Новости за 25.10.2021

Paris (ESA) Oct 25, 2021
Using the best navigation technologies to bring the greatest benefit to their users - this is the what the Galileo Competence Center at the German Aerospace Center is working towards. Together with DLR's institutes, facilities and partners, products are being developed to ensure the continuous improvement of the European Galileo satellite navigation system. The Galileo Competence Center is now o

Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 25, 2021
New Horizons remains healthy and continues to send valuable data from the Kuiper Belt, even as it speeds farther and farther from Earth and the Sun. Our team has been extremely busy since I last wrote in the spring. One of the most important activities since then has been ground testing, uploading and flight-testing new software for our Alice ultraviolet spectrometer and our main (Command and Da

Washington DC (UPI) Oct 22, 2021
The Mars helicopter Ingenuity is ready for a short Martian flight as early as Saturday to test summer weather conditions that have arrived at its location on the Red Planet after two weeks of no communication because of blockage by the sun. The flight, Ingenuity's 14th, is brief and simple by design. As weather at Jezero Crater gets warmer, the aircraft's rotors must turn faster to achi

Geneva (AFP) Oct 24, 2021
Fresh allegations over a major spying scandal that cost the head of Credit Suisse his job emerged on Sunday as Swiss media reported another alleged spying case. Credit Suisse chief executive Tidjane Thiam was forced to resign in February 2020 after revelations the bank had hired investigators to follow Iqbal Khan, head of international wealth management, because he had opted to move to arch-

Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 22, 2021
Markets in Asia fluctuated Friday following a record-breaking lead from Wall Street, while a report that troubled developer China Evergrande had paid interest on an overdue bond a day before the deadline eased concerns over a default. Another round of positive earnings provided a further lift to Wall Street with the S&P 500 hitting its first all-time high since the start of September as trad

Beijing (AFP) Oct 24, 2021
China is set to expand pilot property tax reforms, state media reported, as the government battles real estate speculation in the world's second-biggest economy. China's housing market took off after key 1998 reforms sparked a building boom on the back of rapid urbanisation and wealth accumulation. But as prices soared, so did worries about wealth disparity and the resulting potential fo

Amman (AFP) Oct 24, 2021
Its logo is a tomato, not an apple, but in just eight years Jordanian company Tamatem has already bitten a chunk out of the lucrative market for Arabic mobile games. "Less than one percent of internet content is in Arabic, even though there are 400 million Arab users," said the company's founder and CEO Hussam Hammo. "There is a very big gap in this market that we are trying to fill," ad

Harwell UK (SPX) Oct 21, 2021
Space transportation and logistics company D-Orbit has successfully completed the orbital testing of Nebula, a cloud platform designed to provide distributed high-performance data analytics computing and storage capabilities in space. Nebula is a hardware-software environment that enables end-users to uplink and run software and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) apps in a way

Washington DC (UPI) Oct 22, 2021
A proposed energy project in Maine's North Woods has made for strange bedfellows and turned old friends into enemies over whether shipping electricity from Canada to New England is good for the environment. To deliver hydroelectric power from Canadian mega dams to ratepayers in Massachusetts, the New England Clean Energy Connect project would carve a 53-mile corridor through undeveloped

Indianapolis (AFP) Oct 24, 2021
The winner was not a driver but an algorithm on Saturday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where the top car clocked an average speed of 218 km/h (135 mph), ushering autonomous vehicles into a new era. Setting the record pace over two laps, a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) won a $1 million prize in the first Indy Autonomous Challenge, an event dedicated to self-driving

Richard Madeley left viewers cringing after asking Sir Keir Starmer if his deputy Angela Rayner was still his “best girl” on Monday.

A sailor with a criminal record killed the captain and first officer of a Maltese-flagged oil tanker and then turned himself into the authorities off the coast of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires.

I’ve just heard two pundits on two different channels say that they don’t think the board will sack Ole soon. Also heard some fans on social media who think the same thing.

This is a very real possibility. How would the players react to this? Should we expect more drubbings from Spurs and City?

I really hope things don’t get too ugly.

Covid cases are on the rise, so should we be voluntarily self-isolating? Here’s how to protect your mental health if you do

Most recordings are probably going to be dull – but very personal

Mikel Arteta is expected to make changes to his Arsenal side for Tuesday’s Carabao Cup clash with Leeds United.

In the more immediate term, the new MoU is aimed at helping mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on African aviation and restarting international travel.

Exclusion zones around schools could be used to prevent "idiot" anti-vaxxers from targeting children with their "vicious lies", the health secretary has said.

Colgate-Palmolive (India) reported 1.8% fall in net profit to Rs 269.2 crore in Q2 FY22 from Rs 274.2 crore in Q2 FY21.

(Telecompaper) Revenues in the German audio visual industry will increase by 6.9 percent to a total of EUR 14.31 billion this year, according to figures published by commercial broadcaster' association Vaunet...