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Everything we know about interstellar object 3I/Atlas: Size, speed, origin, arrival, and alien speculations explained  WION Explaining the Anomalous Anti-Tail of 3I/ATLAS  Avi Loeb – Medium Ready for the next ‘Oumuamua: Launching flyby missions to visiting interstellar comets is ‘feasible and affordable,’ study says  Space Brand new image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shows it’s becoming more active and getting longer as it approaches …

Senate Majority Leader John Thune took the first procedural step Monday toward changing the chamber’s rules to speed up the confirmation of lower-level Trump nominees, saying the move is necessary to combat obstruction from Democrats. Democrats this Congress have forced the GOP majority to use valuable floor time on procedural votes, slowing down the confirmation process and leaving spots unfilled …

Workers detained in a massive immigration raid of a Cato protein bar factory last week have already been deported to Guatemala. It took less than 72 hours for as many as a dozen of those workers to go from a factory floor in Upstate New York to a landing strip in Central America. Advocates and families trying to get in …

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders are moving closer to implementing a major change to Senate rules that would allow them to confirm scores of President Donald Trump’s nominees in batches, rather than vote on each one individually. Republicans are making the change to speed up votes on Trump’s nominees after complaining that Democrats are slow-walking them en masse. Meanwhile, the Senate’s …

Ookla, the network intelligence company known for its Speedtest tool, today published the results of its second iPhone 16e cellular speed test. In short, Ookla found that the iPhone 16e with Apple’s custom-designed C1 modem “performs similarly” to the standard iPhone 16 with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X71 modem in the “vast majority of markets” that it examined. However, results sometimes varied …

US unemployment rate near 4-year high as labor market hits stall speed  Reuters US hiring stalls with employers reluctant to expand in an economy grown increasingly erratic  AP News Is the Fed ready to go big? Analysts debate jumbo rate cut after soft jobs data  Fortune Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown  CNBC Labor Market Stalled …

A Ubisoft developer has explained why the physical Nintendo Switch 2 release of Star Wars Outlaws is a Game-Key Card, instead of having the full game on the cartridge. Game-Key Cards are Nintendo’s new branding for cartridges that still require the game to be downloaded from the Switch 2 online store before the game can be played. The cartridge doesn’t …

Going to space could speed up biological ageing, NASA study finds  Euronews.com Spaceflight Accelerates Human Stem Cell Aging, UC San Diego Researchers Find  UC San Diego Today Space travel ‘speeds up ageing’  The Telegraph Stem Cells Age Faster in Space  the-scientist.com Spaceflight Accelerates Human Aging, Study Finds  extremetech.com Source link

Rules could be changed within weeks to speed Trump confirmations, GOP senators say  Politico Senate Republicans Hatch Plan to Speed Up Trump’s Stalled Nominees  Bloomberg Returning Republicans look for fix to Trump nominee logjam  The Hill Top Senate Republican ready to go nuclear, ‘roll over’ Democrats with rule change to confirm Trump nominees  Fox News Senate GOP zeroes in on plan to end Trump …

Typical optical fibres consist of thin, solid glass wires. Tweaking the design could allow them to carry more data over longer distances.Credit: Phillip Hayson/Science Photo Library A new type of hollow optical fibre promises to boost the amount of data that can be carried in each glass strand, and to do so over longer distances. This could help to make …