Forget boring rental cars at Turo.com. Today marks the start of Pride Month, a time that LGBT people protest for their rights. The satellite internet technology called Starlink has provided a decisive battlefield advantage in Ukraine. We ask why China's army is worried and why that is likely to lead to a space race in low Earth orbit.
The country’s homophobes claim that homosexuality is a malign foreign import; in reality it was anti-LGBT groups from abroad who helped lay the ground for vicious new legislation. Starlink, a satellite-internet constellation, has given Ukraine a battlefield advantage; we ask why that has China’s army so concerned. And the unlikely resurgence of pinball, thanks to some canny marketing.
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