Twitter fees come Saturday

ktla.com Twitter will waive the $1,000 monthly fee for its 500 largest advertisers, as well as for the 10,000 most-followed brands. (Getty Images) Beginning Saturday, Twitter will…

US Power Plant Firm Goes Bankrupt After Winter Storm Penalties

yahoo.com Lincoln Power LLC, the owner of two Illinois power plants, filed for bankruptcy after its financial strain was exacerbated by nearly $39 million in penalties levied by the…

Bearish Sentiment on Stocks Is Best Thing Rally Has Going for It

yahoo.com Bearish Sentiment on Stocks Is Best Thing Rally Has Going for It (Bloomberg) -- Skeptics, cranks, disbelievers. The stock market is overrun with them. It may be one of the…

WATCH LIVE: Artemis II astronauts announced by NASA, Canadian Space Agency

pbs.org The future crew of the Artemis II lunar mission will be announced by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on Monday, April 3. Artemis II will be the first crewed flight…

Twitter said it will begin getting rid of verification for nonpaying users

morningbrew.com RIP to your free blue check mark and all the perks that came with it (i.e., more reply guys). Today Twitter will start phasing out the verification badge for anyone not…

NASA’s DAGGER could give advance warning of the next big solar storm

techcrunch.com There’s enough trouble on this planet already that we don’t need new problems coming here from the sun. Unfortunately we can’t yet destroy this pitiless star, so we are at…

National Geographic Blasts Off With ‘The Space Race,’ Documentary On NASA’s Black Astronauts

deadline.com For NASA’s pioneering Black astronauts, gravity wasn’t the only barrier impeding them from reaching the highest heights. They also faced another implacable force, in the…

NASA Chief Makes Boldest Claim Yet About People on Mars

thestreet.com Life on Mars may be much closer than we think. While the topic of life on Mars is still up for debate, a number of prominent people are optimistic about the prospect. One is…

How is NASA preparing for asteroid Bennu's return?

newsweek.com The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently on the final leg of its journey back to Earth, with samples from asteroid Bennu. The asteroid samples—which likely hold clues into the…

A Big Rover Aims to Be Like ‘U.P.S. for the Moon’

nytimes.com A prototype of Astrolab’s Flexible Logistics and Exploration Rover, which may get a ride to the moon on SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft as soon as 2026. A small company,…

Rainy weather spoil a vacation? You can now get your money back

siliconvalley.com By Lebawit Lily Girma | Bloomberg Sudden downpours on a planned big city weekend, a family glamping getaway or tee time with friends: We’ve all experienced weather ruining…

Twitter Will Exempt 10,000 Most-Followed Companies and Organizations From $1,000 Monthly Verified-Status Charge: Report

variety.com Elon Musk-owned says that as of Saturday, April 1, it will begin removing “legacy” verified badges from individuals and organizations approved under the company’s previous…

Zaporizhzhia power plant: Is Europe prepared for nuclear accidents?

euronews.com Russia’s invasion has repeatedly knocked out Ukraine’s electricity grid, causing blackouts at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - Europe’s largest - where a constant power…

Democrat Mark Kelly wants a border deal, even if it means backing GOP House

newsweek.com Eager for a solution to the ongoing migration crisis at the southwest border, Arizona's Democratic Senator Mark Kelly said he's prepared to support legislation that may come…

Banking Chaos Creates ‘Once-in-a-Decade’ Bond Buying Opportunity

yahoo.com Global credit investors are jumping back into bank bonds following a sector-wide rout — though concerns about additional tier 1 debt remain. • None New Yorkers Are Moving to…

A powerful 'X-class' solar flare just hit Earth. Forecasters are bracing for more sun activity in the coming days

businessinsider.com An X-class flare erupts on the sun (lower right), emitting a burst of electromagnetic radiation, on March 28, 2022 Eastern Time. NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory The sun…

Nokia to set up first 4G network on moon with NASA

cbsnews.com Nokia's years-long partnership with NASA is finally taking the mobile giant where no cell phone provider has gone before — the moon. There, the Finnish telecommunications…

Investing in Space: Boeing's got to get going

cnbc.com The Starliner spacecraft for the Crew Flight Test is seen in the company's processing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. CNBC's Investing in Space newsletter offers a…

