The International Space Station is about to welcome four new visitors. SpaceX is set to launch the NASA Crew-4 mission early on Wednesday, US time. The launch comes on the heels of the Crew Dragon Axiom-1 mission‘s safe return. It’s the first fully private mission to the ISS. NASA will […]
Daily Archives: April 27, 2022
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Star Wars has been a bit of a mess since Disney got involved, but as far as I’m concerned, they can sweep that under the rug if this new Obi-Wan Kenobi show is good. Will it be good? Hard to say, but the first two episodes drop on May 27. […]
And Kounde could be one of the club’s top targets as they seek to replenish their back line. The returning loanee Levi Colwill – a 19-year-old who has starred for Huddersfield – could also be given a chance by Tuchel. Youngsters Trevoh Chalobah and Malang Sarr have done well but […]
The Shenzhen-based firm has announced it is temporarily halting operations in Russia and Ukraine, in a rare example of a Chinese firm suspending business in response to the war in Ukraine. The company said on Wednesday it would suspend its business in the two countries while “internally reassessing compliance requirements […]
Twitter was flooded with user reports of high-profile accounts’ losing thousands of followers in the hours after news broke that Tesla CEO Elon Musk would purchase the social network. The company said Tuesday that the “fluctuations in follower counts” came from “organic” account closures. Some accounts on the political right, […]
Chinese president Xi Jinping has called for an “all-out” campaign to build infrastructure, according to state media, marking the latest attempt by leaders to boost growth in the Covid-battered economy. Despite struggling to defeat the country’s worst outbreak in two years, the leadership is digging in its heels with a […]
Ronnie O’Sullivan built a commanding 11-5 lead over Stephen Maguire in their World Snooker Championship quarter-final at the Crucible. Resuming at 6-2 down from the morning session, the qualifier Maguire, himself twice a Crucible semi-finalist, took the opening two frames of the evening with successive half-century breaks to reduce the […]
DENVER – In spite of ever-expanding geospatial databases, certain objects like specific submarines are rarely spotted in satellite imagery. In those cases, synthetic imagery can help. “Subject matter experts to identify objects in scenarios are still very important,” Mark Munsell, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency deputy director of data and digital information, […]