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Lees meerThe trusty Falcon 9 is packed with 6,504 pounds of supplies destined for the International Space Station, including experiments like NASA’s ILLUMA-T project, which will test laser communications from space, and the Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE)…
Lees meerApple’s cofounder Steve Wozniak was hospitalized on Wednesday after suffering a possible stroke in Mexico City, according to local news outlet Reforma. The 73-year-old technology legend, who was in Mexico to speak at the World Business Forum, was ad…
Lees meerElon Musk’s rocket company won a court order to block the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit that accused SpaceX of hiring discrimination against refugees and asylum seekers.Read more...
Lees meerThis past year was a weird time for Apple. The company revealed two new MacBook Pros within ten months. It showed off the massive gamble that is its $3,500 Vision Pro headset. Its latest Apple Watches were a very bare refresh. Plus, the company didn…
Lees meerOpenAI’s global outages for ChatGPT and its API yesterday were due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DD0S) attack, according to a post on the company’s outage page Wednesday evening. CEO Sam Altman said the company was planning to go live with GPT…
Lees meerIt’s not yet December, but NASA is already in a festive mood: the Webb and Hubble space telescopes recently imaged MACS0416, a pair of colliding galaxy clusters 4.3 billion light-years from Earth that is bedecked in sparkling lights.Read more...
Lees meerIt may come as something of a surprise but Marc Andreessen—co-founder of mega-venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and longtime rich guy—is pretty worried about the creator economy.Read more...
Lees meerThere are few things in tech writing that feel as good as booting up a powerful computer. It’s as close as people in my line of work can get to flipping the switch to fire up a two-stage sub-orbital rocket engine.Read more...
Lees meerA major new card game launching is always interesting, but few launches have managed to capture a buzz like Lorcana. Disney and Ravensburger’s hot new card game launched to frenzy and sold out decks over the summer, and is about to come back for rou…
Lees meerThe best way to describe Valve’s new Steam Deck OLED is that it’s the Steam Deck you’ve always wanted. It’s got a better display, a better battery, and, hell, a better everything. After spending some time with a new, updated handheld gaming console,…
Lees meerFossilized feces from the Pleistocene epoch have divulged the mitochondrial DNA of a woolly rhinoceros, whose genome had never previously been assembled. The ancient poop was not excreted by an ancient rhino but by a hyena—an animal that evidently a…
Lees meerA new 3D tour of ancient Rome allows you to explore the imperial city as it appeared in the 4th century CE. The tour, produced by the education technology company Flyover Zone, is the fourth iteration of the 3D model.Read more...
Lees meerWorking long hours outdoors is a skin cancer hazard, and new research estimates that about one in three deaths caused by non-melanoma cancers annually can be attributed to occupational exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays. As of the latest availab…
Lees meerio9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The CRISPR Cookbook (Chapter Two): A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Eggs into Weapons of Destructi…
Lees meerNeed help figuring out how to program smart lights to turn on at dusk? You can ask AI for help with that. Google’s generative AI-powered feature called the “Help me script” started rolling out to beta testers this week. It can help you figure out ro…
Lees meerDisney and Pixar have released the first teaser for their follow up to Inside Out, and the world of emotions is about to get much bigger—and panic-induced.Read more...
Lees meerAfter wrapping up a lengthy mission in Earth orbit nearly a year ago, Space Force’s spaceplane is ready to take off again for the seventh flight of the Shuttlesque test vehicle.Read more...
Lees meerMicrosoft being annoying about ads, forced surveys, or pushy polls is nothing new. You might remember when they started rolling out ads in the Windows 11 Start menu. These appeared in the guise of ‘notifications’ repeatedly convincing users to start…
Lees meerAnonymous video chat app Omegle, known for pairing strangers and weirdos together in a kind of raw, extended social experiment, finally threw in the towel after years of abuse. The site was forced to shut down due to a settlement from a recent lawsu…
Lees meerOpenAI’s global outages for ChatGPT and its API yesterday were due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DD0S) attack, according to a post on the company’s outage page Wednesday evening. CEO Sam Altman said the company was planning to go live with GPT…
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