Boeing delays Starliner's first astronaut launch by 3 months because of parachutes and paperwork

businessinsider.com The Starliner spacecraft atop an Atlas V rocket in Florida in 2022. NASA/Kim Shiflett Boeing has postponed the launch of its spaceship taxi, Starliner, until at least July.…

Documentary On Carl Sagan, Brilliant Astronomer And ‘Cosmos’ Author, In The Works From National Geographic & Seth MacFarlane

deadline.com Legendary astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan, who expanded scientific understanding of the universe and helped millions appreciate the wonders of the cosmos, will be…

Elon Musk's SpaceX Is Behind Over 50% of Terrifying Near-Disasters

thestreet.com The Starlink satellite network occupies a big chunk of space and that has some scientists worried. These are close encounters of the wrong kind. In January 2015, Tesla CEO…

Top 20 Federal Contractor SAIC to Report Earnings

247wallst.com In morning trading on Thursday, the Dow Jones industrials were up 0.45%, the S&P 500 up 0.58% and the Nasdaq up 0.63%. Before U.S. markets opened on Thursday, Manchester…

Women Are Underrepresented in the Fast-Growing STEM Fields: 3 Strategies To Help Change This

newsweek.com To ensure we continue to discover important medical breakthroughs, pioneer groundbreaking technologies, and address global environmental challenges, we must attract the…

How A Multi-Billion Dollar Listed Company Hasn’t Changed Its Website Design Since 1996

datadriveninvestor.com How A Multi-Billion Dollar Listed Company Hasn’t Changed Its Website Design Since 1996 If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! “If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can…

‘Space Oddity’ Review: Failure to Launch

nytimes.com In “Space Oddity,” an emotionally guarded young man named Alex (Kyle Allen) gathers his sister and parents to inform them that, in 10 years, he will be traveling to Mars on…

New Lockheed Martin Company Wants to Build a Satellite Constellation Around the Moon

gizmodo.com Denver-based company Lockheed Martin has announced the launch of a subsidiary for the purpose of setting up communication and navigation services around the Moon for future…

US puts Italy-sized chunk of Gulf of Mexico up for auction for oil drilling

theguardian.com An enormous swathe of the Gulf of Mexico, spanning an area the size of Italy, was put up for auction on Wednesday for oil and gas drilling, in the latest blow to Joe Biden’s…

Boeing's 1st astronaut flight to space delayed until July

go.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Boeing’s first launch of astronauts has been delayed again, this time until July. NASA announced the latest postponement Wednesday, saying more time…

NASA pushes back Boeing Starliner’s crewed flight test to July

techcrunch.com The first crewed flight test of Boeing’s Starliner capsule is facing yet another delay, with NASA officials saying Wednesday that it was now targeting no earlier than July…

NASA discovery reveals an intergalactic gamma-ray burst that could be the brightest of all time

fastcompany.com You know the GOAT. Now meet the BOAT. In October, astronomers recorded a singular cosmic explosion across the universe—a pulse of gamma radiation so fantastic that NASA…

The solar system was hit with a gamma-ray burst so bright, it blinded scientists' equipment in space

businessinsider.com Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe. NASA/Swift/Cruz deWilde Our solar system was hit by a gamma-ray burst so bright, it blinded space…

Nokia will launch 4G internet on the moon later this year to help expand lunar exploration

businessinsider.com Nokia is debuting 4G on the moon. REUTERS/LEHTIKUVA/Roni Rekomaa Nokia plans to put a 4G/LTE network on the moon later this year, CNBC reported. The network will help…

A group of college students are sending a rover the size of a shoebox to the moon

fortune.com The U.S., Soviet Union, and Japan have all sent robots to the moon over the past 50 years. Now, a group of college students is joining in by building a shoebox-sized rover…

Giant 'holes' dozens of times the size of our planet are appearing on the sun. Here's how they could affect Earth

businessinsider.com A triangular hole appeared in the sun earlier this week. Solar winds from it could hit Earth by Friday. Insider Two huge coronal holes, dozen of times the size of the Earth,…

What we know about water discovery on the moon

newsweek.com Water has been found hidden inside tiny glass beads taken from the surface of the moon by China's Chang'e-5 mission In a paper published Monday in the journal Nature…

The Sun Has Not 1, But 2 Giant Holes In It: What That Means For Planet Earth

benzinga.com Coronal holes — areas on the Sun's corona, or outermost atmosphere — are not actual "holes." They're areas of lower density and temperature, where the magnetic field opens…

