Chinese Mi-8 military helicopters and J-16 fighter jets over central Beijing, August 23, 2015. Associated Press Taiwan says China’s military conducted 555 sorties into its air-defense zone in the first half of 2022. Defense analysts say China’s forces are developing their ability to control the skies over longer range as part of preparations for a…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
The airline appeared to blame Heathrow for not preparing for summer flight demand. Getty images Emirates is refusing to limit ticket sales for flights out of London’s Heathrow airport. In a statement on Thursday, the airline called demands to limit passengers “unreasonable”. On Tuesday, Heathrow capped daily passenger numbers and asked airlines to reduce ticket…
Mohamed El-Erian YouTube / LinkedIn June’s hot CPI reading of 9.1% will force the Fed to respond aggressively, Mohamed El-Erian said in the Financial Times. According to the top economist, a 1-percentage-point rise could be on the table for this month’s meeting. “Have no doubt: the latest inflation numbers are indicative of rough seas ahead,”…
Astronomers discovered a strange and persistent radio signal named FRB 20191221A, on December 21, 2019. CHIME/MIT News Astronomers discovered a repeating fast radio burst that lasted 1,000 times longer than average bursts. Researchers hope by studying the burst they’ll be abe to pinpoint its origin. Hundreds of fast radio bursts have been detected since the…
Chinese Wikipedia had a robust collection of detailed and authoritative articles on medieval Russia, thanks to a user called Zhemao who claimed to be the daughter of a diplomat assigned in the country. Zhemao wrote 206 articles for the website since 2019, the longest of which, according to Vice World News, is almost as long…
Electric vehicle adoption has reached its tipping point in the US. With more and more EVs appearing on American roadways, automakers and charging networks alike are working to build out increasingly critical power infrastructure to keep those EVs moving. On Thursday, GM announced that it is partnering with Pilot Company and EVGo to construct a…
Twitter’s recent troubles include more than its battle with Elon Musk. The social media giant has suffered a global outage that started shortly after 8AM Eastern. Users reported a variety of glitches, including generic “error” messages and even broken website alerts. The issue affected both Twitter’s web version as well as apps, including third-party clients….
The new MacBook Air is one of Apple’s most important computers since Steve Jobs pulled the original Air out of an envelope. It shows what’s possible when Apple builds an ultraportable entirely around its mobile chips, instead of lazily sticking them in old laptop designs, like with the recent 13-inch MacBook Pro. The Air is…
The Twitter social network went down for a period on Thursday. Users reported that the service wouldn’t load in a web browser and the Down Detector website posted a massive spike in complaints. It’s not yet known why Twitter went down, but those already logged in got an error message when trying to load new…
From the moment Steve Jobs pulled the original MacBook Air from a manila envelope in 2008, the line has been used by Apple to showcase the next steps in the evolution of the Mac. It’s been an unpredictable ride for the MacBook Air since then. Some iterations have been overshadowed by the MacBook Pro, while…