Russian billionaire and space VC Yuri Milner shows off the world's smallest spaceship

Russian billionaire and venture capitalist Yuri Milner may be famous for being an early backer of Facebook and Twitter and later backing Spotify and Airbnb.

But he's also known for his Breakthrough Initiatives, a scientific program to investigate the questions of life in the Universe, and for putting up $200 million in funding to revive the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). This includes a project called Breakthrough Starshot, which has created tiny spaceships the size of a micro-memory chip. Each ship is equipped with sensors and a laser to transmit data back to Earth, a camera, and is powered by light.

On Tuesday he showed off these smallest spaceships on earth.

BREAKING: Police seal off PDP Convention venue in Port Harcourt

The police have sealed off the Sharks Stadium, venue of the Peoples Democratic Party convention, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed this to PREMIUM TIMES, Wednesday morning.

“Yes, we have (sealed off) the place,” Mr. Omoni said. “We are just obeying the court instruction.”

Milwaukee cop identified in Sylville Smith's death is two-year veteran of force and amateur rapper

The Milwaukee cop who fatally shot Sylville Smith has been identified as a two-year veteran of the force, an acquaintance of a slain man and an amateur rapper who once sang, “Imma start a riot like it’s Baltimore.”

More than a thousand people have circulated a 2014 image shared by the Milwaukee Police Department identifying and lauding Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown as the rookie cop who helped a homeless woman find a warm meal during frigid weather.

Milwaukee police deleted the viral post Tuesday amid heated comments as Facebook users threatened to have the embattled officer killed, while others shared troubling encounters with the patrolman.

'My family lived in fear of this man for years': The family of an Arab-American man killed by his neighbor speaks

Stanley Vernon Majors.

The family of a Lebanese-American man who was fatally shot by his neighbor last week released a statement revealing the killer's history of harassment, intimidation, and even physical assault against them.

Khalid Jabara of Tulsa was allegedly gunned down by his next-door neighbor, Stanley Vernon Majors, on the steps of Jabara's porch on Friday.

Majors had allegedly stalked members of Jabara's family for years, and once described them to police as "dirty Arab" and "filthy Lebanese." He also hurled Islamophobic epithets at the family, even though the Jabaras are Christian.

"Our brother's death could have been prevented. This man was a known danger," Jabara's sister Victoria wrote in the statement, published on Facebook on Monday.

Amy Tinkler becomes youngest British athlete to win at the Olympics at age 16

Great Britain's 16 year old Amy Tinkler is now Britain's youngest athlete to win a medal at the Olympics in 32 years, after she won Bronze at the women's floor exercise event on Tuesday. It is an astonishing rise for the teenager who just last month sat in a school hall to take her GCSE exams and will collect her results on the day she returns from Brazil.  Holding back tears after her win, she said:

'I can't believe it. I knew I was Team GB's youngest athlete but this is crazy and I'm still in shock at the minute. 'It was a bit nerve-wracking watching the other athletes and knowing you are so close to a medal but I would have been happy with wherever I was place.'  'I went out there and did my best and enjoyed it so whatever the result, I would have been happy. I really am speechless.

'I put no pressure on myself and neither did my coaches. They just told me I had nothing to lose and to go out and enjoy it. I had made the floor final at the Olympics and deserved to be in it so I enjoyed it. 'As soon as I finished my routine, I knew I couldn't do any better. 'It has been an incredible week for British gymnastics. Hopefully there is a lot more to come from me and you will see me back out here in 2020.' 

Ex-NSA insiders: There's 'a lot of panic' over what's been exposed by this massive hack

A group calling itself the "Shadow Brokers" claims that it hacked into the National Security Agency and stole an apparent treasure trove of exploits and hacking tools that it now wants to auction off, which some ex-NSA insiders say is extremely bizarre and very serious.

"It's a big deal," Dave Aitel, an ex-NSA research scientist and CEO of penetration testing firm Immunity Inc., told Business Insider. "We'd be panicking."

Yet he added: "But then it is rather old stuff. So the question is, is it so old that it's essentially irrelevant but looks very relevant? Or is some of this stuff still in use every day? I don't know."

Earlier this week, Shadow Brokers announced that it was selling a number of cyber weapons claiming to be stolen from The Equation Group. That is a hacking unit that was uncovered last year by Kaspersky Labs that many believe are within the NSA. In its data dump of proof, the brokers offered files dating back to 2013 to allegedly exploit FortiGate and Cisco firewalls, among others.

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp settle domestic violence case

According to TMZ, Amber Heard has dismissed her domestic violence restraining order petition against her estranged husband, Johnny Depp, as the case has settled. Read the report below... 

Amber and Johnny filed legal docs Tuesday in which Amber withdrew her request for a restraining order. She had alleged Johnny brutalized her on May 21 but now the case is over. She dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning she can never re-file it.

The divorce case, which was tied to the domestic violence petition, is also resolved. As we reported, our sources say Johnny agreed to pay Amber approximately $7 million to walk away ... that includes attorneys' fees ... at a point, $8 million was on the table, so she ended up with a mil less.

As we reported, Johnny's lawyers, Laura Wasser and Blair Berk, along with Amber's lawyers, Pierce O'Donnell and Samantha Spector, crafted a settlement after Amber was grilled Saturday during a deposition.