The aging painter Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) of Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers is introduced recording cameos, donning a beret for the occasion and signing off each time by drawing his autograph in the air, as if signing a painting, a flourish that costs each Cameo customer an extra hundred quid. A work of art is worth more when signed by a famous artist, even if the...
ReOrbit, a Finnish startup focused on sovereign satellites, has raised a record €45 million (about US $53 million) Series A round of funding for a European space tech company. That’s another sign that European new space market is heating up, fueled by a geopolitical environment in which interdependence has become a concern. Founded in 2019 and based in Helsinki, ReOrbit...
Microsoft said Saturday that clients of its Azure cloud platform might experience increased latency after multiple undersea cables were cut in the Red Sea, as reported in Bloomberg. In a status update, the company said traffic going through the Middle East or ending in Asia or Europe had been affected. It did not say who had cut the cables or...
On Friday, a startup called Fable announced an ambitious, if head-scratching, plan to recreate the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles’ classic film “The Magnificent Ambersons.” Why is a startup that bills itself as the “Netflix of AI,” and that recently raised money from Amazon’s Alexa Fund, talking about remaking a movie that was first released in 1942? Well, the...
“Fire day! Fire day!” Roger chanted, the other kids joining in. Elo shrank in her seat. She’d already dreaded today’s assignment, and Roger had to make everything worse.“Stop that!” their teacher, Mrs Hernandez, snapped as she entered the room.“But it’s finally the end of the unit on 2036!” Roger bounced in excitement. His father was captain of the orbital, and...
Jemma Crew & Doug FaulknerBBC News'I'll never take the funicular again': Witness on moment of the crashPortugal is reeling after 16 people died and around 20 were injured when Lisbon's famous Glória funicular cable railway derailed on Wednesday evening.Five of those killed were Portuguese along with three Britons, two South Koreans, two Canadians, an American, a Ukrainian, a Swiss and...
PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- A boat operator was injured after his jet ski flipped and hit a wave in Prince George County on Saturday afternoon. According to the Prince George County Police Department, the incident occurred at about 1:05 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 6, at 101 Jordan Point Road. Officials said a personal watercraft operator was injured after...
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Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft picked up signs of a high magnetic field in lunar surface rocks. The moon itself has no inherent magnetism today. Now, MIT scientists may have solved the mystery. They propose that a combination of an ancient, weak magnetic field and a large,...
A new species of bacteria of the genus Bartonella has been found in the Amazon National Park in the state of Pará, Brazil, in phlebotomine insects, also known as sand flies. This type of insect is generally associated with transmitting leishmaniasis, but according to the researchers, the DNA of the newly discovered microorganism is similar to that of two other...
