TK Maloy

TK Maloy has been in the journalism/media profession for over 30 years, with a writing portfolio that includes coverage of Capitol Hill, Wall Street, Main Street, and the world, doing business, economic, political, and feature reporting, with specializations including corporate and high-tech topics.

Decisive Point invest in Asylon to increase production of security and defense drones

Venture capital firm Decisive Point announced Wednesday an investment in Asylon, Inc., a manufacturer of infrastructure and software for the deployment and operation of autonomous surveillance and defense systems.  Decisive Point is a venture capital firm focused on technology for government, public safety, and defense. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. Philadelphia based […]

Microsoft-HPE Spaceborne computer project among cargo delivered to ISS spacecraft

It’s been a busy week for NASA, with early Monday morning seeing the docking of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus N-G15 resupply mission spacecraft to the ISS, which includes thousands of pounds of food and science experiments, including a joint HPE/Microsoft collaboration to bring advanced computing power and AI to the station with the Spaceborne Computer-2. […]

NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover landed Thursday on Mars after traveling 293 million miles (472 million kilometers), and entering the Red Planet’s stratosphere at supersonic speed, only slowing in the final minutes of the 203-day journey. Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 3:55 p.m. EST […]

Happy Valentine’s Day: Love chemistry online

Courtship has taken many forms since the dawn of time; men showing hunting prowess, then the old standby, men and women who met outside the confines of the cave and discovered similar interest – running through the jungle, swimming in mountain streams and making plans to set out from their clan without the tribes permission. […]

Personal finance robots gain people’s trust, survey finds

Thus far, a cinematic horror-show of wealth-destroying, dysfunctional robots, is not quite a reality – or at least not yet.  It seems people, or rather banking service consumers, trust personal finance robots more than themselves to manage their money, according to a new study by Oracle and personal finance expert Faroosh Torabi, and host of the “So Money” podcast. The study of more than 9,000 consumers […]

Hello Pal platform hits monthly revenue records

Hello Pal International, Inc., announced on Tuesday growing revenues tipping the company as a viable new player in the international live stream, message, travel, and language app space.  The Hello Pal platform is a proprietary suite of mobile applications built on a user-friendly messaging interface that focus on social interaction, language learning and travel. The […]

Dem. Senator Amy Klobuchar introduces sweeping antitrust laws

U.S. Senator, Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), now the lead Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, introduced sweeping new legislation late last week “to reinvigorate America’s antitrust laws and restore competition to American markets,” a statement from her office said. The Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act will give federal […]

Number of EV charging stations set to skyrocket in next 7 years

The international market for Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations is forecast to undergo rapid expansion, according to a report released Tuesday by business survey company MarketsandMarkets. The study, “Electric Vehicle Charging Station Market” – by Level of Charging (Level 1, Level 2 & Level 3, By Charging Infrastructure (Normal Charge, Type-2, CCS, CHAdeMO and Tesla […]

U.S. Health & Human Services launches AI strategy

The U.S. Health and Human Services agency recently released a comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to increase use of this advanced technology in MedTech and related types of applications. “Together with its partners in academia, industry and government, HHS will leverage AI to solve previously unsolvable problems by continuing to lead advances in the health […]

Renewable energy surpasses fossil fuels in EU during 2020

Renewables overtook fossil fuels to become the European Union’s main source of electricity for the first time in 2020, according to a joint study done by British and German think tanks Ember and Agora Energiewende respectively, released this week. “Renewables rose to generate 38 percent of Europe’s electricity in 2020 (compared to 34.6 percent in […]