TOKYO — Japan’s space agency intentionally destroyed a new H3 rocket minutes after its launch Tuesday because the ignition failed for the second stage of the country’s first new rocket series in more than two decades.,Coming three weeks after an aborted launch due to a separate glitch, the...
Replete with spellbinding multiverses, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” topped the 95th Academy Awards nominations with 11 nods.Elsewhere, stories of friendship and family permeated 2022 cinema and the nominations this year, as did big-budget blockbusters.,Some of the nominated filmsare still i...
WASHINGTON — Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.,Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump’s critics from b...
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter experienced a bevy of glitches for over an hour Monday as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in and images were not loading for others.,The company, which has experienced an uptick of instability and bugs in recent months after Elon Musk cut its staff...
DETROIT (AP) — In explaining why Tesla Inc. keeps cutting prices on its electric vehicles, the auto industry is pretty much divided into two camps.,On one side are analysts who see an aggressive move by the leading manufacturer of EVs to gobble up sales and market share from its competitors just as...
Prosecutors and attorneys for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Friedare requesting the disgraced cryptocurrency entrepreneur be allowed a flip-phone or another device that’s not a smartphone while on bail.,The proposal, submitted in a letter Friday, comes as the judge in the case is deciding how to toughenB...
LAS VEGAS — Tesla won more than $330 million in tax breaks from Nevada on Thursday for the company’s commitment to a massive expansion of its sprawling vehicle battery facilities east of Reno, including the construction of a new electric semi-truck factory.,Approval from the Governor’s Offi...
BEIJING — China accused Washington on Friday of improperly attacking Chinese companies after genetics analysis giant BGI Group and 17 others were hit with curbs on access to U.S. technology on security or human rights grounds.,The Commerce Department said it saw a danger that two BGI units might co...
WEXFORD, Pa. — By the time the doors open at 4:30 p.m., a boisterous line of 50 hungry people is looping around the gymnasium foyer at Blessed Francis Seelos Academy. Their objective: to occupy tables on the basketball court and, for the parish’s first time since the pandemic descended in 20...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A new crew arrived at the International Space Station on Friday for a six-month mission, after overcoming trouble with one of the capsule’s docking hooks.,The SpaceX capsule and its four astronauts had to wait 65 feet (20 meters) from the orbiting lab, as flight contro...
