The space firm founded by Jeff Bezos and the FAA are investigating how a rocket’s booster exploded and failed after launching on the 23rd New Shepard mission, which had aimed to send Nasa experiments to the edge of the cosmos to float for a few minutes in microgravity.
Luckily, there were no humans onboard - but something failed about a minute after blast-off from West Texas, causing its cargo capsule to abort.
Blue Origin says the pod-jettisoning system worked as designed, but the fleet’s grounded right now.
iPhone 8 users and newer...Apple’s iOS 16 has launched with a slew of new features, including unsend messages and a “lockdown mode”.
Along with the usual behind-the-scenes security updates, there’s pretty interesting features that include “door detection” for visually impaired people to be guided by the camera to work out how far away things are.
Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko will testify at Congress over claims the social network is hiding security and privacy vulnerabilities that puts users at risk.
It follows claims the platform was not doing enough to protect users’ private information, something the company strongly denies.
What is “blue economy”? Tech & Science Daily spoke to Chris Gorell Barnes, co-founder of Ocean 14 Capital.
The London private equity firm has received the equivalent of over £8.5 million from the Constitutional Reserve Fund of Monaco to invest in ocean-based tech and sustainability projects.
Plus, Nintendo shares boost after Splatoon launch, Nasa mash-up of satellite and x-ray data lets astronomers ‘rewind’ 5.5million mph supernova blast. Turn off the Barry White album because the hyrax makes its own music for love, and was a top secret Meta Quest Pro VR headset ‘left in hotel room’?
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