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The Orbital Reef space station (Picture: Sierra Space/Blue Origin) An inflatable module that may one day replace the International Space Station (ISS) has blown up. For the fifth time. But don’t worry, it was intentional. All five explosions were carried out by Sierra Space, a commercial company which hopes the module will form part of the Orbital Reef space station, a venture led by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin. It has been labelled a ‘mixed-use business park in space’. In 2031, the much-loved ISS will be retired and brought crashing back to Earth, splashing into the Pacific in a region known as Point Nemo, or…

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KEY POINTS China is the world’s largest auto market. In the last few years, the country has become a driver of the global push toward electric cars. The automotive segment, which Nvidia has said it expects to become a billion-dollar business, reported its first sequential decline in quarterly revenue in more than a year. Other automotive chip companies are also seeing sequential revenue declines in the segment. Nvidia automotive segment primarily sells chip systems for assisted driving. CEO Jensen Huang has touted it as the company’s “next billion-dollar business.”Alex Wong | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — U.S.…

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Featuring a look ahead to forthcoming editions of the competition where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter ESPNcricinfo – 19 September, 2023 The Asia Cup, which is the world’s premier cricketing tournament for countries that tell their friends they hate each other but constantly send each other “U up?” texts, has finally ended. As is standard for situationships of this nature, nobody is really fully happy with how it all went down. So let’s debrief. I guess. Oh god. RULES FOR THE NEXT JAYSIA* CUP For several tournament cycles, the ICC has unashamedly put India and…

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The Asia Cup final featured a display of high-intensity, wicket-seeking new-ball bowling from India, with spot-on execution to boot Fifth ball of his second over, Mohammed Siraj is flying down the field. He is racing away from the pitch, in white hot pursuit of one of the handful of shots a Sri Lanka batter middled. Dhananjaya de Silva has only check-driven a fullish ball on the stumps, without much of a backlift, so there’s limited power in the shot. In normal circumstances, this would be stopped by the fielder at mid-on, and this would have yielded one run at most. These are not normal…

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It’s the differences between the two Asia Cup finalists that make for a fascinating game ESPNcricinfo – 16 September, 2023 Ahead of the Asia Cup final, the India side is like a Japanese gyuto chef’s knife: comprised of layers of high-carbon steel, and forged with precision. Both the raw materials used and the processes that have tempered them are world-class. Perhaps some final honing remains. But India are effective, balanced, and often beautiful to behold. Sri Lanka, meanwhile, are the beaten up cast iron pot that’s been passed down through the family for generations. There is joy in their work,…

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The airline is expanding its presence across the country by adding more flights at various hubs and also new routes. Travel + Leisure – September 14, 2023 German airline Lufthansa is expanding its presence in the United States, adding new flights and new cities to its robust lineup of international flights. The airline will add flights from both North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham and from Minneapolis next summer, Lufthansa shared with Travel + Leisure. With the addition of the new cities, Lufthansa will now fly to 27 different cities in the U.S. “Lufthansa Group’s mission is to connect people, cultures and economies from…

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If passed, the law will ban generic claims — from “environmentally-friendly” and “eco” to “natural” and “biodegradable” — from being made without evidence. This is a much-needed step in the right direction, Ana Birliga Sutherland writes. Regulators are finally cracking down on advertisers making false green claims, in a series of moves dubbed the end of the “greenwashing era”. These claims — from the vague (“all natural”) to the hard-to-verify and seemingly omnipresent (“carbon neutral”)—often mislead increasingly climate-conscious consumers. The desire for more environmentally friendly goods is growing rapidly, with nearly 90% of Gen X consumers willing to spend more…

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