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☆ I used a 'light hypnosis' app for a month. It helped my productivity, but I was more blown away by what it did to my downtime.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Julie Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Julie Peck is a freelancer who was having trouble focusing on tasks, so she tried the app BrainTap. Similar audio programs are available for free on YouTube and Spotify, as well as on rival meditation apps like Insight Timer, Sacred Acoustics, and EquiSync. BrainTap app screenshot. Screenshot of different modules on BrainTap app. I've listened to the focus programs first thing in the morning, during the afternoon, and at the end of the day.

☆ Boeing's role in building NASA's new rocket
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

The mobile launcher with NASA's SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay 3 to Launch Complex 39B on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “I worked over 50 Space Shuttle launches,” Boeing SLS program manager John Shannon told CNN by phone. Though more than 1,000 companies were involved with designing and building SLS, Boeing’s work involved the largest and most expensive portion of the rocket. The SLS rocket ended up flying its first launch more than six years later than originally intended. All of the “major components” for a third SLS rocket are also completed, Shannon added.

☆ India may exempt 30 GW of solar plants from equipment duty - sources
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Sarita Chaganti Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Solar panels are seen inside the premises of the Jaisalmer Airport in desert state of Rajasthan, India, August 13, 2015. REUTERS/Anindito MukherjeeNEW DELHI, Jan 11 (Reuters) - India may exempt some solar projects from paying duties on equipment imports, according to government and industry sources, to bring renewable-energy capacity additions back on schedule and lower consumer power tariffs. Projects with 30 gigawatts of capacity will benefit, the sources said. Solar power projects with a combined capacity of at least 30 gigawatts have been either delayed or are facing an uncertain future due to the increase in module prices and also due to supply constraints, according to the National Solar Energy Federation of India. Imported solar modules cost about 40 cents per watt of capacity while domestic ones cost 37 cents per watt.

☆ Apple Maps is getting a big update. Here's what it looks like
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Apple announced a big update to Apple Maps on Wednesday that will add new photos, buttons and promotions to the app on business pages. The move will encourage Apple Maps users to seek more than just directions by offering new information and photos about business locations. For example, businesses on Apple Maps can now display a "Showcase," or a module with a big picture and the ability to highlight deals or limited-time promotions. Apple Maps will also let businesses add buttons to the top of their profile to let people order or make reservations. Here are some changes coming to the Apple Maps app:

SEOUL, Jan 11 (Reuters) - South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp (009830.KS) said on Wednesday its unit Hanwha Q Cells will invest a total of $2.5 billion to build a solar power manufacturing value chain in the U.S. state of Georgia through June 2025. The company's board approved on Wednesday a $2.31 investment to build a solar power ingot, wafer, cell and module factory, the company said in a regulatory filing. This is in addition to a roughly $200 billion U.S. investment approved late last year, a Hanwha Solutions spokesperson said. With the investment, the company is expected to increase its solar module production capacity in the United States from 1.7 gigawatts as of 2022 to 8.4 gigawatts as of 2024, Hanwha Solutions said in a press conference. Reporting by Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Tom HogueOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Walter Cunningham, last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut, dies at 90
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. It was NASA’s first crewed space mission since the deaths of the three Apollo 1 astronauts in a launch pad fire Jan. 27, 1967. “We never even knew that there were astronauts when I was growing up,” Cunningham told The Spokesman-Review. After retiring from NASA in 1971, Cunningham worked in engineering, business and investing, and became a public speaker and radio host. Although Cunningham never crewed another space mission after Apollo 7, he remained a proponent of space exploration.

☆ I used a 'light hypnosis' app for a month. It helped my productivity, but I was blown away by what it did to my downtime.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Julie Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

☆ This $500 at-home urine lab sits in your toilet and tests your pee — then sends results to your smartphone
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Withings' U-Scan is a new at-home urine-testing device. A thermal sensor detects urine after you pee on the device, and it syncs with an app on your phone. After four years of development and 13 patents, electronics company Withings announced on Wednesday U-Scan, an at-home urine lab that is placed in your toilet and sends results to an app on your smartphone. Withings said it plans to launch U-Scan in the US at a later time following clearance by the Food and Drug Administration. Two kinds of cartridges will be available in Europe: U-Scan Cycle Sync, focused on women's cycle tracking, and U-Scan Nutri Balance, focused on hydration and nutrition.

☆ The $360 billion electric car battery market will determine the fate of electric vehicles
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Alexa St. John | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

There's also money to be made: The EV battery market could hit $360 billion by 2030, according to McKinsey. At Insider, we've looked at white-hot EV battery technologies that give automakers the EV performance they need at the price their customers want. We've investigated how automakers are securing enough battery supply, especially amid the call for domestic sourcing brought on by requirements in President Joe Biden's climate bill. It just led a $400 million investment into the little-known EV battery startup that could make it work. The soon-to-be $339 billion battery industry is on a hiring tear to power the shift to electric cars.

