SpinLaunch A START-UP called SpinLaunch in California wants to catapult cargo into space, avoiding the need for heavy and expensive rocket fuel. The concept relies on a centrifuge to spin a payload to high speeds, giving it enough momentum to penetrate the atmosphere. But whirling a payload around fast enough […]
Daily Archives: March 1, 2018
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It’s nice, but my AI doesn’t know what to make of it plainpicture/Blend Images/JGI/Tom Grill By Timothy Revell Can you guess what I’m looking at? Artificial intelligence can. A new system developed in Japan can describe a picture someone is viewing, using brain scans alone. Algorithms have recently become pretty […]
The 49-year-old leader of France’s far-right Front National has been charged over images she posted on the social media site showing gruesome atrocities allegedly carried out by the terror group. She faces facing charges of circulating “violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity”, and that […]
Thanos may be the main big baddie in Avengers Infinity War next month, but is it possible a previous Marvel villain thought dead could be about to make a big come back? The new movie may not be out until the end of April but a prelude comic has been […]
In December, Israeli jets destroyed a suspected Iranian missile base in the Syrian city of al-Qiswah – and the new silos are just a few miles away, slightly closer to Damascus, but otherwise identical. Iran has a huge armoury of ballistic missiles which includes the Shahab-1 – a variant of […]
Today Vladimir Putin announced Russia had developed a terrifying array of nuclear weapons that can reach anywhere in the world and are “invulnerable to enemy interception”. The announcement marks “a new arms race that will put us under the terror of a new Cold War” an expert has warned as […]
Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts,Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Philippe Auclair and Elis James, who have all made their way through the snow to discuss Max and Barry’s ridiculous 18-hour voyage from […]
Krim was the first witness at Ortega’s trial. Prosecutors said the nanny planned the Oct. 25, 2012, killing, waiting until she was alone in the apartment, selected two knives from the kitchen and then killed 2-year-old Leo and 6-year-old Lucia, who went by Lulu. Krim was at a swimming class […]