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Hawthorne-based SpaceX’s 2nd Starship test flight ends with another kaboom

SpaceX launches Starship SN9 for a test flight from its facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, February 2, 2021. Starship SN9 perform the belly flop maneuver but had a landing and exposed on the landing pad. Photo by Gene Blevins/Contributing Photographer. SpaceX launches Starship SN9 for a test flight from its facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, February 2, 2021. Starship SN9 perform the belly flop maneuver but had a landing and exposed on the landing pad. Photo by Gene Blevins/Contributing Photograp...
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Russia approved a coronavirus vaccine before confirming it was safe and effective. Experts say the nation's risky bet paid off.

Left: Russian president Vladimir Putin. Right: Doses of the Sputnik V vaccine. Left: Aleksey Nikolskyi/AP; Right: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters Russia's coronavirus vaccine, called Sputnik V, is 91.6% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19, according to a peer-reviewed analysis published Tuesday. The country approved its vaccine in August, before conducting late-stage clinical trials. Experts worried the controversial approach might overlook potentially dangerous side effects — but the new...
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Up in flames: SpaceX Starship test flight ends in fiery crash, again

Futuristic rocket explodes on landing after test in TexasElon Musk developing Starship to carry people to MarsSpaceX’s second full test flight of its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship ended in another fiery crash landing on Tuesday.Elon Musk’s company launched its latest Starship prototype from the south-eastern tip of Texas, two months after the previous test ended in an equally explosive belly flop. Continue reading...
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2021's First Big Ransomware Gang Launches Sleek and Bigoted "Leak" Site

Every year sees a number of new ransomware gangs emerge and take a swing at becoming the most prolific operators in the digital underworld. Well, 2021 officially has its first new high-profile ransomware operation and they are definitely assholes.Read more...
Tags: Security, Science, Crime, Malware, Ransomware, Cybercrime, Cyberattack, Security Breaches, Computer Security, Ryuk, Technology_internet

17th-Century England Had Some Seriously Horrible Weather

Recent years have brought record-breaking wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters supercharged by climate change. But even to our jaded modern eyes, the weather that befell Bristol in Western England at the turn of 17th century is pretty shocking.Read more...
Tags: England, Science, Winter, Articles, Snow, Nature, Bristol, Frost, Water Ice, Human Interest, Precipitation, Western England, Physical Geography, Weather Hazards, Cold Wave, Little Ice Age

We're Just Out Here 3D-Printing Meat Now, I Guess

If you can 3D-print a gun... if you can 3D-print a home... then brother, you might as well pull up a chair and 3D-print yourself some meat while you’re at it, because these masses aren’t going to feed themselves.Read more...
Tags: Meat, Science, Environment, Articles, 3d Printing, Food And Drink, Steak, Animal Rights, Foods, Cultured Meat, Red Meat, Emerging Technologies, Novameat, Cellular Agriculture

Jeff Bezos Steps Down as Amazon's CEO

On Tuesday, Jeff Bezos told employees—and the world—that he’s planning on stepping down from his CEO role at Amazon, 27 years after first founding the company. Read more...
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If Comcast Can Increase the Speed of Its Internet Plans, It Can Get Rid of Data Caps

Comcast is increasing the speed of its Internet Essentials package from 25/3 Mbps to 50/5 Mbps starting March 1, 2020 at no additional cost. The change is part of what the ISP says is a long-term commitment to digital equity, and that offering low-income households speeds above the FCC-defined minimum will help to…Read more...
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The 10 Best Deals of February 2, 2021

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Tesla Recalls 135,000 Model S and Model X Vehicles Over Faulty Flash Memory

Electric car giant Tesla has issued a recall for some 135,000 vehicles, according to the Wall Street Journal, due to failing touchscreen panels.Read more...
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The Final Games Released on the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii U and How To Buy Them

Top Mention: Shakedown: Hawaii | $80 | Wii URead more...
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How To Pre-Order Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and Time Travel Back To Your Gaming Glory Days

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (PS4) | $60 | Amazon, Best BuyMass Effect: Legendary Edition (Xbox) | $60 | Amazon, Best BuyMass Effect Legendary Cache | $150 | Best BuyRead more...
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Google Fined $3.8 Million in Settlement Over Alleged Hiring and Pay Discrimination

After a drawn-out battle, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has finally settled with Google, which will now pay out or set aside $3.8 million to remedy allegations it discriminated against over 5,000 woman and Asian engineers. Over $2.5 million of that will go directly to…Read more...
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Archaeologists have discovered an Egyptian mummy buried with a golden tongue

A 2,000-year-old mummy with a golden tongue found in Alexandria, Egypt. Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists discovered 16 burial shafts at the Taposiris Magna Temple near Alexandria, Egypt. Those shafts contained 2,000-year-old mummies. One mummy had a gold tongue; some were buried wearing death masks.  Embalmers gave mummies golden tongues so the dead could speak to the gods in the afterlife. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Two millennia ago, an...
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Watch live: SpaceX is about to try launching a new Starship rocket 6 miles above Texas on Tuesday

