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☆ Swallowed eels escape via predator fish’s gills
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Mindy Weisberger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Dark sleeper fish (Odontobutis obscura) can gulp down young Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica) whole, but the swallowed eels can wriggle back up through the digestive tract and out of the stomach, swimming to freedom through the bigger fish’s gills, scientists recently discovered. “Witnessing the eels’ desperate escape from the predator’s stomach to the gills was truly astonishing for us.”A Japanese eel exhibits circling behavior along a predator's stomach wall in this X-ray video footage. But while they observed swallowed eels wriggling tailfirst from dark sleepers’ gills, “we had no understanding of their escape routes and behavioral patterns during the escape because it occurred inside the predator’s body,” Hasegawa said via email. Once a predator swallowed an eel, the sated fish was quickly moved to a special tank where the X-ray video camera was ready to roll. On average, it took about 3 ½ minutes for a swallowed eel to reappear and swim away.

Persons: ”, Yuha Hasegawa, Yuuki Kawabata, ichthyologist Kory Evans, “, ” Evans, ’ Hasegawa, Kazuki Yokouchi, Nagasaki University —, ” Hasegawa, Prosanta, Mindy Weisberger Organizations: CNN, Graduate School of Fisheries, Environmental Sciences, Japan’s Nagasaki University, “, biosciences, Rice University, Japan Fisheries Research, Education Agency, Nagasaki University, Louisiana State University, LSU Museum of Natural Science, Scientific Locations: Anguilla, Houston

☆ British government had 'constructive' talks with Musk's X over disinformation, minister says
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Musk is the owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as X. Aytug Can Sencar | Anadolu | Getty ImagesLONDON — The U.K. government has had "constructive" talks with Elon Musk's social media site X over the spread of misinformation and other harmful content, technology minister Peter Kyle told CNBC Friday. Multiple social media users at the time spread false information about the alleged perpetrator, who has since been charged with murder and attempted murder, claiming he was an asylum seeker. The minister also told CNBC he is assessing whether he needs additional powers to regulate social media companies over the dissemination of harmful content online. A government spokesperson told CNBC earlier this year that its "immediate focus is getting the Online Safety Act implemented quickly and effectively." However, this spokesperson added, "our message to social media companies remains clear: There is no need to wait — you can and should take immediate action to protect your users."

Persons: Elon Musk, Peter Kyle, Kyle, CNBC's, hasn't, Musk, Taylor Swift, Keir Starmer, Keir, Dawn Butler, Chi Onwurah, Labour's Kyle Organizations: Anadolu, Getty, Elon, CNBC, Citizens, Financial Times, Labour, SpaceX, Ofcom, OSA Locations: United Kingdom, England

☆ Boeing Starliner astronaut: We ‘ran out of time’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

We could have gotten to the point, I believe, where we could have returned on Starliner,” he said. During an August 24 news briefing, NASA officials also indicated that Boeing disagreed with some of the space agency’s risk assessments. There was “just a little disagreement (between NASA and Boeing) in terms of the level of risk,” NASA’s Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich said. …And when you do things with spacecraft that have never been done before, just like Starliner, you’re going to find some things,” he added. “In this case, we found some things that we just could not get comfortable with putting us back in the Starliner.”

Persons: —, Butch Wilmore, crewmate Suni Williams, ” Wilmore, ”, Steve Stich, …, ” Williams, Starliner’s, “, Williams, Wilmore, “ I’m, CNN’s Kristin Fisher, we’ve Organizations: CNN, NASA, Navy, SpaceX, Boeing Locations: Tennessee, Starliner

☆ Sam Altman’s lesser-known crypto project wants to scan the world’s eyeballs
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

And when that happens, he’s got another project, Worldcoin, in the works to help fix it. To do that, it’s using its proprietary, basketball-ball sized “orbs” that scan people’s eyeballs and create a unique, immutable code based on the pattern of their irises. So I sat down (virtually) with Worldcoin’s co-founder and CEO, 30-year-old Alex Blania, to discuss the project’s origins and future. CNN: A lot of Worldcoin’s focus is future-focused — targeting problems that are hard for us to imagine today. Blania: I think there’s two pieces to that.

