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Supercapacitors Become More Super With 19 Times As Much Capacitance
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Supercapacitors Become More Super With 19 Times As Much Capacitance

Two approaches to improving the amount of charge that capacitors can store look to be bearing fruit, based on simultaneous publications by unconnected teams. Each offers the potential to make supercapacitors more potent energy storage devices, and perhaps put them into the race for large-scale energy storage.Supercapacitors have long had an advantage over batteries in their ability to release stored charge very quickly. However, even the best supercapacitors haven’t been able to hold enough charge to meet society’s biggest need. Occasional breakthroughs have made supercapacitors look like contenders for that market, but the dramatic fall in the price of lithium-ion batteries has left little room for competitors. That might be about to change.Two papers published in the same edition of Science last month both explore big improvements in capacitance, although whether either can scale up remains to be seen.All capacitors share the same basic principle. Positive and negative charges are separated and stored with a material in between to prevent anything leaping the gap. Closure of a switch allows the negative charges to flow around to meet the positive ones, creating electric current, with all its applications.There are now hundreds of capacitors in a single laptop or smartphone. One look at a phone reveals how tiny they must be. As such, the charge they can store is orders of magnitude too low to drive a car, let alone power a city through the night.Supercapacitors, as their name suggests, have much more capacitance. They’ve made regenerative braking possible, but even scaled-up-versions currently can’t compete with batteries for long-distance driving. For that to change, the capacitance needs to increase, which means finding materials that will cheaply prevent extremely large amounts of charge from recombining.Ferroelectric materials like BaTiO3 are widely used in capacitors but suffer from a problem known as remnant polarization, where some charge remains behind rather than being released. Their crystals also deteriorate with use.By sandwiching a 3D structure between 2D crystals, a team at Korean and American institutions reduced remnant polarization and report being able to store 191.7 joules per cubic centimeter of capacitor, and release it with more than 90 percent efficiency. Existing commercial counterparts store about 10 joules per cubic centimeter.“We created a new structure based on the innovations we’ve already made in my lab involving 2D materials,” Dr Sang-Hoon Bae of Washington University in St Louis said in a statement. “Initially, we weren’t focused on energy storage, but during our exploration of material properties, we found a new physical phenomenon that we realized could be applied to energy storage, and that was both very interesting and potentially much more useful.”Bae and co-authors’ report on the work only describes testing the capacitor over 10 cycles, indicating a long way to go before commercial application. “We’re not yet 100 percent optimal, but already we’re outperforming what other labs are doing,” Bae said. “Our next steps will be to make this material structure even better, so we can meet the need for ultrafast charging and discharging and very high energy densities in capacitors. We must be able to do that without losing storage capacity over repeated charges to see this material used broadly in large electronics, like electric vehicles, and other developing green technologies.”In the same edition of Science, Cambridge University scientists describe results overturning ideas on how to make supercapacitors with carbon electrodes store more power. “Pore size has long been considered the main lever to improve capacitance,” They note. However, comparisons between commercial carbons with nanometer-scale pores found little correlation between size and capacitance. What does matter, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy reveals, is the amount of structural disorder in the capacitors’ domains.“More disordered carbons with smaller graphene-like domains show higher capacitances owing to the more efficient storage of ions in their nanopores,” the authors write. “We propose that for carbons with smaller domains, the charges are more localized, giving rise to stronger interactions between ions and carbon atoms, thus leading to more efficient storage of ions.”The paper does not discuss how much capacitance can be achieved if carbon domains are made sufficiently disordered, although it runs against the grain to try to make electronic devices more disordered, rather than ordered. Both papers are published in Science, Bae’s ferroelectric work here, and the disordered carbon work here.
