After Rishi Sunak’s troubled start to his election campaign, he must have viewed his itinerary on Friday with trepidation. The prime minister’s visit to Belfast’s Titanic Quarter led to inevitable questions about whether he was at the helm of a sinking ship. Some 48 hours after he announced a July 4 general election in a
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Fiery news — Rocket Report: SpaceX focused on Starship reentry; Firefly may be for sale “Teams are in the process of completing a follow-on propulsion system assessment.” Eric Berger – May 24, 2024 12:00 pm UTC Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches the NROL-146 mission from California this week. SpaceX reader comments 9 Welcome
A brilliant debut — Daily Telescope: The initial results from Europes Euclid telescope are dazzling “Euclids instruments can detect objects just a few times the mass of Jupiter.” Eric Berger – May 24, 2024 12:00 pm UTC Enlarge / Messier 78 is a nursery of star formation enveloped in a shroud of interstellar dust.ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA
On Capitol Hill, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is moving ahead with a plan to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress. Johnson is urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to sign on to the invitation despite strong pushback from many Democrats. This comes just days after the chief
The nation’s political eyes this weekend will be affixed on a spectacle that rarely attracts significant attention: the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C. But instead of coming to watch presidential candidates such as Lars Mapstead, Michael Rectenwald, Chase Oliver, and Mike ter Maat duke it out for the Libertarian Party (L.P.) nomination, journalists will
Co-planar — US officials: A Russian rocket launch last week likely deployed a space weapon “Naming space as a warfighting domain was kind of forbidden, but that’s changed.” Stephen Clark – May 23, 2024 11:08 pm UTC Enlarge / A Russian Soyuz rocket climbs away from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on May 16. reader comments 100
DISORDER IN THE COURT — Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world It’s unclear how the malicious version of JAVS Viewer came to be. Dan Goodin – May 23, 2024 10:46 pm UTC EnlargeJAVS reader comments 15 A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application
Car Thing becoming nothing — Unacceptable: Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds Spotify stopped making Car Things in July 2022 but kept selling them. Scharon Harding – May 23, 2024 8:32 pm UTC EnlargeSpotify reader comments 157 Owners of Spotify’s soon-to-be-bricked Car Thing device are begging the company to open-source the gadgets
Searching for new search — Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has Opinion: Actively searching without Google or Bing is harder than it looks. Kevin Purdy – May 23, 2024 8:01 pm UTC EnlargeGetty Images reader comments 93 Bing, Microsoft’s search engine platform, went down in the very early morning today.
Check your sources — Googles AI Overview can give false, misleading, and dangerous answers From glue-on-pizza recipes to recommending “blinker fluid,” Google’s AI sourcing needs work. Kyle Orland – May 24, 2024 11:00 am UTC Enlarge / This is fine.Getty Images reader comments 0 Further ReadingGoogle is reimagining search in the Gemini era with AI
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The last time filmmaker George Miller dipped into the Mad Max universe, in 2015, he gave us Fury Road , a roaring, rumbling, rowdy epic of vehicular mayhem that wasn’t just the best action movie of the 2010s but the best movie of that decade, period. Yes, there are other contenders, but no other picture
For half a century, critics have argued that marijuana does not belong in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a category that is supposedly reserved for drugs with a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical applications that cannot be used safely even under a doctor’s supervision. Last week, the U.S. Department of
A set of new tariffs proposed by former President Donald Trump would cost the average American family an estimated $1,700 annuallyand lower-income households would be hit relatively harder, a new analysis warns. Trump has called for a 10 percent across-the-board tariff on all imports combined with higher tariffs (potentially as high as 60 percent, he’s
The Financial Transaction Services industry is likely to be aided by the widespread adoption of digital means. To capitalize on the trend, the industry players remain equipped with efficient digital solutions suite built on collaborations and technology investments. Consumer spending habits remain favorable, which may boost transaction volumes. An uptick in cross-border volumes results from
Loading… Loading… In the latest market close, Upwork UPWK reached $11.37, with a +1.25% movement compared to the previous day. The stock exceeded the S&P 500, which registered a gain of 1.2% for the day. Meanwhile, the Dow gained 0.69%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, added 1.59%. Shares of the online freelance marketplace operator
Loading… Loading… Coinbase Global COIN is set to report first-quarter 2024 earnings on May 2, after market close. The company delivered an earnings surprise in each of the last four reported quarters. Let's discuss the factors that are likely to be reflected in the upcoming quarterly results. Trading volumes in the first quarter are likely
Loading… Loading… In a surprising turn of events, venture capital firm General Catalyst, an early investor of companies like Snap Inc., Stripe and Mistral, is on the brink of raising nearly $6 billion for tech start-up investments, despite the current fundraising drought in the sector. What Happened: General Catalyst could finalize its latest fund as
Waymo vs. Tesla — On self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers We’ll know Tesla is serious about robotaxis when it starts hiring remote operators. Timothy B. Lee – May 22, 2024 11:00 am UTC Enlarge / A Waymo autonomous taxi in San Francisco.David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 365 Tesla
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