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SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Twitter on Thursday began rolling out changes to let people pack more into tweets, subtracting from the character count names of those being replied to in posts. The latest software modification at the one-to-many messaging service comes about a year after Twitter set out to relax a 140-character limit set due to mobile phone text messaging constraints in place when Twitter launched in 2006. Twitter first announced plans to […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) — London’s Saatchi Gallery launches on Friday (March 31) “From Selfie to Self-Expression,” which it says will be the world’s first exhibition looking at the history of selfies. It kicks off with Rembrandt, the 17th century Dutch artist whose dozens of self-portraits created an intimate autobiography with confident brushstrokes. His paintings are represented on digital screens that one can “like,” resulting in a red heart appearing over the image – just […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A space blanket floated away from American astronaut Peggy Whitson on Thursday as she made a historic spacewalk outside the International Space Station, setting a new record for the most spacewalks by a woman. The crew was not in danger due to the mishap, which occurred when Whitson was trying to fold up a bulky cloth cover, known as an axial shield, and put […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — SpaceX blasted off a recycled rocket for the first time on Thursday, using a booster that had previously flown cargo to the astronauts living at the International Space Station. The rocket rose into the sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:27 pm (2227 GMT), on a mission to send a communications satellite for Luxembourg-based company SES into a distant orbit. “No one has ever […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France-Presse MIAMI, United States – American astronaut Peggy Whitson made history when she floated outside the International Space Station on Thursday, breaking the record for the most spacewalks by a woman. Whitson, 57, is making her eighth career spacewalk, surpassing the record of seven previously held by American Suni Williams. The spacewalk formally began at 7:29 am (1129 GMT) when Whitson and her NASA colleague Shane Kimbrough switched their spacesuits to […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France-Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — SpaceX is poised to launch its first recycled rocket on Thursday, using a booster that sent food and supplies to the astronauts living at the International Space Station in April. The goal of the launch, scheduled for 6:27 pm (2227 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is to send a communications satellite for Luxembourg-based company SES into a distant orbit. Standing tall at the NASA launchpad, […]
by Harumi OZAWA Agence France-Presse JAPAN (AFP) — Most people look for a place to hide when a typhoon is on the horizon, but Atsushi Shimizu hopes that the fury of nature may one day help resource-poor Japan tackle its energy woes. As thousands of Australians seek shelter from a “monster” cyclone battering the country’s northern coast, the Tokyo-based engineer believes that his bladeless wind turbine can not only stand up to the raw force […]
by Tristan MCCONNELL Agence France-Presse NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — The price of ivory has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the last three years, according to research conducted in China and published Wednesday by the conservation group Save the Elephants. At its peak in 2014 the estimated wholesale price for raw ivory stood at $2,100 (1,900 euros) per kilogram on the Chinese black market, but by early 2017 the price had fallen to $730 per kilogram, […]
THAILAND (Reuters) — Footage of Indochinese tigers and their cubs have been captured in Thailand’s eastern jungle, confirming the world’s second breeding population of the critically endangered cats is there, wildlife conservationists said on Wednesday (March 29). Evidence from 156 camera traps documented at least six cubs from four female tigers in the country’s eastern jungle – the first evidence of tigers breeding in the eastern area in more than 15 years. The cameras that captured […]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — China’s Anhui Jianghuai Automobile (JAC Motor) on Tuesday (March 28) presented their models SUV S2 and SUV S3 to be sold in Mexico. Last month, Mexico’s Giant Motors and China’s JAC Motor, along with distributor Chori Company Limited, announced they would invest more than 4.4 billion pesos ($212.46 million) in an existing Mexican plant to build these SUVs in the central state of Hidalgo. The investment is a welcome sign of […]
by Fiachra GIBBONS / Charlotte DURAND Agence France-Presse PARIS, France – The French artist who spent a week entombed inside a rock began an even more bizarre feat Wednesday — sitting on a dozen eggs until they hatch. Abraham Poincheval aims to become a “human hen” by sitting and laying on the eggs inside a glass vitrine at a Paris modern art museum until the chicks emerge. The performance, called “Egg”, could last three to […]
by Harumi OZAWA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Most people look for a place to hide when a typhoon is on the horizon, but Atsushi Shimizu hopes that the fury of nature may one day help resource-poor Japan tackle its energy woes. As thousands of Australians seek shelter from a “monster” cyclone battering the country’s northern coast, the Tokyo-based engineer believes that his bladeless wind turbine can not only stand up to the […]
