by Regina Avalos, August 9, 2023(Photo: HGTV) Good Bones is ending its run on HGTV after its upcoming eighth season. Mina Starsiak Hawk revealed on her Mina AF podcast that the mother/daughter home renovation series is ending, per Collider. In the Good Bones series, real estate agent Starsiak Hawk and her mother, lawyer Karen E. Laine, work together renovating homes in the Indianapolis area. The series first aired on HGTV in 2016, and season eight arrives on August 15th. In the ten episodes, viewers will see Starsiak Hawk help both of her younger siblings, sister Kelsy and brother Tad, reimagine…
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by Regina Avalos, August 12, 2023(Photo: AMC+) Ten Percent will not be returning for a second season. The British comedy series, called Call My Agent in the UK, aired on AMC+ and Sundance Now in the US. The series is a remake of Dix Pour Cent (“Ten Percent”), a French comedy that aired for four seasons. Jack Davenport, Lydia Leonard, Prasanna Puwanarajah, and Maggie Steed star in the series, which is set in a London talent agency as it tries to adapt to an ever-changing industry. The first season was released in 2022 and features cameo appearances from Helena Bonham…
Universal and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer debuted in more than 500 locations in Korea on Tuesday, capitalizing on the Liberation Day national holiday. The epic bowed to $4.3M, capturing 44% market share for the day in a highly competitive environment. That marks the best Nolan opening day in the market, biggest Hollywood opening of the year there (No. 2 launch of 2023 for all titles), the No. 5 debut day of the pandemic and the No. 4 Universal opening day ever. Presales were outstanding, beating all previous Nolan movies. Across 1,600 screens, this is the second-widest release for a Nolan title in Korea, only behind Tenet, which…
Sony’s Craig Gillespie-directed comedy, Dumb Money, about the GameStop meme investors isn’t going wide anymore on Sept. 22. Rather, the Culver City lot has opted to go exclusive with the ensemble movie on Sept. 15 in LA and NYC, then a limited break on Sept. 22, followed by a moderate release on Sept. 29 and a final wide on Oct. 6. You’ll remember, Sony moved Kraven the Hunter off of that first weekend of October to Labor Day weekend 2024. Dumb Money stars Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan and…
WASHINGTON — The National Reconnaissance Office is soliciting proposals from commercial remote-sensing companies that use optical imaging satellites. In a Broad Agency Announcement titled “Commercial Electro-Optical Capabilities,” the NRO is seeking new and emerging types of imaging that were not included in the Electro-Optical Commercial Layer contracts the agency awarded last year to Maxar Technologies, BlackSky and Planet Labs. Technologies sought in the BAA issued last month include nighttime imaging, non-Earth imaging, multispectral imaging, video and infrared imaging. Proposals are due Aug. 28. NRO Director Chris Scolese first disclosed in April the agency’s plan to select additional EO imaging vendors…
WASHINGTON — As Astra shifts resources from launch vehicle development to spacecraft thruster production, the company is actively seeking strategic investors to provide longer-term support. As expected, Astra reported Aug. 14 revenue of $0.7 million in the second quarter and an adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) loss of $33.1 million. The company ended the quarter with $26.3 million of cash and equivalents on hand. The amounts were roughly in the middle of ranges provided by the company 10 days earlier when it announced a “strategic reallocation of its workforce,” transferring 50 people from its launch vehicle…
SAN FRANCISCO – The SmallSat Alliance celebrated the winners Aug. 15 of its first annual Collegiate Space Competition in Austin, Texas. First place went to a University of Texas team seeking to indirectly measure vegetation water content and predict nitrogen content. Data collected by the Soil moisture And Nitrogen Detection Satellite, known as SANDS, could be used to monitor plant growth, warn of droughts and measure soil salinity. In addition, mapsof SANDS data could reveal changing environmental conditions. “A lot of people don’t realize that microbes in healthy soil are a huge carbon sink,” SmallSat Alliance Chairman Charles Beames told…
WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is kicking off a study to develop an “analytical framework” to guide development of integrated lunar infrastructure over the next decade. DARPA announced the 10-Year Lunar Architecture, or LunA-10, project Aug. 15, seeking ideas from both potential developers or lunar power, communications, navigation and other infrastructure as well as users of such capabilities. The agency plans to select a group that will then work together on “new integrated system-level solutions that span multiple services” and be commercially available by 2035, it said in a release. Michael Nayak, the DARPA program manager leading…
WASHINGTON — Artificial intelligence startup Wallaroo Labs won a $1.5 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to continue the development of machine learning models for edge computers in orbit. The New York-based company, known as Wallaroo.ai, is partnered with New Mexico State University for the Small Business Technology Transfer Phase 2 contract, announced Aug. 15. The team last year won a Phase 1 award. Wallaroo.ai created a software platform that helps businesses assess the performance of AI applications when deployed on edge computers. The contract was awarded by SpaceWERX, the technology arm of the U.S. Space Force, in support…
