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SpaceX faces high stakes for upcoming Starship rocket test flight

SpaceX faces high stakes for upcoming Starship rocket test flight

Published by Sam Flores

SpaceX plans to launch an updated version of its Starship megarocket — a new prototype of the system that NASA hopes will carry its astronauts to the moon in two years — on a critical test flight Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The stakes for Starship, and by extension for Elon Musk’s rocket company, have perhaps never been higher. SpaceX is developing Starship as part of NASA’s Artemis program and racing against its rival, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, to build a lunar lander for NASA to use in 2028, when it aims to put astronauts on the moon. Late next year, NASA intends to test one or both of those new vehicles in low-Earth orbit on the Artemis III mission. At the same time, SpaceX is preparing to go public. Its highly anticipated IPO, expected next month, could be the biggest of all time. Reuters reported Friday that the company aims to make its prospectus ​public as early as Wednesday — the day after …

College Kid Shuts Down High Speed Trains With a Laptop and a Radio

College Kid Shuts Down High Speed Trains With a Laptop and a Radio

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech In Taiwan, a 23-year-old college student is in hot water after hacking the country’s high speed rail system with a hodge-podge setup consisting of a laptop and a couple of radios. According to the Taipei Times, the incident disrupted four separate trains, causing nearly an hours-long delay across various rail lines. Identified only by his surname Lin, the student is alleged to have sent an alarm signal to the Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSRC) control center, which triggered a travel-stop and subsequent investigation. Basically, Lin had used a software-defined radio — a simple device using software instead of hardware to receive and broadcast radio signals — to monitor the THSRC’s channels. Analyzing the data he intercepted, the college student was able to crack the various rail codes so that he could later transmit his own, a feat which required breaking through seven layers of verification. While the hacking was reckless, Lin isn’t the only one to blame here. …

Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale

Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale

Published by skeptic

As Meta employees brace for layoffs next Wednesday, May 20, many say the vibes are horrifically, historically low. “Everyone is unhappy; the only people who are not unhappy are, literally, executives,” says an employee who works on Instagram. The social media giant plans to cut about 10 percent of its workforce, or nearly 8,000 people, “to run the company more efficiently” and “offset the other investments” it’s making, according to a human resources leader. But the layoffs, which will add to the roughly 25,000 cuts Meta has announced over the past four years, are far from the only cause of rock-bottom morale. Widening pay gaps among employees, courtroom losses for the company, and mandatory role changes for hundreds of top engineers have also contributed to what employees view as a uniquely grim atmosphere inside Meta. Yet another issue has been the recent installation of corporate software on employees’ computers to track their activity solely in the name of training AI, according to 16 current and former employees from a variety of roles who spoke with …

Queen Camilla just wore a high street dress for the second time in 2026

Queen Camilla just wore a high street dress for the second time in 2026

Published by Daniella Wilson

On Tuesday, Queen Camilla attended a reception at Clarence House to celebrate Medical Detection Dogs. Looking as resplendent as ever, the chic royal shunned bespoke creations from her beloved designers, Anna Valentine and Fiona Clare, and instead wore a stunning dress from luxury high street store, Boden. Following in the footsteps of her royal relative, the Princess of Wales, who has a plethora of items from the UK-based brand, Camilla donned the ‘Smocked Jersey Shirt Dress’ in a delightful raspberry red.  © POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesQueen Camilla looked fabulous in her Boden gown The button-down design featured a statement, decorative blossom print, and she expertly styled the ensemble with nude heels. The dress has since flown off the virtual shelves, with only sizes six and eight left available to purchase.  Camilla’s dress is selling out fast Camilla’s high street fits This is the second time the royal has worn a high street dress this year. Channelling ‘My Fair Lady’ monochrome, the mother-of-two held a reception for the final of the BBC’s creative writing competition, 500 Words, at Windsor Castle, …

Frieze New York Kicks Off with Seven-Figure Sales and High Energy

Frieze New York Kicks Off with Seven-Figure Sales and High Energy

Published by José Betancourt

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. A high level of energy was palpable at the preview day of the Frieze New York art fair on Wednesday. Many attendees at the Shed, on Manhattan’s West Side, were fresh off a return trip from Italy, where the Venice Biennale opened to the public on Saturday, and many were still comparing notes on best national pavilions and most heated protests.  Related Articles But the order of the day was art sales, and for some of the 65 or so international galleries exhibiting, they were in full swing before the paintings were even hung on the walls and the doors opened to VIPs at 11 a.m. Tif Sigfrids, of New York’s Canada gallery, told ARTnews that presales had already been good the week leading up to the fair. Over coffee and pastries at the 10 a.m. breakfast event, advisor Lowell Pettit said that he had already placed a Stephen Shore photograph from New York’s 303 …

One change to my workout helped me combat my high cortisol levels and years of stress

