Three billionaire entrepreneurs – Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson – are each vying to usher in a new era of private commercial space travel. Here is how their rival ventures compare in the race to open up space travel. Tickets Bezos, Branson, and Musk have been investing billions of dollars in their space
Aerial view of The Pentagon in Langley, Virginia. Getty Images The Department of Defense announced Tuesday it’s calling off the $10 billion cloud contract that was the subject of a legal battle involving Amazon and Microsoft. The JEDI, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, deal has become one of the most tangled contracts for the Department
Boris Johnson is heading for a COVID showdown with MPs amid a backlash over a six-week wait for the ending of self-isolation rules. Conservative MPs and business leaders have reacted furiously after Health Secretary Sajid Javid said children and fully vaccinated adults will have to follow current self-isolation rules until 16 August. This means they
The commitment from Vauxhall’s owner Stellantis to build electric vehicles at its Ellesmere Port plant is a second jolt of good news in five days for a British car industry adjusting fast to the electric revolution. After Nissan revealed its plans for a new electric vehicle and a battery “gigafactory” at its Sunderland base last
Denmark’s performance at Euro 2020 may have been boosted in the wake of Christian Eriksen’s dramatic collapse on the pitch – and they could now be inspired to beat England in tonight’s semi-final clash, a top psychologist has said. Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest during the Danish team’s opening match of the tournament, with his
A grizzly bear killed a person in a remote campsite in Montana early on Tuesday morning, police have said. The animal is said to have previously wandered through the site before the attack, which happened between 4am and 5am. The people of the village of Ovando – home to fewer than 100 people – were
Ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, Simone Biles is starring in a seven-part docu-series on Facebook Watch, Simone vs Herself, about her journey preparing for the games. In the latest episode, “What More Can I Say,” Biles opens up about being a survivor of sexual abuse. Biles is one of many young women who suffered at
Amazon did not report viewership figures for their $200M Skydance acquisition title The Tomorrow War, but third-party streaming analytics corp Samba TV did, and the Chris Pratt movie drew 2.41M U.S. households during the 4-day holiday weekend. The previous 3-day weekend viewership for Amazon movies Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, another Skydance pick-up by the streamer, and
Just a few days prior, a group of young boys had a similar interaction with Sylvester Stallone. He also posted the sweet exchange on Instagram for his followers to witness. Stallone jokingly tried to convince the young boys into thinking he was Rocky’s twin. Of course, he couldn’t fool them. After joking around a bit,
Amid a state-wide energy disaster and a country-wide call for challenging Critical Race Theory — an academic framework examining the ways race has been embedded systemically throughout all aspects of American history — Texas’s Governor Abbott (R.) canceled a book event which explores the racial history of The Battle of the Alamo. The Bob Bullock
A team of astronomers has discovered a huge cloud of hot, faintly glowing gas in space that is bigger than the Milky Way galaxy. They said that the cosmic gas cloud, the first of its kind, may have stripped from a galaxy. What they found most surprising was that the cloud has remained clumped together
Shares in ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing crashed as much as 25% in pre-market trading on Tuesday, less than a week after the Chinese app listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s share price fell to $12.06 at 4:46 a.m. Tuesday in pre-market trading, down from $15.53 at the last market close. The fall
Those who have received two vaccination doses will no longer have to self-isolate if they come into contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 from 16 August. Making an announcement in the Commons on changes to the government’s self-isolation policy, newly appointed Health Secretary Sajid Javid also confirmed self-isolation rules for those aged
Vauxhall’s parent firm has revealed a new electric vehicle future for its Ellesmere Port plant, removing a years-long threat of closure from the factory. Stellantis confirmed on Tuesday that a government grant, coupled with a £100m investment of its own, would at least safeguard the 1,000 jobs left at the site. Ellesmere Port in Cheshire,
Six secondary school pupils and a teacher are among nine people arrested over an alleged bomb plot in Hong Kong. The pupils were trying to make an explosive called triacetone triperoxide (TATP) in a homemade laboratory in a hostel, police said. They allegedly planned to use the substance to bomb court rooms, cross-harbour tunnels and
Many of the 2,312 US military personnel who have been killed on duty in Afghanistan are buried in Arlington Cemetery, Virginia. Row upon row of white gravestones stretch into the distance, each of them representing a family ripped apart in a matter of seconds by events in a foreign land. But few have suffered a