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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

How the 6-Day Race Became an American...

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Dylan Thuras: It was around midnight on March 10th, 1879, and a crowd was gathering outside Madison Square Garden, back when it was called Gilmore’s Garden. And they were all there for an event, a kind of race. And in the days leading up to it, newspapers and magazines had been stirring up the excitement. So when the day finally arrived, people were ready. The race was……

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Survivor of Israel’s attack on Iran’s Evin...

BEIRUT (AP) — Sayeh Seydal, a jailed Iranian dissident, narrowly escaped death when Israeli missiles struck Tehran’s Evin Prison, where she was held. She had just stepped out of the prison’s clinic moments before it was destroyed. The June 23 strikes on Iran’s most notorious prison for political dissidents killed at least 71 people, including staff, soldiers, visiting family members and people living nearby, Iranian judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir said Sunday. In the ensuing chaos, authorities transferred Seydal and…

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Revenue Strategy for Resorts and All-Inclusives: Exploring...

Wouldn’t it be nice if effective revenue management for resorts and all-inclusive properties were as relaxing as the guest experiences they offer? While commercial success at these complex properties will likely never be akin to sipping mojitos poolside (one can dream, though), today’s advanced revenue management technology can simplify and streamline the elements needed to The post Revenue Strategy for Resorts and All-Inclusives: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities appeared first on Revfine.com….

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Beyoncé and Jay-Z dominate Paris as celebrity...

PARIS (AP) — If any force swept through the fashion industry this season — and sent shockwaves around the globe — it wasn’t a new silhouette or a daring color. It was the spectacle of celebrity. Star power eclipsed fabric and form, transforming the runways of Paris Fashion Week into arenas where A-list icons, K-pop idols, and digital megastars didn’t just attend — they became the main event. As the week wraps up Sunday, it’s clear: the world is…

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Elon Musk renews his criticism of Trump’s...

FILE – Elon Musk attends a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)(AP/Evan Vucci) FILE – Elon Musk attends a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)(AP/Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk on Saturday doubled down on his distaste for President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and…

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Israeli strikes kill at least 62 people...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes killed at least 62 people across Gaza overnight and into Saturday, health workers said, as ceasefire prospects were said to be improving. Three children and their parents were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent camp in Muwasi near the southern city of Khan Younis. They were struck while sleeping, relatives said. “What did these children do to them? What is their fault?” said the children’s grandmother, Suad Abu Teima,…

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This Public Bathroom in a Sleepy English...

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. So, there is a kind of unspoken code of public conduct, of honor, when you are in a public restroom. I’m thinking of the restroom in an airport, busy, and you just try and pretend that you cannot hear the noises that are coming out of the stalls next to you. And thankfully, people pretend they don’t hear the noises coming out of your stall. This is……

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Venecia espera recaudar más de US$ 1.100...

Venecia, Italia, puede esperar una ganancia de US$ 1.100 millones gracias a la controvertida y glamurosa boda de Jeff Bezos y Lauren Sanchez, según el Ministerio de Turismo de Italia. El ministerio dijo este viernes que el evento, que ha enfrentado una fuerte oposición de algunos venecianos, podría suponer un impulso de casi el 68 % de la facturación anual del turismo en la ciudad. La boda, que durará tres días y cuyo costo se estima en hasta US$…

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Faces of MIT: Ylana Lopez

Ylana Lopez oversees programs and events at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. The Trust Center offers more than 60 entrepreneurship and innovation courses across campus, a dedicated entrepreneurship and innovation track for students pursuing their MBA, online courses for self-learners at MIT and around the globe, and programs for people both affiliated and not affiliated with the Institute. As assistant director, academics and events, at the Trust Center, Lopez leads an array of programs and events, while……

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MIT and Mass General Brigham launch joint...

Leveraging the strengths of two world-class research institutions, MIT and Mass General Brigham (MGB) recently celebrated the launch of the MIT-MGB Seed Program. The new initiative, which is supported by Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), will fund joint research projects led by researchers at MIT and Mass General Brigham. These collaborative projects will advance research in human health, with the goal of developing next-generation therapies, diagnostics, and digital tools that can improve lives at scale.  The program represents a unique……

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Using generative AI to help robots jump...

Diffusion models like OpenAI’s DALL-E are becoming increasingly useful in helping brainstorm new designs. Humans can prompt these systems to generate an image, create a video, or refine a blueprint, and come back with ideas they hadn’t considered before. But did you know that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models are also making headway in creating working robots? Recent diffusion-based approaches have generated structures and the systems that control them from scratch. With or without a user’s input, these models can……

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The Manhattan Well: How Aaron Burr and...

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Dylan Thuras: New York is always rewriting itself. It feels like a new city most of the time, but occasionally there are little places where the old and the new jam up against each other. And I am outside of one of them right now. I am down on—where am I? I’m in Soho on Spring Street and Green Street. And there’s a shop here called COS…….

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The Latest: Key Medicaid provision in Trump’s...

The Senate parliamentarian has advised that a Medicaid provider tax overhaul central to President Donald Trump’s tax cut and spending bill doesn’t adhere to the chamber’s procedural rules, delivering a crucial blow as Republicans rush to finish the package this week. Republicans were counting on big cuts to Medicaid and other programs to offset trillions of dollars in Trump tax breaks, their top priority. The attention falling on Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough’s ruling reflects a broader change in Congress:…

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Face-to-face with Es Devlin

Es Devlin, the winner of the 2025 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, creates settings for people to gather — whether it’s a few people in a room or crowds swelling a massive stadium — arenas in which to dissolve one’s individual sense of self into the greater collective. She herself contains multitudes; equally at home with 17th century metaphysical English poet John Donne, 21st century icon of music and fashion Lady Gaga, or Italian theoretical physicist……

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Summer 2025 reading from MIT

Summer is the perfect time to curl up with a good book — and MIT authors have had much to offer in the past year. The following titles represent some of the books published in the past 12 months by MIT faculty and staff. In addition to links for each book from its publisher, the MIT Libraries has compiled a helpful list of the titles held in its collections. Looking for more literary works from the MIT community? Enjoy……

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