Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Sydney has been covered by thick smoke from bushfires outside of the city A shroud of smoke from Australia's bushfires has caused chaos in Sydney, bringing dangerous air quality, setting off smoke alarms and ruining visibility in its typically sparkling harbour. The haze on Tuesday was described by many…
grate news — We don't know when they'll actually ship yet, though. Samuel Axon - Dec 9, 2019 7:20 pm UTC This is the new Mac Pro. Samuel Axon And here's a rear view. Samuel Axon Let's zoom in to see some of the ports in this configuration. Samuel Axon There's more to see at…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are still studying proposed changes to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement trade pact, and there was no agreement to announce it yet, a senior Democratic aide said. FILE PHOTO: Trucks wait in a long queue for border customs control to cross into the U.S. at the Otay…
Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption Russian athletes could be banned from the Olympics in Tokyo and Beijing Russia could face an unprecedented four-year ban from major international sporting events over accusations that it manipulated laboratory doping data.The decision will be made later at a meeting of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) in Lausanne, Switzerland.…
Glenn House and his colleagues spent more than four years making a new toilet for the B-1 Lancer. The challenge wasn’t fitting the john into the cockpit (it went behind the front left seat), but ensuring that every part could handle life aboard a plane that can pull 5 Gs, break the sound barrier, and…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Friday’s booming U.S. jobs report should give the Federal Reserve all it needs to stick to its plan not to cut interest rates further in the near future, so when U.S. central bankers meet this week, most of the focus will be on their outlook for next year and beyond. FILE PHOTO:…
Image copyright Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Pöhn Image caption Kate Lindsey will play the title role of Orlando For the first time in its 150-year history, the Vienna State Opera is staging an opera by a woman.Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has written a new opera based on Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando which deals with themes of…
A ghoulish good time — Taking down Frankenstein's Monster and the Invisible Man... together. Dan Thurot - Dec 7, 2019 4:48 pm UTC Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. Some folks use "family game" as a pejorative. Not me. For one thing,…
(Reuters) - In a year of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States that brought the longtime foes to the brink of military conflict, a swap of prisoners on Saturday was a rare act of cooperation. The two countries have been enemies for 40 years, ever since hardline Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy…
Image copyright Reuters The White House has indicated it will not take part in further impeachment hearings in Congress due next week. In a letter sent to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, it urges Democrats to "end this inquiry now". The letter does not explicitly rule out attending but officials told US media…
