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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.

 
Perplexity AI CEO Denies Rumors Company Is...
The CEO of Perplexity AI insists that his company is doing just fine, thank you very much. Responding to a user theory suggesting that the company is suffering glitches because it’s “doing horribly financially,” CEO Aravind Srinivas took to his haters’ home turf — that is, the r/Perplexity_AI subreddit — to set the record straight. In the original trash-talking post, user “nothingeverhappen” alleged, per a “campus strategist” they know, that Perplexity had “paused all funding for marketing and partnerships.” They...

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DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a...
The DOGE-affiliated acting president of the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded, independent think tank, has moved to transfer the agency’s $500 million headquarters building to the General Services Administration free of charge, according to court documents revealed in a recently filed lawsuit. Tensions at USIP have been escalating for weeks, starting when the Trump administration fired the agency’s 10 voting board members on March 14 and USIP staffers denied DOGE representatives access at the front door....

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Mother of Elon's Child So Disgusted With...
The conservative influencer who claims to be the mother of yet another of Elon Musk’s children has sold her Tesla — and, of course, used it as a photo op. In an interview with the Daily Mail, 26-year-old Ashley St. Clair claimed that she had to sell her Model S because the billionaire she had a baby with has cut her child support. “I need to make up for the 60 percent cut that Elon made to our son’s child...

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Apple Quietly Working on AI Agent to...
As it struggles to hit its stride in the generative AI race, Apple is quietly working on an “AI doctor service,” Bloomberg reports — a move that the company seemingly hopes will revitalize its foray into medical tech. The secret initiative — dubbed Project Mulberry and nicknamed “Health+” — aims to give a facelift to Apple’s fairly basic Health app, along with integrating a “health coach.” Bloomberg described the service as being powered “by a new AI agent that...

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23andMe Is Selling All Your Data, in...
Image by Getty / Futurism The DNA data from around 15 million people around the world is going on sale. As Nature reports, consumer-genomics company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy — and legal permission to auction off all of that data. To some, it’s an enormous risk to consumer privacy, but to some scientists, it’s a major opportunity for research. “As far as I know, this is the most amount of genetic data that is potentially changing hands,” University...

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NASA Trains for Orion Water Recovery Ahead...
Preparations for NASA’s next Artemis flight recently took to the seas as a joint NASA and Department of Defense team, led by NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program, spent a week aboard the USS Somerset off the coast of California practicing procedures for recovering the Artemis II spacecraft and crew. Following successful completion of Underway Recovery Test-12 (URT-12) on Monday, NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and their Defense Department counterparts are certified to recover the Orion spacecraft as part of the upcoming...

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Billionaire SpaceX Customer Flies Private Jet Into...
Jared Isaacman, the billionaire fighter jet pilot-turned-SpaceX astronaut, has shared a photo of himself during his unusual “commute into DC” — which involved a Cessna CJ4 private jet. The entrepreneur, who is estimated to be worth $1.9 billion, was tapped late last year by president Donald Trump to lead NASA, and he’s chosen to head into the nation’s capital to “meet with Senators this week” in a style that feels like a perfect illustration of the billionaires now running the...

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As Measles Continues to Rise, CDC Muffles...
March 31, 2025 3 min read By burying an assessment with updates and recommendations about the U.S.’s current measles outbreaks, the CDC has signaled an alarming shift in its public messaging By Jen Schwartz edited by Jeanna Bryner A health worker prepares a dose of the measles vaccine at a health center in Lubbock, Texas, on February 27, 2025. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images As measles outbreaks have continued to spread in 19 U.S. states, leaders at the Centers...

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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Release an...
Sam Altman today revealed that OpenAI will release an open-weight artificial intelligence model in the coming months. “We are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months,” the CEO wrote on X. The move is partly a response to the runaway success of the R1 model from Chinese company DeepSeek, as well as the popularity of Meta’s Llama models. Shortly after DeepSeek’s model was released in January, Altman said that OpenAI was...

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Old Missions, New Discoveries: NASA’s Data Archives...
Every NASA mission represents a leap into the unknown, collecting data that pushes the boundaries of human understanding. But the story doesn’t end when the mission concludes. The data carefully preserved in NASA’s archives often finds new purpose decades later, unlocking discoveries that continue to benefit science, technology, and society. “NASA’s science data is one of our most valuable legacies,” said Kevin Murphy, NASA’s chief science data officer at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “It carries the stories of our...

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Rocket Falls in Icy Wasteland, Explodes in...
We’ve never seen a rocket explode with this kind of view before. Arctic Blast A rocket by German startup Isar Aerospace tore into the sky over Norway’s Arctic Andoeya Spaceport, a European launch base for small satellites, over the weekend — only to plummet back down to the ground, exploding in a dramatic fireball. Fortunately, while the spaceport’s “crisis management” was triggered, nobody was hurt. As Reuters reports, the rocket, dubbed Spectrum, was meant to kick off Europe’s efforts...

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The Great Tesla Sell-Off
In Los Angeles, where I live, you don’t expect to be heckled while driving an electric car to the grocery store. But on a recent afternoon, a couple of men on bikes saw the Tesla logo on the front of my car and shouted, “Fuck you, Tesla guy” as I rolled by with the windows down. I bought my Tesla Model 3 in 2019, after my wife and I moved from New York to L.A. and needed a car....

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SpaceX Launching First-Ever Astronauts Over Earth's Poles...
Tonight, SpaceX is scheduled to launch a first-of-its-kind mission that will carry four private astronauts — or depending on how you see it, glorified space tourists — to fly above the Earth’s poles. Named “Fram2” after the Norwegian ship that made expeditions to both the Earth’s poles over a century ago, the mission will use a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to carry a Crew Dragon capsule containing the crew to an altitude between 264 to 280 miles. The mission...

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Santiago Gallego to Join Telemundo Chicago as...
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Watch SpaceX Launch Historic Fram2 Crewed Mission...
March 31, 2025 2 min read Fram2, a first-of-its-kind private mission to send four astronauts into polar orbit around Earth, is about to launch By Mike Wall & SPACE.com A close-up view of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a Crew Dragon spacecraft before a launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four-person Fram2 crew is set to ride similar hardware into polar orbit on the evening of March 31, 2025. Evgeniy Baranov/Alamy Stock Photo SpaceX plans...

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