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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.

 
Legendary Anchor Chuck Scarborough to Retire from...
WNBC anchor Chuck Scarborough has “announced his intention to ‘relinquish the anchor chair’ after more than a half-century at NBC 4 New York. Scarborough will conclude his record-setting run as the New York City DMA’s longest-serving local television news anchor on Thursday, December 12 at 6 PM. Calling his plans “retirement with an asterisk,” Scarborough said that he will become a periodic contributor to special station projects and programming. “There is only one word: gratitude,” said Scarborough. “Our WNBC...

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The Creative Cases For and Against Jaguar’s...
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Henry Kissinger Issues AI Warning From Beyond...
Are we doomed? Midas Touch It’s been nearly a year since Nobel peace laureate and war criminal Henry Kissinger died — but he’s somehow still offering policy suggestions from beyond the grave. In an uncanny video introducing his posthumously-published book “Genesis,” an AI-generated voice clone of the amply loathed Kissinger likens the burgeoning field of AI to the curse of King Midas. As the mythic tale goes, the Greek god Dionysus grants the greedy Midas a wish: that everything...

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Grimes Says Elon Musk Has Become “Unrecognizable”
“And this is only what can be said publicly.” Grime Time Claire “Grimes” Boucher is getting personal on Elon Musk’s “everything” app as she opens up about how the right-wing billionaire has affected her and her art. The Canadian-born artist and mother to three of Musk’s ever-growing litter of children suggested in a lengthy post on X-formerly-Twitter that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO is no longer the man she fell in love with. Boucher wrote that among the life...

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NASA Awards Test Operations Contract
NASA has selected Sierra Lobo, Inc. of Fremont, Ohio, to provide for test operations, test support, and technical system maintenance activities at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The NASA Stennis Test Operations Contract is fixed-price, level-of-effort contract that has a value of approximately $47 million. The performance period begins July 1, 2025, and extends three years, with a one-year base period and two one-year option periods. The contract will provide test operations support for customers...

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Advancing urban tree monitoring with AI-powered digital...
The Irish philosopher George Berkely, best known for his theory of immaterialism, once famously mused, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” What about AI-generated trees? They probably wouldn’t make a sound, but they will be critical nonetheless for applications such as adaptation of urban flora to climate change. To that end, the novel “Tree-D Fusion” system developed by researchers at the MIT Computer Science and...

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Elon Musk's Father Is Worried About Him
Being too busy is a “big concern.” Errol of His Ways Elon Musk’s estranged father, Errol Musk, is concerned that his son is stretching himself too thin.  “Elon has no eyes on anything more than trying to make sure that whatever he does now… he’s able to give a proper job without affecting his own work,” he said in a recent interview with the Saudi state-owned news channel Al Arabiya.  “I think that would be a big concern to...

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Internet Notices Something Bizarre in Image Posted...
“The pop girls have become lazy.” Dellusonal Pop sensation Kesha Sebert, known more commonly as Kesha, has landed in hot water with fans after posting a painfully AI-generated image on social media. The image shows a pile of leather handbags with the word “delusional” spray painted in black across each of them, intended to market her new album of the same name, scheduled for release on November 29. But there are some glaring problems with the image. For one,...

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Preguntas frecuentes: La verdadera historia del cuidado...
Read this story in English here. La Estación Espacial Internacional es el hogar de la humanidad en el espacio y una estación de investigación que gira en órbita sobre la Tierra a unos 400 kilómetros (250 millas) de altura. La NASA y sus socios internacionales han mantenido una presencia humana continua a bordo de la estación espacial durante más de 24 años, haciendo investigaciones que no es posible realizar en la Tierra. La gente que vive y trabaja a...

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FAQ: The Real Story About Astronaut Health...
Lee esta historia en español aquí. The International Space Station is humanity’s home in space and a research station orbiting about 250 miles above the Earth. NASA and its international partners have maintained a continuous human presence aboard the space station for more than 24 years, conducting research that is not possible on Earth. The people living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory also are part of the research being conducted, helping to address complex human health issues on...

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New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential...
Lawsuits are never exactly a lovefest, but the copyright fight between The New York Times and both OpenAI and Microsoft is getting especially contentious. This week, the Times alleged that OpenAI’s engineers inadvertently erased data the paper’s team spent more than 150 hours extracting as potential evidence. OpenAI was able to recover much of the data, but the Times’ legal team says it’s still missing the original file names and folder structure. According to a declaration filed to the...

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Real Dogs' Reaction to Robodogs is Terrifying
It’s the pupper singularity. Dog Days The internet is flooded with videos of AI-powered robot dogs meeting real furry puppies, who often seem horrified to have come across what they seem to perceive as a canine abomination.  In one clip recently posted to X-formerly-Twitter, a large unlucky dog encounters what seems to be Unitree’s Go2 robot. It walks around using LiDAR, and it can flip, stretch, and roll partly thanks to AI-fueled simulation training. Adding up all this technology,...

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Ring Around Tabby’s Star
This Oct. 4, 2017, illustration shows a hypothetical uneven ring of dust orbiting KIC 8462852, also known as Boyajian’s Star or Tabby’s Star. The star has experienced unusual dips in brightness over a matter of days, as well as much subtler but longer-term dimming trends. Scientists proposed several explanations for this unexpected behavior, ranging from Tabby’s Star swallowing a planet to alien “megastructures” harvesting the star’s energy. However, a study using NASA’s Spitzer and Swift missions as well as...

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Newspaper Fires Two AI Reporters After Bizarre...
Good riddance. You’re Fired Hawaiian local broadcaster and newspaper The Garden Island has fired the two AI bots it recently introduced as its new anchors. As Wired journalist Guthrie Scrimegour — who was also previously let go by the paper — reports, the bots known as James and Rose were let go just two months after making their debut. At the time, the newspaper made a big fuss about becoming the first paper in the country to adopt AI-powered news...

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Study Finds Tesla Has Higher Rate of...
Surprised? Death Drive Tesla has the highest rate of fatal accidents on the road out of every other car brand in the US, according to new research. The study, conducted by the automotive site iSeeCars, analyzed data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System maintained by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Focusing on crashes involving 2018 to 2022 model-year cars that resulted in at least one occupant’s death, the analysis found that Tesla had a fatal accident rate...

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