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SpaceX just completed its fourth hosted Hyperloop competition since its 2017 debut and Hyperloop inventor and CEO Elon Musk capped the successful event with a big claim: in 2020, SpaceX plans to host Competition 5 at a brand-new vacuum tunnel that could offer all kinds of new opportunities to next year’s student teams.According to Musk, that new track – presumably to be built by The Boring Company with SpaceX help – could be up to 10 km (6.2 mi) in length, will support a full vacuum like its 1.6 km (1 mi) predecessor, and will feature a curved track. Altogether,…
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Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 AI and the Predator Helios Neo 18 AI have been unveiled by the Taiwanese manufacturer. The gaming laptops are equipped with the latest Intel Core Ultra 200HX Series processors and Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs. The laptops are available with 16-inch and 18-inch display options, refresh rate of up to 250Hz, and a peak brightness level of up to 500 nits. For cooling, they come with 5th Gen AeroBlade 3D fans. The Predator Helios Neo 16 and Neo 18 AI laptops get up to 64GB RAM and 2TB storage.Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 AI,…
After seven years, I was done with dating apps.OK, I wasn’t. Who was I kidding? I’m not an extrovert, and I write about sex and dating for a living. My “done” with dating apps didn’t look like deleting my accounts or chucking the apps in a figurative trash can. But I was done relying on dating apps alone. I didn’t know at the time how true this would end up being, or that another social media platform would be the catalyst.Online dating sans dating appsIt was 2021, COVID restrictions had begun to lift, and I was ready to meet a steady…
A federal judge on Friday ordered a temporary block on plans by the Trump administration to put 2,200 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave.U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, also agreed to block an order that would have given just 30 days for the thousands of overseas USAID workers the administration wanted to place on abrupt administrative leave to move their families back to the U.S. at the government’s expense.Both actions by the administration would have exposed the workers and their families to unnecessary risk and expense, according to the judge.This comes as President…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the crowd as U.S. Vice President JD Vance looks on in the VIP overflow viewing area in Emancipation Hall after his inauguration at the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th President of the United States. Pool | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesElon Musk said Friday he will rehire a DOGE staffer who resigned from a Treasury Department post after the exposure of his tweets advocating for racism and eugenics.Musk’s announcement on his social media platform X came after Vice President…
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Groups representing some of South Africa’s white minority responded Saturday to a plan by President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and resettlement in the United States by saying: thanks, but no thanks.The plan was detailed in an executive order Trump signed Friday that stopped all aid and financial assistance to South Africa as punishment for what the Trump administration said were “rights violations” by the government against some of its white citizens.The Trump administration accused the South African government of allowing violent attacks on white Afrikaner farmers and introducing a land expropriation…
Elon Musk’s idea for his Hyperloop concept is definitely interesting, but it should not be explored using the government’s dime. This is, at least, according to US Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. During a recent Q&A session on Monday, Buttigieg discussed the Biden administration’s approach to new and emerging transportation innovations. “We’re all about exciting ideas that could make a difference. But whether we’re talking about [electric vehicles] or high speed rail, technologies that exist today—that could make a difference today—is where we have to begin,” he said. Buttigieg also noted that Musk’s Hyperloop idea is “super interesting” and…
The vilified linchpin of millennial and Y2K fashion – the skinny jean – might be on its way to a comeback.Over the last few months, a range of skinny styles, including pants and jeans, have cropped up on fashion runways, influencer videos and Google search trends, indicating the divisive garment could soon be a closet staple again. Part of the buzz around skinny jeans undoubtedly came when TikTok star and Gen Z influencer Alix Earle debuted a pair of exclusive skinnies with denim brand Frame at the end of January, but the hype was already building before that. “For like the last…
New Martian Crater Reveals Far-Reaching Seismic Signals by Clarence Oxford Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2025 By leveraging artificial intelligence, researchers have identified a newly formed crater on Mars, revealing that the impact event propelled vibrations deep into the planet’s mantle. Recent findings show that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic waves that penetrate farther into the planet’s interior than once believed. Two new studies illustrate this by matching quake data from NASA’s InSight lander with impact structures documented by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Appearing in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) on Monday, Feb. 3,…