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Purest Silicon Might Be Secret Ingredient To Build Reliable Quantum Computers
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Purest Silicon Might Be Secret Ingredient To Build Reliable Quantum Computers

Silicon is the cornerstone of computing. Its properties and abundance have made it so. You are reading this on a device that uses silicon chips. Quantum computers are the next giant leap in computing, capable of doing calculations that not even our most powerful supercomputers can do. And they might still based on silicon, but with a twist: it may need to be of a level of purity that has not been achieved before. Humans can now produce such silicon.The issue at hand is that silicon is commonly found in three forms in nature: silicon-28, silicon-29, and silicon-30. These are known as isotopes. Silicon-28 has 14 protons and 14 neutrons in its nucleus and is the more common type, making up over 92.2 percent of all silicon found in nature. The other two have respectively one and two extra neutrons and constitute 4.7 percent and 3.1 percent of natural silicon.The presence of silicon-29 and 30 in computer chips is no big deal. But things are different for quantum computing. It all boils down to the coherence of quantum bits or qubits. That’s the ability of quantum computers to stay error-free. Qubits are very susceptible to the environment so they are usually operated near absolute zero.It turns out that the extra neutron in silicon-29 is enough to mess with coherence, creating errors in the quantum chip. By shooting a beam of silicon-28 atoms at a chip, a research team was able to reduce the presence of silicon-29 from 4.5 percent to two parts per million (0.0002 percent).“Electronic chips currently within an everyday computer consist of billions of transistors – these can also be used to create qubits for silicon-based quantum devices. The ability to create high quality silicon qubits has in part been limited to date by the purity of the silicon starting material used. The breakthrough purity we show here solves this problem," lead author Ravi Acharya, a joint University of Manchester/University of Melbourne Cookson Scholar, said in a statement.“Others are experimenting with alternatives, but we believe silicon is the leading candidate for quantum computer chips that will enable the enduring coherence required for reliable quantum calculations,” Professor David Jamieson, from the University of Melbourne, added.                 Some quantum computers have been working with 1,000 qubits, but quantum coherence was only sustained for milliseconds so their potential has remained limited. Less pure silicon was previously used to keep coherence going for 30 seconds for a single qubit, a record that has not been broken yet.“Now that we can produce extremely pure silicon-28, our next step will be to demonstrate that we can sustain quantum coherence for many qubits simultaneously. A reliable quantum computer with just 30 qubits would exceed the power of today's supercomputers for some applications,” Jamieson explained.The study is published in Communications Materials.
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A 100-Pound River Monster That Feeds At Night Is Eating Way Too Much
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A 100-Pound River Monster That Feeds At Night Is Eating Way Too Much

An invasive river monster has become a big problem for native wildlife in parts of the US and Canda. The flathead catfish is set to become an apex predator as it eats its way through America, having been detected as far as Canada.The flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) really is a river monster, with the heaviest on record clocking 55.79 kilograms (123 pounds) at over 1.55 meters (5 feet) long. As mostly nocturnal hunters, they feed at night and go in search of live prey – but as they travel further from their native waters, they’re munching on all kinds of living things that conservations would rather they didn’t.The Mississippi and Gulf drainages are their native waters, but since the 1950s, they’ve been introduced by anglers across the western US, making their way into systems that drain along the Atlantic Coast. In 2023, The Office of Governor Wes Moore (Maryland) announced that Moore was calling on the federal government to declare the expanding population of invasive fish species — including flathead catfish —to be “an ongoing commercial fishery disaster in the Maryland waters of the Chesapeake Bay”.Why? Because they just eat so damn much.“They are going to be one of the apex predators around every system once they establish those populations,” The Telegraph of Macon reports Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division biologist Joel Fleming told McClatchy News. “If they can fit it in their mouth, they’re going to eat it.”One of the drivers for their ongoing spread is the fecundity of some of the females who – depending on their size – can on average lay 100,000 eggs at a time. Those eggs will be protected by the male until they hatch just over a week later, and the offspring will begin eating their first live fish once they reach around 10 centimeters (4 inches) in length.As the catfish grows so too does its appetite, and they can go on munching their way through native wildlife for around 30 years. Their potential to cause harm to native ecosystems has meant that wildlife officials now encourage anglers to report any flathead catfish they catch, and – crucially – not release them back into the wild.As for what to do with the invasive river monsters caught? Provided the water is clean, they are an excellent food source, and the invasivore diet is a delicious way out of a crisis.
