Congress has a handful of days to reach a deal before breaking for the election. Angela Lang/CNET The deadlock on Capitol Hill might soon come to an end. Or at least, a beginning of an end. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have agreed to restart formal […]
Daily Archives: September 24, 2020
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Amazon One of the most promising areas in gaming over the past year has been cloud gaming. Microsoft’s xCloud lets you play new Xbox games on your phone. Games released on Google Stadia can be played on any phone, laptop or computer. And now, Amazon wants in. On Thursday the […]
NEW YORK — Investors who profited from Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme even though they knew nothing of it must still pay back their profits, an appeals court decided Thursday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld lower-court decisions in cases filed by Irving Picard, a court-appointed […]
NASA NASA is hunting for the source of a leak on the International Space Station. The agency has tested most of the station but still hasn’t found the source. That means the leak is probably in one of the two sections crew members stayed while performing the tests. One of […]
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New Diamonds coach Stacey Marinkovich says being pregnant is not the same as being injured, which is why Gretel Bueta is in the Australian squad despite not playing this Super Netball season. Bueta (nee Tippett) is due to give birth in January but the rescheduling of the 2020 Constellation Cup […]
Startups around the world continue building synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites even as the COVID-19 pandemic delays some launches. Since Finland’s Iceye proved in early 2018 that a small satellite can gather radar data and imagery, SAR startups have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for constellations. San-Francisco-based Capella Space, […]
A new study may help explain why men, like this patient in an Italian intensive care unit, are more likely than women to develop life-threatening COVID-19. FLAVIO LO SCALZO/REUTERS/NEWSCOM By Meredith WadmanSep. 24, 2020 , 2:00 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. […]