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Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Astrobotic Xodiac rocket crashes in the Mojave, CEO says won't impact lunar landing mission
North Shore-based aerospace company Astrobotic Technology Inc.'s Xodiac rocket crashed in the Mojave Desert. The terrestrial rocket has been used by the company for 10 years to conduct test flights. During flight 176, the vehicle detected an anomaly on descent, leading to it crashing and its ultimate destruction. No one was injured, and the test site itself is undamaged. RELATED COVERAGE >>> Channel 11 speaks with Astrobotic CEO after Peregrine mission 'We're disappointed, but we're also not terribly surprised, and we're really proud of what this vehicle was able to accomplish over its 10-year lifetime,' CEO John Thornton said. 'For any flying vehicle, that's a pretty darn good service record, I mean, there are even cars that sometimes don't last 10 years, so it certainly did what it needed to do during its service life.' Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
Scoop
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Scoop
Closure Of North Shore Women's Centre A Huge Loss
Press Release – New Zealand Labour Party Each year, the Centre has helped hundreds of women and children and I now worry about the huge gap left behind in the North Shore for those who need this safe space. Today's confirmed closure of the North Shore Women's Centre after losing government funding is a huge loss for women in Auckland. 'It's heartbreaking to see a centre which has done so much for women close following the Government's funding cuts,' Auckland issues and women's spokesperson Carmel Sepuloni said 'While Karen Chhour is busy accusing these frontline services of using Oranga Tamariki as a 'cash cow,' we continue to see just how out of touch she is as the consequences of her reckless choices become clear. 'As reports of concern about at-risk children surge, now is not the time to cut funding for prevention services. 'My thoughts are with our many frontline services in Tāmaki Makaurau which do an amazing job and are struggling to stay afloat as the Government takes their services backwards,' Carmel Sepuloni said. 'I want to acknowledge the Centre's incredible 38 years of service to the community and send my aroha to Tracy and her passionate team as they make this difficult decision,' North Shore-based MP, Shanan Halbert said 'Each year, the Centre has helped hundreds of women and children and I now worry about the huge gap left behind in the North Shore for those who need this safe space.'
Scoop
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Scoop
Closure Of North Shore Women's Centre A Huge Loss
Today's confirmed closure of the North Shore Women's Centre after losing government funding is a huge loss for women in Auckland. 'It's heartbreaking to see a centre which has done so much for women close following the Government's funding cuts,' Auckland issues and women's spokesperson Carmel Sepuloni said 'While Karen Chhour is busy accusing these frontline services of using Oranga Tamariki as a 'cash cow,' we continue to see just how out of touch she is as the consequences of her reckless choices become clear. 'As reports of concern about at-risk children surge, now is not the time to cut funding for prevention services. 'My thoughts are with our many frontline services in Tāmaki Makaurau which do an amazing job and are struggling to stay afloat as the Government takes their services backwards,' Carmel Sepuloni said. 'I want to acknowledge the Centre's incredible 38 years of service to the community and send my aroha to Tracy and her passionate team as they make this difficult decision,' North Shore-based MP, Shanan Halbert said 'Each year, the Centre has helped hundreds of women and children and I now worry about the huge gap left behind in the North Shore for those who need this safe space.'
