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Authored by Benjamin Kew via The Epoch Times,

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s microblogging platform Threads, launched to great acclaim as Instagram’s “Twitter Killer” in July, appears to be showing signs of struggle.

The initial signs for Threads were extremely encouraging.

The platform—nearly a carbon copy of Twitter, now known as X—pulled in a staggering 100 million sign-ups in less than five days.

Forbes senior contributor John Koetsier outlined how Twitter had (more…)

Update: United's ground-stop has been cancelled by the FAA.

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United Airlines issues a nationwide ground stop due to a computer issue, ABC reports, citing the Federal Aviation Administration.

Fox Business is reporting, as per the FAA advisory below, the grounding is due to "equipment failure".

United aircraft were unable to contact flight dispatchers using normal means, the FAA website showed.

…how long will (more…)

According to Elon Musk, SpaceX has exceeded the previous year's rocket launch count, delivering 80% of all Earth payload mass to orbit for the year so far. He said China accounts for the other 10%. 

On Sunday night, SpaceX launched 21 Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The mission was the 62nd of the year, setting a new record for the most flights in a year. The previous record was set in 2022 by the company.  (more…)