The Apollo Masters plant in Banning, Calif., burned down on Feb. 6, eliminating the sole U.S. source of the blank lacquer master disks engineers cut on special lathes to create vinyl records. Manufacturing with the volatile lacquer used in the record business has become a concern of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and it’s unknown […]
“An emerging body of research is suggesting that soaring 35,000 feet (10 kilometers) above the ground inside a sealed metal tube can do strange things to our minds, altering our mood, changing how our senses work and even making us itch more,” according to Richard Gray for BBC Future. Frequent fliers may have found themselves […]
“No longer are users willing to forego connectivity while on the move, whether driving a truck across the country, moving a freighter from Europe to a U.S. port, or while on a domestic or international flight,” according to SpaceX’s FCC filing on March 5, 2021. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday, March 8, 2021, […]
