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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

 
America Cringes as Trump Puts Elon Musk...
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that the “Great Elon Musk,” who has zero experience running anything in the government, and “anti-woke” Big Pharma shill Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” or DOGE. It doesn’t take much to realize that the entire debacle is meant to poke fun at government bureaucracy. The acronym of the project, DOGE, is a reference to the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, which literally started out as a joke. Musk has been obsessed with...

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Week of November 4 Cable News Ratings:...
This is TVNewser’s basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of November 4, 2024. President-elect Donald Trump‘s defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election was certainly good news for Fox News. The network finished Election Week as the No. 1 television outlet during primetime in total viewers, even surpassing the broadcast networks. Overall, FNC enjoyed its best week since 2020.  Fox News dominated Election Night coverage and was the most-watched network...

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Olipop Steps Up Marketing With Its First...
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KMSP Chief Meteorologist Ian Leonard Getting Treated...
Minneapolis chief meteorologist Ian Leonard said his skin cancer has returned. In a blog, posted to the Fox owned station’s website, Leonard told viewers about the diagnosis. “Knock knock. Who’s there? Skin Cancer. Damn…” he wrote. “It seems my skin cancer journey is set to start again. It’s kinda like a punch in the gut when you hear that one word after a biopsy. Cancer. I hate that word.” Leonard said he’s having surgery for cancer in his shoulder,...

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Character.AI Is Hosting Pedophile Chatbots That Groom...
Content warning: this story discusses child sexual abuse and grooming. Character.AI is an explosively popular startup — with $2.7 billion in financial backing from Google — that allows its tens of millions of users to interact with chatbots that have been outfitted with various personalities. With that type of funding and scale, not to mention its popularity with young users, you might assume the service is carefully moderated. Instead, many of the bots on Character.AI are profoundly disturbing —...

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Gray Owned Maine Station Cuts Newscasts
Gray-owned WAGM in Presque Isle, Maine is cutting some of its locally produced newscasts. WAGM announced the move last Thursday on social media. WAGM will be joining forces with WABI, it’s Gray Local Media Partner. WAGM and WABI will continue its mission of providing local news, weather and sports coverage. Effective 11/18,the team will bring you an extended morning news starting at 4:30am that will broadcast from WABI studios in Bangor, and will include news and weather from Aroostook...

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WongDoody Expands Leadership Team with Laura Davis...
Creative and digital transformation agency WongDoody, an Infosys company based in Seattle, has named former Monks global chief client officer Laura Davis to the newly created role of managing director, U.S. In addition, the expansion of WongDoody’s leadership team also includes bringing on Christian Gölz as global head of immersive experiences, and Mariel Cunningham as vice president, new business. Davis and Gölz report to WongDoody global CEO Skyler Mattson while Cunningham is part of Davis’ U.S. team. The new...

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Developing Expertise Improves the Brain’s Ability to...
Think of the last time you concentrated deeply to solve a challenging problem. To solve a math puzzle or determine a chess move, for example, you might have had to screen through multiple strategies and approaches. But little by little, the conundrum would have come into focus. Numbers and symbols may have fallen into place. It might have even felt, at some point, like your problem effortlessly resolved itself on the blackboard of your mind. In recent research, my...

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AI Influencers Can Now Rep Your Brand....
On April 9, social media influencer Miquela Sousa (@lilmiquela) announced her 20th birthday on Instagram to her 2.6 million followers. In fact, it was her first birthday ever. Lil Miquela hit the social media scene in 2016 as a virtual 19-year-old Brazilian American. Only recently did this AI marketing tool, created by the virtual influencer startup Brud, “decide” to age. One aspect of the post was entirely typical: product placement. In her birthday announcement, Lil Miquela sports boxer briefs...

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Fandom Debuts Helix, a Contextual Targeting Solution,...
Today, the fan platform Fandom, a user-populated library of gaming and entertainment content, unveiled its new contextual targeting solution, Helix. The product uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to taxonomize Fandom’s 50 million pages of content, enabling the publisher to serve contextually relevant ads to users and unlock new, nonintuitive audiences for advertisers, according to Fandom chief revenue officer Jeremy Steinberg. “What Helix will do is provide advertisers more real-time insights and connect them directly to activation strategies, which...

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The U.S. Must Lead the Global Fight...
November 13, 2024 4 min read Antimicrobial resistance could claim 39 million lives by 2050, yet the pipeline for new antibiotics is drying up. U.S. policy makers can help fix it By Howard Dean Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of bacteria cultured from a mobile phone. Tests have revealed the average handset carries 18 times more potentially harmful germs than a flush handle in a men’s toilet. With frequent use phones remain warm, creating the ideal breeding ground for...

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Five Expert Tips for Brand Marketers Thinking...
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Insects Played Pivotal Roles in the Evolution...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Plenty of us only think about insects when we’re trying to keep them out of our homes. But the truth is that our fates and fortunes are totally intertwined with all sorts of bugs. Here to tell us more is Barrett Klein, entomologist and animal behaviorist at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Thanks so much for joining us today. On supporting science journalism If you’re enjoying...

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Infographic: The Rapid Rise and Fall of...
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Longtime Pittsburgh Anchor David Johnson to Retire
 Veteran Pittsburgh anchor David Johnson has announced his retirement from NBC affiliate WPXI after 40 years with the station. “I don’t know where to begin to thank the hundreds of people I’ve worked with here at WPXI-TV over the years,” said Johnson, who joined the station in January 1985. “It sounds cliché, but I really do want to spend more time with my family.” The station said he was part of the longest-running anchor team in Pittsburgh TV history, along with Peggy...

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