(STARBASE, USA) – SpaceX has completed the thirteenth test flight of its Starship rocket, successfully placing twenty next generation Starlink satellites into orbit for the first time. The launch took place from the company’s facility in southern Texas and lasted approximately one hour. The upper stage spacecraft carried twenty StarlinkContinue Reading
(MOUNTAIN VIEW, USA) – Google has widened access to its agent based artificial intelligence assistant, Gemini Spark, making the tool available to paying subscribers across most global markets. The assistant, first announced at the company’s I/O developer conference earlier this year, is now included in the Google AI Pro planContinue Reading
(SAN FRANCISCO, USA) – A widespread service disruption hit ChatGPT on Friday, affecting users across multiple continents and blocking access to conversations and chat history. The outage was recorded by monitoring service Downdetector and confirmed by OpenAI on its own status page. OpenAI reported raised error levels across ChatGPT, itsContinue Reading
(LONDON, UK) – Britain has restarted production of hypersonic target vehicles after a pause of more than ten years, moving to equip its armed forces with the tools needed to train against the growing threat of advanced Russian missile systems. The Ministry of Defence has signed a contract worth GBPContinue Reading
(WASHINGTON, DC) – The United States Navy has selected an extended range cruise missile for a programme aimed at supplying allies with affordable, long range strike weapons. The RAACM ER missile, developed by CoAspire, will be adapted under the CHAOS project, a US Navy initiative to create mass produced, lowContinue Reading
(WASHINGTON, USA) – Central banks across the Group of Seven nations are preparing for a series of interest rate decisions this week as oil prices approach $100 per barrel, intensifying inflationary risks that could force policymakers to signal a return to rate increases by the autumn. Brent crude currently tradesContinue Reading
(KYIV, UKRAINE) – Global grain prices face a renewed threat from deliberate Russian attacks on Ukrainian agricultural enterprises and port infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned, drawing a direct link between the strikes on food production facilities and the risk of a fresh world food crisis. Zelensky said in hisContinue Reading
(BAGHDAD, IRAQ) – Iraq plans to build oil pipelines across Syrian territory to the Mediterranean Sea, opening a new export route for Iraqi crude to world markets as the government presses ahead with a broader programme of energy infrastructure development. The Iraqi cabinet authorised the director general of Basra OilContinue Reading
(LONDON, UK) – Europe may fail to reach its target of filling gas storage facilities to at least 80 percent before the winter heating season, as competition with Asian buyers for liquefied natural gas cargoes intensifies and Russian pipeline supplies remain cut off, the head of Norwegian energy company EquinorContinue Reading
(TEHRAN, IRAN) – Iran has sold crude oil worth $18 billion since the beginning of its conflict with the United States, securing more than 60 percent of the annual budgeted oil revenue even during the most intense period of hostilities, Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad said. Paknejad told Al Jazeera thatContinue Reading
