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NASA's Perseverance rover is now halfway to Mars

The spacecraft has covered half the distance it will go to Mars and will arrive in February, hopefully safely.

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Gogoro’s Eeyo 1s e-bike goes on sale in France, its first European market

Gogoro announced today that its Eeyo 1s is now available for sale in France, the smart electric bike’s first European market. Another model, the Eeyo 1, will launch over the next few months in F

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Daily Crunch: Google commits $1B to pay publishers

Google is paying a lot of money for its news licensing program, Microsoft announces an affordable laptop and Facebook says it won’t accept ads casting doubts on the election. This is your Daily

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Microsoft adds the $549 Laptop Go to its growing Surface lineup

Microsoft just added a couple of key additions to its ever-growing lineup of Surface devices. There are a bunch of new accessories and an update to the Surface Pro X, which you can read about here. T

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Tianwen-1's first 'selfie' in space to celebrate China's National Day

A selfie of the probe of China first Mars mission Tianwen-1. /CNSAThe probe of China's first Mars mission Tianwen-1 has sent back its first deep-space selfie with the C

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Amazon taps Echelon for the Prime Bike, a $500 Peloton knock-off

Amazon teamed up with Echelon to build and sell the Prime Bike. The $500 exercise bike is a virtual clone of the $1900 Peloton bike minus the screen — even the color scheme and design are the same. T

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SpaceX launches 12th Starlink mission, touts 100 Mbps download speeds

Screenshot from twitter of SpaceX U.S. private space company SpaceX successfully launched its 12th Starlink mission on Thursday, carrying another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit. During this

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London Zoo weighs its animals, but it is not an easy task

The nearly 200-year-old London Zoo began its annual weigh-in on August 27 with its 19,000 animals.The coronavirus this year had led to the longest closure of the zoo since World War Two, and many ani

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UK economy collapses 20.4% in Q2, unemployment fears mount

Britain's economy shrank by a record 20.4 percent between April and June, when the coronavirus lockdown was tightest, the largest contraction reported by any major economy so far, with a wave of j

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ByteDance offers to forgo stake in TikTok to clinch U.S. deal: Sources

China's ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided to ban

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Robotic birds take to the air in amazingly realistic flight

The BionicSwift weighs just 42 grams and is capable of flying indoors along a programmed path for roughly seven minutes.

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Giant tortoise Diego, hero to his species, is home

Diego, the giant Galapagos tortoise whose tireless efforts are credited with almost single-handedly saving his once-threatened species, was put out to pasture Monday on his native island after decade

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Update: SpaceX launches ninth Starlink mission

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen on the launch pad at sunrise, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the United States, May 27, 2020. (Joel Kowsky/NASA/Handout

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SpaceX launches ninth Starlink mission

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen on the launch pad at sunrise, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the United States, May 27, 2020. (Joel Kowsky/NASA/Ha

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Cowboy releases updated e-bike with new carbon belt

Electric-bike maker Cowboy has released a new iteration of its bike, the Cowboy 3. It’s a relatively small update that should make the experience better for newcomers. The first orders will be delive

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Video platform Bilibili plans to launch a remote sensing satellite

VCG Chinese video platform Bilibili released a video Monday announcing its plans to launch a remote sensing satellite called "Bilibili Video Satellite" in late June. The video has received ove

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China to facilitate int'l e-commerce forex settlement

China on Wednesday announced eased rules on foreign exchange settlement and purchases amid efforts to support cross-border e-commerce and other new trade industries.Ban