WASHINGTON — NASA’s deputy administrator says there is nearly unanimous support for its low Earth orbit microgravity strategy that endorses keeping humans in orbit continuously during the transition to commercial space stations. NASA released Dec. 16 a final version of LEO Microgravity Strategy that backed a concept called “continuous heartbeat” by the agency, which calls
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How you feel about America’s hopes for 2025 depends on the party you belong to.  That’s the bottom line of four polls on Americans’ expectations for the coming year, polls from Gallup, Reuters, AP-NORC, and CBS News. In reality, these polls are a referendum on the upcoming Trump administration.  Republicans’ expectations are sunny.  Democrats’ expectations are grim.  As a
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Sony Be it for the Walkman portables and Trinitron TVs of old or the PlayStation consoles, Alpha cameras and superlative headphones of the twenty-first century, Sony has long been a mainstay at CES. But for the past couple of years at the world’s biggest electronics trade show, Sony has opted to focus on a different
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Apple agreed to pay $95 million (roughly Rs. 814 crore) in cash to settle a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated Siri assistant violated users’ privacy. A preliminary settlement was filed on Tuesday night in the Oakland, California federal court, and requires approval by US District Judge Jeffrey White. Mobile device owners complained
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump leaves the courthouse after a jury found him guilty of all 34 felony counts in his criminal trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York on May 30, 2024. Justin Lane | Via Reuters A judge on Friday rejected a request that he dismiss the New York criminal
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Queer characters deserve happy endings. And after everything we’ve been through—hiding our identities, hating ourselves, loving in secret, and living through stigma and fear—queer people deserve everything. We deserve the meet-cute, the toe-curling sex, and the over-the-top destination wedding. If I had my way, we would all have our student loans forgiven and become instant
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Sports betting company DraftKings’ logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images DraftKings is upping the ante. The sportsbook is testing out a new subscription service called DraftKings Sportsbook+ designed to provide paying customers a boost in odds. The $20 per month subscription service launched quietly on Dec. 28
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Ryan Gosling is Colt Seavers in ‘The Fall Guy,’ directed by David Leitch. Question: What does ‘The Fall Guy‘ have in common with movies like ‘Mission: Impossible,’ ‘The A-Team,’ ‘The Equalizer‘ and ‘Sex in the City‘? Answer: They are all movies based on popular TV programs! Whether it’s a continuation of the original series like
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