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Empresa japonesa aborta un segundo intento de lanzar un satélite minutos después del despegue

TOKIO — Una compañía japonesa de exploración espacial anunció que su segundo intento de lanzar un cohete con satélites al espacio fue abortado minutos después del despegue el miércoles y la nave se autodestruyó de nuevo, nueve meses después de que el primer intento de lanzamiento de la compañía terminara en una explosión. Un ejecutivo de la compañía e ingeniero …

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1 week ago

Space One’s Kairos rocket launch fails, second failure for Japan’s space start-up this year

Firstpost

Spectators gathered near the company’s coastal Spaceport Kii launch pad in Japan’s western Wakayama region expressed their disappointment to television cameras Japan's Space One's small, solid-fueled Kairos rocket lifts off at Space One's launching pad on the tip of Kii peninsula in Kushimoto town, Wakayama prefecture, Japan. It was the second attempt by Space One to become the country’s first …

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Video: Japan's private Kairos rocket explodes minutes after launch

India Today

Space One's Kairos rocket experienced a significant setback on December 18, 2024, as its second launch attempt ended in failure shortly after liftoff. https://t.co/PbljsombQX pic.twitter.com/1ETdzuJxqD — China 'N Asia Spaceflight ðð ð°ï¸ December 18, 2024 This incident marks the second consecutive failure for Space One, which had previously attempted to launch the Kairos rocket in March 2024. The rocket was …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Japan's first private space firm makes second attempt to put a satellite in orbit

Firstpost

Tokyo-based Space One’s Kairos rocket will make its second blastoff from the company’s launch pad in the rural western region of Wakayama This frame grab taken from AFPTV via online footage broadcast by Wakayama Telecasting Corp. on March 13, 2024 shows a small rocket being launched by Tokyo-based startup Space One, at the Spaceport Kii site in Kushimoto, Wakayama prefecture. …

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4 weeks ago

Nuclear energy may be seeing a renaissance

NPR

Nuclear energy may be seeing a renaissance Nuclear has been a big topic lately. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Nuclear energy may be seeing a renaissance in the U.S. due to big tech companies with voracious appetites for electricity. WAILIN WONG, BYLINE: In October, Google announced it would buy a ton of nuclear energy from a company called Kairos Power starting …

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1 month ago

AI is giving us a nuclear renaissance: Can it help solve the climate crisis too?

Live Mint

Nuclear energy was the artificial intelligence of the 1960s. Despite its known dangers—Hiroshima and Nagasaki were quite recent back then—there was great optimism over how nuclear technology could change the world with abundant cheap energy, and free humanity from the tyranny of fossil fuels. Capturing this zeitgeist, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his famous ‘Atoms for Peace’ speech at …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Booker Prize 2024: British Writer Samantha Harvey Wins For Space Novel ‘Orbital’

The Hindu

Published : Nov 13, 2024 19:58 IST - 4 MINS READ British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on November 12 with Orbital, a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth. ‘Hopeful, timely, and timeless’ Writer and artist Edmund de Waal, who chaired the five-member judging panel, …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Amazon, Google make dueling nuclear investments to power data centers with clean energy

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Amazon on Wednesday said that …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Google to power AI with ‘golf ball’ nuclear reactors in world first

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The next generation of advanced nuclear reactors offers a new pathway to accelerate nuclear deployment thanks to …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Google buys world’s first private mini-nuclear reactors

The Telegraph

Google has struck a deal to buy the world’s first private mini-nuclear reactors, as technology companies race to secure power for their data centres. The US search engine giant has ordered a fleet of small modular reactors from California’s Kairos Power, with each mini-nuke capable of generating 500 megawatts of low-carbon electricity. Michael Terrell, senior director for energy and climate …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

The Hindu On Books newsletter | A Booker prize for Jenny Erpenbeck, Namita Gokhale’s new book, on James Bond’s creator and more

The Hindu

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. On the list for Political Writing Book Prize are Alpa Shah’s Incarcerations, Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, Cat Bohannon’s Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, Daniel Finkelstein’s Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad, Yaroslav Trofimov’s Our Enemies Will Vanish: The …

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7 months ago

International Booker Prize 2024 | In ‘Kairos’, Jenny Erpenbeck offers an East German perspective

The Hindu

Published : May 22, 2024 17:33 IST - 5 MINS READ Ask your average German about Jenny Erpenbeck, and they may very well respond, “Jenny who?” Yet the contemporary German author has made a name for herself beyond Germany’s borders; she’s showered with prizes and has even been predicted to one day win the Nobel Prize in literature. Yet, in …

