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US and Russian astronauts stuck waiting in space after spacecraft suffered damage

US and Russian astronauts stuck waiting in space after spacecraft suffered damage

BREVARD, Fla. — NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin are faced with extending their stay aboard the International Space Station by several months and will require a new ride home after their Russian MS-22 Soyuz spacecraft sprang a leak last month. The trio was supposed to use that spacecraft to return to Earth in March. Wednesday, NASA and Russian space officials unveiled a plan to launch an empty Soyuz capsule to the ISS to ferry them back… Source link

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Twitter is imploding. What if digital tools like maps and Google suffered a similar fate?

Twitter is imploding. What if digital tools like maps and Google suffered a similar fate?

Instead of providing the most direct route, your maps app routes you by a company’s advertisers on the way to your destination. An apps store is littered with malware and scams. A trusted search engine refuses to return results for competitors’ products. If that kind of digital apocalypse seems like a paranoid fantasy, maybe you haven’t been paying attention to what’s been going on at Twitter, where the implosion of the blue-check system as we know it has made it nearly impossible to… Source link

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Sam Bankman-Fried secretly transferred FTX customer funds to Alameda Research after his trading firm suffered losses in the spring, report says

Sam Bankman-Fried secretly transferred FTX customer funds to Alameda Research after his trading firm suffered losses in the spring, report says

Sam Bankman-Fried.Craig Barritt/Getty Images for CARE For Special Children Sam Bankman-Fried transferred at least $4 billion in FTX funds to Alameda Research earlier this year, sources told Reuters. The money included customer funds as well as those backed by FTX’s native token FTT and shares in Robinhood.  The Wall Street Journal reported FTX lent more than half of its $16 billion in customer funds to Alameda in total. Sam Bankman-Fried transferred at least $4 billion from FTX to Alameda… Source link

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‘We have suffered a huge loss here’

‘We have suffered a huge loss here’

Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger provided new perspective on how the role of local newspapers and traditional newsrooms are increasingly being replaced by untrustworthy voices. “We are going to miss these newspapers terribly,” Munger said at the Daily Journal’s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday. “Each newspaper… was an independent bastion of power. The economic position was so impregnable… and the ethos of a journalist was to try to tell it like it is. And they… Source link

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