Twitter became less useful on Thursday after New York City’s transit operator said it would stop tweeting about service outages because “the reliability of the platform can no longer be guaranteed.” It’s the latest in a growing number of government agencies ditching Elon Musk’s social network.
Anheuser-Busch operates a brewery and a can and bottle factory in Florida that received millions from the state, but DeSantis has done nothing to punish it.
After being convicted of wire fraud for her dealings with her failed blood startup Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes has white-knuckled herself to freedom for just a little bit longer. A last minute legal filing on Tuesday has delayed her 11-year prison sentence, which was expected to begin today.
Cara Delevigne is joining the next American Horror Story. There’s more Batman: The Caped Crusader coming to Amazon. Plus, what’s coming on Gotham Knights and Superman & Lois. Spoilers now!
Meta’s latest quarterly earnings report is hung up on the “efficiency” buzzword. In his call with investors on Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked up “efficiency work,” more than once, all while sprinkling in talk of “monetization efficiency” and “organizational efficiency.”
There’s always time for more TV, and new data published by Bloomberg earlier this week revealed that we watched a lot of it. A new report helps characterize the blackbox that is streaming shows to audiences—which is especially important in a world where Netflix has a reputation for cancelling your favorite show (I’m…
Russia has formally agreed to remain aboard the International Space Station (ISS) until 2028, NASA has announced. Yuri Borisov, the Director General of Roscosmos, previously said that the country was pulling out of the ISS after 2024 so it can focus on building its own space station. “After 2024” is pretty vague, though, and even Roscosmos official Sergei Krikalev said it could mean 2025, 2028 or 2030. Now, we have a more solid idea of until when Russia intends to remain a partner. To note, the United States, Japan, Canada and the participating countries of the ESA (European Space Agency) have previously agreed to keep the ISS running until 2030.
After the United States and other countries imposed sanctions on Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, former Roscosmos director Dmitry Rogozin spoke up and threatened to stop working with his agency’s western counterparts. “I believe that the restoration of normal relations between the partners at the International Space Station and other projects is possible only with full and unconditional removal of illegal sanctions,” Rogozin said at the time.
While Roscosmos has now agreed to continue cooperating with its fellow ISS partners, the increasing tension between Russia and the US even before the invasion of Ukraine began prompted NASA to prepare for the possibility of the former leaving the space station. NASA and the White House reportedly drew plans to pull astronauts out of the station if Russia leaves abruptly, as well as to keep the ISS running without the Russian thrusters keeping the flying lab in orbit.
Private space companies had reportedly been called in to help out, and a previous report said Boeing already formed a team of engineers to figure out how to control the ISS without Russia’s thrusters. It’s unclear if the remaining ISS partners will use any of those contingencies after 2028 and if a private space corp will step in to keep the space station running. It’s worth noting, however, that NASA and other space agencies are already preparing to leave Low Earth Orbit to explore the moon.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/russia-will-continue-supporting-the-international-space-station-until-2028-121505126.html?src=rss
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Meta’s latest quarterly earnings report is hung up on the “efficiency” buzzword. In his call with investors on Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked up “efficiency work,” more than once, all while sprinkling in talk of “monetization efficiency” and “organizational efficiency.”
If Disney had to make an animated movie that obliquely celebrated the studio’s 100-year anniversary, it could have done far, far worse than an origin story of sorts for the stars that so many Disney characters have wished upon for the last century. And, according to this first trailer, that’s exactly what Wish is—a…
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