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Turning into a Noem: Psaki to Alter Book After Lying About Biden, Afghanistan
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Turning into a Noem: Psaki to Alter Book After Lying About Biden, Afghanistan

Axios White House reporter Alex Thompson flagged on Monday former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s new memoir Say More will have an altered passage in future printings following the revelation that it falsely claimed President Biden never looked at his watch during the August 29, 2021, dignified transfer of remains for the 13 Americans murdered in Kabul during the U.S.’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan. Thompson highlighted the key passage in which she claimed Biden has been a victim of “misinformation” aimed to make “him appear insensitive” when, in her (alternate) reality, “the president looked at his watch only after the ceremony had ended. Moments later, he and the First Lady headed toward their car.” Of course, it flew in the face of live footage from the scene and professional photographers. Psaki quoted friendly media with a (fake) fact-check via USA Today, but she couldn’t even get that right as she attributed it to The Washington Post. Thompson also noted that Psaki’s claim “contradict[s] news photos and firsthand accounts of Gold Star families” At the time, our Nick Fondacaro torched these partisan tools for “drag[ging] those grieving families through the mud” by downplaying what they had seen with their own eyes. And, over on the broadcast networks, Fondacaro noted they ignored it completely in the news cycle after it happened.   It's true. Joe Biden checked his watch during the dignified transfer of the servicemembers killing in Afghanistan at the airport. You can see him jerk his left hand to pull the watch out from under his sleeve, then look down at it. pic.twitter.com/M3QVzJbTIm — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) August 29, 2021   Psaki cowardly “initially declined to comment”, but emerged only after Thompson’s story was posted to admit a “detail in a few lines of the book about the exact number of times he looked at his watch will be removed in future reprints and the ebook”. Further, Psaki channeled her former boss to both Axios and our friend Brian Flood at FoxNews.com by making it about — wait for it — Beau Biden: The story on Afghanistan is really about the importance of delivering feedback even when it is difficult told through my own experience of telling President Biden that his own story of loss was not well received by the families who were grieving their sons and daughters The rest of Thompson’s piece emphasized in broad strokes the reality as we barrel toward the November presidential election that Afghanistan remains one of if not the biggest stain on the President.
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Obama 'still in charge' as White House puppet master
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Obama 'still in charge' as White House puppet master

D.C. correspondent for Blaze Media, Christopher Bedford, has been exploring the dark depths of America’s capital for years — and it’s now the worst he’s ever seen. Crime has skyrocketed among its residents while politicians live lavishly. “There’s been about three shootings within a block of my house in the last month, because they’re just not afraid of the police. And it’s not like D.C. or other cities in America have been hit by some massive global depression, it’s not like a real actual disease has swept through and broken down law and order,” Bedford says. “This is intentional suicide by our city council,” he adds. However, one politician in particular is doing extremely well despite the city that’s crumbling around him: Barack Obama. “You know who’s having a great time in D.C. is Barack Obama,” James Poulos tells Bedford. “You’re not supposed to be living in D.C. and doing whatever he does in that mansion. Violated many, many decades of precedent of 'You're supposed to bug out of town once you’re out of office,'” he adds. Bedford knows why. “He’s still in charge,” he says. “He has full access to the White House. He’s holding meetings whenever he wants, he’s on phone calls, and visitors are coming to and from that Kalorama Heights mansion, and I kind of just want to know which aspects of the White House are being run by him.” Want more from James Poulos?To enjoy more of James's visionary commentary on politics, tech, ideas, and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.
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Trans kids will be STERILE, 'gold mine of opportunity' for big pharma and reproductive technologies
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Trans kids will be STERILE, 'gold mine of opportunity' for big pharma and reproductive technologies

Miriam Grossman, M.D., is a psychiatrist who has taken a stand against what she describes as the “religion” of gender ideology. Grossman saw a massive increase in young patients who claimed to have gender dysphoria after COVID lockdowns, when kids were isolated online. “There is no medical or scientific basis for the idea that you can be one sex in your mind and that be at odds with your physical reality of your body,” Grossman tells Glenn Beck. “Everything you just said, I just believe. But you’re one of the only doctors left on the hill of sanity,” Glenn says. “What happened?” Grossman notes that parents and therapists have started to “affirm the new identity, celebrate the new identity, and put the child in the driver's seat.” “It’s what many, many therapists do these days, and it is what almost all of our mainstream medical and mental health associations are telling us to do,” Grossman says, using the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics as examples of organizations she no longer trusts despite being trained to. “Kids are indoctrinated with this religion as if they are established facts,” she explains. “They are flooded with this from every angle as they go through the day, and they’re led to believe that these are undisputed facts, and nothing could be further from the truth.” Not only have mainstream medical and mental health associations done a one-eighty on their previous science-backed beliefs — but they’re ignoring the clear life-altering consequences that come with such a decision. “They take puberty blockers, they then take cross-sex hormones, testosterone and estrogen and other hormones, and then many of them get surgeries, which are extremely expensive,” Grossman says. “Now, once a young person goes on puberty blockers, almost all of them will continue on to cross-sex hormones, which means they will be a consumer of pharmaceuticals for the rest of their life.” “Could it be that simple, that it’s money, that it’s Big Pharma that’s really pushing this?” Glenn asks Grossman. “There’s no question that this is extremely lucrative,” she says. “You have to also consider that we are creating a generation of young people who are sterile.” If they end up wanting to have biological kids, their only options will be IVF or surrogacy. “That’s a whole other gold mine of opportunity for reproductive technologies,” Grossman adds. =Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.
