Month: July 2024
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets are grounded after an in-flight failure
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket experienced an engine failure after it launched late Thursday night from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission, Starlink Group 9-3, was carrying Starlink satellites and failed to reignite its upper second stage after developing a leak. “Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted…
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Samsung’s plan for your health is big, bold, and AI-powered to help you help yourself
As Samsung’s first Galaxy Ring and Galaxy Watch Ultra launched in Paris at Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung’s health plans are coming into sharp focus. They are best described as ambitious and based on the realities of our changing global demographics, the limits of what people will use, and the current state…
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Drone photographer pleads guilty to Espionage Act charges
A foreign graduate student has pleaded guilty to crimes under the Espionage Act for photographing classified US Navy ships with a drone. The case appears to be a first-of-its kind prosecution by the Department of Justice. Fengyun Shi, a Chinese citizen and graduate student at the University of Minnesota, was…
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Prime Video movie of the day: Bram Stoker’s Dracula is campy, vampy and pretty damn sexy
Vampires are sexy, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula knows it. With Francis Ford Coppola at the helm and a cast including Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves and Gary Oldman, it’s a lavish, stunning and highly erotic horror movie that’s so tense it’s almost unbearable. It’s grand. It’s operatic. It’s wildly over the…
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Apple Pay is convenient and brings out the worst in me
A few days ago, I misplaced my wallet. I remember having it on Sunday, the night of my friend’s birthday dinner, because I was the one to put my card down. Maybe I had it on Monday. I didn’t spend any money then aside from a Lyft ride home, which…
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A new spacesuit design can recycle astronauts’ urine into purified, drinkable water
The life of an astronaut may sound like a glamorous career but it requires a lot of hard work and sacrifice. They have to spend weeks or even months at a time away from Earth, their loved ones and the warm embrace of gravity. They have to endure an endless…
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