Persons: CNN Business ’, Sam Altman, it’ll, he’s, ChatGPT, Altman, ”, AGI, it’s, VCs, Andreesen Horowitz, Alex Blania, Joseph Nair, It’s, you’ve, Worldcoin, We’ve, there’s, There’s, You’ve Organizations: CNN Business, New York CNN, Netflix, Worldcoin’s, CNN, Bloomberg, Getty, SpaceX, Apple Locations: New York, Singapore, Asia, Japan, Spain, Hong Kong, Malaysia, United States

☆ Engagement bait's rise on Threads is another example of how we just can't help ourselves on social media
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

While rage bait can be found across social media, its prominence on Threads is because of how the app promotes content. AdvertisementWith that in mind, there's often something in your behavior on social media that's leading the apps to send those posts your way. In the grand scheme of things, rage bait is not the worst thing on social media by a long shot . YouTube star MrBeast mastered social media algorithms to build a huge audience in no time. Here's what business students said , and here's what tech students said .

Persons: —, Rebecca Zisser, Katie Notopoulos, Katie, it's, it'll, Samantha Lee, Goldman Sachs, David Solomon isn't, Solomon, Warren Buffett's, Kanu Gulati, she'd, Jensen Huang doesn't, Huang, Alberto E, Rodriguez, MrBeast, Jonah Peretti, Dan DeFrancesco, Hallam Bullock, Milan Sehmbi, Amanda Yen Organizations: Service, Business, Twitter, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Occidental Petroleum, Khosla Ventures, Kanu Gulati Khosla Ventures, Nvidia, Warner Bros, HBO, Charter Locations: Taiwan, China, New York, London

Some sections are backward-looking and focus more on touting the record of the Biden-Harris administration, while also criticizing Trump’s agenda. The health care section of Harris’ agenda focuses more on what the Biden-Harris administration has done than plans for the future. The Harris agenda vows to “fight to raise the minimum wage,” but doesn’t say how high she wants it to be. The Harris campaign would not say whether she supports doing away with the 60-vote rule to pass those measures. The bulk of Harris’ agenda would be subject to congressional approval, likely requiring Democrats to control the House and Senate to have a strong chance of passage.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Harris, Joe Biden, ”, “, Sydney Smith, Republicans scoff, ” Sen, John Cornyn, Harris hasn’t, “ I’m, Biden, Republicans tanked, Trump, Karoline Leavitt, “ They’ve, Ron Wyden, “ We’re, ” Harris, Hasan Pyarali Organizations: WASHINGTON, Biden, Republican, New York Times, Trump, Wake Forest University, Republicans, GOP, NBC News, Security, Social Security, Medicare, Senate, Border Patrol, The Society, Technology, ”, CNN, ABC, Democratic Locations: North Carolina, Texas, America

The Summary Boeing officials have made few public comments about the company's Starliner spacecraft over the last six weeks. Just over an hour after Boeing’s Starliner capsule made its uncrewed return to Earth, NASA convened a standard post-landing briefing to discuss the end of the tumultuous test flight. The capsule’s first crewed test flight, the mission was expected to last around eight days. The pair is scheduled to stay at the space station until February then return with members of an upcoming ISS crew. In 2019, an uncrewed test flight to the space station was cut short because of technical glitches and the company was forced to repeat it in 2022.

Persons: Eric Berger, Joel Montalbano, ”, Mark Nappi, “, NASA’s, Starliner, Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Wilmore, Williams, Boeing’s Organizations: Boeing, NASA, Space Center, Ars Technica, NBC, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, International Space Station, Agency, SpaceX, ISS, Crew Locations: Houston, Florida

The hotly anticipated results are in from a landmark pair of major clinical trials of a long-acting, injectable HIV-prevention drug that only requires dosing every six months. The pharma giant has already secured approval for the injectable drug in treating highly drug-resistant HIV. Given the clear statistical superiority of lenacapavir over Truvada, the trial’s blinded phase will now be ended several months early. When taken as prescribed, Truvada is over 99% effective at preventing HIV; Descovy is comparably effective. This chorus is sure to get louder now that lenacapavir is officially highly effective at protecting gay and bisexual men and trans people as well.

