The USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School at Muroc, now Edwards air force base, which he ran from 1962, offered a state-of-the-art simulator that covered every stage of a space flight, from take-off to landing. Applicants swarmed in, and a bare 1% mad...
At 74,700 feet (22,800 metres), and at 2.44 Mach speed, it began to roll uncontrollably, then spin upside down. Completely disoriented, battered by plus and minus g-loads, he remembered his helmet cracking the inner canopy, and not a lot else. At las...
JD Healths IPO was also a success. The health-care division of JD.com, one of Chinas big E-commerce companies, raised $3.5bn in Hong Kong, in the biggest flotation of shares on the citys stockmarket this year. 京东健康(JD Health)的上市计划...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Business 经济 Americas competition regulator filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that it bought WhatsApp and Instagram, two social-media rivals, to suppress competition. Separately, a coaliti...
The Facebook lawsuits centre on its acquisitions. The firm maintained its monopoly in personal social-networking by systematically buying up potential competitors, both contendnotably Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. A smoking gun could be Ona...
Tabar Vzquez, who was twice Uruguays president, died. A doctor turned left-wing politician, Mr Vzquezs victory in 2004 ended more than 160 years of rule by the National and Colorado parties. His second term ended in March this year. 曾两度担任乌拉...
Business 商业版块 Big tech and antitrust 大型科技企业与反垄断 Battle commences 战争打响 A formidable alliance takes on Facebook. Investors dont seem to care 一个强大的联盟与Facebook展开了较量。但投资者似乎不以为...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Britain began the worlds first vaccination programme for covid-19 using a fully tested vaccine. Thousands of people, mostly the very elderly and frontline health workers, received the Pfizer/BioN...