An 'ultramassive' black hole has been discovered that's 33 billion times the mass of the sun

businessinsider.com An artist's impression of a black hole. Scientists think they discovered one of the biggest recorded black holes, which is so massive that it distorts the light from…

Test Your Knowledge How the Federal Government has Worked in ..

washingtonpost.com Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. 1. The federal government grew while Republican President Richard M. Nixon was…

James Webb’s search for potential life shines light on Earth-like exoplanet with no atmosphere

euronews.com NASA’s biggest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb (JWST), has taken the first ever reading of light emitted by a small rocky exoplanet, in the latest display…

Lockheed Martin is building a Moon-to-Earth satellite communications network

engadget.com If humanity is going to have a long-term presence on the Moon, it's going to need reliable communications — and Lockheed Martin thinks it can provide that link. The company…

Nokia Plans To Launch 4G Internet On The Moon This Year

benzinga.com Finnish telecom major Nokia NOK plans to send 4G network equipment to the moon, riding on a rocket made by Elon Musk‘s SpaceX. If all goes well, high-speed internet could be…

EPA cites 2 oil and gas firms over Permian Basin pollution

apnews.com Two Texas companies have resolved Clean Air Act violations with the Environmental Protection Agency by agreeing to reduce emissions of planet-warming methane and other…

Lockheed doubles down on lunar economy bet with new subsidiary Crescent Space Services

techcrunch.com Lockheed Martin announced today the creation of a wholly owned subsidiary called Crescent Space Services that will focus on infrastructure for the moon, the latest sign that…

We asked Google's A.I. chatbot 'Bard' basic SAT questions and it would flunk a real exam

fortune.com Google has been pretty open about the fact that Bard isn’t perfect. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai appears to be relaxed about how far the company’s A.I. models have to go,…

The 10 U.S. Cities Where Sellers Are Slashing Home Prices the Most

realtor.com At the height of the frenzied COVID-19 pandemic-era housing boom, price reductions were the furthest thing from most sellers’ minds. After all, why slash asking prices when…

4G internet is set to arrive on the moon later this year

cnbc.com Nokia hopes to install a data network on the moon sometime in 2023, an executive told reporters. Nokia is preparing to launch a 4G mobile network on the moon later this…

The moon could have up to 297 billion tons of water stored in tiny glass beads on its surface, scientists say

businessinsider.com The International Space Station looking like a white dot as it passes the Moon, as seen from Liverpool. Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images Researchers say glass beads…

Elon Musk Came to Texas to End the Oil Age

texasmonthly.com Beside a horseshoe bend in the Colorado River where ospreys and egrets hunt for fish, a few miles northeast of Austin’s airport, the largest factory in the world stretches…

Analysis

washingtonpost.com The bad news is what’s been causing that cooling: emissions of fine particles of sulfur and nitrogen compounds and carbon, known as aerosols. Like spray aerosols, these are…

Elon Musk Feuds With William Shatner Over Twitter Verification

entrepreneur.com Elon Musk riffed on Twitter over the weekend with another unlikely foe — William Shatner. Shatner was less than pleased to learn that Musk would begin ordering the removal…

How to watch 5 planets align in the night sky on Tuesday

theweek.com Five planets will align in the night sky on Tuesday evening in a stunning astronomical spectacle. The alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus will be visible…

Humans on the Moon and Mars could live in homes made from potatoes

euronews.com First, it was mushrooms. Now potatoes are the latest foodstuff paving the way for the houses of the future. Scientists from the University of Manchester have created a new…

A second giant 'hole' has appeared on the sun, and it could send 1.8 million mph solar winds towards Earth

businessinsider.com This coronal hole pictured on March 27, 2023. NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory A coronal hole on the sun, about 20 Earths across, has been spotted. These 'holes' can send 1.8…

Video shows 200-foot asteroid approaching Earth before "very close" flyby

newsweek.com A time-lapse video shows a 200-foot asteroid that had a "very close" encounter with Earth as it approached our planet. The space rock—called 2023 DZ2—made a close approach…

Everything we know about asteroid Bennu being delivered to Earth

newsweek.com A NASA spacecraft is on the final leg of its journey back to Earth after collecting samples from asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission successfully selected samples of the…