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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been shooting lasers at Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon to hit a tiny target.
Moon

NASA Spacecraft Shoots Japanese Moon Lander With Laser

After eight failed attempts, it finally hit the bullseye.

By Victor Tangermann

In new testimony, workers for Boeing and one of its key suppliers described high workload, low morale, and a sense of worthlessness.
Advanced Transport

Boeing Contractors Say They Were Treated Like “Cockroaches”

"We were replacing doors like we were replacing our underwear."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of experts are saying that Trump's speech patterns have deteriorated in recent years, a big sign of worsening cognitive health.
Neuroscience and Brain

Analysis of Trump’s Speech Finds Signs of Cognitive Decline

"There’s reasonable evidence suggestive of forms of dementia."

By Sharon Adarlo

An amateur Austrian space photographer has managed a difficult feat — capturing imagery of China's secretive Shenlong spaceplane.
Off-World

Amateur Spacewatcher Uses Telescope to Spot Secret Chinese Spaceplane in Orbit

This is a rare feat.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study found that we could use metals found on Mars to create particles that would trap heat once released into the planet's atmosphere.
Mars

Scientists Propose Low Cost Plan for Terraforming Mars

This could actually work.

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI keeps losing top talent, indicating some considerable inner turmoil. Are they worried OpenAI is making empty promises?
OpenAI

Why Are OpenAI’s Most Prominent Employees Leaving?

"If OpenAI is right on the verge of AGI, why do prominent people keep leaving?"

By Victor Tangermann

More younger people are getting hit with all sorts of different cancers, and microplastics may be one big risk factor.
Cancer

Microplastics Likely Causing Wave of Cancer in Young People

Millennials and zoomers have a new thing to worry about.

By Sharon Adarlo

China has deployed its first batch of satellites as it seeks to rival SpaceX's Starlink communications megaconstellation.
Off-World

China Launches First Portion of Satellite Megaconstellation

And of course, there may be a military component to this too.

By Noor Al-Sibai

X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk just can't stop falling for fake news on his own social media network.
Elon Musk

Gullible Elon Musk Falls for Fake News Again, Deletes Post

"Utterly dystopian."

By Victor Tangermann

According to internal data obtained by The Verge, far more customers returned their Humane AI Pins than those who bought it.
Artificial Intelligence

More People Are Returning That Horrid “AI Pin” Than Are Buying It

Ouch.

By Victor Tangermann

MIT economist and AI skeptic Daron Acemoglu argued that generative AI isn't intelligent enough to impact jobs.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Economist Blasts AI Hype, Says It’s Too Dumb to Really Impact Jobs

Companies are "over-investing in generative AI and then regretting it."

By Victor Tangermann

An isolated tribe in the Amazon rainforest used bows and arrows to head off loggers who were likely encroaching on their land. 
Science & Energy

Isolated Amazonian Tribe Attacks Encroaching Loggers With Bows and Arrows

"This is a permanent emergency."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta's AI chatbot kept giving strangers a man's phone number, and it remains unclear how or why it happened.
Meta

Man Puzzled When Meta’s AI Keeps Giving Out His Phone Number to Strangers

This would irritate us, too.

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has been considering stuffing its two stranded astronauts into SpaceX's already fully occupied Crew-8 spacecraft.
Boeing

NASA Clown Car Plan Would Stuff Extra Astronauts Into SpaceX Capsule to Avoid Return Journey in Disastrous Boeing Starliner

NASA is willing to get creative.

By Victor Tangermann

Rossmann, one of the largest drugstore chains in Europe, explicitly blamed Elon Musk, calling out his endorsement of Donald Trump.
Elon Musk

Large Company Says It Won’t Purchase Any More Teslas Due to Elon Musk’s Erratic Behavior

It didn't mince words.

By Frank Landymore

Robert Zubrin, president and founder of Mars Society, thinks NASA should skip its Moon missions and use Starship to go to Mars — now.
Starship

Mars Society President Calls for Starship Mission to Red Planet

Easy, right?

By Frank Landymore

One way to improve your Cybertruck? Add a pair of googly eyes, and watch the world finally embrace your choice in vehicle.
Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck Is Much Improved by Adding Googly Eyes

Perfect. No notes.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

John Schulman, AI safety researcher and OpenAI cofounder, has departed the ChatGPT creator and joined the ranks of OpenAI rival Anthropic.
OpenAI

OpenAI Cofounder Quits to Join Rival Started by Other Defectors

Another AI safety scientist has left OpenAI.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is allowing paid-for promoted links to AI apps that expressly help users make nonconsensual deepfake nudes, 404 Media reports.
Google

Google Caught Taking Money to Promote AI Apps That Create Nonconsensual Nudes

Gross.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If NASA's stranded astronauts were to secure seats on an upcoming SpaceX mission, they'd have to wait another five months to return.
NASA

Stranded Astronauts Could Be Stuck on the Space Station for Another 5 Months, NASA Says

Boeing's Starliner crisis has backed NASA into a corner.

By Victor Tangermann