An uncrewed SpaceX Starship prototype rocket failed to land safely on Tuesday after a test launch from Boca Chica, Texas, and engineers were investigating, SpaceX said. “We do appear to have lost all the data from the vehicle,” SpaceX engineer John Insprucker said in a webcast video of the rocket’s flight test. “We’re going to
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In this article AMZN MSFT Soldiers wearing the IVAS system, a modified version of the HoloLens 2. US Army The Pentagon announced that Microsoft has won a contract to build more than 120,000 custom HoloLens augmented-reality headsets for the U.S. Army. The contract could be worth up to $21.88 billion over 10 years, a Microsoft
An immediate review of safeguarding policies in schools has been launched after more than 10,000 reports were posted on a website for students to share experiences of sexual harassment and abuse. The government has asked Ofsted to look at the extent and the severity of the issue and ensure both state and independent schools have
The crash in shares of Deliveroo this morning is an event with massive implications for both investors and for future investment. This was the biggest flotation on the London Stock Exchange since the IPO of Glencore, the mining and commodity trading firm, in May 2011. There are an eerie number of similarities between the two
France will widen strict lockdown restrictions – which have already been in place in several areas including Paris – to the whole country to combat a third wave of coronavirus sweeping Europe. In a televised address to the nation, President Emmanuel Macron said the measures will come into effect on Saturday and be in place
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is safe and 100% effective in children as young as 12, its manufacturers have said. The two firms have carried out vaccine trials in the US on 12 to 15-year-olds, which they say were successful. A spokesperson said they will ask the US regulator to approve emergency authorisation of the jab
The legal drama between Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell has grown thicker. The grunge legends have now filed legal papers demanding Cornell relinquish the band’s social media passwords. It’s only the latest incident in an ongoing feud between Soundgarden and the widow of late singer Chris Cornell. The band recently accused Vicky of hijacking its legacy
KSHMR recently took over r/EDM for an exclusive Reddit AMA, on the heels of his first album release. The producer added his own personal touch to the experience by uploading video responses in addition to the transcribed answers. Following the release of his impressive debut Harmonica Andromeda, KSHMR discussed inspirations and influences on the album, as well
A college science professor and an aerospace data analyst were named on Tuesday to round out a four-member crew for a SpaceX launch into orbit planned later this year billed as the first all-civilian spaceflight in history. The two latest citizen astronauts were introduced at a news briefing livestreamed from the Kennedy Space Center in
In this article SPOT TWTR FB MSFT People walk by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the morning that the music streaming service Spotify begins trading shares at the NYSE on April 3, 2018 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Spotify is moving into live audio. The company said Tuesday it
The UK is “100% confident in the efficacy” of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, after Germany suspended its use in the under-60s over concerns about rare blood clots. “It is a safe vaccine and the UK’s vaccine rollout is saving people’s lives right across the country every day,” Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick told Sky News. Live
The heads of all three branches of Brazil’s armed forces have resigned in another blow to President Jair Bolsonaro’s leadership. The shock departure of the country’s three top military commanders comes after the president carried out a cabinet reshuffle which included the replacement of defence minister Fernando Azevedo e Silva, who said in his resignation
Shares in Deliveroo have slumped by as much as 30% as the takeaway delivery company made its highly-anticipated stock market debut. The flop wiped more than £2bn off the company’s initial £7.6bn valuation – just over a week after it was estimated at up to £8.8bn. Some of the City’s biggest institutional investors had shunned
Police officer Derek Chauvin gave onlookers a “cold” and “heartless” stare as they pleaded with him to take his knee off George Floyd’s neck, a witness has said. The 18-year-old witness, who the court asked to be identified only by her first name Darnella, filmed the arrest that ended with Mr Floyd’s death in May
Britney Spears says the latest documentary about her life is super embarrassing and it’s got her in tears. The singer broke her silence on the ‘Framing Britney Spears’ doc Tuesday, saying she was “embarrassed by the light they put me in.” Britney says she didn’t watch the entire documentary, but she really didn’t like the
Honoring the finest works of translated fiction from around the world, the International Booker Prize has announced its 2021 longlist. The prize is awarded every year to a single book translated into English and published in the UK and Ireland. It aims to encourage more publishing and reading of international fiction from all over the
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