The European Union’s top negotiator Michel Barnier has refused to budge over his insistence Britain must first pay its Brexit divorce bill before trade deals can be discussed. Saying “sufficient progress” still needed to be made, he also threatened to delay trade talks unless a deal can be achieved over cities’ […]
Daily Archives: August 30, 2017
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WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin Strategic and Missile Defense Systems will not protest the U.S. Air Force’s decision to move ahead with teams led by Boeing and Northrop Grumman for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program to replace Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). The Air Force on Aug. 21 awarded […]
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) carried out a successful captive carry test Aug. 30 of its Dream Chaser vehicle, a key step towards a glide flight of the lifting body spacecraft later this year. The Dream Chaser engineering test article, slung underneath a civilian variant […]
Ivanka, 35, was pictured walking across the South Lawn before departing the White House to make her way to Missouri to join Donald Trump. Despite the bright sunshine and obvious heat, Ivanka chose to wear a thick linen dress. The dress, which came to her knees, was sleeveless, but otherwise […]
Not the ideal time for an AI to make a mistakeBloomberg/Getty By Matt Reynolds Artificial intelligence needs our help. The best AIs are quickly mastering skills from lip-reading to video games, but only by learning through repeated failure. As robots take on riskier domains, like healthcare and driving, this is […]
Donald Trump criticised Pakistan for allegedly harbouring “agents of chaos” and providing safe havens to militant groups waging an insurgency against the US-backed government in Kabul. And he said the situation “must change immediately” as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned reporters that Washington would consider cutting aid to […]
A new study pinpoints the location of a nova first spotted by Korean astrologers almost 600 years ago that now undergoes smaller-scale ‘dwarf nova’ eruptions. The work supports that idea that novae go through a very long-term life cycle after erupting, fading to obscurity for thousands of years, and then […]
Japanese neurosurgeons report two new strategies to improve outcomes of iPS cell-based therapies for Parkinson’s disease in monkey brains. The findings are a key step for patient recruitment of the first iPS cell-based therapy to treat neurodegenerative diseases.