SAN FRANCISCO – EOS Data Analytics is acquiring imagery from the first satellite in the Silicon Valley company’s agriculture-focused constellation. The satellite, built by Dragonfly Aerospace of South Africa, also served as the first on-orbit propulsion demonstration by Ukrainian startup Space Electric Thruster Systems. EOSDA, Dragonfly and Space Electric Thruster Systems (SETS) are part of the Noosphere space group, established in 2015 by international entrepreneur Max Polyakov to create an integrated space business. Another Noosphere Ventures company, Flight Control Propulsion, oversaw 3D printing of components and the satellite structure for EOS Sat-1. “This is truly an international effort by private…
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Former NBCUniversal executive Joe Benarroch will join Twitter on Monday, in a role focusing on business operations, he told Reuters.Benarroch said in an email that he was looking forward to working with the company’s team to “build Twitter 2.0 together.””Welcome to the flock, @benarroch_joe! From one bird to the next,” tweeted incoming Twitter Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino, who was appointed in May. She did not mention the position Benarroch will be taking.Welcome to the flock, @benarroch_joe! From one bird to the next.Let’s get to work @Twitter! #timetofly— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayacc) June 4, 2023At Comcast’s NBCUniversal, Benarroch oversaw communication strategy for…
Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump visits the driving range, meets fans and watches Round 2 of LIV Golf Washington DC 2023 at Trump National Golf Club Washington DC in Sterling, Virginia, United States on May 27, 2023. Kyle Mazza | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesLawyers for Donald Trump met Monday morning with special counsel Jack Smith and other Department of Justice officials, a day after the former president complained about speculation that Smith is moving closer to seeking an indictment of him.NBC News confirmed Trump lawyers on Monday met with those officials at the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., after…
Nicki Minaj (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)NewsNicki Minaj Says Her New Album Is Out in OctoberThe follow-up to Queen has a set dateBy Evan MinskerJune 5, 2023FacebookTwitterFacebookTwitterNicki Minaj has announced that her new album will arrive on October 20. No further information was shared, but for the first time in the five years since 2018’s Queen was released, Minaj’s next album has a set date.The new album arrives after the official streaming release of her 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty in 2021. It included a new song called “Seeing Green” with Drake and Lil Wayne. Minaj earned her first-ever No. 1 single…
In this articleAAPLFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTApple Park is seen ahead of the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino, California, on June 5, 2023.Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty ImagesOn Monday during Apple’s annual developer’s conference, WWDC, the company subtly touted just how much work it’s doing in state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and machine learning.As Microsoft, Google, and startups like OpenAI embraced cutting-edge machine learning technologies like chatbots and generative AI, Apple appeared to be sitting on the sidelines.related investing newsApple’s new mixed-reality headset only bolsters our confidence in the tech giant Kevin StankiewiczZev Fima2 hours agoApple hits all-time high…
Left: Dress, earrings, necklace, $2,150, sandals, $790, Dior. Right: Jumpsuit, $4,100, earrings, necklace, $2,150, ring, $530, sandals, Dior.Dolly DeviWhere you might see stitches, Maria Grazia Chiuri sees a language. Specifically, “a language of women.” The painstaking work that they have been doing in domestic spaces, without fanfare or recognition, is like an oral history handed down via needle and thread. “In fashion, we were more focused on the volume, the shape, the cut,” she says. Meanwhile, craft “was not so much celebrated. There was an idea that it was only decoration, that it was not language.” Dress, earrings, necklace, $2,150,…
Tragic news out of the reality TV world today as it has been revealed that Bling Empire scene stealer Anna Shay has died. Shay was 62. According to a statement shared with various media outlets Monday afternoon, Shay passed away from a stroke. “It saddens our hearts to announce that Anna Shay, a loving mother, grandmother, charismatic star, and our brightest ray of sunshine, has passed away at the early age of 62 from a stroke,” the statement reads. “Anna taught us many life lessons on how not to take life too seriously and to enjoy the finer things.” “Her…
In school, my favorite books were either banned or censored from my school and public libraries. Books like Stephen Bantu Biko’s I Write What I Like, Mark Mathabane’s Kaffir Boy, and George Jackson’s Soledad Brother. I learned something blandly boring and yet extraordinarily potent in those books: Black folks’ tall and full humanity could be captured on the page. Like a 3-D photograph. What a dangerous idea. And as revolutionary as those books were, it took me entering woman-country to see their own form of conformity, their pattern of patriarchal blindness. They were all books by men. All men. Always…
In this articleGMFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTLine workers work on the chassis of full-size General Motors pickup trucks at the Flint Assembly plant on June 12, 2019 in Flint, Michigan.JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP / Getty ImagesDETROIT – General Motors plans to invest more than $1 billion in two Michigan plants for production of next-generation heavy-duty trucks, the company said Monday.The investment includes $788 million to prepare its Flint Assembly plant to build the heavy-duty gas and diesel trucks. Another $233 million will be invested in the automaker’s Flint Metal Center to support production of the vehicles. Both plants are…