Persons: lenacapavir, ”, Jared Baeten, “, ” Jen Kates, ” Gilead, Gilead, Truvada, ViiV Healthcare’s, Amy Killelea, Jirair Ratevosian, Hansel Tookes, ” Tookes, Dr, Boghuma, “ lenacapavir, Tim Horn Organizations: Gilead Sciences, pharma, NBC, Food and Drug Administration, Disease Control, PrEP, Yale School of Nursing, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, NBC News, Southern, Affordable, CDC, Emory University Locations: Gilead, United States, ”, U.S, Australia, United Kingdom, Arlington , Virginia, America, South Africa, Thailand, Truvada, Atlanta, Saharan Africa

Now, the Harris campaign says it’s seeing an unprecedented rush of volunteers in the state, especially young adults. “It’s certainly going to help the Harris campaign,” Dinan said, though he added just how much Swift moves the needle is an open question. “We care about the issues that every other person on the ballot is looking at.”Health care has been a huge issue for the Harris campaign, particularly in North Carolina. One of every 5 North Carolina residents is Black, and there is a growing number of Latino voters. “Republican leadership in North Carolina is tested and has proven to have a superior ground game,” he said.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump’s, Trump, Barack Obama, There’s, Josh Stein, Mark Robinson, Harris, Donald Trump, ”, Dory MacMillan, Joe Biden, Biden, Carolinians, “, John Dinan, Taylor, “ It’s, ” Dinan, Swift, Anderson Clayton, “ Young, ” Clayton, Matt Mercer Organizations: Democratic, Republican, Gov, “ Voters, Quinnipiac University, Trump, Biden, Wake Forest University, General Services Administration, Democratic Party, Appalachian State University, University of North, Chapel Hill, MSNBC, Democrats, GOP Locations: GREENSBORO, N.C, —, North Carolina, Carolina, University of North Carolina, Black

☆ Battle of Waterloo: Amputated limbs and butchered horses uncovered in ‘gore’ pit
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A pile of amputated limbs and the remains of several military horses have been excavated at the site of the Battle of Waterloo. The gruesome discovery was made at a farm in Belgium by Waterloo Uncovered, a UK charity that combines archaeology with veteran care. Veteran support charity Waterloo Uncovered is carrying out a targeted excavation at Mont-Saint-Jean farm in Belgium, which served as the Duke of Wellington's field hospital during the battle in 1815. Chris van Houts/PAThe trench is thought to have been designed to clear the hospital of gore after the battle. Photo12/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesAccording to Waterloo Uncovered, its projects use the “unique lived experience of veterans and serving personnel to help interpret their discoveries.”Abigail Boyle, CEO of Waterloo Uncovered, said in the release: “It may seem counterintuitive to put injured veterans back on a battlefield, but it’s actually extremely beneficial.

Persons: Napoleon Bonaparte, Duke, Wellington’s, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Jean, Tony Pollard, Chris van Houts, ” Pollard, ” Thousands, ” Abigail Boyle, it’s Organizations: CNN, Waterloo, University of Glasgow Locations: Belgium, Waterloo, Brussels, Mont

☆ In purple North Carolina, Democrats hope to defeat a MAGA candidate for governor even as the presidential race remains close
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Arit John | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

CNN —Four years ago, North Carolina voters handed Democrats one of the party’s toughest losses and one of its most consequential wins. The race to succeed the term-limited Cooper, however, seems to be leaning toward the Democratic nominee, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein. But North Carolina is still a purple state with a history of elections decided by razor-thin margins. Mike Stewart/APA ticket-splitting stateHistorically, North Carolina voters have favored ticket-splitting. “There’s no connection between the gubernatorial ticket and presidential ticket,” said North Carolina Republican strategist Paul Shumaker.