WASHINGTON — SkyWatch, a satellite data distributor based in Ontario, Canada, announced a new imagery product that combines radar and optical images. SkyWatch operates a platform called EarthCache that gives its customers access to commercial satellite data. The company said there is now a growing demand for integrated images that combine visually appealing pictures from optical satellites with data from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites that can see at night and through clouds. “At any given point in time, the majority of the Earth’s surface is experiencing atmospheric conditions that make optical capture challenging, if not impossible,” David Proulx, chief…
WASHINGTON — Momentus recently cut its workforce by 30% as the cash-strapped company seeks to reduce its costs while looking for “strategic options” to raise funding. In an Aug. 14 earnings call about its second quarter financial results, Eric Williams, chief financial officer of Momentus, said that the company reduced its headcount, including both full-time employees and contractors, by 30% late in the second quarter. The move, he said, was designed to “substantially reduce our burn rate while retaining the talent we need to execute our key near-term initiatives.” He did not go into further details about the layoffs, including…
TAMPA, Fla. — Terran Orbital expects to get $180 million this year from Rivada Space as it prepares to build 300 satellites for the venture, even as plans to fund the full $2.4 billion manufacturing contract remain under wraps. It would be the first significant revenues Terran Orbital has gained from Rivada under a contract set to deliver most of the $2.6 billion in sales in the manufacturer’s pipeline, providing a major boost for a company that raised less than hoped in its stock market debut last year. Declan Ganley, CEO of U.S.-based wireless technology firm Rivada Networks, which owns…
WASHINGTON — BAE Systems, a defense and security conglomerate based in the United Kingdom, announced Aug. 17 it intends to acquire Ball Aerospace for $5.5 billion. Ball Aerospace, based in Westminster, Colorado, is a manufacturer of spacecraft, components and other systems for military, civil and commercial space applications. The acquisition would give BAE Systems “strong growth potential in areas aligned with the U.S. intelligence community and Department of Defense’s highest priorities,” the company said in a statement. With $26 billion in annual revenues, BAE Systems has a significant U.S. presence. The U.S. government is now its largest customer. BAE’s U.S.…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force intends to award Northrop Grumman a sole-source contract to develop two ground-based radar sites to track space objects. These would be the second and third sites of the Space Force’s planned network of sensors known as the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC). Northrop Grumman in February 2022 won a $341 million contract to develop the first DARC site in the Indo-Pacific region. The second and third are expected to be located in Europe and in the continental United States. The Space Systems Command in a “special notice” published Aug. 7 said it “intends…
Instagram may have some new features up its sleeves for its users within the coming days. The social media platform is testing a feature that will let users tag a group of people on Instagram Stories via just a single mention. With the creator economy booming on Instagram at an international level, the platform keeps updating its feature palette to cater to a diverse range of user requirements. As of August, this year, the platform is estimated to have over 2.3 billion active users from around the world.Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, disclosed some information about this upcoming feature…
X — Elon Musk-led microblogging website formerly known as Twitter — is in a big transition phase. Its blue bird logo has been replaced with an X logo in July. Now recently, a user pointed out that URLs generated from the share sheet of the X app on iOS now begin with X.com instead of the earlier domain, twitter.com. Billionaire Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X last month. The mobile application icon for Twitter on both Android and iOS platforms is now shown as X. The company later named tweets as posts.Musk’s X might have started to shift towards X.com.…
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, says it’s “time to move on” from the speculation on a cage fight with Elon Musk, whom he said is not serious about it. Taking to his Threads account, Zuckerberg said, “I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead. If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official…
A new twist has emerged in Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s most anticipated cage fight. On Sunday, Meta Chief Mark Zuckerberg apparently called off his cage fight with the Twitter owner. In a post on Threads, he said that he was going to “focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously”.”I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice…