ORLANDO (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Blue Origin, het ruimtevaartbedrijf van Amazon-oprichter Jeff Bezos, gaat 600 miljoen dollar investeren in uitbreiding van zijn Rocket Park Campus in Cape Canaveral in de Amerikaanse staat Florida. Dat heeft gouverneur Ron DeSantis van Florida gemeld.

Met die uitbreiding, genaamd Project Horizon, wil Blue Origin de productiecapaciteit op de raketbasis vergroten om grotere ladingen naar de ruimte te kunnen vervoeren. Met de investering komen er vijfhonderd nieuwe arbeidsplaatsen bij op de raketbasis. In totaal heeft het bedrijf aan de Space Coast in Florida nu elf locaties met 4000 werknemers.

Bezos zei onlangs in een interview van plan te zijn om datacenters in de ruimte te brengen. Volgens hem zijn de lanceerkosten sterk gedaald, waardoor die plannen realistisch zijn. Ook het ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX van Elon Musk heeft plannen voor datacenters in de ruimte.

Chancellor’s measure to help families save money during summer holidays ‘won’t make any difference’

Cutting tax on children’s meals is a political “soundbite” that will make little difference to families or businesses, restaurateurs have said.

This week, Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, announced a temporary reduction in VAT on the children’s menu in restaurants from 20% to 5% between June and September, in order to help families with the cost of living crisis and offer a boost to the hospitality sector.

The actor on his Lauren Laverne crush, missing jury service, and shoving chocolate mousse in his agent’s face

Born in London, Tom Burke, 44, trained at Rada. In 2008, he won the Ian Charleson award for his role in Creditors at London’s Donmar Warehouse. From 2014 to 2016, he appeared in the BBC series The Musketeers; his other TV work includes War & Peace and Strike, in which he plays the title role. His best-known films are Mank, The Souvenir, The Wonder and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. His new Netflix series is Legends. He lives in Kent.

What is your greatest fear?
To be stuck in the past.

The 19-year-old nicknamed the ‘new Rafa’, seeded at this year’s French Open, is the latest talent to emerge from the country’s conveyor belt of champions

Spain is at it again.

A year ago Rafael Jodar, the teenage sensation from Madrid, was ranked around No 700 in the world and completing his freshman year at the University of Virginia. After winning several ATP Challenger titles (the level below regular ATP tournaments) the Spaniard decided to turn pro and forgo his final three years of college eligibility. Jodar won his first main-level ATP match at this year’s Australian Open. And now, stunningly, after a meteoric and nearly unprecedented rise up the rankings, the 19-year-old will be among the 32 seeds when the French Open commences Sunday.

BioOrbit hopes drug-crystallisation technology will lead to self-injected cancer treatment that could save millions

Onboard a SpaceX flight last week was a remarkable piece of cargo – a hi-tech box destined for the International Space Station to grow ultra-pure protein crystals, with the aim of producing self-injected cancer drugs.

A British startup, BioOrbit, has developed the drug-crystallisation technology at its labs in London and launched Box-E, a compact unit the size of a microwave, on the 15 May rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Millions are being dragged into starvation, while people everywhere pay a Trump war tax. But there are plenty of powers who could bring him to heel

With the deadlocked war in Iran about to enter its fourth month, loose comparisons with previous US quagmires in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam are bandied about. When the conflict began, warnings of another “forever war” seemed exaggerated. No longer. As matters stand, the negative international humanitarian, economic and geopolitical fallout from this fiasco looks set to prove more permanently globally damaging than any of those past US-made disasters.

That being the case, an urgent question arises, not least today as reports suggest the US president and his secretary of war are planning to rain more bombs on Iran: who will stop Donald Trump?

Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator

The end of The Late Show, an American institution since 1993, leaves those still surviving within the format wondering what the future looks like

• Share your favorite memories from The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

In a way, it’s a shock every time the biggest talkshow hosts assemble into their “Strike Force Five”, the podcast-born group consisting of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver. No, the shock isn’t the lack of Greg Gutfeld, the highly viewed Fox News talkshow host who has nonetheless only ever been funny as a punchline unto himself, and was playfully name-checked on the final episode of Colbert’s The Late Show, after the deposed king of late-night was informed the highest-rated host was getting the boot. (“They’re canceling Gutfeld?!” he cried in fake panic.) The real repeated surprise is the realization that there are (or were) five major late-night hosts still standing.

OK, even before Colbert got the axe, it was actually four: Oliver hails from a weekly perch on HBO, which, given similar jobs held by Dennis Miller for nine years and Bill Maher for 24, seems likely to last for at least 200 seasons. But still: four big-name network talkshows? In this economy?! Strike that down to three, now that Colbert’s tenure is officially over, and his David Letterman-founded late-night franchise with it. Though Colbert is the exact wrong one to cull – the group’s best interviewer, strongest comedy bona fides, and highest-rated show to boot! – it’s hard to argue that network TV is in need of the late-night chatshows that used to be such a major status symbol and, presumably, cash cow. Though the shows are notoriously expensive (such that CBS was able to claim that their king of late-night also lost money), they must have once generated substantial revenue, given the amount of jockeying the 11pm-and-beyond slot inspired throughout the 1980s and especially 90s.

US-backed board has put sole blame for stalled ceasefire on militant group despite Israel not fulfilling its obligations, analysts say

The top diplomat from the Board of Peace has blamed Hamas for the stalled ceasefire, but critics have said the US-backed board’s lack of even-handedness in implementing the truce risks a return to war.

The “high representative for Gaza”, Nickolay Mladenov, told the UN security council on Thursday that Hamas was the “principal obstacle” to the ceasefire’s continued implementation because “it refused to accept verified decommissioning, relinquish coercive control and allow a genuine civilian transition”.

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Robstours has added a photo to the pool:

Goami Pond. It is a picturesque, central feature of the open-air museum in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan