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For the second time this week, Volkswagen is halting production of some of its most popular electric cars. VW extended its production pause to a second plant in Germany, impacting the ID.4 and ID.7. Production lines at Volkswagen’s recently upgraded Emden plant in Germany were at a standstill Thursday. The news comes amid a lack of electric motors for the ID.4 and ID.7 models, a spokesperson told German press agency dpa. Volkswagen plans to extend the production stop into Friday and Monday.…

The failure of Russia's Luna-25 moon mission will have no impact on ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 lunar venture, according to top Indian space scientists. The Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the Moon after it spun into an uncontrolled orbit, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said on August 20."It does not have any impact," K Sivan, who was heading ISRO when the Chandrayaan-2 mission was launched in 2019, told PTI on Monday when asked if ISRO would be under additional pressure ahead of the soft landing, following the Russian…

Fans of the Apple TV Plus thriller Tehran can look forward to more episodes of the show arriving sooner rather than later, it seems. Unlike those who prefer some other hit shows across the entire industry.With the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike against Hollywood Studios having kicked off on July 14, many shows and movies have been impacted by this, as well as another strike initiated by writers. Actors are simply not working right now, but a new report notes that an interim agreement program has now been initiated that allows…

Historical photo of the Trinity test. Photo: Everett Collection (Shutterstock)As millions of people head to the theaters this weekend to see Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer, a new study has been released that tracks the radioactive devastation wrought by the U.S. government’s first nuclear weapons test. The “Trinity” test, as it was secretly known, was the first nuclear detonation by the American military, occurring on July 16, 1945. That test resulted in the distribution of radioactive deposits to 46 U.S. states, as…

Global distribution of trend in the magnitude of storm surge, Δη95 (95th percentile of water level) (cm/year) over the period of 1984–2014 at DIVA locations. Note values in the Arctic can be smaller than the lower limits of the color bar (up to −0.3cm/year) . Credit: Scientific Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-38729-y Changes in ocean wave and storm conditions have not caused long-term impacts on sandy coastlines in the…

The number of victims of the MOVEit hack grew by several million on Thursday after the biggest US pension fund, Calpers, and insurer Genworth Financial said personal information of their members and customers had been compromised.Both said a third-party vendor, PBI Research Services, was affected in a data theft hack, providing a path for the hackers to then steal data from Calpers and Genworth. PBI could not be reached for comment. Calpers said on June 6, 2023, PBI told them of a "vulnerability" in their MOVEit Transfer…

Cab-hailing service Uber Technologies has said that it is cutting 200 jobs. The company said that layoffs will impact its recruitment division. It further said that the reductions affect less than 1% of Uber's 32,700-strong global workforce and follow the ride-share company laying off 150 employees in its freight services division earlier this year.The latest cuts account for 35% of Uber's recruiting team, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the development.Hiring freezeThough Uber did not say that…

Photo via Marvel Studios While those taking part in it are undoubtedly on the right side of history, the writers’ strike is proving to be the bane of Marvel Studios’ existence right now as so many of its productions have been hampered in some way by the not insignificant hitch of Hollywood’s screenwriters abandoning their keyboards. Thunderbolts, Wonder Man, Daredevil: Born Again… Even Deadpool 3 to some extent have all been affected. And, so it seems, has Spider-Man 4, as Peter Parker himself Tom Holland has…

Map of the Indonesian archipelago and a schematic of the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF), adapted from Gordon (2005). The red arrows represent the western route of the ITF, the blue arrows represent the eastern route of the ITF, and the green dashed arrows represent the South China Sea (SCS) Throughflow. Ban: Banda Sea; Flo: Flores Sea; Hal: Halmahera Sea; HE: Halmahera Eddy; Jav: Java Sea; Kar: Karimata Strait; Lif: Lifamatola Passage; Lom: Lombok Strait;…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than any other recent event, the COVID-19 crisis has affected the lives of people around the world. In a special issue of the online journal Frontiers in Sociology, edited by sociologists from Constructor University and the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, a group of researchers documents the global impact of the pandemic on the social cohesion of individual population groups…