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The twentieth of July 1969, exactly 49 years ago, the astronauts of the manned spacecraft “Apollo 11” were the first human landing the moon. Years of effort, dangerous experiments, grueling workouts and ambitious missions are not in vain. For the first time in the history of man landing on the surface of another celestial body,…

American company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has agreed with one of the local Chinese state-owned enterprises to establish a company that will build the country’s first line of high-speed vacuum transport. The object is going to build on the territory of Guizhou province (South China). “China occupies leading positions in the world’s longest high-speed rail…

The internet is full of important life lessons; things you really shouldn’t do, like lighting yourself on fire for a fleeting moment of internet fame or reaching out to the masses to help you name something. But it seems like the UK Space Agency has apparently not been paying attention to the internet for a…

Photo: Getty, Getty, AP Citing government sources, Variety reported on Friday that a staggering six different companies are now developing films about the recent rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave in Thailand. That means as many as six different actors will play real-life irony man Elon Musk, who, while perhaps…

The North American headquarters of Bayer, located in New Jersey.Photo: Julio Cortez (AP) A controversial birth control treatment that is alleged to have harmed thousands of women in the past two decades is finally being phased out completely. On Friday, the pharmacy Bayer announced it would stop selling its Essure birth control implant within the…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty) Vista was bad. Coming five years after XP, it was heavily anticipated by Windows users who were impatiently awaiting something interesting from Microsoft as Apple’s star was on the rise. Yet when the OS dropped publicly in January 2007, it was immediately reviled by, well, everyone (except our expert reviewers). It…

Photo: Getty People who fall in the center of the Venn diagram of warehouse club membership and processed meat fandom are angry about Costco’s recent decision to remove a beloved item from its menu—and are logging on to vent their rage. Earlier this month, The Seattle Times reported that Costco would stop serving Polish dogs…