According to SpaceX, the BFR will generate 11.8 million pounds of thrust and be able to carry a 150-ton payload. That far surpasses any rocket now in production, outstripping even the promised capabilities of NASA’s enormous Space Launch System, or SLS. (The names of the two rockets speak volumes about […]
Daily Archives: February 9, 2018
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Tesla’s Model 3 production troubles are, at this point, well documented. While the carmaker’s CEO Elon Musk maintains that the ramp up is imminent, it would be easy to dismiss that as bravado for shareholder’s sake. On the Tesla Q4 earnings call on Wednesday, Musk mentioned that the first production […]
WASHINGTON — As the administration prepares to release a fiscal year 2019 budget proposal that may call for ending International Space Station operations in the mid-2020s, advocates for the station in Congress and industry are making the case for keeping the station operating well beyond that. The budget proposal, scheduled […]
Guedes broke on to the scene at Benfica in 2014 and was linked with moves to a host of European big boys off the back of a string of impressive performances. Last January PSG convinced the Portuguese giants to sell as they splashed out around £26m (€30m) to take him […]
After a slight delay, Apple’s HomePod is here. The Siri-touting speaker began arriving at customers’ homes and on store shelves on Friday. Now Playing: Watch this: Apple’s HomePod brings the bass, Siri voice control 2:36 Once you get home, you need to set up the speaker before it’s time to […]
Asteroid 2018 CB is estimated to be between 15 to 40m long and will fly close to Earth at 5.30pm EST (10.30pm GMT) on Friday. It will pass within 39,000 miles (63,000 km) of Earth, which is less than one-fifth of the distance of the moon. The giant rock was […]
Americans aren’t just abusing prescription opioid painkillers — they’re taking too much of the over-the-counter stuff as well. Nearly one in five users of popular headache remedies like Advil or Aleve admitted exceeding the recommended daily maximum dose during a one-week period, according to a new study led by a […]
With Alvaro Morata sidelined with a troubling back injury, Chelsea new boy Olivier Giroud could be the man to help the Blues bounce back from their shocking defeat to Watford. The Frenchman is set to get his home debut against West Brom on Monday evening and the FPL Scout is […]
A render of the Samsung Galaxy S9 connected to a new DeX dock, according to noted leaker Evan Blass. Evan Blass (@evleaks) Notice anything interesting about this alleged render of the Samsung Galaxy S9? No, I’m not talking about that weird block underneath the phone, or the return of the […]
Blockchain and cryptocurrency mania has engulfed the Internet in the past year. But could the digital ledger tech (and its offshoot applications) also help spur drug development, ensure genetic privacy, and make consumers some crypto-money on the side—all in one fell swoop? That’s the ambitious quest driving Nebula Genomics, a […]
One of the powers of Black Panther, Marvel’s latest big-screen superhero, is his suit’s ability to soak up the punishment from any attack — and then fire it right back at the attacker. That’s a nifty metaphor for this absolute riot of a superhero movie: a righteous riposte to centuries […]
Way way back in 2010, the automotive press got itself all in a tizzy because a very wealthy German man commissioned from Pininfarina a one-off modern take on Lancia’s mighty and very, very sexy Stratos. The famed Italian design house took a perfectly good Ferrari F430, lopped a bunch of […]
Herrera joined Manchester United from Athletic Bilbao in 2014 for £28m and has gone on to make 151 appearances for the club, scoring 16 goals. Originally, Herrera was used as United’s midfield enforcer by Jose Mourinho upon the manager’s arrival in 2016. However the Spaniard has since fallen behind summer […]
Why, in the dead of winter, two months before the traditional start of Afghanistan’s fighting season, has the country been rocked by four attacks that killed more than 150 people? The trigger was not a change in the Taliban’s fighting calendar, analysts say, nor was it necessarily evidence of intensified […]
Concussion in sport After a long rugby league career I wasn’t getting out without a scratch. But the news shocked me Fri 9 Feb 2018 21.00 GMT Ian Roberts: ‘A mix of shock and fear hits you all at once. It’s almost a form of grief – for yourself.’ Photograph: Joel […]
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Planet and Spire, operators of the two largest commercial cubesat constellations in orbit, say they manage their fleets to prevent retired spacecraft from lingering in space beyond internationally accepted guidelines. Speaking at the SmallSat Symposium here Feb. 7, officials from Planet and Spire said the companies […]
Get the Think newsletter. SUBSCRIBE When Netflix announced they had signed a multi-year deal with Shonda Rimes in the summer of 2017, critics overreacted as if this was the end of her deal with ABC. Last month, Rimes declared that nothing could be further from the truth. At the Television […]
For all their official hostility toward each other, Iran and the United States now have at least one thing in common. Each is home to a campaign by Muslim women demanding the freedom to wear the clothes of their choice. In Iran, the campaign started in December when dozens of […]
A California lawmaker announced on Friday that she will place herself on unpaid leave while accusations of sexual misconduct against her are investigated. California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, a Democrat, came to national prominence as an advocate for the #MeToo movement, and appeared on Time magazine’s December cover of its Persons […]