WASHINGTON — Smallsat builder Blue Canyon Technologies is moving employees into a recently opened factory designed to build 100 satellites a year, and more in the future. The Crescent Satellite Constellation manufacturing facility in Lafayette, Colorado, near the city of Boulder, opened June 3, Matt Beckner, Blue Canyon chief operating officer, told SpaceNews. Because the
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Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, we have several heavy-hitting rumors swirling around, from Huawei’s chips for cars to Tencent’s potential buyout of its video rival iQiyi. China tech
President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at the BOK Center, June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Win McNamee | Getty Images WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump returned to one of his favorite pastimes on Saturday night: Headlining a big, brash Trump campaign rally. After three months without a major campaign event, Trump’s rally in
Donald Trump‘s being accused of being petty again … and this time it’s got Petty written all over it. Tom Petty‘s family is outraged the Trump campaign dared to use the song, “I Won’t Back Down,” Saturday night at his Tulsa rally. Tom’s widow, Jane, and other family members said the song is about all
The Supreme Court delivered surprising wins to liberals this week in a pair of blockbuster decisions that forbade businesses from firing workers base on their sexual orientation or gender identity and halted the Trump administration’s efforts to end the Obama-era DACA program, which shields the young migrants known as “Dreamers.” But those on the left
Few fashion items have managed to transcend the trend cycle quite like the Clarks Original Desert Boot. Since Clarks first introduced the design into the fashion vernacular 70 years ago, the boot’s minimalist design and universal functionality have made it a closet staple for generation after generation. And today, the style’s enduring legacy and classic
DC Comics fans and lovers of animated TV shows are going to want to jump on this. It was announced this week that Warner Bros. will be bringing home Legion of Superheroes on Blu-ray for the first time ever. This Complete Series set is arriving direct from the Warner Archives and is on sale now
If The Order Season 2 has taught us anything, it’s that every decision comes with a price. Everything, from the pursuit of noble efforts to the bloodshed for achieving power, has its fair share of consequences. Many of the plots and characters dealt with the blowback of their actions throughout the 10-episode second season run.
Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, speaks during a hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on June 9 about unemployment insurance during the Covid-19 pandemic. Leah Millis/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images The enhanced unemployment benefits supporting household income for millions of jobless Americans will soon lapse. Lawmakers, scrambling
On June 19, 1865, slavery was abolished in Texas, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. It is a benchmark in Black history and is more timely now than ever as it is a day to celebrate and champion Black voices. That said, it is a good day for the debut of Channing Godfrey Peoples’ Miss
by Regina Avalos, June 20, 2020 So You Think You Can Dance will not be returning this summer. The series was set to return in February with a summer air date, but then COVID-19 hit. The virus has shut down production, and things are just barely returning to normal. However, So You Think You Can
WASHINGTON — European smallsat builder GomSpace has entered a settlement agreement with Aerial & Maritime, a company Gomspace helped start and for which it had already built eight satellites. GomSpace said June 16 that Aerial & Maritime will be liquidated, and that GomSpace will retain ownership of the eight satellites, designed to track ships and
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. People are now spending three hours and 40 minutes per
Attorney General William Barr told the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman, that he was fired in a letter Saturday amid a power struggle over who will fill one of the most important federal law enforcement positions in the nation. This is breaking news. Please check back for updates
The estate of Tom Petty has issued a cease and desist to Donald Trump’s presidential re-election campaign. The campaign used Petty’s song “I Won’t Back Down” at a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma held Saturday night (June 20). In a statement posted after the rally, Petty’s family wrote that they had issued an official cease and
A worker administers a test to a passenger at a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic testing in Leesburg, Virginia, May 20, 2020. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters One of the components of contact tracing programs public health experts deem critical to controlling the Covid-19 outbreak includes finding and testing close contacts
It isn’t very often that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge share family photos of their children, but for Prince William’s birthday (coincidentally on U.S. Father’s Day), the royal couple offered their fans a rare look at Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis with their dad. The kids appear with Prince William, all wearing
The Last American Virgin by any standard initially comes off as your average 80’s teen movie about high schoolers trying to get laid. In fact the original poster showed the entire cast, all smiling 50’s-style, as they were ensconced in a pair of unzipping jeans. It’s not made clear whether the jeans belong to a