The 19-time Grand Slam champion needs to win the Swiss Indoors this week to keep his chances alive of catching Rafael Nadal at the top of the rankings. But for large periods of his quarter-final clash against Adrian Mannarino, Federer was staring down the barrel. Mannarino won the opening set […]
Daily Archives: October 27, 2017
Did we get a visit from an interstellar object? Scientists believe it’s very likely. ESA/ATG medialab All the asteroids and comets astronomers have ever spotted in our celestial neighborhood appear to come from somewhere else in the solar system and orbit the sun, just like Earth. That is, until […]
Ms Sturgeon outlined her support for the Scottish government’s response and called for dialogue rather than criticism. The leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Ms Sturgeon tweeted the Scottish Government’s response to the result after the Catalan parliament voted for independence today. She posted: “We respect position, the people […]
After two years of crowdfunding and development, the Friday Labs Smart Lock is here. This $249 smart lock claims to be the world’s smallest retrofit lock, and it’s definitely easy on the eyes. I can’t recommend you rush out and buy it just yet though, as it’s still got some […]
The social media site Twitter announced today that it will roll out new policies relating to violent groups, hateful imagery and hate symbols. Now Playing: Watch this: Twitter now has a calendar for tackling abuse and trolls This is all part of the company’s ongoing efforts to improve user safety […]
Spread out over unfathomable distances, this cold, diffuse gas between galaxies — called the intergalactic medium, or IGM for short — hardly emits any light, making it difficult to study.
New research findings offer a promising target for future therapies that could potentially root out even the well-hidden metastatic lesions that make pancreatic cancer so deadly.
ROCKSTAR GAMES GTA 5 Online Halloween event brings new Condemned mode GTA 5 Online fans from today are able to take part in a Halloween event which brings with it the brand new Condemned mode and a $400k money reward. The new event is being held to mark the fourth […]
View photos FILE – This Monday, Oct. 23, 2017 file photo show fall colors beginning to show along Route 209 in Reilly Township, Schuylkill County, Pa. Across the United States, 2017’s first freeze has been arriving further and further into the calendar, according to more than a century of measurements […]
North Korea has repeatedly threatened the West in recent months but the USA today hit back in an extraordinary outburst. The threat was issued by US defence chief James Mattis after a visit to the demilitarised zone (DMZ) on the Korean border. He said North Korea could not be allowed […]
WASHINGTON — British satellite operator Inmarsat will launch its next Global Xpress satellite on an Ariane 5 rocket from Arianespace, the companies announced today. The mission, slated for the second half of 2019, follows four other Global Xpress satellites, the first three of which launched on International Launch Services Proton […]
Two American sailors who were rescued this week after five months lost at sea had with them a year’s worth of food, a water purifier and, according to experts, a lot of luck. “There’s a lot of details that we don’t know, but the first thought that came to my […]
Two American sailors who were rescued this week after five months lost at sea had with them a year’s worth of food, a water purifier and, according to experts, a lot of luck. “There’s a lot of details that we don’t know, but the first thought that came to my […]
Is THIS what he was showing her in the latest trailers? Everyone knows by now that Luke no longer believes in the Jedi ways. However, that clearly does not mean he no longer uses the Force, in fact it is looking increasingly likely that he has found even more powerful […]
President Trump has blamed Obama for not doing enough to stop North Korea’s nuclear advances. But aside from Trump’s bellicose tweets, his approach to one of its biggest foreign policy challenges has so far resembled his predecessor’s. As the president prepares for a trip to Asia in early November, his […]
James Martin/CNET Can’t stand the thought of spending $1,000 to get an iPhone X? You may not have to. Two carriers are offering Apple‘s new phone — which went on sale today — at a discount when you trade in your old phone. Let’s take a look at these two […]
WASHINGTON — Tom Choi is leaving his position as CEO of ABS, a satellite fleet operator he co-founded in 2005. In a post to the professional networking website LinkedIn, Choi said he will continue on the Bermuda-based company’s board of directors, but will transition out of his current role. ‘[T]he […]
Astronomers may have spotted our first visitor from outside the bounds of our solar system: a hunk of ice called A/2017 U1 that a Hawaiian telescope identified on October 19. It’s already headed back out away from Earth, and while scientists can study it for another few weeks, they say that […]
Five years after Superstorm Sandy was supposed to have taught the U.S. a lesson about the dangers of living along the coast, disaster planning experts say there is no place in America truly prepared for climate change and the tempests it could bring. That is true even in New York […]
WASHINGTON — An Earth science mission launched more than 15 years ago has finally come to an end, slightly earlier than previously expected, NASA announced Oct. 27. In a statement, NASA said the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission, carried out in cooperation with the German space agency DLR, […]