One change to my workout helped me combat my high cortisol levels and years of stress

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Exercise can make you feel happy; any 11-year-old who’s had a quick biology lesson on endorphins can tell you that. The so-called “runner’s high” has the potential to pick us up and lift us out of a low mood – or even diminish pain – before our bodies stabilise and return to our baseline from around 30 minutes to a couple of hours after we cross the finish line. For a long time I’ve used exercise like pulling the eject cord on my brain: Anxious? Go on a stop-start 5k. Ruminating on destructive thoughts? Book a gym class. Unexplained edginess? Walk until your legs get sore – but the euphoria would always wear off, thumping me straight back down to where I started. Until …

The ‘neglected’ North London high street plagued by phone snatchings, shoplifting and knife crime

The ‘neglected’ North London high street plagued by phone snatchings, shoplifting and knife crime

Published by Sam Flores

“You cycle five minutes either side of Kilburn High Road and the area completely changes. We’ve been forgotten.” Omri Chetrit has run Folkies Music, a instrument store and repair workshop, since 2008. He’s a respected luthier, entrusted by stars such as Matty Healy, frontman of The 1975, and The Pretenders legend Chrissy Hynde, who come to him from across London. But these days, the 47-year-old finds himself becoming increasingly interrupted by crime right outside the well-established business. This is a sentiment shared along the high street, with residents complaining of constant phone snatchings, shop raids and stabbings. “I’ve seen three people robbed with my own eyes in the last few months,” Omri said, pointing at a bus stop opposite his shop, “These guys on scooters or electric motorbikes go on the pavement and then speed off. “If it’s not that, it’s Tesco staff getting abused and shoplifted from or drug addicts milling around. It’s happening on a daily basis.” Despite some concerns, Omri and staff members Thomas and Omer all love the ‘vibrancy’ of Kilburn …

In Irony-Soaked Incident, Amazon Data Center Shuts Down Due to High Temperatures

In Irony-Soaked Incident, Amazon Data Center Shuts Down Due to High Temperatures

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech On Thursday, Amazon Web Services said that one of its major data centers in north Virginia was overheating so much that it had to be shut down. According to The Next Web, AWS engineers were forced to throttle their services and then reroute customer traffic to other facilities, affecting customers like the crypto platform Coinbase, which experienced an “extended outage of core trading services.” Things hadn’t improved by Friday morning, and Amazon refused to give an estimate as to when the issue would be resolved. “We are actively working to bring additional cooling system capacity online, which will enable us to recover the remaining affected hardware in the impacted zone,” AWS said in an update. Though the issue was said to have been resolved by 11:30am on Friday, an “ongoing issue” in the company’s north Virginia region was still causing timeouts on some AWS services more than an hour later. As Daniel Mewton, an energy infrastructure expert and …

Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete, even as revenue hit a record high

Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete, even as revenue hit a record high

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Cloudflare on Thursday joined a growing list of tech companies — including Meta, Microsoft, and Google — that have reported increased revenue alongside and massive layoffs, attributing both trends to their use of AI. Cloudflare, which provides internet security and performance services to millions of websites worldwide, announced it was cutting its workforce by approximately 20%, which equates to 1,100 people, it said as part of its first quarter 2026 earnings report on Thursday. “We’ve never done something like this in Cloudflare’s history,” co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said Thursday on the quarterly conference call, marking the first mass layoff in the company’s 16-year history. The company is cutting people from all teams and geographies except for salespeople who carry revenue quotas, CFO Thomas Seifert detailed on the call. The news of the workforce cuts came as the company reported quarterly revenues of $639.8 million, a 34% year-over-year increase and the highest single quarter in the company’s history. However, this was coupled with a loss of $62.0 million compared with losing $53.2 million in the …

Plant-Based Foods May Help Lower Risk of High Blood Pressure

Plant-Based Foods May Help Lower Risk of High Blood Pressure

Published by Sam Flores

By HealthDay Staff HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, May 8, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Everyday foods like beans, lentils and tofu may help lower your risk of developing high blood pressure. In a new study — published May 7 in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health — people with higher legume intake were 16% less likely to develop high blood pressure, while higher soy intake was linked to a 19% lower risk. The findings come from an analysis of 12 observational studies involving hundreds of thousands of adults in the U.S., Asia and Europe. “Current legume consumption across Europe and the U.K. remains below dietary recommendations, with average intakes of only 8 to 15 g/day, far below the recommendations of 65 to 100 g/day recommended for overall cardiovascular health,” the study says. The greatest reduction in hypertension risk was linked to just under one cup (170 grams) of legumes a day, including peas, lentils, chickpeas and beans. The biggest benefit with soy was seen with a 2- to 3- ounce (60- to 80-gram) serving of foods like tofu, edamame, …