File photo of a Falcon 9 launch from path 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX SES announced Thursday that it has targeted SpaceX for two additional Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral to launch more Boeing-built O3b mPower broadband satellites, adding to a few Falcon …
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5 winners and 4 losers from the Patriots’ Thursday night practice
The New England Patriots were back on the practice fields behind Gillette Stadium today for their third session full-pads in the last four days. The six-hour session was an event, with the quarterback league continuing to develop and the young players of the Patriots making some impressive plays. With that …
Read More »A confused Kirsten Dunst asks Kanye West why he put her on his campaign poster
Why does Kirsten Dunst appear in Kanye West’s campaign material? She would like the answer too. The rapper has continued his efforts to get on the ballot papers of various states in his bizarre presidential “campaign” that does not manage very much actual campaign, and he recently debuted an early …
Read More »Microsoft brings Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 to Windows 10 1903 and 1909
Credit: Microsoft Until today, Windows 10 users who wanted to work with the new Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 needed the latest feature update for Windows: The Windows 10 with 2020 Update (aka, Windows 10 2004). But on August 20, Microsoft made a surprising announcement: WSL2 was also rolled …
Read More »Greenland’s ice sheet is melting faster than ever in 2019, says study. That’s sad news for coastal cities around the world
By comparison, between 2003 and 2016, the ice sheet lost an average of about 255 billion tons of ice – per year. “We have documented another year for record loss for Greenland,” said Ingo Sasgen, a glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and co-author of …
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