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Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced plans Tuesday to build a $100 billion facility in the southern US state of Louisiana to launch its highly anticipated Starship megarockets, currently being developed at the company’s Texas Starbase. “A spaceport on the Louisiana Gulf Coast enabling a multiplanetary future,” declared the SpaceX website. PUNCH Online reports that a spaceport is a site used for launching, landing, testing, and maintaining spacecraft. The new facility will be built in Vermillion Parish, about 115 miles (185 km) west of New Orleans. “We’re committed to investing at least $100 billion and creating more than 3,000 new jobs at…
Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service will officially support Valve’s Steam Controller and Steam Machine starting later this year. With Steam Controller support, you’ll be able to play games with Valve’s great new gamepad when using the GeForce Now app on your Steam Deck or Steam Machine. If you’re using GeForce Now on Windows or macOS, support for the Steam Controller is coming “later,” Nvidia says.GeForce Now is getting a few other upgrades, too. Nvidia will soon add new DLSS 4.5 controls for DLSS Super Resolution, Dynamic Frame Generation, and Ray Reconstruction. (Ray Reconstruction is also officially launching for RTX…
World Liberty Financial has launched its USD1 stablecoin natively on the Canton Network, allowing institutions to use it to settle transactions involving tokenized real-world assets.The stablecoin can be used as the cash leg for transactions including derivatives collateral, institutional lending, asset issuance and redemptions, according to a Tuesday announcement.Native issuance allows USD1 to settle alongside tokenized assets in the same transaction while using Canton’s privacy and permissioning controls.USD1 has a market capitalization of about $4.05 billion, making it the sixth-largest stablecoin, according to DeFiLlama data. The stablecoin is issued by BitGo Bank & Trust, which manages its reserves and processes…
Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships. We receive compensation when you click on a link and make a purchase. Learn more! Leave it to Jennifer Aniston to make the most basic top style the most fashionable thing we’ve seen in months. The star’s knit tank gave her a polished, fall-ready aesthetic, and we found the look on sale for only $20! In an Instagram post celebrating the end of a (TV show) era, the The Morning Show star wore cropped trousers, block heels and a simple knit tank top that made her whole outfit appear expensive. There’s no statement bag or hefty…
Joseph Onoja, Director-General of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), speaks on Nigeria’s worsening land degradation, the financing gap in environmental protection and the need for greater synergy among the three major UN environmental conventions. In this interview, Mr Onoja, who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES’s Abdulkareem Mojeed on the sidelines of the ongoing COP17 in Mongolia, shared insights into NCF’s Green Recovery Nigeria initiative and Nigeria’s prospects of accessing the $1.3 billion financing announced at COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on Monday. Excerpt: PT: Why is the Nigerian Conservation Foundation participating in COP17 in Mongolia? Onoja: One of the things we are…
L-R Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu The APC and President Tinubu know that the Atiku solution to subsidise production as a way of lowering the pump price and bringing down the cost of living is a bold idea and they know it resonates with the people. This is why they have been quite busy of late. They have dismissed the idea as populist or election-pandering. But as long as they are not able to offer an alternative on how to make life better for the people, it remains the only idea on the table, and Nigerians will take it. This…
The US government plans to revoke the visas of foreigners who came to the country for tourism or business but sought to stay longer by applying for asylum, the State Department said Tuesday. The crackdown marks another step in the Trump administration’s signature drive to reduce immigration into the United States. The administration said it is now working with the Department of Homeland Security to identify and revoke the visas of people who, it said, came to America billing themselves as temporary visitors but then applied for asylum so they could stay permanently. “Obtaining a visa in order to seek…
With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0, app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your wallpaper, which update whenever your wallpaper changes. Alongside Android’s built-in Dynamic Colors, the company says it allows you to have specific elements change to match your wallpaper “while Nothing’s predominantly monochrome character stays underneath.”While I like Nothing’s simplified, monochrome app icons, it’s nice to get an option for adding some limited areas of color to the homescreen. Nothing’s launching it as “an additional theme,” so you can keep using the old design if you like.The Android 17-based…
Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships. We receive compensation when you click on a link and make a purchase. Learn more! My fall wardrobe usually revolves arfound denim, knits and darker colors, but this year I’m taking a much prettier approach. I’m officially in my soft girl era, which means romantic florals, swishy skirts, feminine ruffles and dreamy shades of pink are staying firmly in rotation. Thankfully, Amazon is making it surprisingly easy to keep the aesthetic going well beyond summer. I found 13 pretty Amazon dresses that hit that sweet spot between breezy and fall-ready, including billowy minis adorned with…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted Joe-Kyari Gadzama, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), leave to challenge his three-year suspension from legal practice by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC). The leave granted by Judge Obiora Egwuatu on 20 August gave Mr Gadzama permission to apply for judicial review and seek an order of certiorari to quash the LPDC’s Direction delivered on 29 July. The court ordered him to file the substantive application within seven days of the order and adjourned the matter until 4 September for hearing, subject to service on the respondents. The development followed an…