☆ Former astronaut Cunningham, member of first crewed Apollo flight, dies at age 90
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Astronaut Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7 lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo 7 mission in this October 1968 NASA handout photo. NASA/Handout via Reuters/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew to space aboard Apollo 7 in 1968, part of the first crewed Apollo mission paving the way for 12 others to land on the moon in subsequent years, died on Tuesday at age 90, NASA said. Cunningham joined crewmates Walter Schirra and Donn Eisele for the successful 11-day mission, which was conducted in low-Earth orbit as the first human test flight of the new Apollo spacecraft that would later venture to the moon. Apollo 7 marked the resumption of NASA's lunar spaceflight program 21 months after the fire that killed all three members of the Apollo 1 crew during a ground-based launch rehearsal in late January 1967. "Walt Cunningham was a fighter pilot, physicist, and an entrepreneur – but, above all, he was an explorer," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement announcing his death.

The first full-color image released from the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope is the sharpest infrared image of the distant universe ever produced, according to NASA. Space Telescope Science Institut / NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERONASA released the first batch of images from the tennis court-sized observatory to much fanfare in July. The exoplanet HIP 65426 b in different bands of infrared light, as seen from the James Webb Space Telescope. Back to the moonFifty years after the final Apollo moon mission, NASA took key steps toward returning astronauts to the lunar surface. Chinese officials have also said they intend to use the space station for space tourism and commercial space initiatives.

☆ The tragic story of the only 3 cosmonauts who died in space
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

This Soviet crew had spent 23 days in space, setting a new record for human space flight endurance, and were finally coming home. They gathered existing equipment and hastily put together a space station that was launched on April 19, 1971. A treadmill was installed on the Salyut 1 and the cosmonauts forwent their space suits in the space station and Soyuz. But a few missteps on the ship and by the Soviet space program led to the tragic deaths of the cosmonauts. According to Siddiqi, the death of the three cosmonauts had a lasting impact on the Soviet space program afterward.

☆ Amazon and Microsoft are backing this battery-powered generator startup
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Diana Olick | In Dianaolick | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

While big legacy companies like Generac and Caterpillar are beginning to offer small battery-powered units in addition to their larger diesel generator lines, California-based startup Moxion Power is focused entirely on this new power frontier. Huelskamp says diesel generators are notoriously difficult and expensive to maintain and burn diesel fuel very inefficiently. Amazon is both investing in the company and currently leasing Moxion units for two video productions, a movie and a series. Roughly half of the carbon emissions from the average movie come from the fuel used to power generators and transportation. In addition to the Amazon Climate Pledge fund, Moxion's backers include the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Enterprise Holdings, Energy Impact Partners, Tamarack Global and Sunbelt Rentals.

☆ Russian Spacewalk Is Canceled Due to Coolant Leak
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Yan Zhuang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Russian specialists are working to “evaluate the fluid and potential impacts to the integrity of the Soyuz spacecraft,” NASA said. The Soyuz arrived at the ISS in September, bringing Mr. Prokopyev, Mr. Petelin and the American astronaut Frank Rubio. It is scheduled to return the three to Earth in March and also serves as a “lifeboat” for the space station in the case of an emergency. Mr. Prokopyev and Mr. Petelin were planning to use Wednesday’s spacewalk to relocate a radiator from one module to another on the space station. The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

☆ Unexplained leak from docked Soyuz spacecraft cancels Russian ISS spacewalk
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Steve Gorman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Dec 14 (Reuters) - A routine spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) was called off as it was about to begin after flight controllers noticed a stream of particles spewing from a docked Soyuz spacecraft, a NASA webcast showed. NASA said none of the seven members of the current International Space Station (ISS) crew - three Russian cosmonauts, three U.S. NASA astronauts and a Japanese astronaut - were thought to be in any danger. The spacewalk planned for Wednesday was postponed once before, in late November, because of faulty cooling pumps in the cosmonauts' spacesuits, Navias said. The spacewalk was to be the 12th this year at the ISS and the 257th in the history of the 20-year-old platform. Spacewalks are typically done for space station assembly, maintenance and upgrades, according to NASA.

☆ GM recalls 825,000 trucks, SUVs over headlight issue
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The recall covers 740,000 U.S. vehicles and 85,000 in Canada. GM said the body control module software will be updated by a dealer, or through an over-the-air update to address the issue. The recall is an expansion of a recall GM announced in November for the sale issue. The recall was prompted after a GM engineer submitted a report about the issue in October prompting a company investigation. Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Andrew Heavens, Marguerita Choy and David GregorioOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Set to Attempt Return as First Artemis Mission Ends
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The final leg of NASA’s inaugural Artemis mission is expected to unfold Sunday as the spacecraft the agency sent to orbit the moon tries to return to Earth. The crew module on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Orion spacecraft is slated to land under parachutes in the Pacific Ocean around 12:40 p.m. ET Sunday, off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California, according to NASA’s re-entry plan.

