Time flies when you’re cruising through space in a Tesla Roadster, huh? It’s hard to believe that it’s already been nearly nine months since SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket, sending a test payload into Sun-centric orbit, but here we are. Now, the only passenger that took part in the adventure officially made his way […]
New York City last week announced $180 million in new spending on Long Island City to bolster transit, fix the sewer system and attract new, good-paying jobs. Now it appears that spending was, in part, deliberately timed. Amazon is nearing a deal to name Long Island City, a fast-growing neighborhood on the western edge of […]
Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings is tightening checks on the age of people playing online games, as China tries to tackle gaming addition. Earlier this year, Tencent introduced a registration system for its hugely popular game Honour of Kings. The system, which checks players’ identities and ages against a police database, will apply to all […]
After the separation from the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket the Fregat upper successfully launched the Glonass-M satellite into orbit, an official with the Defense Ministry told reporters on Sunday. “The Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket that was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Saturday, November 3 at 23:17 Moscow time, has successfully launched the Russian navigation spacecraft Glonass-M […]
Sorry, Crystal City — you’re not the only one Amazon fancies as it narrows down its choice of location for a second headquarters (aka HQ2). Wall Street Journal tipsters say the internet giant has whittled its finalists down to a “small handful” of cities, including Dallas and New York City. They’re not all at the […]
At a near-empty Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) showroom in the Chinese mega city of Chongqing, the store manager is grumbling about his shortage of customers and a lack of bigger, cheaper SUV models popular in the world’s largest auto market. Even with discounting of as much as 25 percent, his dealership was selling barely a hundred […]
For the first time, Amazon is offering free shipping on all holiday orders in an effort to add new Prime members and juice the season’s sales numbers. Last year, Amazon shoppers without Prime memberships had to spend at least $25 to earn free shipping, but Amazon is waiving the purchase minimum starting Monday to give […]
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has gone silent. The spacecraft missed scheduled communications sessions with NASA’s Deep Space Network on Wednesday (October 31, 2018) and Thursday (November 1). After the flight team eliminated other possible causes for the missed communications, mission managers concluded that the spacecraft had finally run out of hydrazine, the fuel that enables the […]
The oil market’s two-year bull run is running into one of its biggest tests in months, facing a tidal wave of supply and growing worries about economic weakness sapping demand worldwide. After topping out at more than $75 and $85 a barrel just a month ago, both U.S. crude and Brent benchmark futures have grappled […]
ExxonMobil cashed in on the recent surge in oil prices by ramping up output in the booming Permian Basin of Texas. The results represent a sizable improvement for Exxon, which has been forced to play catch-up after being late to America’s shale revolution. The largest American oil company reported a 57% jump in profit on […]
Results of the stress test of Europe’s bigger banks released Friday revealed that all of the financial institutions in the EU wide examination passed the European Central Bank’s “adverse scenario”. The stress tests were carried out by the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) to gauge the health of the European […]
Geoffrey the Giraffe isn’t dead after all. The Toys R Us mascot will make a comeback this holiday season in the aisles of 600 Kroger supermarkets, just five months after the toy seller shuttered all its stores. Kroger will sell dolls, figurines and other toys from brands that were only sold at Toys R Us, […]