Left: Elon Musk at a press briefing on March 2, 2019. Right: SpaceX's Starship SN8 rocketship prototype launches in Boca Chica, Texas, on December 9, 2020. Dave Mosher/Insider; SpaceX SpaceX is poised to fly the SN9 prototype of its Starship rocket system six miles above south Texas on Tuesday, with a backup launch window on Wednesday. Elon Musk publicly blasted the FAA for refusing to approve this flight last week. The agency cited "outstanding safety issues." SpaceX's last attempt, w...
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How to Ensure the Federal Government Doesn't Try to Muzzle Science Again

The climate denier is out of the White House, and the scientific community is beginning to take stock of—and clean up—the mess left behind. Read more...
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Disney+ Now Lets You Bundle Ad-Free Hulu

Disney’s streaming service now supports bundling with ESPN+ and the ad-free version of sister service Hulu.Read more...
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How Fandom Destroyed and Protected Me

If you love something to the point of unhealthy obsession, it feels like there’s only one place you can really go. The internet.Read more...
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Watch SpaceX try launching a new Starship rocket 6 miles above Texas on Tuesday

Left: Elon Musk at a press briefing on March 2, 2019. Right: SpaceX's Starship SN8 rocketship prototype launches in Boca Chica, Texas, on December 9, 2020. Dave Mosher/Insider; SpaceX SpaceX is poised to fly the SN9 prototype of its Starship rocket system six miles above south Texas on Tuesday, with a backup launch window on Wednesday. Elon Musk publicly blasted the FAA for refusing to approve this flight last week. The agency cited "outstanding safety issues." SpaceX's last attempt, w...
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Terry Goodkind's Posthumous Release Features a Most Unusual Demand for Surrender

Fantasy author Terry Goodkind passed away in September, but he left behind a long legacy of books, including the Sword of Truth series. Today io9 is excited to share an excerpt from The Children of D’Hara, a posthumous release collecting five of his serial novels that continue the story of the Sword of Truth.Read more...
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Watch Live: SpaceX Attempts Second High-Altitude 'Hop' of Starship Prototype

SpaceX is ready to conduct a high-altitude flight test of Starship prototype SN9, and our fingers are crossed that it’ll finally happen today. You can watch the action live right here.Read more...
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Report: Apple's Electric Car May Be Based on Hyundai's E-GMP Platform

If the Apple car is real—and it sounds like it will be—then we have years of rumors ahead of us. According to a new report from a longtime Apple analyst, it sounds like Apple has picked Hyundai’s E-GMP platform as the base for its upcoming electric car. Read more...
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This Water-Saving Machine Gave Me the Best Hair of Quarantine

It does not matter how many shampoos I try, how many conditioners I buy, and how many tutorials I watch on YouTube—my hair is a crunchy, frizzy mess. Read more...
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Watch Live: SpaceX Attempts Second High-Altitude 'Hop' of Starship Prototype [Update: Kaboom!]

SpaceX is ready to conduct a high-altitude flight test of Starship prototype SN9, and our fingers are crossed that it’ll finally happen today. You can watch the action live right here.Read more...
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Google's Making Its Search Results A Bit Easier To Understand

If you’re also the type of person that’s wary about clicking on dubious links in your search results, then here’s a bit of good news: Google’s revamping its native search engine to give us more information about the results we see before we take those risky clicks.Read more...
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Was ‘Oumuamua a rock or an alien scout? Harvard astronomer talks controversial hypothesis in new book

'Oumuamua is the first known object we've observed coming to our solar system from somewhere beyond it.Most experts think it was just a very odd rock, but not everyone is so sure.Harvard astronomer Ari Loeb says the evidence is more consistent with it having been a light-sail spacecraft. If we became especially interested in another solar system and wanted to send an exploratory craft, how would we do it? Even the nearest solar system—Proxima Centauri is its sun—is about 40,208,000,000,000 ki...
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The leader of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine program says the shot won't be available in the US or UK any time soon

Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a co-developer of the Sputnik V vaccine RDIF The Russian coronavirus vaccine probably won't be available in the US or UK any time soon. The shot was 91.6% effective at preventing COVID-19, according to data published Tuesday. Going through the US regulatory process is "not frankly a priority for us,"  Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund told Insider. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Russia...
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Scientists Explain Why Food Still Sticks to Your Stupid Non-Stick Pan

An investigation into the way oils behave on hot, flat surfaces has uncovered the process responsible for foods sticking to non-stick frying pans.Read more...
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Nic Cage's Prisoners of the Ghostland Is a Sensory Overload That Doesn't Make Much Sense

Prisoners of the Ghostland, the English language debut of Japanese director Sion Sono, works in two ways. First, it works as an elevator pitch. The film’s simple, captivating concept quickly grabs your attention. It also works as a fever dream. An impressive collection of cool visuals and sequences that don’t really…Read more...
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Uber Buys Uber for Booze

Uber is getting into the alcohol-delivery business by buying an alcohol delivery business.Read more...
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