The images showed a vast cloud of dust extending out of Dimorphos. Paris: The James Webb and Hubble telescopes revealed their first images on Thursday of a spacecraft deliberately crashing into an asteroid, as astronomers said the impact appears to have been much larger than expected. Telescopes around the world turned their gaze to the …
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CNN Business — Workers who provide food and drink to travelers at San Francisco International Airport are on strike, seeking what they say is their first raise in four years. The 1,000 strikers are members of Unite Here Local 2, a Bay Area union with 15,000 members. Airport workers work under a joint multi-employer labor …
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Screenshot: Twitch / Mizkif On Saturday, a Twitch streamer named Abraham Mohammed, better known to viewers as Sliker, admitted that he scammed fans and other content creators out of at least $200,000 to fund his Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Gaming addiction. In response, big-name streamers such as Imane “Pokimane” Anys, Matthew “Mizkif” Rinaudo, and Devin Nash …
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Image: Twitch/Kotaku/VictorWard (Shutterstock) It’s been a rough 24 hours for people streaming purple. After a scandal broke a Twitch streamer had scammed viewers and peers out of an alleged $200,000 to fund a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive addiction, high-profile figures began pressuring the live-streaming company to fix the larger underlying problem. Gambling, many have been arguing …
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While some scientists believe asteroid and comet strikes are the cause of mass extinction events on Earth, new research from Dartmouth points to volcanic eruptions as the main driver. Research led by Dartmouth strengthens the link between mega volcanoes and mass extinctions. What killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the …
Joe Hinrichs, a former Ford Motor Co. executive, will take the helm Sept. 26 as chief executive of CSX, the third-largest railroad in the United States with 23,000 miles of track that hauls everything from automobiles to construction, agriculture, consumption and energy products. Hinrichs, reached by the Free Press on Thursday hours after the announcement, …
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Two rail unions, representing more than 50,000 engineers and conductors who make up the two-person crews that run the trains, are threatening the first rail strike in 30 years from 12:01 a.m. ET on Friday. Union leaders and railroad union negotiators began meeting with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh at his office in Washington, DC, at …
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Transit systems across the country were on edge Wednesday amid the threat of a strike by freight rail workers, bracing for potential travel disruptions that could affect hundreds of thousands of rail customers. Amtrak announced that it was canceling all of its long-distance trains starting Thursday. Some regional transit agencies said they were preparing for …
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New York CNN Business — A freight rail strike, and the economic upheaval it could cause, is getting closer and closer to reality. While two other railway unions reached tentative agreements with railway management on new contracts on Tuesday, the two largest unions – representing engineers and conductors who make up the two-person crews of …
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New York CNN Business — A freight rail strike, and the economic upheaval it could cause, is getting closer and closer to reality. While two other railway unions reached tentative agreements with railway management on new contracts on Tuesday, the two largest unions – representing engineers and conductors who make up the two-person crews of …
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