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United Airlines agrees to purchase 15 Boom supersonic airliners

United Airlines is the first official U.S. customer for Boom Supersonic, a company focused on making supersonic commercial flight a reality once again. Boom unveiled its supersonic sub-scale testing a

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Belarus airline chief says EU is 'mocking us' with airspace bans

Most of Belarus's neighbors and many other European nations have banned Belavia flights. /Reuters/ The head of Belarus's national airline Belavia condemned the decision by numerous European Un

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Flywire’s flotation suggests the IPO slowdown is behind us

Boston-based payment processor Flywire announced its IPO pricing last night. The company sold 10.44 million shares at $24 per share, the upper limit of its $22 to $24 per share price range. At that sh

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Axle raises $10m Series A to advance its freight financing services

Axle recently announced it raised $10m in Series A financing after a stellar year of growth. The round was led by Crosslink Capital with participation from FJ Labs, Flexport, Tribeca Early Stage Partn

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Microsoft brings more of its Azure services to any Kubernetes cluster

At its Build developer conference today, Microsoft announced a new set of Azure services (in preview) that businesses can now run on virtually any CNCF-conformant Kubernetes cluster with the help of i

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Can't stand chewing or breathing sounds? Scientists have discovered why

Those who suffer with misophonia can have extreme reactions such as the need to flee from the trigger sound.

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Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander will fly to the Moon on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2023

Firefly Aerospace may be developing rockets of its own, but it’s also simultaneously building Blue Ghost, its first lunar lander. Blue Ghost will hop a ride with a rocket from a different launch

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Mexico uses China’s CanSino vaccine to help reopen schools

02:43 Mexico isworking toward areturn to school and using Chinese vaccines to​help speed the process.China'sCanSinovaccine, being finished and bottled in Mexico, is being rolled out acr

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Rocket Lab recovered the first stage from its failed May 15 launch, a silver lining for its reusability program

Rocket Lab may have experienced mission failure and total payload loss during the company’s 20th planned mission on May 15, but it wasn’t all bad news, the company said in an update Monday.Impor

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Irish health ministry targeted in cyber attack

Ireland's health ministry was the target of an attempted cyber attack after its Health Service Executive was affected. /CFP Ireland's health ministry was the target of an attempted cyber attac

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China slams U.S. for hoarding COVID-19 vaccines

China slammed the U.S. for hoarding and idling hundreds of millions of vaccines as the world grapples with a short supply and restricting the export of raw materials, C

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Brazil opens first International Chinese School with Huawei technology

02:53 After more than a year of empty classrooms and only partial online instruction, one private schoolin Rio de Janeiroused the downtime to rethink and re-wire… and is roaring back to

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Tesla stops payment by Bitcoin because of the impact on the environment

Bitcoin mining uses huge amounts of energy, much of it derived from the burning of fossil fuel.

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Tesla stops payment by Bitcoin because of the impact on the environment

Bitcoin mining uses huge amounts of energy, much of it derived from the burning of fossil fuel.

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Competition for int'l short-video creators opens in Beijing

An international competition for short-video creators was launched in Beijing on Tuesday and is calling for short-video submissions telling stories about China.It is the third year of the My China Sto

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SpaceX launches and lands a Falcon 9 rocket booster a record 10th time

SpaceX has launched another 60 Starlink satellites — making 180 delivered to orbit in under two weeks — but the launch early Sunday morning was more notable because it set a new, key record for Falcon

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Tesla supplier Delta Electronics invests $7M in AI chip startup Kneron

Despite a persistent semiconductor shortage that is disrupting the global automotive industry, investors remain bullish on the chips used to power next-generation vehicles.Kneron, a startup that devel