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7 months ago

Review: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

Hindustan Times

Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is suffused with a sense of grief. There is no better description of the feeling the novel evokes than Katharina’s own words: “This, she thinks, feels like getting on a sleigh and setting off down a mountainside, which you know will end in an abyss.” East Berlin in 1990. The soul of the novel is the contrast …

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7 months ago

German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair

Associated Press

LONDON — German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany’s existence. Erpenbeck said she hoped the book would help readers learn there was more to life in the now-vanished Communist country than depicted in “The Lives …

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7 months ago

German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy German author Jenny Erpenbeck and …

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7 months ago

Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ wins the International Booker Prize 2024

The Hindu

German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany’s existence. Ms. Erpenbeck said she hoped the book would help readers learn there was more to life in the now-vanished Communist country than depicted in ‘The Lives of …

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7 months ago

The Hindu on Books newsletter | Alice Munro’s stories, ‘Kairos’ and the Booker shortlist, election reading and more

The Hindu

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. Books of the week Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, and shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, is a remarkable blend of “love and politics”, played out in the backdrop of a tangible barrier – the Berlin Wall. Some of the books she mentions are …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Erpenbeck gets into the Nobel conversation again

The Hindu

April 13, 2024 07:16 pm | Updated 07:16 pm IST - Bengaluru The path to the Nobel prize in literature is not paved with prizes of lesser stature, which you have to win before you get the Big One. Yet, with Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos short-listed for the International Booker, it is fair to assume the German author, a personal favourite, …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Japan's first private-sector rocket launch attempt ends with explosion shortly after take-off

The Hindu

A rocket that was supposed to become Japan’s first from the private sector to put a satellite into orbit exploded shortly after takeoff on March 13, a livestreamed video showed. Online video showed the rocket called Kairos blasting off from Wakayama Prefecture, in central Japan, a mountainous area filled with trees, but exploding midair within seconds. There were no reports …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Commercial rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit explodes moments after liftoff in Japan

Associated Press

TOKYO — A commercial rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit was intentionally exploded shortly after liftoff Wednesday morning in central Japan following a problem that’s still under investigation. Space One’s Kairos rocket explodes after liftoff from a launch pad in Kushimoto, Wakayama prefecture, western Japan, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. The launch was halted five seconds after liftoff but …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Japan's first private-sector rocket carrying satellite explodes moments after launch | WATCH

India TV News

Tokyo: Japan's first private-sector rocket, intending to put a satellite rocket, exploded seconds after takeoff on Wednesday, as seen in a live-streaming video. Although Japan is a relatively small player in the space race, the nation's rocket developers are scrambling to build cheaper vehicles to capture booming demand for satellite launches from its government and global clients. About Space One …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Amsterdam students find Uzi during litter cleanup event

NL Times

Primary school students in Amsterdam found an Uzi while cleaning up their neighborhood. “Fortunately, their classmate Toby was nearby, and he carefully picked up the weapon, took it from under the bridge, and showed it to the teacher.” The teacher called the police. “Toby did a great job, and luckily he already had his gloves on because that way his …

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Empresa japonesa aborta un segundo intento de lanzar un satélite minutos después del despegue

Space One’s Kairos rocket launch fails, second failure for Japan’s space start-up this year

Video: Japan's private Kairos rocket explodes minutes after launch

Japan's first private space firm makes second attempt to put a satellite in orbit

Nuclear energy may be seeing a renaissance

AI is giving us a nuclear renaissance: Can it help solve the climate crisis too?

Booker Prize 2024: British Writer Samantha Harvey Wins For Space Novel ‘Orbital’

Amazon, Google make dueling nuclear investments to power data centers with clean energy

Google to power AI with ‘golf ball’ nuclear reactors in world first

Google buys world’s first private mini-nuclear reactors

The Hindu On Books newsletter | A Booker prize for Jenny Erpenbeck, Namita Gokhale’s new book, on James Bond’s creator and more

International Booker Prize 2024 | In ‘Kairos’, Jenny Erpenbeck offers an East German perspective

Review: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair

German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair

Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ wins the International Booker Prize 2024

The Hindu on Books newsletter | Alice Munro’s stories, ‘Kairos’ and the Booker shortlist, election reading and more

Erpenbeck gets into the Nobel conversation again

Japan's first private-sector rocket launch attempt ends with explosion shortly after take-off

Commercial rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit explodes moments after liftoff in Japan

Japan's first private-sector rocket carrying satellite explodes moments after launch | WATCH

Amsterdam students find Uzi during litter cleanup event