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SpaceX and NASA have signed a new agreement to study the feasibility of sending a commercial crew in a SpaceX Dragon to boost the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope. If completed, the mission could extend the operational lifespan of the telescope by as much as 20 years. NASA officials cautioned that today’s news is…
Truepill, a platform that helps other companies offer diagnostics, telehealth services and prescriptions, has conducted its fourth layoff of the year. Sources say the layoff impacted around 65% of the existing staff across the engineering, human resources, design, IT and finance teams. The layoff comes around two months after its last round, which impacted about…
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, Andrew Kelly/Reuters Elon Musk’s relationship with Twitter’s CEO rapidly imploded ahead of Musk’s purchase, per texts. Jack Dorsey attempted to mend the relationship before Musk pulled out of the $44 billion deal. The text messages were revealed as a part of the discovery process in Musk’s court battle with Twitter. Recently released…
Raw image of Europa by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, on September 29, 2022. NASA / SwRI / MSSS NASA’s Juno probe zipped by Jupiter’s icy moon Europa on Thursday. Researchers observed Europa’s surface and the ocean underneath the moon’s icy crust. Astronomers say the new data will inform future missions to the moon to study its subsurface…
The Franklin Mountains loom over Fort Bliss, a vast military installation in the desert on the outskirts of El Paso. Not the road where the shooting occurred. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell’Orto) A jail warden and his twin brother have been charged with shooting two migrants, one fatally. The men were arrested Wednesday in Texas, The New…
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A YF-22 and a YF-23 in flight. US Air Force On September 29, 1990, the YF-22 demonstration aircraft took off for the first time. The YF-22 would become the F-22, a dominant air-superiority stealth fighter for nearly 30 years. Now the F-22’s future is in doubt, with Congress and the US Air Force at odds…
A little over six months after its big reveal, World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight expansion has been given a release date, with its launch now officially scheduled for 28th November this year. As detailed back in April, Dragonflight’s first major addition is a new location known as the Dragon Isles, the long-hidden ancestral home of dragonkind….