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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.

 
The Double Standard in the Human-Rights World
The demonstration in London was like so many others in the past year and a half. A swell of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, tens of thousands of them, banged drums and chanted against Israel. Although this march in early October observed the one-year anniversary of the day Hamas militants broke a cease-fire by invading Israeli territory, the marchers paid no heed to the civilians who were murdered or kidnapped. The U.K. chapter of the world’s largest human-rights organization, Amnesty International, echoed...

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Winners of the 2025 World Press Photo...
The winning entries of this year’s World Press Photo Contest ​have just been announced. This year, according to organizers, 59,320 images were submitted for judging, made by 3,778 photographers. World Press Photo was once more kind enough to share some of this year’s global and regional winners, gathered below. To receive an email notification every time new photo stories are published, sign up here.

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The Download: how people fall for pig...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there Gavesh’s journey had started, seemingly innocently, with a job ad on Facebook promising work he desperately needed. Instead, he found himself trafficked into a business commonly known as “pig butchering”—a form of fraud in which scammers form romantic or other close relationships with targets online...

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How to save a glacier
Glaciers generally move so slowly you can’t see their progress with the naked eye. (Their pace is … glacial.) But these massive bodies of ice do march downhill, with potentially planet-altering consequences.   There’s a lot we don’t understand about how glaciers move and how soon some of the most significant ones could collapse into the sea. That could be a problem, since melting glaciers could lead to multiple feet of sea-level rise this century, potentially displacing millions of people...

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Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List...
A Venmo account under the name “Michael Waltz,” carrying a profile photo of the national security adviser and connected to accounts bearing the names of people closely associated with him, was left open to the public until Wednesday afternoon. A WIRED analysis shows that the account revealed the names of hundreds of Waltz’s personal and professional associates, including journalists, military officers, lobbyists, and others—information a foreign intelligence service or other actors could exploit for any number of ends, experts...

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SignalGate Isn’t About Signal
The eye-popping scandal surrounding the Trump cabinet’s accidental invitation to The Atlantic’s editor in chief to join a text-message group secretly planning a bombing in Yemen has rolled into its third day, and that controversy now has a name: SignalGate, a reference to the fact that the conversation took place on the end-to-end encrypted free messaging tool Signal. As that name becomes a shorthand for the biggest public blunder of the second Trump administration to date, however, security and...

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6 Best Password Managers (2025), Tested and...
Password managers are the vegetables of the internet. We know they’re good for us, but most of us are happier snacking on the password equivalent of junk food. For nearly a decade, that’s been “123456” and “password”—the two most commonly used passwords on the web. The problem is, most of us don’t know what makes a good password and aren’t able to remember hundreds of them anyway. The safest (if craziest) way to store your passwords is to memorize...

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The Download: China’s empty data centers, and...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused. Just months ago, China’s boom in data center construction was at its height, fueled by both government and private investors. Renting out GPUs to companies that need them for training AI models was once seen as a sure bet.  But with...

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Everything Leaving Netflix in March
Netflix is a creature in constant flux, always adding content to hook in prospective subscribers. But to make room for the fresh stuff, some of the stuff you’ve always wanted to watch—and have had in your to-watch list for months or years—has to go to a farm upstate, never to be seen again. That’s because Netflix doesn’t own all the content it streams. The contracts it has with networks, production companies, and movie studios mean much of that content...

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Top Health News
A New and Better Way to Create Word Lists Mar. 13, 2023 — Word lists are the basis of so much research in so many fields. Researchers have now developed an algorithm that can be applied to different languages and can expand word lists significantly better … Changing Landscapes Alter Disease-Scapes Mar. 13, 2023 — A new study has?highlighted?how and when?changes to the environment result in?animal-borne disease?thresholds?being breeched, allowing for?a?better understanding and?increased?capacity … Organosulfur Content of Vegetables Quantified Mar....

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The immune system does battle in the...
Researchers sheds light on a face-off in the intestines between the immune system and a bacterial pathogen whose family members cause gastrointestinal disease and the plague. The team’s insights may extend to other chronic infections and could inform the development of immunotherapies capable of fully extinguishing such diseases.

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