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☆ Japan's ispace launches world's first commercial moon lander
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Rocky Swift | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

ispace Inc's HAKUTO-R mission took off without incident from Cape Canaveral, Florida, after two postponements caused by inspections of its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The project was a finalist in the Google Lunar XPRIZE before being revived as a commercial venture. The M1 lander will deploy two robotic rovers, a two-wheeled, baseball-sized device from Japan's JAXA space agency and the four-wheeled Rashid explorer made by the United Arab Emirates. "The Rashid rover is part of the United Arab Emirates ambitious space programme," said Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who is also vice-president of the United Arab Emirates and who watched the launch at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre. Privately funded ispace has a contract with NASA to ferry payloads to the moon from 2025 and is aiming to build a permanently staffed lunar colony by 2040.

☆ Polygamous leader in Arizona had more than 20 ‘wives,’ including children, feds say
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Bateman was the leader of a branch of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the affidavit said. The girls had escaped from their group homes in Arizona, the affidavit said. On Sept. 14, nine girls were taken into custody with the Arizona Department of Child Services, according to the affidavit. A defendant named in the affidavit became one of Bateman’s wives when she was under 18. The woman left Bateman and that's when he began accumulating wives, the affidavit said.

☆ What TV Shows Did We Watch in 2022? So Far, A Lot of Crime
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Beth Decarbo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jason Bateman as Marty Byrde, the money-laundering financial adviser in ‘Ozark,’ one of the top streaming shows of the year. Even when Americans chill out in front of the TV, crime is on their minds. In the first half of 2022, six of the top 10 shows offered by the major streaming services dealt with crime and criminals, both real and fictional, according to an analysis of the first half of the year by Nielsen Co. Topping the list was “Stranger Things,” a sci-fi mystery that investigates a boy’s disappearance. Coming in second was “Ozark,” in which a fictitious financial adviser moves to Missouri’s Ozarks to launder money.

☆ Charlize Theron faces backlash after saying Afrikaans, her mother tongue, is dying out
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Toyin Owoseje | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“It’s definitely a dying language, it’s not a very helpful language,” she told hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett. Theron’s remarks soon sparked a social media debate in South Africa. While some branded her ill-informed, others agreed that Afrikaans was a “dead language.”“Charlize Theron is a legend!” one Twitter commentator wrote. It’s a tool once used to oppress Africans.”Another Twitter user said: “This statement was made by Charlize Theron to appease Hollywood. “It’s not a ‘dying language’, and it’s not only spoken by 44 people.

☆ Kevin Bacon explains how he lost 'most' of his fortune to Bernie Madoff: 'There's obvious life lessons there'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Kevin Bacon is opening up about how he and his wife lost "most of our money" in Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme. "There's obvious life lessons there," Bacon said. Madoff's massive fraud scheme is estimated to have ripped clients off to the tune of $65 billion. Despite the massive financial hit he took, Bacon admitted that he didn't expect to receive much sympathy for what he experienced. "There's always going to be somebody that's going to have it a lot worse than you."

From Tuesday, Japan will reinstate visa-free travel to dozens of countries, ending some of world's strictest border controls to slow the spread of COVID-19. Just over half a million visitors have come to Japan so far in 2022, compared with a record 31.8 million in 2019. GHOST TOWNNarita Airport, Japan's biggest international airport some 70 kilometres from Tokyo, remains eerily quiet, with about half of its 260 shops and restaurants shuttered. Whether overseas visitors wear face masks and abide by other common infection controls in Japan is another concern. "From the start of the pandemic until now, we've had just a few foreign guests," said Tokyo innkeeper Sawa.

The work builds upon previous insect-control experiments at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and could one day result in cyborg insects that can enter hazardous areas much more efficiently than robots. Even when the backpack and film are glued to their backs, the bugs can traverse small obstacles or right themselves when flipped over. Kakei said he constructed the cyborg backpack with 5,000 yen ($35) worth of parts purchased at Tokyo's famed Akihabara electronics district. The backpack and film can be removed, allowing the roaches to go back to life in the lab's terrarium. Beyond disaster rescue bugs, Fukuda sees broad applications for the solar cell film, composed of microscopic layers of plastic, silver, and gold.

☆ BBC: Ce înseamnă victoria lui Biden pentru restul lumii
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-09 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +8 min

Victoria lui Joe Biden oferă o altă provocare pentru sistemul chinez, scrie John Sudworth la Beijing. Kremlinul n-a ratat recenta declarație a lui Joe Biden, care a numit Rusia drept “cea mai mare amenințare” pentru America. Deci, este posibil ca Joe Biden să fie inițial mai dornic să vorbească cu Bruxelles-ul, Berlinul sau Parisul decât cu Londra. În schimb, Joe Biden a cerut Coreei de Nord să arate că este dispusă să renunțe la programul său de arme nucleare înainte de orice contact cu Kim Jong-un. Sub președintele Trump, sancțiunile SUA și o politică de presiune maximă au lăsat Iranul să se prăbușească la marginea colapsului economic.

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