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Birmingham airport has new technology to speed up identity check
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A new service is being used to help speed up identity checks for travelers using Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. According to our news partners AL.com, CLEAR uses eye and fingerprint scanning technology to automate identity checks. CLEAR has kiosks that recognize users, which serves as their ticket and reservation. The company’s scanning service …
Retired NASA Astronaut Terry Virts, Aviators Set World Circumnavigation Speed Record to Honor Apollo 11
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts and an international team of aviators landed here at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Thursday morning (July 11), after breaking multiple global flying records for circumnavigating Earth via the planet’s poles. They made the historic flight, in part, to honor the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 …
Bloodhound supersonic car to run at high speed in October
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionIan Warhurst: “South Africa is waiting for the Bloodhound” The Bloodhound supersonic car will conduct high-speed trials in October. The team behind the rejuvenated project says it now has the financing to go test the vehicle at 500-600mph. This should provide the engineering data required to send …
Around the world in 48 hours? Former astronaut to attempt global speed record
Enlarge / The flight path for One More Orbit’s journey around the world. As a veteran of three spaceflights (including a stint as commander of the International Space Station), former NASA astronaut Terry Virts has orbited the planet more than 3,400 times. Now, Virts said, he’d like the make “one more orbit” around the planet …
Our AT&T 5G speed test yields the craziest speeds yet
On Saturday, AT&T let us test the speed of its 5G network on a Galaxy S10 5G phone. Juan Garzon/CNET It’s fitting that I tested AT&T’s 5G network at the Warner Bros. studio in Los Angeles. Both Hollywood and 5G aim to take our wildest ideas and make them real. In AT&T’s case, it’s the …
In a world moving at breakneck speed, growing indoor plants is teaching me patience | Mel Campbell | Life and style
Two Shepard avocado seeds balance on toothpicks in wineglasses of water on my kitchen windowsill. They have been there since April, when I was seized by some primal urge (home ownership, perhaps?) and decided I wanted to grow my own. I got so excited when I saw a taproot growing from the bottom of one …
New technology could speed severe-weather warnings
The timing of your severe warnings are crucial, and meteorologists work hard to get you those warnings as quickly as possible. Our own Brittany Bell spent a week in Norman, Oklahoma, to test out new ways to keep you ready. Bell spent a week at the Hazardous Weather Testbed. The Testbed conducts an experiment each …
