As the Moon wedges itself between Earth and Sun, temporarily dimming the day’s light over parts of our planet, three rockets will take to the skies to observe how those brief moments of darkness affect Earth’s upper atmosphere. Rebecca Hall on Filming Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire On April 8, NASA will launch three … Read more
Los Angeles Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard (2) goes up for a shot as Houston Rockets’ Cam Whitmore defends during the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Houston. The Clippers won 122-116. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) HOUSTON — Kawhi Leonard had 28 points, and Paul George and James Harden each scored … Read more
If you’ve been wondering when our military would start deploying artificial intelligence on the battlefield, the answer is that it appears to be already happening. The Pentagon has been using computer vision algorithms to help identify targets for airstrikes, according to a report from Bloomberg News. Just recently, those algorithms were used to help carry … Read more
Former Houston Rockets guard Robert Reid, an NBA star who spent 13 years in the league, died earlier this week following a battle with cancer. Reid was 68 years old … and had been battling an illness, according to the Houston Chronicle. The Rockets announced the sad news on Tuesday, writing, “The Fertitta Family and … Read more
Rocket Lab is exploring possible applications for a satellite constellation that they would build, launch and operate in-house, similar to SpaceX’s Starlink business, as a way of generating recurring revenue, an executive said this week. “If you look to where we ultimately want to go, in a lot of ways we want to emulate what … Read more
Mystical Power moved to Supreme Novices’ Hurdle favouritism with a dominant display in the SkyBet Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle at Punchestown. The Willie Mullins-trained five-year-old is impeccably bred as a son of Galileo out of the brilliant Champion Hurdle-winning mare Annie Power and could hardly have made a better start to his career for the … Read more
CAIRO (Reuters) – Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it hit a key Israeli observation post early on Saturday with 62 rockets as a “preliminary response” to the killing of Hamas’ deputy chief earlier this week. Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri was killed on Tuesday, Jan. 2 in an Israeli drone strike on Beirut’s southern suburb … Read more
The war in Gaza ground into the new year on Monday, with Hamas firing a barrage of rockets at Israel just as the clock struck midnight and two dozen people killed overnight in Israeli strikes on the Palestinian territory. Air alert sirens sounded across Israel as 2024 began, and AFP journalists in Tel Aviv witnessed … Read more
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Oct. 13, 2023. Chandan Khanna | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk’s SpaceX smashed its previous annual record for orbital rocket launches, pulling off 96 successful missions in 2023 at a blistering average launch pace … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Israeli strikes killed one of Tahani Abu Taima’s sons and one of her brothers, she says. But she fears a different killer is stalking what’s left of her family: disease. The World Health Organization warns that Gaza’s health-care system is “collapsing” and “worrying signals of … Read more