Bezos rocket erupts in fireball during ground test

Bezos rocket erupts in fireball during ground test

An aerial view of the Blue Origin manufacturing facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US. Brendan McDermid/Reuters An uncrewed Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on the launchpad during a test on Thursday, in a major setback for Jeff Bezos’s space venture as it seeks to narrow the gap with Elon…

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Africa: Response to Ebola Outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda

Africa: Ethiopia Will Continue Advocating for Africa to Lead Cooperation, Win-Win Approach in Water Dev’t

Emphasizing a collaborative approach and adherence to the principles of prudent and reasonable use of transboundary resources, Water and Energy Minister’s Special Advisor, Motuma Mekassa, said Ethiopia will continue to advocate for Africa to lead a collaborative and win-win approach in water development. Speaking at the Conference themed “Assuring Sustainable Water Availability and Safe Sanitation…

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NASA unveils schedule for first three moon base test missions

NASA unveils schedule for first three moon base test missions

NASA has shared an ambitious, preliminary framework for its first three “Moon Base” test flights. Having successfully concluded its crewed Artemis II lunar flyby mission in April, the agency is shifting focus toward establishing a permanent infrastructure on the lunar surface. These upcoming unmanned deployments are designed to evaluate newly contracted lunar landers and rovers…

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Motsepe-backed Spinnaker targets local tech talent

Motsepe-backed Spinnaker targets local tech talent

Spinnaker Support founder and CEO Mathew Stava and VP at Spinnaker Support EMEA Jon Gill. Spinnaker Support, which recently set up physical presence locally, is leveraging South Africa’s deep talent pool as it builds a support centre in the market. This is according to Mathew Stava, founder and CEO of Spinnaker Support, speaking at an…

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Anthropic tops valuation of AI pioneer OpenAI

Anthropic tops valuation of AI pioneer OpenAI

Anthropic has raised US$65-billion at a post-money valuation of $965-billion, as it seeks to expand computing capacity to meet growing demand for chatbot Claude and scale its products. The new valuation after the series-H funding round puts Anthropic ahead of rival OpenAI, which was last valued at $852-billion post-money in March. “Since our series-G in…

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