Anduril set to acquire Orange County space surveillance company

Anduril set to acquire Orange County space surveillance company

Southern California defense tech darling Anduril Industries has struck a deal to buy Orange County space surveillance firm ExoAnalytic Solutions. The purchase for an undisclosed sum is meant to boost Anduril’s capabilities in space domain awareness, battle management and fire control. With the deal, Anduril will absorb ExoAnalytic’s network of 400 commercial telescopes around the…

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Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures

Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures

Still, the most remarkable performance at the Cherry Lane is by Peter Friedman, who plays the kind of father you rarely see in art: a good one. It’s a hard sort of acting to describe, a spectacle of humility and self-awareness, unshowy and confident. A businessman with a genial, chatty energy, Mae’s father, facing mortality,…

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The Next Game from the Creator of Wordle Is Here

The Next Game from the Creator of Wordle Is Here

Wardle had tried cryptic crosswords when he was younger, but found them to be impenetrable. “I didn’t know how to begin,” he told me. The rules could seem arcane, almost impossible to deduce. A clue containing the word “radio” could signal that “am” or “fm” belongs somewhere in the answer; “book” could imply “ot” or…

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Life in Hitler’s Capital

Life in Hitler’s Capital

According to Buruma’s sources, life in 1939 proceeded much as before for most Berliners, albeit with less illumination (the street lights were turned off) and less food (beer, milk, and meat were rationed). Attendance at the city’s cinemas went up. Goethe’s play “Iphigenia in Tauris” was performed at the Volksbühne, and “Tosca” played at the…

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A Wintry Utopia in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom

A Wintry Utopia in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom

Vermont has long been a haven for idealists and iconoclasts, from the Putney Perfectionists of the nineteenth century to Depression-era homesteaders like Helen and Scott Nearing to the prickly Brooklynite who became the state’s most famous senator. In a 2009 book called “The Town That Food Saved,” Ben Hewitt, a northern-Vermont native, chronicled the arrival…

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