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The deadline for China to sell U.S. TikTok assets has been extended multiple times., (NewsNation) — The United States has the “framework” of a deal in place to allow social media app TikTok to continue operating in the country, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The announcement came days beforeContinue Reading

A Fusion-Reactor-Inspired Thruster Could Deorbit Space Junk

There are plenty of labs working on solutions to Kessler Syndrome, where there’s so much debris in low Earth orbit that rockets are no longer capable of reaching it without being hit with hypersonic parts of defunct equipment. While we haven’t yet gotten to the point where we’ve lost access to space, there will comeContinue Reading

Watch SpaceX launch Northrop Grumman’s biggest-ever cargo spacecraft on its 1st mission to the ISS today

SpaceX launched Northrop Grumman’s new “Cygnus XL” cargo ship on its debut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday evening (Sept. 14). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Cygnus freighter lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 6:11 p.m. EDT (2211 GMT). The mission is known as NG-23, because itContinue Reading

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We’ve been tracking the growing judicial revolt against the Supreme Court’s shadow docket nonsense, from individual district judges getting snarky in footnotes to anonymous judges speaking to reporters. But what happened Thursday at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals crosses into entirely new territory: a full en banc panel ofContinue Reading

Canadian government looking at dropping Chinese EV tariff

The federal government is considering scrapping tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EV), a move that could bring more affordable EVs to the country but may also hurt the existing auto sector. Per CTV News, Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald said on Sept. 9 that the government was reviewing a decision to scrap or reduce EV tariffs…Continue Reading

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The first maintenance update to the recent release of VirtualBox 7.2 is out, fixing critical startup crashes and making TPM emulation on Linux work again. VirtualBox 7.2.2 fixes issues with virtual machines not starting on Windows on ARM (WoA) devices. WoA improvements headlined the initial 7.2 releases so ensuring virtualisationContinue Reading