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Four astronauts are now inexorably bound for the Moon

The Orion spacecraft successfully fired its main engine for 5 minutes and 50 seconds on Thursday, sending four astronauts on a free-return trajectory around...

Perplexity’s “Incognito Mode” is a “sham,” lawsuit says

For Doe, he was “dismayed” to learn that complete and partial transcripts of chats discussing his family’s financial data were seemingly shared with Google...

Artemis II, NASA’s boldest mission in generations, launches crew to the Moon

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—Three Americans and one Canadian launched into orbit from Florida’s Space Coast on Wednesday, flying the most powerful rocket ridden by...

Nvidia rolls out its fix for PC gaming’s “compiling shaders” wait times

PC gamers who are tired of waiting for their games to “compile shaders” during some load times may want to dig into the latest...

NASA is leading the way to the Moon, but the military won’t be far behind

But observing objects in cislunar space from the Earth is not easy. First, the Moon is a quarter-million miles away, so spacecraft or debris...

Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama’s MLX support

Ollama, a runtime system for operating large language models on a local computer, has introduced support for Apple’s open source MLX framework for machine...

Water utility announces it’s ditching fluoride—then reveals it did so years ago

“This is the same board that promised transparency. The same leadership that said they would run this utility the right way. And now they...

Judge halts Nexstar/Tegna merger after FCC let firms exceed TV ownership limit

“Defendants also do not contest Plaintiff’s assertion that in the 16 in which Nexstar or Tegna has a Big Four duopoly or triopoly,...

Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC

Outside of the current circles of power in tech and politics, however, prediction markets continue to face questions about insider trading (banned by Polymarket’s rules but difficult to...

Explanation for why we don’t see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails

Three-hundred million years ago, the skies of the late Palaeozoic era were buzzing with giant insects. Meganeuropsis permiana, a predatory insect resembling a modern-day...

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