SpaceX, the company developing the Crew Dragon capsule, has acknowledged that an anomaly occurred while tests were being made on the ground on 20 April. However, eye witnesses say that huge clouds of smoke were seen rising from the test site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It seems that there were no injuries […]
The Tokyo Olympic Games detailed events schedule was recently announced and it features a record 33 sports and 339 events. It will officially run between 24 July and 9 August, but sporting action kicks off two days before the Opening Ceremony with preliminary women’s football matches as well as group games in one of the
NASA released first-ever images of T-38 supersonic jets breaking the sound barrier. Advanced photo technology was used to visualize the intersecting pressure waves, the two T-38s having to fly directly below a plane equipped with the imaging system. NASA says that this data will help their understanding of shock waves and it could help design
Andreas Gal, an Apple employee, was stopped at an unnamed checkpoint in San Francisco International Airport back in December after returning from a business trip to Europe. He was questioned about his work and advocacy for online privacy and was asked to unlock his corporate laptop and cell phone, both property of Apple covered by
The small southeast Asian kingdom of Brunei announced back in 2014 that it would adopt strict Islamic laws such as death by stoning for gay sex and adultery. That was when many in the country’s LGBT community considered fleeing, but some stayed on, hoping that the law would never come to pass. Presently, beginning with
Banks and other financial services companies in Britain have announced they are planning to move £1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) into the EU according to consultancy EY. Many banks have already set up new offices in Germany, France, Ireland and other EU countries in order to protect their regional business after Brexit is implemented. Financial companies
Connie Chan is now a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and she leads the company’s Asia network. Before her, the company stood by a specific rule – in order to become a general partner you had to be founder or CEO of a major tech company. Chan joined the firm back in 2011 as an
For the first time the Mediterranean diet has won the #1 spot as 2019’s best diets in rankings from US News & World Report. There isn’t actually a Mediterranean diet, there are basic principles that Greeks, Italians, French, and Spanish alike stick to. In Italy, for example, food plays a big role in having a
Penteli is the Greek mountain known for its ancient quarries and the crystalline structure and golden-hued tint of its marble that was used to construct the sacred temple of Parthenon as well as other monuments and is located just 40km north of Athens. On the mountain’s south-west side there is the Davelis Cave, averaging a
It is not very known that the airspace above the Fiji Islands was the first one to ever incorporate the Global Positioning System into its aviation system, that is, the GPS. Therefore, the Pacific island nation of Fiji basically ushered aviation into the 21st Century, changing forever the way we get from Point A to
