Month: December 2022

Elon Musk used Twitter to communicate SpaceX’s ascent as the world’s most powerful space company. What happens to Musk’s space ambitions now that he owns Twitter? Elon Musk has long been both a power user of Twitter and one of the most powerful people to use it. Credit: SpaceNews illustration/B. Berger No one influences spaceflight
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Elon Musk’s Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations that the company formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform. The council had been scheduled to meet with Twitter representatives Monday night.
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Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, speaks during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. Sarah Silbiger/ | Bloomberg | Getty Images Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is refusing to testify at a hearing this week about his company’s implosion,
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Jonathan Dee’s new novel, Sugar Street, is a fantastic subversion of an old American story. The nameless white man, sinful, remorseful, arrives in a new town with a hope to start again—except in Dee’s version, rather than westward, the man has gone east. He avoids the freeways—“full of libertarian possibility”—because he’s worried about cameras. He
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On the final weekend before Avatar: The Way of Water dominates screens globally, Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever continued to lead the worldwide and international box office. The fifth session for the sequel added $11.8M in 50 overseas markets, lifting the offshore cume to $358M and global to $767.8M. BP2’s international drop was just 43%
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WASHINGTON — The successful conclusion of the Artemis 1 mission Dec. 11 won widespread support from politicians and industry, a sign of broad support for a program that has suffered extensive delays. The Artemis 1 mission wrapped up 25 and a half days after its liftoff on the inaugural flight of the Space Launch System
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Xiaomi Watch S2 was unveiled alongside the Xiaomi 13 series smartphones on Sunday as the latest smartwatch from the Chinese electronics brand. The Xiaomi Watch S1 successor is available in 46mm and 42mm display options, and offers Bluetooth calling support that allows users to take voice calls directly with their wrists. The Xiaomi Watch S2 supports
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John Ray, chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, arrives at bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Sarah Silbiger | Bloomberg | Getty Images FTX CEO John J. Ray III plans to tell the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the cryptocurrency exchange under Sam Bankman-Fried had “unacceptable
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