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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.

 
Trump Orders Musk to Get Air Force...
What’s the worst that could happen? President Donald Trump is running out of patience with Boeing, which was supposed to deliver two new Air Force One planes by the end of his predecessor’s term. And guess who he’s turning to to speed things up? Elon Musk, who Trump has “empowered” to take measures to get the beleaguered aerospace company to stop dragging its feet, the New York Times reports. Trump’s pick for the task isn’t surprising, since he’s asked...

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Killer Asteroid Could Be Headed for Some...
According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 3.1 percent chance of colliding with our planet on December 22, 2032. That makes it the highest-threat asteroid ever detected, as Euronews reports. As of late January, the probability was sitting at just 1.3 percent, which then rose to 2.1 percent last week before rising yet again. Worse yet, the space agency suggests the asteroid could hit densely populated areas of our planet — if it...

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DOGE Has ‘God Mode’ Access to Government...
If you have tips about the remaking of the federal government, you can contact Charlie, Ian, and Matteo on Signal at @cwarzel.92, @ibogost.47, and @matteowong.52. DOGE has achieved “God mode.” That’s according to an employee in senior leadership at USAID, who told us that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency now has full, unrestricted access to the agency’s digital infrastructure—including total control over systems that Americans working in conflict zones rely on, the ability to see and manipulate financial...

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Week of Feb. 10 Evening News Ratings:...
ABC World News Tonight is posting gains; however, for the third straight week, the new look CBS Evening News continued to see no viewership growth in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo. CBS Evening News was the only evening broadcast for the week of Feb. 10 to experience week-to-week declines.  Once again, CBS News’ evening broadcast needs time for existing viewers to adjust to its new anchor and story format and for new viewers to find the telecast...

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Researchers Find Elon Musk's New Grok AI...
Researchers at the AI security company Adversa AI have found that Grok 3, the latest model released by Elon Musk’s startup xAI this week, is a cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen. The team found that the model is extremely vulnerable to “simple jailbreaks,” which could be used by bad actors to “reveal how to seduce kids, dispose of bodies, extract DMT, and, of course, build a bomb,” according to Adversa CEO and cofounder Alex Polyakov. And it only gets...

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Week of Feb. 10 Morning News Ratings:...
After a 15-week drought, ABC News’ Good Morning America returned to the top spot as America’s most-watched morning news program for the week of Feb. 10.  This was not a surprise, as GMA had been steadily moving closer to this position over the past few weeks. For example, only 6,000 total viewers separated it and NBC News’ Today for the week of Feb. 3. GMA has taken advantage of the anchor switcheroo at NBC News’ Today and the somewhat...

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Reducing carbon emissions from residential heating: A...
In the race to reduce climate-warming carbon emissions, the buildings sector is falling behind. While carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the U.S. electric power sector dropped by 34 percent between 2005 and 2021, emissions in the building sector declined by only 18 percent in that same time period. Moreover, in extremely cold locations, burning natural gas to heat houses can make up a substantial share of the emissions portfolio. Therefore, steps to electrify buildings in general, and residential heating...

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ADWEEK to Expand Marketing Vanguard Platform
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Poppi vs. Olipop: Influencer Marketers Break Down...
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NASA Sends Experiment to Space to Study...
In an effort to learn more about astronaut health and the effects of space on the human body, NASA is conducting a new experiment aboard the International Space Station to speed up the detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, thus improving the health safety not only of astronauts but patients back on Earth. Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria can be difficult or impossible to treat, making antibiotic resistance a leading cause of death worldwide and a global health concern. Future astronauts...

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J-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across...
MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) has transformed the landscape of water and food research at MIT, driving faculty engagement and catalyzing new research and innovation in these critical areas. With philanthropic, corporate, and government support, J-WAFS’ strategic approach spans the entire research life cycle, from support for early-stage research to commercialization grants for more advanced projects. Over the past decade, J-WAFS has invested approximately $25 million in direct research funding to support MIT faculty...

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Elon Musk Is Shamelessly Firing Government Workers...
In an unnerving press conference last Tuesday, Elon Musk assured skeptical reporters that his DOGE government cost-cutting efforts had nothing to do with his private business interests. “All of our actions are fully public,” Musk stammered as his four-year-old son tore up the Oval Office carpet. “So if you see anything, you say like, wait a second, hey Elon, that , there’s a conflict there, it’s not like people are going to be shy about saying that.” “If...

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Elon Musk’s X Seeks Financing at $44...
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This USAID Program Made Food Aid More...
One of the first things Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) did was push for extreme cuts to the United States’ primary international aid agency, the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Musk insisted that USAID was too wasteful and corrupt to exist, but by effectively dismantling the agency, DOGE ended projects like the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fews Net), a long-running, broadly successful data analysis initiative that provides guidance to ensure that food aid is...

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Man Wakes Up, Finds That Large Chunk...
A Polish man named Adam Borucki made an unusual discovery in his backyard after waking up one day: the purported remains of a second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. As the UK tabloid The Daily Mail reports, Borucki reported the “large object about in size” to the local police. “We are investigating how the object ended up in this location, but the important thing is that no one was harmed,” police spokesman Andrzej...

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