NASA will launch a mission this November to strike an asteroid that may pose a threat to Earth. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will be launched in order to prevent a hazardous asteroid from striking Earth. The mission is set to launch at 10:20pm PST, November 23 (10:50am IST on the following day).
Philippe Laffont, founder and chief investment officer of Coatue Management LLC. Chris Goddney | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — U.S. hedge fund Coatue Management is planning to set up a new office in Europe as part of an effort to capitalize on the continent’s growing tech industry. The news was first reported by Bloomberg
Boris Johnson will close his party’s conference in a rousing finale in which he will accuse his Tory predecessors of “drift and dither” and lacking the guts to tackle big problems. Bringing the conference to a barnstorming climax with his speech to the adoring Tory faithful on Wednesday, he will a promise a “long overdue”
The UK’s largest retailer has reported a doubling of first-half profits and raised its full-year outlook – shrugging off the challenges posed by supply chain disruption in the industry. Tesco said it had grown sales during the first six months of its financial year and weathered headwinds including “high” levels of enforced COVID-19 isolation among
Taiwan’s defence minister has warned that China will be capable of mounting a “full-scale” invasion of the island by 2025. Chiu Kuo-cheng said on Wednesday that the relationship between the two countries is the worst it has been in more than four decades. Mr Chiu said there was the risk of a “misfire” across the
Facebook’s chief executive has denied claims that the company prioritises profit over the safety of its users. Mark Zuckerberg was responding to Frances Haugen’s claims that, left alone, Facebook would “continue to make choices that go against the common good – our common good”. Ms Haugen – a former product manager at the tech giant
Chris Brown and Drake straight-up jacked another artist’s work for their hit track “No Guidance” … so claim a singer and producer in a new lawsuit. Brandon Cooper, who goes by the stage name Mr. Cooper, and Timothy Valentine — aka Drum’n Skillz — are suing CB and Drake claiming “No Guidance” ripped off their
News Tainy and Bad Bunny Share Video for New Song With Julieta Venegas: Watch It’s the first single from Tainy’s forthcoming debut studio album Data By Matthew Ismael Ruiz October 5, 2021 Facebook Twitter Bad Bunny (Photo by Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)/Tainy (Photo by Alexander Tamargo/Telemundo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) Facebook
A Russian crew of two cosmonauts, a movie director, and an actress blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday to shoot the first movie in space, the latest twist in decades of Russia-US space rivalry. The Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft is set to dock at 12:12 GMT (5:42pm IST) at the station, which orbits
Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Facebook, arrives to testify during the House Financial Services hearing on An Examination of Facebook and Its Impact on the Financial Services and Housing Sectors on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images As senators absorbed Tuesday’s testimony from the Facebook
Boris Johnson has said he cannot guarantee that targets to improve rape prosecution and conviction rates set out in the government’s Rape Review will be met. Plans set out in the report, which was commissioned in 2019 and published in June of this year, said the volume of rape cases going to court should return
Hundreds of healthy pigs have been culled after a nationwide shortage of abattoir workers left farms overcrowded with animals that could not be sent for slaughter. The National Pig Association (NPA) said at least 600 swine had been killed – and fears that the bottleneck in the meat processing industry could see as many as
The Catholic Church in France showed complete and sometimes cruel indifference to people who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of clergy for decades, a commission investigating the abuse has found. The investigation found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of abuse between 1950 and 2020. The report said an estimated 3,000 child abusers
Facebook’s products “harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy”, a whistleblower has claimed. Frances Haugen – who used to work as a product manager at the tech giant – has given damning evidence to US politicians in the Senate, days after leaking internal documents to the Wall Street Journal. She warned: “Left alone, Facebook
Another day, another Trumpworld memoir. The latest damning dispatch from the Trump Administration comes courtesy of Stephanie Grisham, who served various roles in the White House throughout a four-year period: communications director and press secretary in the West Wing, as well as communications director and chief of staff in Melania Trump’s East Wing. In I’ll
Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for The Many Saints of Newark. The Many Saints of Newark is the latest movie in a string of many to continue a TV series in film format. And just like Deadwood: The Movie and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie before it, there isn’t much fanfare amongst general audiences, but it’s instantly