Persons: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Roy Cooper, Kamala Harris, Harris, Cooper, Josh Stein, Stein, Mark Robinson’s, Sen, Thom Tillis, Pat McCrory, Robinson, ”, ” Jonathan Felts, “, ” Felts, Mike Stewart, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, McCrory, HB2, Trump, Hillary Clinton, Paul Shumaker, “ There’s, don’t, He’s, Mark Robinson, ” Robinson, Mike Lonergan, ” Stein, Morgan Hopkins, “ Martin Luther King, It’s, ” Trump, Susan Myers, ” Myers, “ Mark’s, Grant Baldwin, Anderson Clayton, “ He’s, Adam Stein –, Deloris Rhodes, she’s, ” Rhodes, Heather Horak, –, Obama, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Horak, wasn’t, he’s, ” CNN’s David Wright Organizations: CNN, North, Democratic Gov, Republican, Trump, Democratic, GOP, Democrats, Democrat, North Carolina Republican Council of State, Labor, Republicans, ” North Carolina, AP, North Carolina Republican, Quinnipiac, Fox, America, Democratic Governors Association, Republican Governors Association, “, ”, Getty, Dartmouth, Harvard University, Ivy League, Army Reserves, University of North, Greensboro City, Facebook, Wilmington Business, State Board of Education, Wilmington Locations: North Carolina, Charlotte, Greensboro, ”, Raleigh, McCrory’s, Asheville, Pink Hill , North Carolina, Charlotte , North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Carolina, University of North Carolina, Parkland , Florida, Wilmington

☆ 38-year-old grew up playing Monopoly in Nicaragua: Now she has a Yale Ph.D., 4 rental properties and $268,000 in household income
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Kamaron Mcnair Valentina Duarte | Kamaron Mcnair | In Kamaronmcnair | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

"I love how you can invest in properties, you earn money, you have to save money to wait for the best property. Though they may not have pushed Tello-Trillo into economics, her parents taught her about money from a young age. "I see money as a thing that you work really hard for, and then if you want to spend money [it's] because you really, really value something," she says. "But it has to be something that I really, really like, and it has to be something that is going to be useful either for the family or for the home." She and her husband split household expenses equally, and Tello-Trillo handles the mortgage payments for her rental properties on her own.

Persons: Cristina Tello, Trillo, that's, Sebastian, Leo, Tello, she's, Peru wouldn't, Roth Organizations: CNBC, Monopoly, Pontificia Universidad Catolica of, Tello, U.S . Census Bureau, University of Maryland, Washington , D.C, Yale University, YouTube, Leo Insurance, Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, Amazon Prime Locations: Peru, Nicaragua, Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Peru, Bethesda , Maryland, Washington ,, Rochester , New York, Tello, —, Bethesda, Rochester, Shenandoah, Northern Virginia

☆ Polaris Dawn crew conducts historic spacewalk during SpaceX mission
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Jackie Wattles | Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Editor’s note: Relive the SpaceX Polaris Dawn historic commercial spacewalk as it happened. The Polaris Dawn crew can see a sunrise and sunset about every 106 minutes. Polaris Dawn crew members are seen within the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. Instead, the Polaris Dawn crew will receive their life support from long hoses attached to their spacecraft. Polaris Dawn crew member and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis is seen during the first commercial spacewalk.

Persons: —, Polaris Dawn crew’s, Jared Isaacman, Scott “ Kidd ” Poteet, Anna Menon, Sarah Gillis —, Isaacman, “, ” Isaacman, Gillis, ” Mennon, Bill Nelson, ” Nelson, Hatch, we’ve, Garrett Reisman, Sarah Gillis, Elon Musk, ” What’s, they’re, ” Organizations: SpaceX Polaris, CNN, Polaris, SpaceX, Shift4, US Air Force, NASA, Space, ISS Locations: wiggling, U.S

☆ AI is forcing many companies to make difficult, costly hiring decisions
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Barbara Booth | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

But Kardes says the challenge lies in "ensuring the external expertise is effectively integrated with the internal team…to prevent long-term dependency." People have been doing machine learning and other parts of AI for a long time, but [generative AI] is somewhat novel." Instead of hiring external AI consultants, he developed a "tiger team" — a specialized internal team dedicated to experimenting with AI. Gen AI resultsBitsight's AI experiment focused on automating a labor-intensive task: leveraging generative AI to process vast amounts of cybersecurity articles produced daily across multiple languages. Today the company has more than 200 AI models embedded in various applications and workflows, driving innovations in senior care.

