Steve Blank’s op-ed of Feb. 5, “The FAA and SpaceX,” demands an informed rebuttal. Public debate over the appropriate level of regulation within any industry is appropriate in our democracy. However, Mr. Blank’s arguments lack grounding in the history and nature of private space activity regulation and he erroneously conflates that mission with the FAA’s
Mi 11 was launched globally on Monday through a virtual event. The Mi flagship phone that was unveiled in China in late December comes with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC. It also features a hole-punch design and a 2K display. Mi 11 also offers up to 256GB of onboard storage. It also sports curved edges
Rep.-elect Ron Wright, R-Texas, attends a new member welcome briefing in the Capitol Visitor Center on November 15, 2018. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Republican Rep. Ron Wright of Texas died weeks after contracting Covid-19, his office said Monday. He was 67. Wright, who took office in 2019, died Sunday. He
Lil Yachty, who’s immersed himself in the Michigan rap scene, has shared a new song featuring a number of the state’s up-and-coming artists. The track, “Royal Rumble,” features Dc2Trill, Detroit’s Babyface Ray and Icewear Vezzo, and Flint’s Krispylife Kidd, RMC Mike, and Rio Da Yung OG. Check out the video, made by AMD Visuals, below.
Bruce Springsteen starred in and narrated a two-minute Super Bowl ad for Jeep, which featured far more Americana and landscape than any vehicles. Rob DeMartin for Jeep Jeep’s Super Bowl commercial starring Bruce Springsteen was a decade in the making, according to Olivier Francois, an automotive marketing executive who has become well-known for convincing A-list
Angelina Jolie has been photographed out in Los Angeles here and there with her six children throughout the last year, as the actress has quarantined in the city with her family. This weekend, Jolie was seen at the mall with her two oldest daughters, 16-year-old Zahara and 14-year-old Shiloh. Jolie wore a long black wrap
It’s a well-known slice of movie trivia that Hugh Jackman was not the studio’s first choice for the role of beloved mutant Wolverine in 2000’s X-Men. Several actors were much higher on 20th Century Fox and director Bryan Singer’s lists, including Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen, who has now provided some insight into
Starz is moving ahead with its planned revival of the Step Up TV series. The premium cabler has now announced that it has recast the role of Colette, which the late Naya Rivera originated. Rivera died last July following a tragic drowning incident at Lake Piru. She was 33. Actress and singer Christina Milian has
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Target’s activewear brand All in Motion is one of 10 brands at the retailer that have reached $1 billion in sales. Target Target launched its own line of workout clothes and exercise equipment about a year ago. Two months later, the pandemic turned much of the country into stretchy pants-wearing remote workers who converted garages
Men wearing face masks walk past a Gap store at a shopping area, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Beijing, China February 7, 2020. Jason Lee | Reuters BEIJING — China’s capital city will hand out about $1.5 million in a limited trial of the central bank’s digital
Studio Ghibli released Earwig and the Witch on February 3 in 430 theaters and dropped the animated feature from the legendary studio on HBO Max on February 5. The Goro Miyazaki-directed film with the voice talents of Richard E. Grant, Kacey Musgraves, and Dan Stevens earned an estimated $99,941 on its opening weekend to bring its
WASHINGTON — ABL Space Systems will conduct a launch for Lockheed Martin from a new spaceport in the Shetland Islands, fulfilling an agreement with the British government announced in 2018. Lockheed said Feb. 7 that ABL will perform a launch of its RS1 rocket from the Shetland Space Centre, a spaceport to be developed on
Cyberpunk 2077 hotfix 1.12 for PC users fixes a critical vulnerability related to custom save files and installing mods. The company had recently warned players against installing mods because of this issue, which it says has now been fixed. Developer CD Projekt Red had released modding support tools for Cyberpunk 2077 just last month. The
U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) questions Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during a hearing on “Examination of Loans to Businesses Critical to Maintaining National Security” before the Congressional Oversight Commission at Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, December 10, 2020. Sarah Silbiger | Pool | Reuters One of Donald Trump‘s harshest Republican critics in the wake
The Weeknd came, he saw, and he conquered his Super Bowl halftime performance … and, boy, was this one different in the midst of a pandemic. Abel rocked Raymond James Stadium Sunday in between halves, headlining the Pepsi Halftime Show solo … as promised. For starters, almost 80% of his set was done on an
Healthcare workers administer Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines at a vaccination site inside a church in the Bronx borough of New York, on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Joe Biden won’t commit to achieving herd immunity to the coronavirus in the U.S. by the end of summer, suggesting a long
Amazon gifted the Super Bowl audience with a new trailer for Coming 2 America. Eddie Murphy and crew are back to bring Zamunda to the rest of the world. Just don’t mistakenly call it Wakanda. Murphy is back playing multiple characters, just like he did in the iconic original movie, while introducing a brand-new generation