☆ NASA’s Artemis I Moon Mission Concludes With Orion Splashdown in the Pacific
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Orion spacecraft returned to Earth after a nearly monthlong voyage that took it to orbit the moon, concluding a test flight that the agency deemed a success and helping to reinvigorate its ambitions for deep-space exploration. After facing intense heat when it hurtled through the atmosphere, the Orion crew module—a gumdrop-shaped vehicle that astronauts are expected to travel in during future missions—landed in the Pacific Ocean under parachutes at 12:40 p.m. ET on Sunday, the agency said. The splashdown was west of Baja California in Mexico.

☆ NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Lands After Journey to Moon in Key Test for Artemis Mission
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

NASA’s Orion spacecraft hurtled through the atmosphere and landed in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, concluding a nearly monthlong test mission that sent it around the moon. The Orion crew module—a gumdrop-shaped vehicle that astronauts are expected to travel in during future Artemis missions—faced a significant test before splashing down under parachutes west of Baja California in Mexico. Its heat shield was expected to encounter temperatures of up to 5,000 degrees as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere from its journey orbiting the moon.

☆ NASA's Artemis mission concludes with Orion splashdown
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The Artemis I mission — a 25½-day uncrewed test flight around the moon meant to pave the way for future astronaut missions — is coming to an end as NASA’s Orion spacecraft is expected to make an ocean splashdown Sunday. Lockheed is NASA’s primary contractor for the Orion spacecraft. The space agency’s plans are to parlay the Artemis moon missions into a program that will send astronauts to Mars, a journey that will have a much faster and more daring reentry process. The Orion capsule captures a view of the lunar surface, with Earth in the background lit in the shape of a crescent by the sun. Artemis II will aim to send astronauts on a similar trajectory as Artemis I, flying around the moon but not landing on its surface.

☆ NASA's Artemis moon mission ends with splashdown
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The Artemis I mission — a 25½-day uncrewed test flight around the moon meant to pave the way for future astronaut missions — came to a momentous end as NASA’s Orion spacecraft made a successful ocean splashdown Sunday. That process, much like the rest of the mission, aims to ensure the Orion spacecraft is ready to fly astronauts. Lockheed is NASA’s primary contractor for the Orion spacecraft. The space agency’s plans are to parlay the Artemis moon missions into a program that will send astronauts to Mars, a journey that will have a much faster and more daring reentry process. Artemis II will aim to send astronauts on a similar trajectory as Artemis I, flying around the moon but not landing on its surface.

[1/4] NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from launch complex 39-B on the unmanned Artemis 1 mission to the moon, seen from Sebastian, Florida, U.S. November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Joe Rimkus Jr.Dec 11 (Reuters) - NASA's uncrewed Orion capsule hurtled through space on Sunday on the final return leg of its voyage around the moon and back, winding up the inaugural mission of the Artemis lunar program 50 years to the day after Apollo's final moon landing. The gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, carrying a simulated crew of three mannequins wired with sensors, was due to parachute into the Pacific at 9:39 a.m. PST (1739 GMT) near Guadalupe Island, off Mexico's Baja California peninsula. They were the last of 12 NASA astronauts to walk on the moon during a total of six Apollo missions starting in 1969. "It is our priority-one objective," NASA's Artemis I mission manager Mike Sarafin said at a briefing last week.

☆ NASA Prepares for Orion Spacecraft Splashdown to Conclude Artemis I Mission
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

NASA’s Artemis moon mission is set to conclude this weekend when the agency attempts to return part of the Orion spacecraft to Earth, a maneuver that will expose the vehicle to intense heat after a nearly monthlong journey. The crew module on the agency’s Orion spacecraft is expected to land under parachutes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California in Mexico around 12:40 p.m. ET on Sunday, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

☆ How to prevent against increasingly personalized attacks from hackers
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Ibm With Insider Studios | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

For today's hackers, it's personal. Rather than the massive "spray and pray" tactics of yesteryear, today's cybercriminals are getting creative with highly targeted and highly personalized attacks. Armed with better intel, today's cybercriminals are carrying out individually targeted, highly personalized attacks. According to the Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022, by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by IBM, 45% of data breaches occurred in the cloud. For many organizations, security is still viewed through a static and defensive lens.

☆ U.S. agency opens safety probes into Honda, Jeep, Ram vehicles
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is opening new safety probes into 1.72 million Honda vehicles, 230,000 Jeeps and 390,077 Ram trucks. The largest probe covers reports alleging a loss of power for more than 1.7 million U.S. 2018-2022 model year Honda CR-V and HR-V vehicles. NHTSA is also investigating 390,000 2017-2018 model year Ram 2500-3500 pickup trucks after received 134 reports alleging an intermittent or permanent loss of braking performance. A U.S. spokesman for Stellantis NV (STLA.MI), the parent company of Jeep and Ram, said it was fully cooperating in the investigations. There are no crashes or injuries reported in relation to any of vehicles in the three new investigations to date.

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