Persons: Hakan Kardes, Kardes, upskilling, Stephen Boyer, they've, who've, Boyer, Bitsight's, We've, Ryan Sutton, Robert Half, Sutton Organizations: Meta, Health, Tech

☆ We're in the era of the permanent campaign. Could Kamala Harris change that?
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Alice Tecotzky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewWhen Vice President Kamala Harris announced that she was running for president on July 21, she changed more than the dynamics of the race — she upended the entire timeline of presidential elections. AdvertisementMichael Sistak, who served as Sen. Mitt Romney's political director in Michigan in 2012, described a presidential campaign as a "long slog through the mud." AdvertisementIn the 1960s, primaries became a fixture of presidential elections and added months to the campaign. The primary system emerged as a decisive force after World War II and solidified its place in the American presidential election process in 1968. "It's a slog from January all the way to the convention," she said about presidential election years.

Persons: —, Kamala Harris, Harris, Donald Trump, Rachael Cobb, Cobb, Joseph Campbell, Tim Hogan, Hillary Clinton, Amy Klobuchar, they're, Michael Sistak, Sen, Mitt Romney's, Hogan, Sistak didn't, — Campbell, Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, Humphrey, Charles Stewart, Stewart, Sistak, Clinton, Daron Shaw, Shaw, isn't, we've Organizations: Service, Business, White House, Suffolk University, American University, White, Romney's, MIT, Politics, UT Austin, Democratic, Republican Locations: Michigan

☆ Cave discovery may explain why Neanderthals disappeared, scientists say
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Grotte Mandrin is the only known site to have been home to alternating groups of both Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis. “The Thorin population spent 50,000 years without exchanging genes with other Neanderthal populations,” Slimak said in a news release. DNA from Homo sapiens fossils from that time show that these early arrivals interbred with Neanderthals — traces of those encounters remain in present-day human populations. Archaeologists have excavated more of Thorin’s remains: 31 teeth, part of the jaw and five finger bones, so far. It’s the only known site to have been home to alternating groups of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, plus the earliest evidence of bow and arrow use outside Africa.

Persons: Ludovic Slimak, Thorin, ”, Slimak, “, Mandrin, ” Slimak, Ludovic, sapiens, Chris Stringer, wasn’t, ” Stringer, ” It’s, Grotte Mandrin Organizations: CNN, France’s National, for Scientific Research, Paul Sabatier University, Genomics Locations: Rhône, Toulouse, Western Europe, Europe, Grotte, Malataverne, France, Thorin’s, Africa

☆ Mega El Niño events may have caused planet’s greatest mass extinction
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The El Niño of 252 million years ago would have originated in the Panthalassic Ocean, a body of water much larger than today’s Pacific that could hold more heat, which in turn would have strengthened and sustained El Niño effects. The planet had experienced similar episodes earlier but they hadn’t triggered a mass extinction. A prolonged and intense El Niño also explained why extinctions had begun on land before they occurred in the ocean, the study said. This data showed how temperature rose at different latitudes as the mass extinction unfolded. El Niño events today are known to cause coral bleaching and mass mortality of fish, the study noted, but the ecological impact and future trajectory of El Niño events in a warming climate are unknown.

