Wednesday, July 15, 2020

14 July - iGoogle Portal - MSM News




  SpaceNews.com



  • OneWeb received permission from a U.S. bankruptcy court Friday to pay its satellite vendor to resume building spacecraft for the company’s broadband megaconstellation.  SpaceNews...
  • Air Force acquisition executive Will Roper said funds that had been allocated for small launch contracts were redirected to small business loans. SpaceNews...
  • Orbite Corp., a Seattle startup founded by American entrepreneur Jason Andrews and French entrepreneur Nicolas Gaume, announced plans July 14 to establish a Spaceflight Gateway...
  • An appropriations bill to be considered by the full House Appropriations Committee July 14 would restore funding to five NASA science missions and projects that the administration’s...

    • A Mars mission is all the more difficult for a country with little spaceflight experience. Yet, the United Arab Emirates is willing to try. SpaceNews

    Sydney Morning Herald RSS News Headlines


  • The maker of Oral B products has accused Colgate of misleading or deceptive conduct over claims a toothpaste “removes 10 years of yellow stains".
  • Rhodes, who made his fortune in South African diamond mining, has become a lightning rod for anti-colonial anger.

    • Warriors quartet David Fusitu’a, Ken Maumalo, Agnatius Paasi and King Vuniyayawa have booked the first available flight back to New Zealand.


      The Times of India




  • The Trump administration has walked back a policy that would have stripped international college students of their US visas if their coursework was entirely online, ending a proposed...
  • The bitter feud between Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and his challenger Sachin Pilot reached the point of no return with Congress on Tuesday sacking the latter as deputy CM and state party...
  • The Covid-19 pandemic worsened in the country as fresh cases on Tuesday zoomed past the 30,000 mark for the first time, even as total deaths from the virus crossed 24,000, with the second-highest...


    • India and China discussed troop disengagement in the Depsang-Daulat Beg Oldie sector as well as a further pullback of Chinese soldiers in the Pangong Tso and Hot Springs areas during...

      Yahoo News - Top Stories



  • “The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid 19,” wrote game show host Chuck Woolery in a tweet promoted by the president.



  • Exclusive: Likelihood of UK homes being infected triples with every additional 20 bedsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCoronavirus outbreaks are...
  • Lawyers for family of Dawn Sturgess say inquest into her death should examine role of Russian state Russian agents may have deliberately left a bottle of the nerve agent novichok in...

    • Exclusive: more than half of NHS patients referred for imaging diagnostics are waiting six weeks or moreCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHospital...

      CNN.com - Top Stories


  • Chinese President Xi Jinping surprised the world with a speech at Davos in 2017, defending free trade and joint action on climate change as then US president-elect Donald Trump...
  • President Donald Trump plans to address China during afternoon remarks at the White House, officials said.


  • While some areas have recovered, case counts are hitting new highs in many regions.
  • The government agreed in court to rescind an edict from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requiring international students to take classes in person during the worsening...
  • ( Just for myself, if an administration was compulsively playing with requirements on visas and more - seemingly just because they could - any inclination I might have to avail myself, a 'foreign' national, of any services they could supply would be affected by assessing them to be incompetent, unreliable lackwits. Education is not best supplied by fools.)

    • The move is part of a new data reporting protocol for hospitals that eliminates the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a recipient of that information — a decision that...

    PCWorld


  • One of those small, forgotten, but occasionally useful features is leaving Windows: OneDrive’s Fetch function is dead as of July 31.It’s a consequence of Microsoft’s worldview...

  • AMD Threadripper Pro CPUs are coming to take down Intel’s Xeon workstation chips, offering up to 64 cores, 128 threads, 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 4, and up to 2TB of RAM.The company announced...

    • Microsoft has followed up its deluge of new Microsoft Teams features a week ago with a number of new additions to Microsoft Outlook. Announced Tuesday, they include a one-touch join...

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