the nation’s credit rating one notch from Aa3 to A1 with a steady outlook. A1 is the fifth-highest rating assigned by Moody’s, […]