QuoteBeyond any ground speeds, Musk has even suggested the Roadster might hover or fly by using technology from his rocket company SpaceX. In 2018, he said an optional SpaceX package for the car would include 10 small rocket thrusters that will improve acceleration, braking and cornering.

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QuoteThree years after the worst massacre in Israel's history, Eliya Cohen — who survived 505 days in Hamas captivity — took the stage at the United Nations alongside his newlywed wife, Ziv Abud, a survivor of the Nova music festival massacre, and tried to explain to some of the world's top diplomats what he had endured.

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QuoteWhen Aaron Sorkin wrote 2010's The Social Network, Barack Obama was President, Donald Trump was starring in Season 7 of The Apprentice, and social media was still relatively new, alight with the belief that connecting people online would improve society. Sixteen years later, well... We get The Social Reckoning, with Sorkin stepping up to write as well as direct a blistering movie pointing out the corrosive effects of Facebook

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QuoteChina's competitor to the dollar-denominated system that zips money between global banks saw record daily volume in August. A spike last spring, as the Iran war sent sanctioned companies looking for a way around Washington, now looks less like a blip and more like a permanent, if small, leg-up for Beijing's efforts to build a parallel system of financial plumbing.

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QuoteScientists found one of these animals a century ago in a rock formation in the hills of Mokattam, southeast of Cairo — the same rock formation that was quarried to build the Sphinx of Giza. The ancient reptile was identified in the historical records as belonging to the genus Tomistoma, the "false gharial."

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