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Get your free copy of Editor’s DigestFT editor Roula Khalaf picks her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Would you be able to spend 378 days and nights in a dark space lit only by strip lights and a window with a fake planet in it, accompanied only by three coworkers? A week? Um, even a night?The first four members of NASA Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analogue (Chapea) The mission continued until the end, finally emerging last week. They spent more than a year in a hangar in Houston simulating a mission to Mars. The crew’s main concern wasn’t how…

The Princess of Wales is Patron of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.Karwai Tan/WireImage Kate Middleton will play at Wimbledon on July 15, 2023Kate Middleton It will be Royal Box At Wimbledon this year.Kensington Palace has confirmed that the Princess of Wales, 42, will be attending Wimbledon’s men’s singles final on Sunday, July 14.But she won’t be able to watch the famous tennis tournament be crowned the women’s champion at the British Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Saturday, July 13.Princess Kate, 42, has played at Wimbledon almost every year since her marriage. Prince William In…

BALTIMORE — Brandon Hyde is a minor league catcher turned manager. New York Yankees In the dugout, he planted his heels on his feet to gain more power, but was blocked by the backup catcher, who began the day celebrating his 25th birthday and ended it with the goal of putting out fireworks, not lighting them.”I thought it was a great birthday,” Austin Wells said late Friday night. Yankees win 4-1 over- Baltimore Orioles Be safe with rear visibility.”We were trying to minimize the damage.”It’s an appropriate sentiment for both the bench-emptying brawl that devastated the bottom of the ninth…

This image from a video provided by SpaceX shows the upper stage engine of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during a launch from California on Thursday, July 11, 2024. The rocket carrying 20 Starlink satellites failed during an explosion, leaving the company’s internet satellites in a dangerous low orbit. Credit: SpaceX, via AP A SpaceX rocket has malfunctioned for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company’s internet satellite in a very low orbit, destined to fall into the atmosphere and burn up. The Falcon 9 rocket was launching from California on Thursday night carrying 20 Starlink satellites…

The Israeli military carried out massive airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, targeting a Hamas commander believed to be the mastermind behind the deadly October 7 attack that killed 1,200 Israelis and triggered war in the Strip. According to multiple reports, the IDF fired rockets at the fenced compound where Hamas’ military wing commander, Mohammed Deif, and Hamas’ Khan Younis Brigades commander, Rafa’a Salameh, were holed up. The military is still waiting for information to confirm whether Dief and Salameh, leaders of the organisation’s notorious Qassam Brigades, were killed in the attack. The target of the airstrike was Hamas…

HOUSTON, Texas — As the heatwave continues, Houston residents are… It supplies power to local utility CenterPoint Energy, which has come under scrutiny for its slow response. Hurricane Beryl Landed on the Gulf Coast of Texas Earlier this week.More than 800,000 customers remained No Power Power outages and electricity were down as of Friday afternoon, more than four days after the hurricane flooded roads, sent temperatures soaring to nearly 30 degrees Fahrenheit and left more than 2 million people without air conditioning.”It’s ridiculous, we’re sleeping in a hot room,” said Houston resident Ruth Gonzalez, who takes cold showers to get…

Valve is a notoriously secretive company with a lot of influence in the gaming industry, especially because it runs Steam, the massive PC game store. But despite that influence, Valve is not a large organization on par with EA or Riot Games, who have thousands of employees. According to leaked data we’ve seen, Valve has just 336 employees as of 2021.This data was included as part of a heavily redacted document. Wolfire’s Antitrust Lawsuit Against Valve. It’s been found SteamDB creator Pavel DjundikSome of the data in the document was viewable despite the black redaction boxes, including data on Valve’s…

A person who was deficient in vitamin B12 has revealed how “minor” symptoms he experienced over a period of two years progressed to a full-blown deficiency.This patient’s story illustrates the mystery surrounding the disease, which is estimated to affect about 6 percent of people under 60 and about 20 percent of those over 60.Vitamin B12 supports everything from red blood cell production to nerve function and DNA synthesis.Therefore, vitamin deficiencies can cause debilitating effects, some of which are permanent. Unfortunately, there is no national or international agreement on what constitutes vitamin B12 deficiency, leading to delayed diagnosis and poor treatment…

Childhood habits are hard to break, and new research suggests that the way you adjust your thermostat today is likely a remnant of those early childhood habits.A recent paper, comically titled “Turning Down the Temperature for Watts,” finds that even though heating and cooling make up a significant portion of most homes’ energy bills, the average American doesn’t turn their thermostat down very much. Instead, residents tend to follow in their parents’ footsteps. “Notably, people who grew up in warm homes tend to keep their thermostats set higher in their current homes, suggesting that childhood thermal environments have a lasting…

CNN — 2 days later Alec Baldwin’s Nearly three years after the fatal shooting on the set of “Lust,” which sparked his manslaughter trial, a New Mexico judge ended the case with eight words that left the actor visibly emotional. “The motion to dismiss is granted,” Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer told Baldwin and his defense team in court Friday afternoon, as an already shaking Baldwin removed his glasses, buried his face in his hands, sobbed and embraced his wife, Hilaria. The ruling comes after nearly three years of Legal disputes He also touched on the change in prosecutors leading up…