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Will Virgin Galactic reach one definition of "space" this week?

That would be an altitude of 50 miles or 80 kilometers.

https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-to-attempt-flight-to-space-this-week/

Nature's fingerprint.

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Lynx

This lynx is part of this blog:
https://anjawessels.photography/cats-gb/

For more animals you can have a look here:
https://anjawessels.photography/animals/

Camera: Canon EOS 650D
Lens: Lens: Tamron 16-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II

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#photography #photo #caturday #bigcat #cats #lynx #dierenparkamersfoort

What have you been playing this year?

#android #tech #technews #techawards #games +Fortnite

a long way to go

President's Daugther Misled Investors, according to new report.

"Ivanka Trump gave false sales figures about Trump Organization properties in four different countries over the last decade. And also made flatly incorrect claims to investors."

Cosmic Little Bay

The weekly #Steelers grown ### man awards are in

https://www.steelcityunderground.com/2018/12/12/were-there-any-steelers-grown-a-man-award-winners-against-the-raiders/

Ungodly mashup merges iPhone with Apple Watch - A customer brought an idea to his iPhone provider in Russia: What if you could make the iPhone and Apple Watch into one device? The client now has his iPhone-watch mashup and you can, too, for $21,130. It does not have the symbiosis of the chocolate and peanut butter of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, […] (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)

#11Dec 2018, WWE #Smackdown: What is #JeffJarrett looking forward to at #WWETLC?

We recently announced the acceleration of the G+ sunset for consumers. The sunset is now scheduled to take place in April 2019, and over the coming months we will provide users with information to help them migrate off of G+.

Users interested in preserving their G+ data should follow the instructions on our Google+ Help Page.

https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788

Apple Watch Update Monitors Heart Health #WearableWednesday
https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/12/12/apple-watch-update-monitors-heart-health-wearablewednesday/

The new Apple Watch update has features designed to monitor and detect heart problems. While this will most likely become a life saving feature there are some skeptical of its value.

Via Wired:

_TODAY, WITH A software update, Apple switched on two highly anticipated features of its popular wearable: The first uses optical sensors to detect irregular heart rhythms on Apple Watch Series 1 and later iterations. The second enables wearers of Apple Watch Series 4 to record an electrocardiogram, or ECG, directly from their wrist.

Apple Watch’s new features are designed to help users spot signs of an irregular heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation—AFib, for short. It’s the most common form of arrhythmia, with upwards of 6 million diagnoses in America alone, a number that is expected to increase to 12 million by 2030. It’s also associated with increased risk of serious health problems like stroke.

Read more!
https://blog.adafruit.com/2018/12/12/apple-watch-update-monitors-heart-health-wearablewednesday/

The XS Max successor may be thinner, as Samsung lends Apple its in-cell touch OLED tech - Last year, almost a third of the price tag to produce an iPhone X went to Samsung for the OLED display, and Apple was looking for ways to cut that ratio so that it can be more flexible with the final retail pricing of the XS.  To reach Apple's lower tag demands, Samsung apparently offered to supply the Y-Octa panels with a touch layer integrated directly in the screen that it uses for the S9+. These ar...

Apple could move iPhone production out of China if a 25% tariff is imposed - The iPhone XS and XS Max Despite the ongoing trade war between the US and China, Apple’s iPhone has so far avoided any kind of tariffs. A couple of weeks back, though, President Trump warned that he could soon apply either a 10% or 25% tariff to Apple’s best-selling product. Now, according to a new report by Bloomberg, it’s claimed that the Cupertino giant is taking this threat very seriously. At the moment, Apple ...

Zubrin and Hickam lay out a three phase plan for living and exploring the lunar surface like SPD-1 requests
Lots of ideas from the Hackathon show up in this Moon Direct concept. Less than 2050 days until the Apollo 11 55th anniversary so let's set a daring goal and get working on it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-have-the-technology-to-build-a-colony-on-the-moon-lets-do-it/2018/12/10/28cf79d0-f8a8-11e8-8d64-4e79db33382f_story.html

It is no exaggeration to say that the Nintendo Switch has proved to be a resounding success in Japan. Figures announced today via sales tracker Media Create show that Nintendo’s latest system has now sold over 6 million units in the land of the rising…

WASHINGTON — 2018 has been quite a year for spaceflight, but it's not over yet, and the OSIRIS-REx mission has one more major task to accomplish before the ball drops: slipping into orbit around the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

#Basketball Article of the Day... December 12, 2018
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Huge Samsung Galaxy S10 leak confirms 'hole-punch' camera, no notch and three lenses - but will one be 48MP?