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