Patterson is now the reigning world champion for women’s high jump. Source: Eleanor Patterson, Twitter. Australia’s Eleanor Patterson is now the world high jump champion after becoming the 10th Aussie in history to take home a gold medal from the competition. The 26-year-old stood on top the gold podium after clearing a height of 2.02…
The California Public Utilities Commission is California’s primary regulator of ride-sharing companies and the only agency that gathers safety data on them. After thousands of reported sexual assaults on Uber and Lyft rides in the past decade, the California Public Utilities Commission has ruled greater measures are needed. The commission is California’s primary regulator of…
The diseased product was pork floss, but fortunately the virus was not live. The Australian government has found foot and mouth disease (FMD) in imported pork products with authorities increasing testing of meat and border security surveillance. Officials said that African swine fever was also detected in the produce that was on the shelf of…
Civilians at a resort near the town of Dohuk in Iraq’s northern region were targeted in the attack. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Iraq is alleging that Türkiye is to blame for an attack on a tourist resort which saw eight civilians killed and 23 wounded. The Government of Iraq has condemned the incident, calling on Türkiye…
Thousands of satellites and hundreds of thousands of objects orbiting Earth, such as debris and discarded rocket bodies, are being tracked to avoid collisions. Source: ESA/NASA, Flickr. A Tasmanian observatory has a new telescope mount that will help track fast-moving satellites and prevent catastrophic space collisions. The Greenhill observatory at Bisdee Tier near Hobart is…
Julian Assange married his long-time partner Stella Morris in prison earlier this year. Source: Shutterstock. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that he gave US president Joe Biden a letter offering Julian Assange asylum. Lopez Obrador was in Washington for a meeting with Biden to discuss several issues pertaining to both the US and Mexico…
This comes after the first quarter of 2022 saw over 200,000 users leaving the service. Source: Dominic Smith, Flickr. Netflix reported its second straight quarterly drop in subscriber growth, losing almost 1 million subscribers between April and July. It was not as bad as the streaming giant previous prediction of a 2 million subscriber loss.…
Officials say that a partnership with Spire Global will get the HYSM sensors into orbit. Source: Deep space, Ars Electronica, Flickr. The UK government has announced £3 million worth of funding for new space technologies that will help to deliver solar power directly from space. It’s known as the space-based solar power (SBSP) project and will…
The protest on Tuesday in Washington included Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush. Source: CPD Action, Twitter. Several Democratic members of Congress were arrested during a protest in front of the supreme court in support of abortion rights. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush were among those at the…
For a few hours, Heathrow was the hottest place in the UK. Source: Shutterstock. For the first time in recorded history, the UK has exceeded 40C after The Met Office declared that Heathrow reached 40.2C yesterday afternoon. It was later confirmed that this record was broken when Coningsby in Lincolnshire hit 40.3C, surpassing the 2019…