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Palm Jumeirah and Palm Jebel Ali photographed from the International Space Station. April 6, 2022. Click the image for wider, high-resolution view.Dubai’s coast has some of the largest and most recognizable land reclamation projects on Earth.There are no other coastlines on Earth quite like the one along Dubai. Just two decades ago, there was not much of note along the city’s coast, aside from the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf. Today that coastline is the site of some of the largest and most recognizable land…

Tesla has started to officially move to expand Gigafactory Berlin on a new 250-acre lot with the submission of the construction plan to the municipality. The automaker has just started production at the factory, and it is still having issues ramping things up, but that’s not stopping the company from already expanding the plant. Tesla has ambitious plans for Gigafactory Berlin that includes more vertical integration to limit its exposure to supply chain issues and a ramp-up of vehicle production to eventually 1…

Johnny Depp on Wednesday testified in his defamation trial against Amber Heard that he helped secure for his ex-wife her breakthrough role as Mera in Aquaman by talking to Warner Bros. executives who were concerned about Heard’s legal troubles in Australia, where the movie was shot. Heard in 2016 was prosecuted in Australia for illegally bringing her dogs into the country. The charges were dropped in exchange for Heard pleading guilty to making a false customs declaration by indicating that she had no animals…

Many families of land animals live separated by hundreds of kilometers of wide and vast oceans. Explanations for how they got so far from each other are as varied as the animals themselves.  In recent times, many animals have hitched rides with humans traveling around the world, on our vehicles, food products, and on our bodies.Before this, as far back as hundreds of millions of years ago, the continents were connected, and animals could just walk across the land.But in-between then and now, there seems to have been a…

Ever since Jennifer Grey’s new memoir Out of the Corner has come out, she has been revealing piece by piece the juicy gossip of her tough life in Hollywood during the ‘80s. She has so far spoken about how her nose jobs made it hard for her to get work as well as what it was like to date Johnny Depp. While we know that one of her Hollywood beaus was Ferris Bueller’s Day Off co-star Matthew Broderick, what you may not know is that he wasn’t exactly in Jennifer Grey’s corner when she auditioned for her iconic role in Dirty…

Rick Ross’ Car & Bike Show didn’t disappoint.The Maybach Music boss hosted the inaugural event Saturday at “The Promise Land,” his 235-acre property in Fayetteville, Georgia. Ross has been hyping the show over the last several months, teasing some of the whips he planned to showcase. We’re talking everything from a Lamborghini Murcielago and custom 1971 Chevrolet Impala to novelty vehicles like a firetruck and a camo tank.Ross spoke about the event during a TMZ interview earlier this week, saying he expected more than…

It’s cool to see someone carry this torch Not that long ago, I was out here publicly wishing that Wario Land 4 would show up on Nintendo Switch Online as my one true hail-mary GBA pick, and I’m still trying not to get my hopes up. Admittedly though, my attention is better spent on Antonblast, an upcoming PC and Nintendo Switch indie platformer that taps into the dearly departed series’ vibes. Antonblast is already winning over fans on Kickstarter, who have pushed past the game’s baseline $75,000 goal on Kickstarter with…

After the resurrection of the Land Rover Defender, politicians, celebrities and businessmen have a new favourite. Bollywood actor Sunny Deol has become the latest owner of Defender 110, which is the five-door version of the iconic SUV. Sunny Deol has received the car in white colour and has been spotted with the new vehicle too. Interestingly, the Deol family loves Land Rover Range Rovers and owns several models from different generations. The new Land Rover Defender 110 seems to be the top-end version of the SUV. It…

The Umbrella Academy season 3 trailer is out. On Thursday, Netflix unveiled a nearly two-and-a-half-minute-long trailer for the third season of the superhero series to pique the curiosity of fans. In The Umbrella Academy season 3 trailer, we see the Hargreeves siblings in an alternate timeline where their adoptive father never founded The Umbrella Academy, which is an important part of their identities. This reality, instead, is home to an organisation named The Sparrow Academy where they are simply unwelcome. This sets…

Global spatiotemporally continuous land surface temperature (four times a day, the 181st day in 2020). Credit: AIR Land surface temperature (LST) plays a critical role in the study of physical and biological processes of the Earth's surface at global and regional scales. It is widely used in fields such as meteorology, climate, hydrology, agriculture, and ecology.…