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Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons Stealth always had a kind of genius, secrecy, and outrageousness to it, and few aircraft capture all three elements of that formula as thoroughly as the Boeing YF-118G Bird of Prey. This incredible plane, crafted in the mid-1990s under the watchful eye of Area 51, was not merely an engineering experiment—it was a statement about what can be achieved when imagination is placed in the crucible of constraint. Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons It showed that advanced airplanes could be constructed quickly, inexpensively, and on a shoestring budget without…
Illinois’ football stadium will be known as Gies Memorial Stadium after alumnus and philanthropist Larry Gies made a $100 million donation to the school’s athletic department.The school announced Tuesday the gift is the largest in the athletic program’s history. Gies’ name is also on the university’s College of Business.Gies is the founder and CEO of the Chicago-based global investment company Madison Industries. He is making the gift in memory of his late father, Larry Gies Sr., a United States Army veteran.Memorial Stadium, which turned 100 years old in 2024, originally was named in honor of the men and women who…
Amazon.com is developing augmented reality (AR) glasses for consumers, the Information reported on Wednesday, citing two people with knowledge of the plans, a move that would put the company in competition with Facebook owner Meta. The glasses, internally codenamed “Jayhawk,” will include microphones, speakers, a camera and a full‑color display in one eye, the report said. Amazon is aiming to roll out the product to consumers in late 2026 or early 2027.Amazon declined a Reuters request for comment on the report. The project would mark Amazon’s entry into the consumer AR‑glasses market. The company has already been working on specialized…
The majority of the financing is a seven-year loan facility, which could later be refinanced in the bond market[RIYADH] A group led by BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) unit has arranged a roughly US$10 billion financing package for its planned investment in Saudi Aramco natural gas infrastructure, people familiar with the matter said.The majority of the financing is a seven-year loan facility, which could later be refinanced in the bond market, the people said. It also includes a 19-year loan facility, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. A group of banks…
It all seemed to be getting so neat. Earlier this year the iPhone SE was retired, nominally replaced (at a considerably higher price point!) by the iPhone 16e, which left the entire range helpfully categorised by generation: the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus, and the iPhone 16, 16e, 16 Plus, 16 Pro, and 16 Pro Max. You only had to look at the name of the product to tell which cycle it was part of, and it was obvious that anything with a 16 in the name was newer than anything with a 15, and so on. But that convenient…
ATLANTA — The final outcome was not what Michael Penix Jr. wanted, but his fight to carry the Atlanta Falcons in Sunday’s season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was still a promising start to his second year in the NFL.Consider just his fourth quarter on Sunday. Penix led the Falcons on an 18-play, 91-yard drive in which he threw for two third-down conversions, scrambled and dove for a fourth-down conversion, then did the same again on fourth-and-goal, reaching for a go-ahead touchdown with 2:17 left in the game.And after the Bucs rallied for a touchdown of their own, Penix…
Sandwich maker Potbelly is being acquired by the gas station and convenience story chain RaceTrac for $566 million.Potbelly, which was founded in Chicago in 1977, has 445 restaurants across the U.S. The company said the deal with RaceTrac will help it reach its goal of quadrupling in size to 2,000 locations. Potbelly stores are both company- and franchise-owned. “With RaceTrac’s resources, we will unlock new opportunity for this incredible brand while staying true to the neighborhood sandwich shop experience that makes Potbelly special,” Potbelly CEO Bob Wright said in a statement Wednesday. Potbelly shares jumped 32% to $17.03.RaceTrac was founded…
Meta is back in hot water, and this time, it’s not about your uncle’s weird political rants on Facebook. According to The Washington Post, two current and two former employees have handed Congress a stack of internal documents alleging that Meta may have actively suppressed research into children’s safety on its platforms. Yep, the same Meta that’s been grilled for years over Instagram’s effect on teen mental health is now facing accusations of putting the brakes on digging too deep into how kids use its products. The whistleblowers say the timing is suspicious: just six weeks after Frances Haugen leaked…
Movie theaters across the country are pulling out the stops for Dick Van Dyke’s 100th birthday in December. A new documentary about the song and dance man’s life, “Dick Van Dyke: 100th Celebration,” will be in theaters over his birthday weekend on Dec. 13 and 14, Fathom Entertainment said Wednesday.“It’s wonderful; a total surprise for me,” Van Dyke said in an email to The Associated Press. “If you don’t think luck has a lot to do with it, then you’re mistaken.”The feature length film has been in the works for over three decades. In telling the story of Van Dyke’s…
There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to follow themselves.Don’t worry, we’re here to help you by figuring out what you missed but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from the weekend in Major League Baseball:Mariners win, gain on AstrosSure, there have been genuine concerns about how good the Mariners actually are throughout the season, but there are a couple of things to consider about them right now. They didn’t have Josh Naylor and Eugenio Suárez for most of the year, only picking them up at the trade deadline, and the two…