GeekWire The longtime president of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Blue Origin space venture, Rob Meyerson, will be joining the board of directors for another pioneering space company in connection with a $130 million funding round. Texas-based Axiom Space says the fresh funding will boost its effort to build the worlds first commercial space station, starting as early as 2024.
Continue ReadingGeekWire The longtime president of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Blue Origin space venture, Rob Meyerson, will be joining the board of directors for another pioneering space company in connection with a $130 million funding round. Texas-based Axiom Space says the fresh funding will boost its effort to build the worlds first commercial space station, starting as early as 2024. The Series B funding round was led by London-based C5 Capital, which focuses on cybersecurity and related sectors.
Continue ReadingFallout: Wasteland Warfare is not available on consoles GameCentral looks at some of the best, and most unlikely, board game tie-ins, including a card game version of God Of War and Super Mario chess. The sheer amount of board games on the market can be overwhelming, so it might make sense to start out playing a game that seems more familiar.
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Continue ReadingPress release by FIDE The Candidates Tournament, the biennial 8-player event that decides who will be the Challenger for the World Chess Championship title, will resume on the 19th of April in Yekaterinburg, Russia. This double round-robin tournament kicked off on March 16, 2020. However, it had to be abruptly stopped 11 days later when the Russian government announced the closure of air traffic with other countries, amid a rapidly escalating coronavirus pandemic
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Continue ReadingThe Telegraph A man who killed his wife has been handed a five year jail sentence after a court heard his anxiety had been "heightened" by lockdown. Anthony Williams, 70, told police he "literally choked the living daylights" out of his wife Ruth, 67, at their home in Cwmbran, south Wales, on the morning of March 28 last year, after he "snapped" following a period of feeling depressed and anxious. Williams was cleared of murder on Monday following a trial in which a psychologist argued his anxiety "was heightened" because of lockdown, which impaired his ability to exercise self-control
Continue ReadingCommon belief suggests most of us are being held hostage by the pandemic and are slumped in our basements awaiting the all-clear signal. Yet if this were true, freeways wouldn't be packed and resorts Up North wouldn't already be hanging No Vacancy signs out for the fishing opener. I was thinking about this the other day and also about Newton's first law of motion.
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