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Scientist who contributed to UN climate report touts global virus as final solution for curbing emissions
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Scientist who contributed to UN climate report touts global virus as final solution for curbing emissions

Bill McGuire, a professor emeritus of earth sciences at University College London and co-director of the New Weather Institute, has long been a climate alarmist. McGuire, whose specialty appears to be volcanoes, contributed to the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2012 report; scaremongered about the weather on numerous BBC Radio 4 series; wrote a book 16 years ago entitled "Seven Years to Save the Planet"; and now criticizes affordable energy in the pages of the Guardian. In March, McGuire recommended that Britons "green our towns and cities"; "replac[e] tarmac and concrete with more permeable materials"; "insulate, insulate, insulate"; and paint buildings white. On Friday, the volcanist went farther, recommending against laughing off climate alarmists' prophesies. It appears McGuire understands his proposals to be foolhardy — that more is needed than white paint and stoicism to save the world from imagined future harms. Culling the herd McGuire noted Saturday in since-deleted tweet, "If I am brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic #climate breakdown, is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate." McGuire's "realistic" solution sounds like the yet-to-be-released COVID-19 sequel that fellow alarmists, such as Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, have warned about in recent months. At a World Economic Forum event in January, Ghebreyesus discussed Disease X and said, "Anything happening is a matter of when, not if." The WEF suggested that "Disease X" could "result in 20 times more fatalities than the coronavirus pandemic," reported Newsweek. McGuire appeared to have an idea of what virus might do the trick, having linked in his "culling" tweet to a Saturday article in the Guardian about the H5N1 strain of influenza, commonly referred to as the bird flu. The thrust of the linked article was that the bird flu being examined by British scientists might ultimately leap into human beings. Virologist Paul Digard of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh is quoted in the artlce as saying, "Now that it seems to be fairly widespread in the cow population in the U.S., that’s a much more direct route where it could transmit to people and gain the adaptations it needs to go pandemic." The article noted further as if to reassure, "If H5N1 did start spreading among people, the good news is that the world has plenty of recent experience when it comes to rolling out large-scale vaccination programmes. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are two candidate vaccines against a related strain of flu viruses that could be shipped within weeks, if necessary." Backpedaling McGuire's suggestion — that the "only realistic way" to get down emissions to desirable levels would be the deaths of millions if not billions of human beings — was not well received. He evidently decided that the way forwad would be to accuse his critics of illiteracy and a collective failure of comprehension. "I SAID 'THE ONLY WAY I SEE EMISSIONS FALLING AS FAST AS THEY NEED TO,'" McGuire wrote in a subsequent tweet. "SEEMS LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE CAN'T READ. I SAID 'THE ONLY WAY I SEE EMISSIONS FALLING AS FAST AS THEY NEED TO...' I DID NOT SAY 'WE NEED A PANDEMIC,'" wrote McGuire. "FFS DON'T READ THINGS INTO A STATEMENT THAT AREN'T THERE[.] I COULD HAVE SAD SOCIETY-BUSTING ASTEROID IMPACT INSTEAD OF PANDEMIC." HE ONLY SAID THE HUMAN POPULATION NEEDS CULLING WHAT'S THE PROBLEM!? — (@) McGuire's first all-caps response to his critics did not go over well, so he tried again hours later, writing, "RIGHT, I AM DELETING THE INITIAL TWEET NOW. NOT BECAUSE I REGRET IT, BUT BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE HAVE MISTAKENLY, OR INTENTIONALLY, TAKE IT THE WRONG WAY." The Virginia Project, a Republican political action committee among the many groups and individuals that blasted McGuire, wrote, "The world understood exactly what you meant, which is that in order to meet the goals of 'climate change' fanatics, a mass extermination of humanity on a global scale is necessary. That is the logical conclusion of 'climate change' advocacy. You just got caught admitting it." The world understood exactly what you meant, which is that in order to meet the goals of "climate change" fanatics, a mass extermination of humanity on a global scale is necessary.