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Technology

SpaceX tells FCC it has a plan to make Starlink about 10 times faster

As for actual speeds in 2024, Starlink’s website says “users typically experience download speeds between 25 and 220Mbps, with a majority of users experiencing speeds over 100Mbps. Upload speeds are typically between 5 and 20Mbps. Latency ranges between 25 and 60 ms on land, and 100+ ms in certain remote locations.” Changing satellite elevation angles […]

Science

Gaia space telescope discovers 55 ‘runaway’ careening away from stellar cluster at 80 times the speed of sound

Using Europe’s Gaia space telescope, astronomers have identified 55 runaway stars being ejected at high speeds from a densely packed young cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. This is the first time so many stars have been seen escaping from a single star cluster. The star […]

Business & Finance

A Painter For Her Times, And All Time

Cecily Brown, ‘High Society,’ 1998, oil on linen, 76 x 98 in., Martin and Toni Sosnoff, © Cecily Brown. Rob McKeever, courtesy Gagosian Big, fleshy, writhing canvases filled with body parts. Visceral. Sexy. Not romantic sexy, lustful sexy. What was your name again sexy. Sometimes graphically sexual. Orgiastic. Swishing, swirling paint laid on thick, mimicking […]

Sports

2024 MLB playoff schedule: TV coverage, scores, game times, baseball games today, where to watch ALDS and NLDS

Major League Baseball’s 2024 postseason has arrived, and the divisional round is underway. Wednesday brings an action-packed, four-game day on the schedule. The Mets beat the Phillies to clinch their first NLCS berth since 2015 and eliminate their NL East rivals. The Padres will attempt to do the same with the Dodgers later tonight. The […]

Politics

Voters react to Gov Tim Walz dodging Tiananmen Square question: ‘I’m a knucklehead at times’

A focus group of Democrats, independents and Republicans reacted to the moment when Gov. Tim Walz called himself a “knucklehead” for claiming to have been in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre. Moderators confronted Walz on the claim during the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate Tuesday night. Walz admitted that he only traveled to […]