US pleads for private sector hypersonic help

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The US aims to leverage private sector investments in commercial hypersonic vehicle technology to build a high-speed test aircraft, marking Washington’s latest bid to bring its hypersonic weapons program up to speed vis-à-vis rivals China and Russia. This month, the US Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) posted a notice for its Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing […]

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‘Pay up or I sell dog to meat shop’: man in China adopts woman’s dog then threatens to have it killed unless she gives him RM3,236

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The owner decided to give up her dog because she couldn’t spend enough time with him and found a man to adopt him on a trading website. After the man took the dog he demanded the former owner pay him US$725 and threatened to sell the dog to meat traders if she did not agree. Read full storyContinue Reading

The false dawn of inflation relief

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The term “false dawn” refers to the zodiacal light that is a result of the sun reflecting (much as it does in respect of the moon) its light toward Earth, via the trillions of tiny particles of interplanetary dust: This dust acts like miniature moonlets, they being scattered throughout the space of the solar system.  […]

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Man gets jail, caning for sexually assaulting 11-year-old girl he found on Instagram and giving her drugs

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SINGAPORE: A 34-year-old man was sentenced on Monday (Sep 5) to 20 years’ jail and 24 strokes of the cane after sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl and giving her drugs. Muhammad Hisham Abdul Karim “trawled the Internet” before zeroing in on a primary school student and befriending her via Instagram,Continue Reading

Upsides, downsides to welcoming digital nomads

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Should your community welcome digital nomads – individuals who work remotely, allowing them freedom to bounce from country to country? Our research has found that workers are eager to embrace the flexibility of not being tied to an office. And after experiencing economic losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic, cities and countries are concocting ways […]

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