Technical.ly
10-04-2025
- Business
- Technical.ly
‘Future of baseball' startup wants to change the game for other sports
Startup profile: Diamond Kinetics Founded by: CJ Handron, William Clark Year founded: 2014 Headquarters: Pittsburgh, PA Sector: Sportstech Funding and valuation: $45.5 million raised at an undisclosed valuation, according to PitchBook Key ecosystem partners: Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball Players Association, USA Baseball, Marucci Sports, Elysian Park Ventures, TNC Ventures, SeventySix Capital A decade after its founding, one Pittsburgh-based startup is proving that staying local doesn't mean thinking small. When cofounders CJ Handron and William Clark founded North Shore-based Diamond Kinetics in 2014, the concept of 'sportstech' was still in its infancy. Five years later, former Phillies player Ryan Howard called the startup 'the future of baseball. ' Fast forward to today, and the widespread use of its DK Bat Sensor to track swing data and help baseball players improve their performance is just one highlight in a portfolio of achievements. Now, Diamond Kinetics is trying to live up to that title and eyeing possible expansion into other sports. 'We started tinkering with this in a conference room at the University of Pittsburgh,' Handron told 'and now it's something that has been used tens of millions of times by hundreds of thousands of people.' Over the last decade, the company has raised over $45 million, putting that money toward evolving into a comprehensive sports technology platform. High-profile partnerships have helped it accelerate this growth even more. Diamond Kinetics secured a partnership with Major League Baseball in 2022 as its Trusted Youth Development Platform. Through the partnership, Diamond Kinetics' tech was integrated with MLB initiatives and content, giving young players across the country a way to track their progress, compete with friends and engage in an MLB-themed digital experience. The company has also forged partnerships with the Alliance Fastpitch, a California-based national league system for amateur fastpitch softball, and the Baltimore-based Ripken Baseball and Cooperstown-based All-Star Village to launch new in-app content to help user training. Plus, just last year, it acquired the youth sports streaming platform SidelineHD. In addition to livestreaming games, the platform uses AI to create video highlights that can be shared by families and friends. At the time, Handron said the acquisition aligned perfectly with the company's vision of providing a unified and complete experience for young athletes, allowing Diamond Kinetics to deliver more value to its users as they move from practice time to real games. Throughout all of the company's growth and success, it has remained headquartered in Pittsburgh because the city has a 'perfect recipe' of talent, sports interest and a supportive, early-stage technology ecosystem, Handron said. 'This city, and its affinity for sports, and the technical capabilities coming out of both Pitt and Carnegie Mellon,' Handron said, 'gave us an opportunity to find early investors and get people who were interested in what we were doing.' sat down with Handron at StudioMe in Oakland to learn more about Diamond Kinetics' origins, how it secured its major partnerships and his advice for other startups in the sportstech space. Watch or listen to the interview below.
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- Yahoo
Man arrested in Lawrence after fentanyl stash found behind hidden door
LAWRENCE, Mass. (WWLP) – A Dominican national living in Lawrence was arrested and charged for alleged drug trafficking of fentanyl and methamphetamine supplied by a cartel. Charging documents state that in January 2023, investigators began looking into a North Shore-based drug trafficking organization that was allegedly being supplied drugs by a cartel in Sinaloa, Mexico. Connecticut woman charged with negligent homicide following 2024 crash During the investigation, detectives identified 33-year-old Leury Then Rosario as one of the drug traffickers operating in Lawrence. Rosario was arrested on February 25, and search warrants were promptly executed by officers at his home and at his alleged stash location. The stash location was described as a multiservice business with a back room allegedly containing two casino-style poker tables and video poker machines. The room was also said to have a high-end surveillance system. Court filings said that the basement storage room of the stash location contained two large, locked storage boxes that contained drug equipment and paraphernalia, scales, and blenders. Law enforcement also found a small remote control that, when pressed, sounded and alarm, opened a trap wall, and revealed a hidden closet. In this hidden room, the following items were found: Over 16 kilograms of counterfeit pills, in various colors and sizes, containing controlled substances; A brick-shaped object of a white powdery substance, weighing approximately one kilogram, that field tested positive for the presence of cocaine Over two kilograms of suspected fentanyl pressed into 10-gram units Over two kilograms of suspected fentanyl powder in large bags Over 25 pounds of loose powders in various colors, believed to include cutting agents used with narcotics A commercial pill press used to press counterfeit pills, including over 50 pill die casts with designs to counterfeit Percoet, Xanax, Adderall and others Multiple kilogram presses, as well as branded stamps used to imprint logos onto kilograms of narcotics One Glock Model 33 .357 caliber semiautomatic handgun loaded with six rounds of ammunition One High Point .380 caliber semiautomatic handgun loaded with eight rounds of ammunition One Ruger .380 caliber semiautomatic handgun loaded with six rounds of ammunition Two Glock-style personally made firearms (also known as 'ghost guns') with no serial numbers loaded with 10 and nine rounds of ammunition respectively One AR-15 style rifle with a .458 SOCOM caliber, loaded with eight rounds of ammunition Rosario was charged with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl and methamphetamine. He was ordered detained pending a hearing scheduled for March 7. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
