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China Rescues Stranded Lunar Satellites
China has managed to deliver a pair of satellites into lunar orbit despite the spacecraft initially being stranded in low Earth orbit following a rocket failure, using a mix of complex calculations, precise engine burns, and astrodynamic ingenuity.China launched...
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Avowed: New game release doesn’t want to overstay its welcome
Tom RichardsonBBC NewsbeatObsidianGames don't have to contain hundreds of hours of content for them to be big hits.Some fans complained when they learned that 2023 PS5 title Spider-Man 2 - a full-priced release - could be fully completed in...
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xAI Releases Its Latest Flagship Model, Grok 3 – Slashdot
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xAI has launched Grok 3, the latest iteration of its large language model, alongside new capabilities for its iOS and web applications. The model has been trained on approximately 200,000 GPUs in a Memphis data center, representing what...
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Nextdoor’s Nirav Tolia thinks he can turn things around with AI; he has a lot riding on it | TechCrunch
Social media is often about scale, but Nextdoor bet long ago on something different: that it could grow a big business off smaller, local communities.For years, the plan worked. The 15-year-old company has long been a dominant platform for...
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Chase Will Soon Block Zelle Payments To Sellers on Social Media – Slashdot
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An anonymous reader shares a report: JPMorgan Chase Bank (Chase) will soon start blocking Zelle payments to social media contacts to combat a significant rise in online scams utilizing the service for fraud.Zelle is a highly popular digital...
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Meta failing to curb spread of many sexualized AI deepfake celebrity images on Facebook
Meta has removed over a dozen fraudulent, sexualized images of famous female actors and athletes after a CBS News investigation found a high prevalence of AI-manipulated deepfake images on the company's Facebook platform. Dozens of fake, highly sexualized images of...
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Argentina president accused of fraud over crypto crash
Argentine President Javier Milei is facing impeachment calls - and legal action accusing him of fraud - over his promotion of cryptocurrency on social media.Milei posted on X, formerly Twitter, about the $LIBRA coin on Friday, which he said...
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Pioneering Black Female Physicist Paved the Way for Minorities in STEM
At a time in American history when even the most intelligent Black women were expected to become, at most, teachers or nurses, Willie Hobbs Moore broke with societal expectations to become a noted physicist and engineer.Moore probably is best...
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The Best MacBook Accessories to Enhance Your Mac Life
The MacBook is a powerful machine. Whether you're using a MacBook Air for web browsing and sending emails or a MacBook Pro for graphics-intensive projects like video editing and 3D design, Apple's laptops can do the job. But I...
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For-Profit Companies Can’t Easily Replace NOAA’s Weather-Forecasting Prowess
Could a private company create forecasts on its own without NOAA data?It would be difficult for one company to provide comprehensive weather data in a reliable way that is also accessible to the entire public.Some companies might be able...
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Gemelli hospital: The facility treating Pope Francis
ReutersAccording to official announcements, Pope Benedict XVI was never admitted to the hospital during his 8-year papacy, although he...