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US government examining over 500 ‘UFO’ reports
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US government examining over 500 ‘UFO’ reports

[ad_1] Most of the new reports come from US Navy and Air Force pilots, it said. The US government is examining 510 UFO reports, over triple the number in its 2021 file, and while many were caused by drones or balloons, hundreds remain unexplained, according to a report released Thursday. The 2022 report by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) said that 247 "unidentified anomalous phenomena" or UAP reports have been filed with it since June 2021, when it revealed that it had records of 144 sightings of suspicious aerial objects under examination. In addition, the report said, another 119 reports that had been buried in old records from the past 17 years had been unearthed, leaving it with 510 in total. Most of the new reports come from US Navy and Air Force pilots, it sai...
Five things to know about the International Space Station
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Five things to know about the International Space Station

[ad_1] Here are some key facts about the orbiting laboratory set up to advance space exploration - and prepare to send humans to Mars - where Russians and Americans have worked together for a quarter of a century. Russia is scrambling to bring home three astronauts -- two Russians and one American -- who are stuck aboard the International Space Station after a meteorite damaged the spacecraft that was due to return them to Earth. Here are some key facts about the orbiting laboratory set up to advance space exploration - and prepare to send humans to Mars - where Russians and Americans have worked together for a quarter of a century. - Size of a football field - The ISS is the largest man-made structure ever put into orbit. Launched in 1998 by the United States, Russia, Canada,...
Apple CEO Cook Confirms Made-in-US Chips Push at Arizona Plant
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Apple CEO Cook Confirms Made-in-US Chips Push at Arizona Plant

[ad_1] Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said Apple will build chips in the US for the first time in nearly a decade, a key step in reducing its reliance on Asia-based manufacturing. Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said Apple will build chips in the US for the first time in nearly a decade, a key step in reducing its reliance on Asia-based manufacturing. Cook spoke Tuesday alongside President Joe Biden and executives from chip companies at the site of a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plant under construction in Phoenix. Cook said Apple will expand its relationship with TSMC, which already produces chips for the iPhone maker, when the US factory opens in 2024. “As many of you know, we work with TSMC to manufacture the chips that help power our product...
Major League Cricket Set To Kick-Off From July 2023 | Cricket News
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Major League Cricket Set To Kick-Off From July 2023 | Cricket News

[ad_1] Major League Cricket (MLC) announced that the first-ever match of the inaugural season of the league will take place on July 13, 2023 in Texas. The league's historic opening match will take place on July 13, 2023, at the newly-constructed Major League Cricket venue, Grand Prairie Stadium, in Grand Prairie, Texas. The 2023 season will feature 19 matches to be played over 18 days, building up to the first-ever MLC championship final to take place on July 30, 2023."Major League Cricket (MLC) announced today the dates for its inaugural season in the summer of 2023, a transformative competition that will bring many of the world's top cricketers to the United States for the first time," said a statement issued by the league on Tuesday.Six teams from major metropolitan areas - representi...
Explained: How 12 Teams Booked Their Qualification For 2024 T20 World Cup | Cricket News
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Explained: How 12 Teams Booked Their Qualification For 2024 T20 World Cup | Cricket News

[ad_1] The 2022 T20 World Cup has produced some enthralling battles in Australia. A total of 4 teams have booked their qualification for the semi-finals after some intriguing results were witnessed in the Super 12 round, in Group 1 and Group 2. But the group stage of this edition of the T20 World Cup also acted as a qualification medium for the next edition. To be precise, a total of 12 teams have already qualified for the 2024 T20 World Cup which will be held in the West Indies and the United States of America.As many as 16 teams have participated in the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia. Of these, only 2 earned tickets to the Super 12, and only 4 of these qualified for the semi-finals.How 12 teams earned their ticket to 2024 T20 World Cup:Group stage of 2022 T20 World Cup:The Group stage...
What Great Resignation? Workers Are Staying Put
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What Great Resignation? Workers Are Staying Put

[ad_1] Median job tenure in the US was unchanged from early 2020 to early 2022. The past couple of years have been a famously tumultuous time for the US labor market — with the steepest employment losses ever early in the pandemic, a rapid recovery and then a so-called Great Resignation that was more about switching jobs than resigning.Through all of that, the median number of years that American wage and salary workers have been with the same employer didn't budge. It was 4.1 years in January 2020, and according to job-tenure data released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics to little fanfare last month, it was 4.1 years in January 2022. As is apparent from the chart, the amount of time Americans spend in the same job hasn't changed all that much over the decades either. There are s...