A ton of old favorites that arrived this month should sort out your Friday night viewing. …read more Source:: CNet

Splurging on an iPhone 12 right now isn’t a bad choice. But then again, the iPhone 13 should be here before you know it. …read more Source:: CNet

Last Sunday Belarus “forcibly landed a Ryanair plane flying from Athens to Vilnius and arrested the opposition blogger Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend, who were on board,” Reuters reports. By Tuesday the Guardian reports there was a “confession” video which the blogger’s father said his son had clearly been physically coerced into recording. And then……

Despite $11.2 billion worth of orders, and partners like Boeing, General Electric and Berkshire Hathaway, Aerion says it still couldn’t raise enough money to head into production “in the current financial environment,” according to a Flying magazine shared by schwit1: The Aerion SST — the most promising effort in years to represent the next step…

A huge store dedicated to all things Harry Potter is opening soon, and here’s what you’ll find inside. …read more Source:: CNet

“Traveling in a space plane is a lot like traveling in a regular plane, except for the middle part,” quips Bloomberg Business Week: After reaching cruising altitude, the pilot hits the rocket boosters and blasts the aircraft to the edge of space at more than 9,000 mph, or about 12 times the speed of sound….

Who will have PS5s next week? …read more Source:: CNet

A few mouthwatering gift ideas for dads with an appetite. …read more Source:: CNet

Kinetic energy recovery systems have often been proposed as a useful way to improve the efficiency of on-road vehicles, and even used to great effect in motorsports for added performance. [Tom Stanton] decided to build one of his own, outfitting a simple bicycle with a flywheel system for harvesting energy. (Video, embedded below.) The system…

In March of 2020, Florida’s governor was assuring the state that there was no evidence of Covid-19 in Florida, remembers the Washington Post. But there was — as far back as January. The Tampa Bay Times reports that when questioned Florida’s Department of Health told its data manager to hide that data from public view,…