Federal agents arrested Everitt Aaron Jameson, a 26-year-old Islam convert, in San Francisco, California. It is claimed Mr Jameson said “Christmas was the perfect day” for a terror attack in San Francisco and “did not need an escape plan because he was ready to die”. Officials said the suspect was […]
Daily Archives: December 23, 2017
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The Gwendoline Christie stormtrooper, who was chucked down a trash compactor at the end of Episode 7, made only a small appearance in The Last Jedi. Warning: spoilers ahead. Christie’s character appears for the first time very late in the film, when she meets and clashes with Finn (John Boyega). […]
Two days ago, SpaceX CEO and Tesla founder Elon Musk unveiled plans to launch his “midnight cherry Tesla Roadster” into space as part of the maiden voyage of the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket in January. The planned trajectory: a “billion year elliptic Mars orbit“. The soundtrack: David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.” On Friday, […]
Apple disclosed Wednesday that it updated the software of older iPhones to slow them down when the battery can’t keep up with the phone’s processor. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple’s controversial iPhone slowdown is drawing legal fire. A pending lawsuit against Apple says a software tweak that slows some older iPhones to […]
It’s from The Force Awakens, the 2015 movie that introduced a brand new generation of fans to the saga and revived interest amongst those who loved it in the 1970s. Ridley’s Rey has left the planet of Jakku for the first time and, upon landing on a new planet, is […]
Former NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless died in California on Thursday, the agency’s Johnson Space Centre has announced. No cause of death was given. Mr McCandless became the first astronaut to fly untethered in space while strapped into NASA’s Manned Manoeuvring Unit (MMU). Speaking of his famous spacewalk in 2015, he […]