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Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, drew a backlash on Sunday after calling the murder of Jamal Khashoggi a “mistake” by the Saudi government and comparing the killing to the accidental death of a woman hit by a self-driving car, remarks that he quickly walked back. “It’s a serious mistake,” Mr. Khosrowshahi said in the interview […]

Mercury is skipping across the vast, glaring face of the sun in a rare celestial transit By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer November 11, 2019, 5:33 PM 1 min read Mini Mercury is skipping across the vast, glaring face of the sun in a rare celestial transit. Stargazers used solar-filtered binoculars and telescopes to spot

The researchers showed subjects drawings in which a lineup of six otherwise identical images differed only in some aspect of color. The T-shirt of a boy taking a test, for example, was switched from black to blue to green to red to white to yellow. The same for a businessman’s necktie, a schoolgirl’s dress, a

SpaceX launches 60 mini satellites, the second batch of an orbiting network aimed at providing global internet coverage By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer November 11, 2019, 3:56 PM 2 min read SpaceX launched 60 mini satellites Monday, the second batch of an orbiting network meant to provide global internet coverage. The Falcon rocket blasted

The planet’s biggest shopping day is upon us, and Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce behemoth, is poised again to show the world how many mountains of stuff it can persuade people to buy in the 24 hours of Nov. 11, also known as Singles Day. Last year, more than $30 billion worth of merchandise was sold

Russian President Vladimir Putin is complaining to his cabinet that widescale corruption at Russia’s new space launch facility is continuing November 11, 2019, 12:09 PM 1 min read Russian President Vladimir Putin is complaining to his cabinet that widescale corruption at Russia’s new space launch facility is continuing. The facility in the Far East, named

At the same time, SpaceX has been working directly with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a federally funded research center that operates facilities across the world, to jointly minimize potential impacts of Starlink satellites on radio wavelengths that astronomers use. But these conversations did not focus on light pollution, a problem presented by the reflective

Egypt says archeologists unearthed mummy of unusually large animal, most likely a lion or lioness November 11, 2019, 10:49 AM 1 min read Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities says local archeologists have unearthed the mummy of an unusually large animal, most likely a lion or lioness. The ministry said on Monday the mummy was excavated in

Iran has awarded a top prize in the study of science to two U.S.-educated scientists November 11, 2019, 9:40 AM 1 min read Iran has awarded a top prize in the study of science to two U.S.-educated scientists. Vice President Sourena Sattari granted the Mustafa award on Monday to five scientists, three Iranians and two

A 75-year-old mystery has been solved, and the families of 80 American sailors lost at sea will now have closure: the U.S.S. Grayback has finally been found. It was hidden from discovery all this time by a single errant digit. The mystery began on Jan. 28, 1944, when the Grayback, one of the most successful