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Shell gas shipments are being escorted by Kremlin-backed icebreaker boats
Shell bought Russian liquified natural gas shipments totalling 350,000 tonnes which required an escort from sanctioned ...
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Inside Project A119, America’s Top-Secret Plot To Detonate A Nuclear Bomb On The Moon During The Cold War
"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...
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DeepSeek: The New Sputnik Moment
Some invoke the specter of Sputnik, as the news raises “questions about the future ... few cultural contacts to preserve.” So in 1957 it was a no-brainer to mobilize America’s education system to meet ...
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What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company upending the stock market?
“Deepseek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” said venture capitalist Marc Andreessen in a Sunday post on social platform X, referencing the 1957 satellite launch that set off a Cold War space exploration ...
Reason14d
Is This New Chinese AI a 'Sputnik Moment'?
The analogy implies that the product threatens American AI dominance in a way comparable to the space-race challenge posed by the Soviet Union's first orbital satellite in 1957. The U.S. has ...
Kodiak Daily Mirror21d
The first satellite’s Alaska connection
The inky black upper atmosphere was less busy 68 years ago, when a few young scientists stepped out of a trailer near Fairbanks to look into the cold October sky. Gazing upward, they saw the moving ...
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Lufthansa Technik rolls out fully renovated 1957 Lockheed Starliner in Hamburg
In 1957, the Lockheed ‘Super Star’ (as the type became known within the company) joined the Lufthansa fleet, offering the Senator class as the most exclusive mode of travel for the first time. The ...
Alaska Dispatch News24d
Nearly 70 years ago, the world’s first satellite took flight. Three Alaska scientists were among the first North Americans to spot it.
The New York Times’ Oct. 7, 1957 edition included a front-page headline of “SATELLITE SEEN IN ALASKA,” and Sputnik caused a big fuss all over the country. People wondered about the ...
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1957 Chevy “Showmad,” Restored By Riley’s Rebuilds, Is up for Auction
We first met Dane Trask and his 1957 Chevrolet Nomad in the summer of 2022, when we visited his home south of Tampa to do a story on his 17-year-old daughter, Riley, proprietor of Riley’s Rebuilds.
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This Rare 1957 Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing Could Fetch $2 Million at Auction
As part of its 4,500-vehicle Kissimmee 2025 auction in Florida, Mecum will offer a 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing on Saturday. It’s one of 70 produced for the model year, and comes with just ...
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The Tragic Story Of Laika, The Soviet ‘Canine Cosmonaut’ Who Made Space History In 1957
On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, but a dog. This journey aboard the Soviet spacecraft, Sputnik 2 ...
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Shell writes down Namibia oil discovery in blow to country
LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Shell (SHEL.L), opens new tab will write down around $400 million over an oil discovery offshore Namibia that it deemed commercially unviable in a blow to the southern ...