Persons: ”, Paul Wignall, David Bond, Paul Wignall El, Alex Farnsworth, El, ” Wignall, Niño, “, Yadong Sun, Niños, Wignall, Farnsworth, Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Chiarenza, wasn’t Organizations: CNN, University of Leeds, El, University of Hull, UK’s University of Bristol, China University of Geosciences, University of Bristol, Royal Society Newton International, University College London’s, supervolcanoes Locations: what’s, Russia, United Kingdom, Ellesmere, El, Pacific, Wuhan

☆ I quit BlackRock after slogging my way to VP in 7 years. I have no regrets.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I remembered meeting up with friends who didn't work in the industry. AdvertisementLeaving BlackRock for the startup worldI took an 80% pay cut when I quit my job at BlackRock to join Style Theory, a fashion rental startup. Ong took an 80% pay cut when she left BlackRock for Style Theory. One thing that Style Theory offered me was the huge amount of autonomy I had as an employee. After leaving Style Theory, I moved to Singapore just a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Persons: —, Jennifer Ong, BlackRock, Ong, Jennifer, I'd Organizations: Service, BlackRock, Business Locations: Singapore

☆ Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest showcases mesmerizing photos
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The phases of Venus, the Aurora Australis and the International Space Station transiting the Sun all feature as category winners in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Ryan Imperio was named the overall winner for his photograph capturing the progression of Baily’s beads during the 2023 annular eclipse, according to a Thursday statement from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, which runs the competition. “These are a challenge to capture due to their brevity and the precise timing needed.”Imperio said that he didn’t expect to win the competition. “The images selected each year are absolutely astonishing and I am both thrilled and honoured to have my photo among them,” he said in the statement. Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

Persons: Ryan Imperio, ” Imperio, ”, Ed Bloomer, Victoria Lane Organizations: CNN, Space, Astronomy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, Royal Observatory, Royal Museums Greenwich, National Maritime Museum Locations: Victoria, London

☆ OpenAI takes another step closer to getting AI to think like humans with new 'o1' model
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The new model can work through complex tasks and, in comparison to previous models, solve more difficult problems in science, coding, and math. AdvertisementFor example, it beat GPT-4o — a multimodal model OpenAI unveiled in May — in the qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad by a long shot. Over the summer, while o1 was still in development, the company unveiled a new five-level classification system for tracking its progress toward that goal. But when Mollick asked o1 to solve a crossword puzzle, it thought about it for a "full 108 seconds" before responding. AdvertisementSince OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 last year, it's been releasing successive iterations in its quest to invent AGI.

Persons: —, OpenAI, Ethan Mollick, Mollick, Gary Marcus, it's Organizations: Service, Business, o1, International, Company, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, New York University Locations: —, AGI, GPT

☆ China’s secretive space plane has returned to Earth
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Simone Mccarthy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Here’s what we know – and don’t – about China’s space plane. The term “space plane” often evokes NASA’s Space Shuttle, which flew 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, carrying astronauts into orbit and helping to construct the International Space Station. Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesWhat do we know about China’s space plane program? China’s space plane development comes as a growing number of countries are paying attention to the deepening connections between security on Earth and in space – and vying for so-called counterspace technologies with the potential to disrupt or even destroy adversaries’ assets in space. But observers have also raised questions about the activities of the space plane, including its own deployment of multiple small satellites.

Persons: –, “ It’s, Chance Saltzman, NASA's, “, It’s, ”, Juliana Suess, Clayton Swope, Joe Skipper, Brendan Mulvaney Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Boeing, Xinhua, Shuttle, Space, Space Force, Columbia, NASA's Kennedy Space Center, US Space Shuttle, Hulton, China Aerospace Science, Technology Corporation, Royal United Services Institute, Aerospace Security, Center for Strategic, International Studies, SpaceX, Earth, US Space Force, United, Foundation, China Aerospace Studies Institute, US Air Force Locations: China, Hong Kong, United States, Soviet, “, Florida, Xinjiang, London, Washington

Beijing/Hong Kong CNN —Married for seven years, Hansen and his wife Momo care for six little ones at their apartment in downtown Beijing. By 2030, the number of pets in urban China alone will almost double the number of young children across the country, according to its projection. The country’s pet ownership rate would be even higher if the number of dogs and cats in rural areas were included. Its birth rate also dipped to 6.39 births per 1,000 people, the lowest rate since the founding of Communist China in 1949. I think it’s just that we love dogs,” Hansen said.

