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Mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ detected closer to Earth than ever before
Thirty thousand years ago, a dead star on the other side of the Milky Way belched out a powerful mixture of radio and X-ray energy. On April 28, 2020, that belch swept over Earth, triggering alarms at observatories around the world.
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‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ warps into the animated comedy frontier with ‘Second Contact’
“Star Trek” has a new animated series — only the second ever for the franchise — that warped onto television Aug. 6 to join the acclaimed collection of shows that currently includes “Star Trek: Discovery” and “Star Trek: Picard”.
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Mercedes-Benz E-Class E300e 2020 UK review
The E-Class gets a welcome facelift and technological revamp, but if it’s a PHEV you want, the diesel is better
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Computer scientist Frances Allen, known for her work on compiling, dies at 88
Frances Allen, whose work on computer compiling helped establish a foundation for much of modern computer programming, died on August 4th, her 88th birthday. She was the first woman to win the Turing Award, and the first female IBM fellow. Allen was determined to make the tedious compiling process — […]
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US passes 5 million coronavirus cases
As school districts across the country struggle to figure out how — or if— to safely reopen schools to teachers and students, the number of coronavirus cases in the US passed 5 million on Sunday, according to the Coronavirus Research Center at Johns Hopkins University. And according to a Washington […]
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What I’ll miss most about not being in Monterey
According to my calendar, I should be picking Bob Golfen up this morning at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport and then driving to Salinas, California, to check into a motel for the night. Then, on Monday morning, we’d drive past WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on our way to check in […]
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A final visit to the original Vauxhall design studio
Vauxhall has vacated its Luton headquarters after 55 years. We pay one last visit to what was once one of the world’s finest car design studios