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The F-35 and F-22 may be among the world’s most advanced stealth fighters, but they cannot hide one thing: heat.
When heat-seeking missiles lock onto aircraft, fighters release flares to confuse infrared sensors and break missile tracking.
But the infrared signals produced by fighters, including heat from engine exhaust and air friction over the fuselage, are different from those generated by flares.
These heat signatures could provide valuable infrared information for target detection and…

AOC secretly split from her partner Riley Roberts long before she went for egg freezing. After Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that she was going to freeze her eggs so that she could choose the right time to become a mother, speculations were rife about her relationship with Riley Roberts, her long-time boyfriend and partner. The duo got engaged in 2022. Many social media users asked why she was not choosing to be a biological mother now as she was already engaged to her college sweetheart.Leigh Ann Caldwell, Puck News’ chief Washington correspondent, revealed that a “reputable Democratic source” told her about 18 months ago that Ocasio-Cortez and her partner Riley Roberts had ended their engagement. “AOC stopped wearing her engagement ring several months before that,” Caldwell wrote on X Tuesday. “There have been no public photos of her and Riley together in recent history.”Last photograph around 2021-22Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts were last photographed together at the ..

H-1B visa holder shares how questioning went on for 30 minutes and most of these questions were technical and specific about job role (Photo: AI) An H-1B visa holder shared the lengthy interview that took place at the Hyderabad Consulate in India, revealing how minutely visa officers are now going through H-1B visa applications and how they are asking technical questions about the job, specific projects etc. The interview continued for 30 minutes with two different interviewers, and they grilled the person, asking many questions about the company, about colleagues, about clients, education background. The person posted the entire experience on an NRI group and said the visa got approved almost a month after the interview, and the status on the site was shown as 'refused' throughout the month.Questions asked for H-1B visa as shared by the visa holderExplain your roleDo you work for a client?What is your pay?How much did you pay your employer for the H-1B?What is the name of th..

Retiree Yang Fangxin’s 72 sq ft rooftop home, located on the ninth floor of a 62-year-old building in Sham Shui Po, has become a heat trap under Hong Kong’s scorching hot weather.
The temperature in her home was above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) at around 5pm on Tuesday, higher than the 33 degrees recorded at the Hong Kong Observatory’s monitoring station in the same district.
The temperature in her home only dropped slightly to 37.8 degrees after switching on two fans and an air…

AdvertisementHong Kong politicsHong KongPolitics‘I’ll be first in line to buy your bonds’: how Zhu Rongji put steel in Hong Kong’s spineTributes pour in for former premier Zhu Rongji from senior leaders in Hong Kong’s political and business circles
4-MIN READ4-MIN ListenLeopold ChenandSimpson CheungPublished: 10:10pm, 12 Aug 2026Updated: 10:20pm, 12 Aug 2026In late 2002, former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji visited Hong Kong and sought to put steel in the spine of the city’s establishment that was floundering under an economic slump and a ballooning deficit.
“Even if you spend all your fiscal reserves three years from now, what is there to fear?” he asked his dinner guests at Government House in a famously unscripted speech.
“If you issue 50-year long-term Hong Kong bonds on the mainland, I will be the first in line to buy them. I believe the mainland people will follow me and buy them too!”
As tributes from Hong Kong’s business and political figures, including by former chief executives ..