NGA provides firefighting agencies updated maps in 15 minute intervals on areas where fires are rapidly spreading. WASHINGTON — The Pentagon announced it plans to extend a pilot program that provides imagery from satellites, drones, ground sensors and cameras to help track and combat wildfires. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) started the program in
The world “desperately” needs rich countries to deliver on their pledges to donate Covid-19 vaccines to poorer nations, former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Monday. Her comment came after health ministers from the Group of 20 leading economies reportedly agreed — on the first of their two-day meeting in Rome — to ensure
George Town, Grand Cayman Noel Hendrickson Europe’s biggest banks are booking an average of 20 billion euros ($23.7 billion) in tax havens every year, according to a new report. That accounts for 14% of their total profits, the analysis found. Published Monday, the report from the EU Tax Observatory looked into the activities of 36
Fall is upon us and 2021 is ending. With the end of the year approaching and holidays being planned, online audiences are looking for a renewed energy. 2021 ushered in so many changes but was a welcome departure from the difficulties of 2020. As this promising year comes to a close with a bit of
iPhone 13 series is likely to launch sometime this month and the latest information from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman offers details on what the annual Apple fall launch event may introduce. The event is likely to bring the iPhone 13 range and the Apple Watch Series 7. While reports indicated smartwatch production delays, Gurman says that
It was the worst kept secret in Hollywood that Sony was bound to vacate Venom: Let There Be Carnage from its Oct. 15 release date, but after the enormous $90M Labor Day weekend success of Disney/Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the Culver City lot has decided to go earlier with their own
California Gov. Gavin Newsom makes a gesture as he speaks during a news conference at San Bernardino Unified School District Office after visiting Juanita B. Jones Elementary School in San Bernardino on Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. Watchara Phomicinda | MediaNews Group | Getty Images The campaign to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom lost so much
News Cardi B and Offset Announce Birth of Second Child Cardi B revealed that she gave birth to her second child on Saturday, September 4 By Matthew Strauss September 6, 2021 Facebook Twitter Cardi B and Offset, February 2019 (Michael Kovac/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) Facebook Twitter Cardi B has given birth to her
Still from Sony’s “Venom.” Sony Sony has moved up the theatrical release date for “Venom: Let There be Carnage,” by two weeks to Oct. 1, according to the studio’s website. The new date for the hotly anticipated “Venom” sequel follows a box office smash for another Marvel comic book adaptation, Disney’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend
Showtime’s LGBTQ series The L Word: Generation Q returned on August 8th, and we talked with Leo Sheng, the trans actor who reprised his role as Micah Lee. On the Sept 5th episode, Micah realized he was interested in women and kissed his friend Maribel for the first time. We chatted with Sheng about his
Play Me a Symphony When I Die If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Vanessa Frontin: Volunteer musician I think often, since I started working here, about the appetite
China’s moon-sampling mission spacecraft is continuing its extended mission with its destination currently unknown. HELSINKI — The Chang’e-5 orbiter module which facilitated China’s complex lunar sample return last year is on its way to the moon following deep space tests. The orbiter, one of four distinct Chang’e-5 mission spacecraft, delivered a return module containing 1.731
Taken from the September 2021 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Free and open-source software is growing to be a powerful tool in academic research, helping scientists to collaborate better and work smarter. Achintya Rao investigates how such software is being
The pandemic is spurring changes to Machu Picchu, some of which may last long after the global outbreak ends. The 15th century Incan archeological site has been a poster child for over-tourism for years, with visitors reporting trips to the site’s Citadel being ruined by crowds. The pandemic may have helped that. New rules now
WhatsApp is found to allow users to apply any of their favourite emojis as message reactions. The new development appears just days after WhatsApp was spotted adding message reactions to its platform that would work similar to how you can react on messages getting on iMessage, Twitter, and even Facebook’s own Messenger app. Separately, WhatsApp
Tango Shalom — where a female Tango dancer (Dancing with the Stars champion Karina Smirnoff) invites an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi (Jos Laniado) to enter a televised dance competition — was an arthouse standout this weekend with a per screen average of over $4,000 at four theaters in New York and LA. The solid performance in a
Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, center, speaks with members of the media following a meeting with Texas Democrats outside of his hideaway office in the basement of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sen. Joe Manchin just made it clear
Play video content The h.wood Group Tiffany Haddish never passes up an opportunity to put on a show — and that was certainly the case this weekend during a double date in Vegas … where she took the building by storm. The comedian was at dinner Saturday night at Delilah (the Wynn resort one), with