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SALT LAKE CITY — It’s officially hot in Salt Lake City. On Thursday, the thermostat rose beyond 90 degrees for the first time this year, creating some record-breaking heat. Record-breaking heat The temperature reached 93 degrees, which sets a new record for May 26. The previous record for May 26 was 92 degrees, set in …

WASHINGTON —Democratic billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried says he could spend $1 billion or more in the 2024 election, which would easily make him the biggest-ever political donor in a single election. Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, said in a podcast interview released Tuesday that he expects to give “north of $100 million” …

An incredibly rare Mercedes-Benz has sold for a jaw-dropping $142 million, making it the most expensive vehicle in the world. Widely known as the “Mona Lisa of Cars,” the 1955 Mercedes 300 SLR Coupe was purchased this month in a secret, invite-only auction conducted by RM Sotheby’s. The car was designed by Daimler-Benz motorsport chief Rudolf Uhlenhaut, and was only …

A study on the new solar cell titled “Triple-junction solar cells with 39.5% terrestrial and 34.2% space efficiency enabled by thick quantum well superlattices” has been published in the journal Joule. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Researchers from the United States Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have created a solar cell with …

GRAID Technology has just announced its monster new SupremeRAID SR-1010, which the company claims is the world’s fastest NVMe and NVMeof RAID card for PCIe 4.0. VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES Inside of the new SupremeRAID SR-1010 is the NVIDIA Ampere GA106 GPU, which provides some rather wicked speed increases over the previous NVIDIA T1000 …

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is seen outside the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft after he landed with Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Vande Hei and Dubrov are returning to Earth after logging 355 days in space as members of …

It is expected to be slightly cooler Saturday following record-breaking temperatures in San Diego, Chula Vista and El Cajon. On Friday, San Diego’s 95 degrees and Chula Vista’s 97 degrees set new records for April 8, both besting previous records set in 2014. El Cajon tied its high-temperature record of 99 degrees, set in 1989. …

LAHORE: Babar Azam continues to smash records; the skipper leading from the front as Pakistan won their first One-day International series against Australia in 20 years on Saturday. Babar’s second consecutive century helped Pakistan secure a nine-wicket victory over Australia in the final ODI at the Gaddafi Stadium, helping the hosts clinch the three-match series …

The widow of Julian Lewis has reached a nearly $5 million lawsuit with the State of Georgia, according to the Hall & Lampros law firm.”I think it is representative of the fact there are consequences, that the state and its actors will have to face when they violate the rights of individuals,” said attorney Andrew …

A record-breaking NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts will return to Earth early Wednesday (March 30), and you can watch their homecoming live. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA’s Mark Vande Hei and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station Wednesday at 3:21 a.m. EDT (0721 GMT) …