\n\nThat is the logical conclusion of "climate change" advocacy. You just got caught admitting it. — (@) Multitudes of other users on X suggested likewise, prompting McGuire to suggest that by a pandemic-driven "culling," he actually meant a drop in economic productivity — the kind that in recent years corresponding with millions of people dying worldwide. Reworded\n\nEmissions have only fallen at times of major economic shock, due to pandemic or otherwise\n\nA much bigger one is the only way emissions will fall by at least 50% in 66 months - needed to have any chance of dodging dangerous, all pervasive, #climate breakdown — (@) McGuire added in a Sunday tweet, "Would love to hear how emissions can be cut by at east 50% in the next 66 months (by 2030) without a major socio-economic shock that slashes economic activity[.] This MUST happen to have any chance of sidestepping dangerous, all-pervasive, climate breakdown." — (@) While McGuire appears to have said the quiet part out loud, he is hardly the only Britsh-based climate alarmist to publicly showcase his hostility toward human life in recent months. Blaze News previously reported that Donnachadh McCarthy, a failed politician involved in Just Stop Oil and one of the leading figures of Extinction Rebellion, went on British television earlier this year to suggest that "there is a moral issue" with having too many children and that families should be limited to one child. Late last year, scientists at the U.K. Center for Ecology and Hydrology raised the alarm that human breathing is contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, urging "caution in the assumption that emissions from humans are negligible." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
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'Calling a man a man is not bullying': JK Rowling doubles down after media outcry over her saying trans soccer coach is a man
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'Calling a man a man is not bullying': JK Rowling doubles down after media outcry over her saying trans soccer coach is a man

Celebrated author of the Harry Potter series J.K. Rowling reiterated her stance after outcry over her remarks describing a man — who is identifying as a woman — as a man.Rowling has placed herself in the middle of a culture war in defense of women against transgender individuals, whom she has described as being "caricatures" of women.The author made comments in reference to an English women's soccer coach for Sutton United F.C., who goes by the name Lucy Clark.Clark is a former referee who has been seen wearing wigs but most recently was pictured with dyed pink hair.Rowling was responding to a since-deleted post from Pride UK that cited Clark as "the world's first openly transgender referee."Stating that he has "made history by becoming the first trans manager in the top 5 divisions of English women's football. The former referee has taken over at Sutton United. Fabulous!" it read, followed by gay and transgender pride flags."When I was young all the football managers were straight, white, middle-aged blokes, so it's fantastic to see how much things have changed," Rowling wrote in response."I didn't compare him to one. He IS one." When I was young all the football managers were straight, white, middle-aged blokes, so it's fantastic to see how much things have changed. — (@) Rowling doubled down the next day in response to an article from the Daily Mail who said that Rowling was accused of "cruelty" for mocking a "transgender football manager by comparing her to a 'straight, white, middle-aged bloke.'"In a bare-bones reply, Rowling noted that she wasn't saying he was like a man, but rather that Clark is a man."I didn't compare him to one. He IS one," she said on X. I didn\u2019t compare him to one. He IS one. — (@) The 58-year-old continued and responded to allegations that she was bullying the soccer coach."Calling a man a man is not 'bullying' or 'punching down.' Crossdressing straight men are currently one of the most pandered-to demographics in existence, and women are under no obligation to applaud the people caricaturing us."A writer for New York magazine named Jonathan Chait told Rowling to "just call people what they want to be called.""It's basic decency," he claimed."Stop telling women what they're allowed to say, Jonathan. It's basic decency," Rowling replied. Calling a man a man is not 'bullying' or 'punching down.' Crossdressing straight men are currently one of the most pandered-to demographics in existence, and women are under no obligation to applaud the people caricaturing us. — (@) @jonathanchait Stop telling women what they're allowed to say, Jonathan. It's basic decency. — (@) Clark spoke to outlet London Football Scene weeks earlier and said at the time that "there was never a transgender referee or manager before" him, "except for two small occasions," and added that the "footballing world" has been great to him since announcing that he believes he's a woman.Speaking on his appointment to Sutton's managerial role, he said that he "never wanted it to be about" himself and recognized that "it's not personal – it's hatred of the trans community as a whole," he justified. Shame on @prideukorg for using this photo of Lucy Clark which is causing so much ridicule. A quick search of the internet reveals how beautiful & natural she is when not posing for the camera. — (@) "Since when was expressing a biological fact mean or considered mocking? Where did all the 'follow the science' crowd go?" English commentator Lewis Brackpool asked.Brackpool, who grew up less than an hour from Sutton, told Blaze News that while he has "disagreements with Rowling politically," many on the right "can’t help but notice the vitriol against women for recognizing that cross dressers entering female spaces is not acceptable."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
