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Enlarge (credit: Rocket Lab) Welcome to Edition 1.27 of the Rocket Report! After a week off for Thanksgiving break, we’re chock full of news about rockets and engines from around the world—some of which seem fanciful, and some of which are real developments. As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don’t want to […]
Enlarge / Wi-Fi connects the world together, but it’s still quite complicated. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Look, Wi-Fi still kind of sucks. And marketing excesses aside, its worst problems all revolve around airtime distribution among multiple devices. Unlike LTE (the protocol cellular data uses), 802.11 WI-Fi is a protocol with no central management, which leaves all […]
Cruise & Maritime Voyages has a fleet of six much-loved ships that are quietly comfortable rather than frantically modern, with most of them designed to please their mainly British passengers. Flagship Columbus is based at Tilbury with Marco Polo offering departures from other British ports such as Bristol, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Newcastle and Rosyth – as […]
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has called an end to his latest dalliance with retirement, and agreed to step into the ring with kickboxer Nasukawa at Rizin’s year-end show in Saitama, Japan. RT Sport gives you the lowdown on his opponent, Rizin and discusses whether this is a publicity stunt or true athletic endeavor. Combat sports retirements […]
Enlarge / Waymo CEO John Krafcik in 2017. (credit: Misha Friedman/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Last Thursday, Waymo dropped something of a bombshell: it has begun commercial operations of its self-driving taxi service. And it made the announcement in the most anticlimactic way possible. Ruth Porat, CFO of parent company Alphabet, announced the news in answer […]
Venom still has his fangs firmly in the international box office. Likely to remain the top film worldwide for a second week, Spider-Man’s iconic enemy is proving a major hit with fans. Hopes were high before release and the filmmakers clearly already had an eye on what would come next. With the dramatic final scenes […]
HEADACHE is pain felt in the region of the head and neck and usually aren’t the sign of anything serious. But with over a hundred different types and subtypes of headaches, what does yours mean? Although the symptoms are largely the same, the causes are very diverse.
Retailers and their logistics partners have been pushed to meet growing customer demands for increasingly speedy shipping. And the steady rise of e-commerce has caused the daily volume of parcel shipments to skyrocket — two trends that, for the foreseeable future, are only going to continue. With fulfillment giants like Amazon constantly nipping at their […]
“We have a Hulk.” Loki’s famous last words (almost literally) were also the last time they were true. The fight on board the Asgard vessel at the start of Avengers 3 was the last time Hulk fully manifested. The latest Infinity War home entertainment packages come with a full directors’ and writers’ commentary which reveals […]
A BLOOD pressure reading can be confusing to understand, but is actually pretty simple once you know what the numbers mean. Here’s what you need to know to determine if your blood pressure is normal, too high or too low.
