NASA’s CAPSTONE mission, which will chart a new orbit around the moon that will hopefully be used for a future crewed lunar space station, is underway after a successful launch on Tuesday morning. Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle delivered the CAPSTONE satellite, which is roughly the size of a large microwave oven, to Earth orbit for step one of its lunar journey.
Tesla will reportedly cut about 10% of jobs because its CEO Elon Musk has a ‘super bad feeling’ about the US economy. In a message sent to executives on Thursday, June 2nd, 2022, Musk laid out his concerns and told them to ‘pause all hiring worldwide’. The news follows Musk ordering Tesla staff back to the office saying Work From Home is ‘no longer acceptable’.
After years of resisting advertisements on its streaming services, Netflix is now open to offering lower-priced tiers with ads, co-CEO Reed Hasting said on Tuesday. He said during the company’s prerecorded earnings conference call, however, that it “makes a lot of sense” to offer customers a cheaper option.
An ultra-Orthodox rabbi died Sunday in a city in central Israel, his funeral attended by hundreds of thousands. As a child, he was raised in what was then British-ruled Palestine by his father, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 94, one of the most influential scholars in the country’s religious community. Born before the Holocaust, he was one
In a historic move, the Council of Europe exiled Russia from the continent’s premier human rights body over Russian military operations in Ukraine. According to a statement issued by the 47-nation Council of Europe’s committee of ministers, “the Russian Federation will no longer be a member of the Council of Europe as of today.” Russia
A number of COVID-19 restrictions were lifted in France on Monday, removing the need for face masks in most settings and letting people who aren’t vaccinated back into public venues like restaurants and sports stadiums, and other public places. Earlier this month, the French government announced the move in response to the improvement in hospital
People around the globe are showing solidarity with the people of Ukraine with a creative way to send them funds: by booking Airbnb that they never plan to check in. In just past 7 days, people have booked well over 434,000 nights in Ukrainian cities via Airbnb. In the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Volodymyr Bondarenko,
A well-respected epidemiologist who was considered the architect of Sweden’s pandemic approach, which avoided lockdowns but caused the Scandinavian country to earn one of the highest total deaths per capita due to COVID-19, joins the World Health Organization. In a statement issued Wednesday, the Swedish Public Health Agency said Anders Tegnell would begin working with
The U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting through eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine at a time when Russia is intensifying its war against the former Soviet republic. Antony blinken was in the Polish city of Rzeszow on Saturday for discussions with top Polish officials. He was scheduled to visit a border
A draft decree seen by Reuters on Tuesday shows that Italy plans to set aside nearly four billion euros ($4.5 billion) by 2030 to promote chip manufacturing on its own soil and support innovative technologies. An effort is underway by the government to persuade Intel to invest billions of euros in a new chipmaking plant
Lebanon’s interior minister said Wednesday that the government had thwarted attempts by Islamic State group members to carry out three attacks near the capital Beirut that were likely to cause many civilian casualties. Bassam Mawlawi said that the would-be attackers, among whom two have already been detained, are all Palestinians who had recruited young men
Western sanctions are limiting Moscow’s access to financial markets and high-tech goods in case it attacks Ukraine, a top EU official said on Saturday. EU sanctions may be in place before Russia attacks the country, the official said. In the midst of rising tensions over Russia’s intentions toward Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen, the EU’s