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House Committee investigates surge of Chinese nationals illegally crossing border after Biden relaxes vetting: Report
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House Committee investigates surge of Chinese nationals illegally crossing border after Biden relaxes vetting: Report

The House Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability plans to investigate the surge of Chinese nationals illegally crossing the border after the Biden administration relaxed the vetting process, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.According to Customs and Border Protection reporting, in the first six months of fiscal year 2024, border agents nationwide encountered 42,000 Chinese nationals compared to 18,000 during the same period the previous fiscal year.The committee will hold a hearing on Thursday to discuss the approximately 8,000% increase in Chinese illegal immigration in the United States since March 2021, a spokesperson for the committee told the DCNF.'We have no idea who they are, why they're here, and what their history is.'U.S. Representative Dan Bishop (R-North Carolina), chair of the subcommittee, told the news outlet that a "wide-open border presents a ripe opportunity for the [Chinese Communist Party] to undermine our national security.""This dramatic surge calls for intense scrutiny — especially as Border Patrol agents have been instructed to decrease vetting for Chinese nationals in order to process them into the country faster," Bishop stated. "As the CCP continues its quest for geopolitical dominance and threatens our sovereignty, we must examine the risks presented by releasing ever-increasing numbers of minimally vetted Chinese nationals into our communities."Todd Bensman, a senior national fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, is one of three experts expected to testify during Thursday's hearing. Bensman told the DCNF, "Intelligence community assessments show that China intends to ramp up espionage and political suppression campaigns in the coming years inside the U.S. and will need an expanded labor force for the effort."The news outlet revealed earlier this year that the Biden administration had instructed CBP to significantly reduce the number of questions posed to Chinese nationals who had entered the country illegally since April 2023. The vetting process, which previously consisted of 40 questions, was reduced to five, effectively fast-tracking the illegal aliens' release into the interior of the country. According to the internal email obtained by the DCNF, the questions concerned "Military Service," "Universities," "POB/Region," "Employment," and "Political Party." Bensman told the DCNF that the administration's policies have "created pitch-perfect conditions" for "the infiltration of Chinese agents of espionage." During his testimony, Bensman is expected to share photographs of identification cards and passports abandoned by Chinese nationals before crossing the border illegally. Bill Wells, the mayor of El Cajon, California, recently shared a video on X showing hundreds of discarded and torn IDs found near the San Diego border. He noted that some of the IDs had been lit on fire. Why are illegal immigrants ripping up their IDs and passports when they enter America? They want to create a new identity so that Border Patrol has no idea who they are.\n\nI visited @thecorygoat house, who lives next to the border and has picked up hundreds of torn-up IDs around\u2026 — (@) "There's a reason for that — they don't want anyone to know who they are. They want to apply for asylum, get their court date for five years in the future, and disappear into the interior of the country," Wells told Blaze News. "We have no idea who they are, why they're here, and what their history is."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
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Asus’ ROG Ally X price has leaked, and we’re okay with it
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It looks as though the Asus ROG Ally X price has just been leaked, and if the figure is right, it's not as bad as we feared. In addition, the same leaker has also shared some other details about the forthcoming handheld, including the screen, SSD capacity, and CPU. As one of the best handheld gaming PCs, the ROG Ally was always going to make headlines when a new model was announced. Granted, Asus perhaps hoped for a stronger reaction to the ROG Ally X when it first unveiled the new device, but its reveal left much to be desired. Continue reading Asus’ ROG Ally X price has leaked, and we’re okay with it MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ review, Asus ROG Raikiri review, Best gaming motherboard
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