Persons: Hong Kong CNN —, Hansen, Momo, ”, Beijing hasn’t, they’ve, Justin Robertson, Goldman Sachs, Mao Zedong’s, Goldman, It’s, “, Tao, CNN Tao, CNN Stuart Gietel, aren’t, Basten, “ We’re, ” Hansen, Xi Jinping Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Research, CNN, Publishing, Authorities, Communist, Hong Kong University of Science, Technology Locations: China, Beijing, Hong Kong, Australia, France, India, Japan, East China's Jiangsu, Communist China, Basten

☆ How Lauren Chen went from ‘alt-lite’ YouTuber to alleged Russian asset
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Brandy-Zadrozny-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Brandy Zadrozny | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

The DOJ did not name Tenet Media but NBC News identified the company based on its description in the indictment. Unlike the influencers alleged to have been victims of RT and Tenet Media, who denied knowing they were working for Russia, Chen has said nothing since the indictment made news. “By connecting to and interacting with one another through YouTube videos, influencers with mainstream audiences lend their credibility to openly white nationalist and other extremist content creators,” Lewis wrote. Following the unsealing of the indictment, TheBlaze fired Chen and Turning Point USA removed her author page from its website. YouTube terminated all four of Chen’s pages, erasing thousands of videos and nearly a decade of work, including the channel for Tenet Media.

Persons: Lauren Chen, Chen, Liam Donovan, Candace, Jason Davis, Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Lauren Southern, — Chen, “, Michael Knowles gushed, Richard Spencer, ” Knowles, Tenet, Milo Yiannopoulos, ” Yiannopoulos, she’s, Yiannopoulos, Spencer, Rebecca Lewis, Ben Shapiro, Lewis ’, ” Lewis, Evie, Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze, TheBlaze, ”, Fuentes’s, Nikki Haley “, Matt Christiansen, Donovan “ Organizations: Department of Justice, DOJ, NBC News, Tenet Media, Trump, RT, Getty, YouTube, Tenet, University of Southern, College Republicans, Brigham Young University, Facebook, Southern Poverty Law Center, Data & Society, ”, “, Scouting, United Nations Locations: Russian, Russia, Nashville, Tenn, Southern, Canadian, Shanghai, Singapore, London, “, University of Southern California, Charlottesville , Virginia, Stanford, Israel, Gaza, Ukraine

☆ Bill Gates shares the single-minded attitude he used to grow Microsoft: I focused my life 'just on the one job'
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

When Bill Gates dropped out of college to co-found Microsoft, he wasn't thinking about becoming a billionaire or running a company that's now valued at more than $3 trillion. At the time, in 1976, computer obsessives like Gates and co-founder Paul Allen were considered "hobbyists" — yet they fervently believed that a technological revolution was imminent. And I was willing to focus my life, in my 20s, just on software, just on the one job," says Gates. Specifically, that job was creating high-quality software that could make the general public actually embrace the personal computer. That intense focus on creating the best product possible didn't mean Gates wasn't aware that there was also money to be made — in fact, he insisted upon it from the beginning.

Persons: Bill Gates, Gates, Paul Allen, Allen, —, Netflix docuseries Organizations: Microsoft, CNBC, Forbes, Netflix

☆ Jamie Lee Curtis said the secret to her 40-year marriage is a 'really good dose of hatred'
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Erin Liam | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewJamie Lee Curtis said the key to her 40-year marriage with the filmmaker Christopher Guest is not to leave — even when they hate each other. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. The 65-year-old actor added that "perseverance, patience, gentleness, and a really good dose of hatred" are what she thinks make a marriage work. Thomas and Donahue, who had been married for 44 years, asked Curtis what she thought the secret to a long marriage was. Avigail Lev, a therapist in San Francisco, previously told Business Insider that couples could follow the psychologist John Gottman's "magic ratio of 5:1."

Persons: —, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Guest, Curtis, Aw, Marlo Thomas, Phil Donahue, Thomas, Donahue, I'm, Annie, Avigail Lev, John Gottman's, Gottman, Lev, Curtis didn't Organizations: Service, Creative, Business, Stone, BI Locations: San Francisco

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