. Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic airline will conduct a test flight at the end of the month wherein a Boeing 747 will fly from London to Amsterdam using an 80/20 blend of conventional fuel and biofuel, respectively.
It's also the month wherein the mobile industry opens its floodgates, releasing a mega-blast of new hardware at a rate that goes unmatched for the rest of the year.
Researchers at Zhejiang University published a paper titled "Human Mind Control of Rat Cyborg's Continuous Locomotion with Wireless Brain-to-Brain Interface" this month, wherein they revealed that they'd succeeded in controlling rats with the power of human thought.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in June wherein he mentioned an encounter with the board member of "a significant Internet-based company (who) took me aside and admitted, with some horror, that his company's board had not spent a single minute discussing cyber security".
Reuters reported that the initial $300 million in capital will arrive before the end of November, wherein it will go towards the Faraday Future partnership and the fledgling LeMall business in the U.S., an e-commerce platform for selling LeEco's hardware.
Standard, formerly known as Type 2, contains the current block, the last completed block, and the most recent core set (except in the intervening months between the core set release in summer and rotation in October, wherein the most recent core set and previous core set are both Standard legal).
He also said that consumers would likely not have to endure a two-year contact to use the service because it'd be structured more like a traditional utility wherein people pay a month in advance.
(In my last post, we launched an "August Reform" movement wherein for "national security" reasons, we declared August officially dumped from the calendar. Get up to speed here).
Also in celebration of the season was a Black History Month video wherein Jay Pharoah, Kenan Thompson and Sasheer Zamata sang a little ditty to a high school class about 28 reasons to hug a black guy, with No. 1 being, "We deserve a chance!" and Nos. 2 through 28 being "slavery".