Photo by Chris Ensminger / UnsplashWolf Food (prologue) by Marina and Sergey Dyachenkotranslated by Katie Kassam In this prologue to a science-fiction novella, Волчья сыть (Volch’ia syt’), the reader is introduced to many oblique references that hint at the wider society and history crafted by the Dyachenkos, as well as the true nature of the protagonist. It is this approach and presentation of the “strange” that sets the stage for the authors’ nuanced exploration of themes, including the binaries of human and animal, wild and domesticated, in the rest of the story. The sea of tall grass billowed; dark, dense,…
Photo by Evelyn Paris / UnsplashNational AnthemThis is my room, itis called Iceland. A sea cable fastensit to Europe and to here andfrom here fly airplanes withtheir ink cartridges full of people. Here I dwell in a matchboxthat I care for, deeply –I even painted it on the insidelast winter. Life carries on like clockwork. In the store acquaintances laughand pat each other on the back.Most are hoping for a robberyand bask in the steadfast surveillance.The furnishings and the bones are valuable. At the hospital they loaned mebatteries so I could enjoy my fecunditya little longer – thus I carrybatteries…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) May 30, 2023.Brendan McDermid | ReutersStock markets are ignoring a “laundry list” of potential risks in their recent bull run, and a big downturn could be incoming, according to Julian Howard, investment director for multi-asset solutions at GAM Investments.Despite the risks associated with a steep rise in interest rates over the past 15 months, tech stocks particularly led the charge so far this year, as investors rushed to gain exposure to the AI boom.related investing newsArk Invest: These 2 A.I. stocks are being overlooked by the marketGanesh Rao12…
Several times in recent years, Sony has used the Cannes Film Festival to promote a key upcoming title, despite the movies not officially being involved in the event — see Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation in 2018, 2017’s The Emoji Movie and 2016’s The Angry Birds Movie. This year, the marketing team pulled out the stops for Neill Blomkamp’s Gran Turismo: The Movie, staking out prime real estate with a billboard on the Carlton Pier and then — rather than ahead of the fest as they did with the previous films — hosting a photo call with talent as the…
WASHINGTON — The top Republican members of two oversight committees have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review a major new weather satellite program. In a June 1 letter, Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), the chairman of the House Science Committee, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, requested the review of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Operations, or GeoXO, program of next-generation weather satellites, citing concerns about cost overruns and delays. GeoXO is the successor to the ongoing GOES-R line of geostationary weather satellites that will ensure continuity of observations as…
WWDC 2023 — Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference — is set to kick off later today, and the company is reportedly planning to unveil its first mixed reality headset. The headset is said to feature both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies and could be equipped with powerful Apple Silicon chips and sport high-resolution Micro OLED displays. However, a supply chain analyst has claimed that investors are more interested in the company’s plans to unveil AI-related technology at WWDC, than its purported Apple Reality Pro mixed reality headset.TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has shared recent discussions with unnamed investors on…
In this articlePRPLFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTZenefits CEO David Sacks speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Calif.Paul Chinn | San Francisco Chronicle | Hearst Newspapers via Getty ImagesVenture capitalist and early PayPal executive David Sacks had a bundle of cash to deploy early in the 2022 midterm campaign, and he wanted to figure out the best ways to help Republicans up and down the ballot.So he called Caroline Wren for advice, according to people familiar with the matter.Wren is a veteran Republican fundraiser who raised money for former President Donald Trump’s failed 2020 campaign. She also…
Play video content TMZ.com Yung Gravy is on the mend from a nasty nosedive that left him with multiple fractures, but the charismatic rapper isn’t up in arms over the music festival accident … even if that arm’s currently in a sling!!! TMZ Hip Hop linked with Gravy at LAX, where he said he’s got no beef with the Hangout Music Festival, the Alabama event, where he recently took the tumble while working the crowd. Play video content 5/21/23 TMZ.com Gravy says HMF is graciously covering his medical bills, and took the blame for him tripping over a wooden plank.…
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s YouTube account is seen on a mobile phone and laptop computer after being restored by Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc, as Google lifted a more than two-year suspension imposed on Trump after the deadly January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot, in Washington, March 17, 2023.Jim Bourg | ReutersGoogle-owned YouTube will stop removing false claims of widespread election fraud in the 2020 presidential race, the video platform announced on Friday.YouTube said in a blog post that it made the decision to balance its twin goals of “protecting our community and providing a home for…