PARIS — European Space Agency member states have provided the agency with 16.9 billion euros ($17.5 billion) for the next three years, a significant increase over 2019 but more than 1.5 billion euros below what the agency sought. At a Nov. 23 briefing concluding the two-day ministerial conference here, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher announced
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Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides have been optimised for tablets and foldable phones, the search giant has announced, as part of several changes to its workspace applications for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The company previously announced it would update more than 20 Google applications to run better on tablets during Google I/O earlier
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Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks during an event to promote his new book at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank on October 19, 2022 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The Department of Justice wants to question former Vice President Mike Pence for its criminal investigation of ex-President Donald Trump’s efforts to
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Federal Reserve officials earlier this month agreed that smaller interest rate increases should happen soon as they evaluate the impact policy is having on the economy, meeting minutes released Wednesday indicated. Reflecting statements that multiple officials have made over the past several weeks, the meeting summary pointed to smaller rate hikes coming. Markets widely expect
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News U.S. Senators to Investigate Ticketmaster’s Dominance Over Concert Ticket Sales Amy Klobuchar says the lack of competitors removes pressure on Ticketmaster to “innovate and improve” By Jazz Monroe November 23, 2022 Facebook Twitter Taylor Swift, September 2019 (Dave Hogan/ABA/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee will lead a new subcommittee
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Glamour is a weapon and Precious Lee knows it. She’s sitting under a giant bronze crossbow wearing a Thom Browne blazer with a custom satin bodice, which adds to the whoa of it all. We’re in a 16th-century game lodge—the kind of place where you could play a convincing game of Bodies, Bodies, Bodies in
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Best Friends Are Better Kept Long Distance Kristen Iskandrian Share article Quantum Voicemail by Kristen Iskandrian The visit was proposed during a period in which I was suffering from the tyranny of time. Which isn’t to say I was suffering because I was getting older—I didn’t care about that. I was consistently underestimating how long
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The new clock’s frequency instability is less than 4×10-19. (Courtesy: J Pan) Physicists have transferred time and frequency information over a distance of more than 100 km in free space, far exceeding the previous record. The technique, which makes it possible to synchronize and monitor optical clocks in environments where optical-fibre-based connections are impractical, could
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EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes has picked Johnny Flynn (Emma, Beast), Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey, Mank) and Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss to portray legendary stars Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and John Gielgud in The Motive and the Cue, a mouth-watering new play by Jack Thorne that explores how acting giants Burton and Gielgud staged Hamlet on Broadway in
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The Treasury Department issued new guidance Tuesday about policies on the maritime transport of Russian oil ahead of a planned price cap in early December. The guidance, which complements the U.K.’s newly-released policies, outlines how U.S. service providers can continue carrying Russian seaborne oil that was loaded before Dec. 5, while complying with a strategic
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