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Satellites can now measure the thickness of sea-ice covering the Arctic Ocean all year round. Traditionally, spacecraft have struggled to determine the full state of the floes in summer months because the presence of surface meltwater has befuddled their instruments. But by using new “deep learning” techniques, scientists have pushed past this limitation to get reliable observations across all seasons. ...

It’s time to go back to the moon. Almost 50 years after the last Apollo mission ventured to the lunar surface, NASA has established a program that promises to land humans on unexplored lunar regions and eventually the surface of Mars — and it all begins with Artemis I. It’s no coincidence that the Artemis program is named for the ...

Launch teams at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida spent a final full day of preparations ahead of Monday’s planned liftoff of NASA’s giant next-generation rocket on its debut test flight, kicking off the agency’s Artemis moon-to-Mars program 50 years after the end of the Apollo era. NASA officials said on Sunday that all systems appeared “go” for liftoff, and ...

The American space agency Nasa is rolling out its giant new Moon rocket to prepare it for a maiden flight. Known as the Space Launch System (SLS), the vehicle is being taken to Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a lift-off scheduled for 29 August. The debut outing is a test with no crew aboard, but ...

Tens of thousands of users reported being unable to access various Google services on Monday night, according to outage monitor Downdetector. “User reports indicate Google Maps is having problems since 9:36 PM EDT (0136 GMT),” Downdetector tweeted. More than 40,000 users, including in New York City and Denver, Colorado, reported disruptions when trying to use Google’s services, particularly the maps ...

South Korea’s first lunar orbiter successfully launched on a year-long mission to observe the Moon, Seoul said Friday, with the payload including a new disruption-tolerant network for sending data from space. Danuri — a portmanteau of the Korean words for “Moon” and “enjoy” — was on a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida by Elon Musk’s aerospace ...

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) in a meeting on Tuesday turned down a proposal from Teletalk Bangladesh Limited to introduce a fifth generation or 5G network in the capital. Chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the decision was taken at a virtual meeting to save dollars amid acute shortage of the foreign currency reserves in the ...

Twitter’s lawsuit to force Elon Musk to complete his $44 billion buyout bid is set to go to trial on October 17, a US judge has ordered, in a case with major stakes for both sides. The trial is due to open in a court in the eastern state of Delaware and is set to last five days to decide ...

Google-parent Alphabet on Tuesday reported its profit in the recently ended quarter slipped to $16 billion as its long sizzling ad revenue growth cooled. Big tech firms are grappling with multiple problems, from inflation to the war in Ukraine, and results for this quarter have not been great so far, reports AFP. Alphabet’s revenue in the period grew 13 percent ...

Twitter spent $33m (£27m) on Elon Musk’s proposed deal to buy the firm between April and June 2022. It also said its number of monthly daily users had risen to 237m – but it reported a net loss of $270m, which was worse than expected. Mr Musk has since changed his mind about the purchase, and a court date is ...