Has this supermini evolved into a true class champion for its fifth generation? Four months behind the wheel should reveal all
No escape from the dreaded crusher: seized bikes destroyed and displayed in local town centre
Police have gone through with their threat to crush seized motorbikes and display the results in Corby town centre. MCN spoke to Superintendent Kev Mulligan earlier this year about the plan to take repeat offending, unroadworthy or stolen bikes with no obvious owners off the road for good.
Gooding sets online auction record with $3.08M sale of Ferrari 275 GTB
A 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB Long Nose has set an online-only auction record for highest-priced collector car, reaching $3.08 million during Gooding & Company’s inaugural Geared Online sale on August 7.
NASA’s planet Hunter completes its primary mission
On July 4, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finished its primary mission, imaging about 75% of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long survey. In capturing this giant mosaic, TESS has found 66 new exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, as well as nearly 2,100 candidates astronomers […]
Radio relics detected in the galaxy cluster SPT-CL J2032−5627
Using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), astronomers have performed observations of a cluster of galaxies known as SPT-CL J2032−5627. They identified two radio relics that could improve our knowledge about this cluster. The finding is reported in a paper published August 3 on arXiv.org.
The Journal Podcast: Petersen Car Week
Since August 2012, Terry Karges has been the executive director of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. He has overseen a great deal of progress at the world famous museum. This week on the Journal Podcast, Karges tells us about his journey and talks Petersen Car Week – a […]
Google dodges lawsuit over Genius lyric scraping
On Tuesday, Google beat back a lawsuit over alleged scraping of song lyrics from Genius, a lyrics and commentary site. A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York found that while the claims of scraping were credible, the scraping did not constitute a copyright violation, and the lawsuit […]
Google announces new tools to help with virtual education during the pandemic
Google announced on Tuesday a number of new features on the way to help make virtual education easier, including updates to its Google Meet conferencing service and a new homework helper tool that just requires a photo from a phone.
‘Space cola wars’ at 35: When Coca-Cola, Pepsi tested soda in space
John-David Bartoe was having none of it.