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Dreame’s dream of a rocket-powered car is dead
Dreame, the Chinese vacuum-cleaner manufacturer with ambitions to become a broader technology conglomerate, has reportedly shut down its automotive division after government funding dried up. The move follows tighter Chinese government scrutiny of the £3.4 trillion private fund industry, with regulators specifically singling out Dreame’s spending, and it undercuts the company’s efforts to expand from…
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SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport
SpaceX will invest up to $100 billion to build “Starbase Louisiana,” a vast new Starship factory and launch site on the Gulf coast, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry confirmed. The project, unveiled by SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell in the small town of Abbeville, aims to replicate and scale up the company’s existing Starbase Texas facility, giving…
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Canada plots tariff hit-back as Hounslow fire suspect charged with murder
Ottawa readies retaliatory trade measures against Trump’s US, a man faces murder and arson charges after a fatal Hounslow blaze, and NHS data shows record antidepressant prescribing across England.
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SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year
Elon Musk has said SpaceX will launch a “space-optimised” Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit in the fourth quarter of next year, with plans to scale up significantly by 2028. The announcement, made on X and echoed in a slightly differently worded Nvidia press release, marks an ambitious step towards putting datacentre hardware…
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How to watch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s launch
NASA is preparing to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on 30 August, with live coverage of the event set to begin at 6:20am Eastern time ahead of a targeted lift-off no earlier than 7:26am. The mission is significant because Roman is designed to survey a much wider portion of the sky than the…
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India’s Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones
Indian startup Airbound has raised $37 million in a Series A round led by Greenoaks, with backing from DoorDash, Lachy Groom, Lightspeed and Humba Ventures, as it seeks to make drone-based delivery as cheap as trucking. The three-year-old company builds vertical-flight, rocket-like drones designed to weigh less than the cargo they carry, aiming to close…
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Record one in seven now on antidepressants as pill use rockets
A record one in seven people in England were prescribed antidepressants last year, with 9.1 million patients given the drugs by their GP, according to figures from the NHS Business Services Authority. This marks a rise of more than 15 per cent over five years and comes amid a sharp increase in depression and anxiety…
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The only GameCube that could play CDs and DVDs is rarely found below $1,000 today
The Panasonic Q, a Japan-only hybrid of the Nintendo GameCube and a DVD/CD player released in December 2001, has become a sought-after collector’s item due to its scarcity, with working units rarely selling for less than $1,000 today. The device was born out of Nintendo’s need to compete with the PS2, which had a built-in…
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Sussex couple set for UK return with Spencer family backing
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are reportedly preparing an imminent return to the United Kingdom, with plans advancing for their arrival within the coming days. While Prince Harry remains distant from key members of the