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The Spaceport Company recently pulled off a series of rocket launches from a floating launch pad in the Gulf of Mexico, in its effort to create more options for rocket companies needing to reach space. Better Mobility & Cameras: NASA & Axiom's New Spacesuits | TechmodoOn Monday, the Virginia-based startup announced its successful demonstration, marking the first set of rocket launches from U.S. territorial waters using a prototype mobile floating spaceport.A tiny sounding rocket launched from the platform. Photo: …

Starting today, Uber Eats customers in Fairfax, Virginia can get their next meal delivered by a robot. In an expansion of the company’s , Uber has begun offering automated deliveries in the city’s Mosaic District. With today’s announcement, a select number of the more than 40 restaurants in the area have begun transporting their food aboard Cartken’s six-wheeled robots. Among the restaurants participating in the pilot include Our Mom Eugenia, Pupatella and RASA. Uber has been testing autonomous delivery robots in a…

In a Q&A session hosted on her Instagram Stories, Pusha-T’s wife Virginia Williams opened up about how she feels different than the wives of other rappers.Williams was asked if it was “hard dating a celebrity,” and suggested that she initially felt awkward about it because she didn’t look like the partners of other rappers all that much. “If I’m being honest, INITIALLY the only thing hard about it was being ... ok with being the oddball in the room,” she wrote. “Not looking like a ‘rapper girlfriend/wife.’ I use to…

If you haven’t heard of Virginia Norwood, it’s about time you did. An aerospace pioneer whose career would have been historic even without its undercurrent of triumph over misogynistic discrimination, she invented the Landsat satellite program that monitors the Earth’s surface today. Norwood passed away on March 27th at the age of 96, as reported by NASA and The New York Times. She achieved all this despite significant pushback from the male-dominated industry before and after her rise. Despite her obvious talent,…

WASHINGTON —  In its first decision involving transgender students and sports, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused West Virginia’s bid to bar a 12-year-old transgender girl from competing on the girls’ track team at her middle school.With two conservatives in dissent, the court turned down an emergency appeal from the state’s lawyers, who were defending a 2021 law that would classify students based on how their sex was labeled at birth, rather than how they identify.A federal appeals court had put the measure on hold…

Last week, Comixology Originals and Italian publisher Becco Giallo announced a new collaboration to bring a quintet of graphic novel historical fiction biographies to English language readers for the first time. The subjects of the graphic novels, all of which are set for digital release next Tuesday, March 28th, include authors Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf, artist Vincent Van Gogh, philosopher Socrates, and scientist Nikola Tesla. Today, ahead of the books’ release, The Beat is pleased to present a preview of two of…

ChatGPT proves A.I. more dangerous than we think New York attorney and writer Alexander Zubatov weighs in on how A.I. is rapidly changing society and says he's concerned about A.I. being used as a weapon against descent on 'The Ingraham Angle.' Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Thursday that more school districts should ban the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool.The Republican said during a CNN evening town hall that the U.S. should be clear about its goal as a nation "which is to make sure that our kids can think…

Michigan-based Our Next Energy (ONE) is going to open a long-duration battery storage factory in West Virginia, next to a 420 MWh solar microgrid. West Virginia’s new battery storage factory ONE will manufacture the Aries Grid, a utility-scale lithium iron phosphate battery system that debuted at the end of February, in Millwood, West Virginia, on a site called Ravenswood. ONE says its Aries Grid long-duration energy storage system’s USP is as follows: The lithium-ion energy storage…

Officials in Northern Virginia largely played down Amazon.com Inc.’s AMZN 3.01% decision to pause plans for a second phase of its corporate campus in Arlington, Va., describing it as an understandable speed bump on a project already benefiting the local economy. “It really doesn’t concern me. In fact, I’m quite understanding,” said Christian Dorsey, chair of the Arlington County Board, in a call with…

Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters in Virginia following the biggest round of layoffs in the company's history and its shifting plans around remote work.The Seattle-based company is delaying the beginning of construction of PenPlace, the second phase of its headquarters development in northern Virginia, Amazon's real estate chief John Schoettler said in a statement. He said the company has already hired more than 8,000 employees and will welcome them to the Met Park campus, the first phase of…