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Ben Cross death: Star Trek and Chariots of Fire actor dies, aged 72 0
- BUSINESS
- August 18, 2020
The Independent employs reporters around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, please consider a contribution. Ben Cross, the stage and film actor best known for his roles in Chariots of Fire and Star Trek, has died at the age of 72. The actor’s family confirmed to Deadline that Cross died on
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Binned Ragtag could have been the ‘best Star Wars game ever’0
- TECHNOLOGY
- August 13, 2020
The developer of the Star Wars ‘Ragtag’ video game, which was cancelled back in 2017, believes EA missed out on potentially the ‘best Star Wars game ever’ In an interview with MinnMaxShow on YouTube (below), Zach Mumbach, formerly of Visceral Games, revealed more details about the binned title, which he described as an “amazingly well-crafted”
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Billie Piper says she had ‘horrible’ experiences as a teenage pop star 0
- BUSINESS
- August 9, 2020
Billie Piper has said she had “horrible” experiences when she was a teenage pop star in the Nineties. The actor first rose to fame as a singer, releasing her debut single at the age of 15 and becoming the youngest artist to enter at number one on the UK Singles Chart. In 2003, she abandoned
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A Saturn-like world hugging its star • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- August 4, 2020
Astronomers discovered an exoplanet for the first time using the astrometry technique with ground-based radio telescopes, according to fresh research published in The Astronomical Journal on Tuesday. Astrometry involves tracing tiny, irregular motions of a star to spot the telltale sign that it’s being tugged by the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet. It’s notoriously
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Balloon tech is good enough for economical star scanning • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 25, 2020
NASA wants to lift a 2.5-metre-long, reusable far-infrared telescope into Earth’s stratosphere using a massive high-altitude balloon in 2023 to check out the heavens more economically. The mission, known as ASTHROS, short for Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High-spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths, will gather a range of data to help scientists better understand star formation.
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Broadway star Nick Cordero dies at 41 following 94 days in hospital battling COVID-19 0
- BUSINESS
- July 6, 2020
Nick Cordero has tragically passed away after spending 95 days in hospital fighting for his life due to COVID-19 related complications. The 41-year-old, whose Broadway credits include Rock of Ages and Waitress, died on Sunday at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Cordero’s death was announced by his wife Amanda Kloots in a heartbreaking post on
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