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Boeing's moon rocket faces uncertain future under Trump's NASA

NASA’s Boeing Co. rocket just propelled astronauts farther into space than ever before. The Trump administration is already looking to competitors for a replacement.

About a week before the $24 billion Space Launch System pushed the four crew members of the Artemis II mission around the moon, NASA asked rivals what options they could offer ...Read more

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Artemis II astronauts back on Earth after splashdown to end historic moon mission

Records were set. History was made. All that was left was to get the four Artemis II astronauts home safe. That happened Friday night as they splashed down safe in the Pacific Ocean.

NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen made the final run of a nearly 700,000-mile trip ...Read more

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Wall Street banks try out Anthropic's Mythos as US urges testing

Wall Street banks are starting to test Anthropic PBC’s Mythos model internally as Trump administration officials encourage them to use it to detect vulnerabilities.

While JPMorgan Chase & Co. was the only bank named as part of an initiative to test the Mythos model, other major financial institutions have also gained access or expect to in ...Read more

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Artemis II astronauts back on Earth after splashdown to end historic moon mission

Records were set. History was made. All that was left was to get the four Artemis II astronauts home safe.

NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen made the final run of a nearly 700,000-mile trip that began April 1 when they launched from Kennedy Space Center on the first ...Read more

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Artemis II astronauts safely splash down off San Diego coast after historic moon mission

The Artemis II astronauts safely splashed down off the coast of San Diego at 5:07 p.m. Pacific time Friday after a historic 10-day mission around the moon, finally letting the crew and NASA officials breathe a sigh of relief.

NASA regarded the high-energy reentry — streaking through the atmosphere in a nearly 5,000-degree-Fahrenheit fireball ...Read more

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Most gaming companies don't have AI governance plans, new report says

A new UNLV report on artificial intelligence in the gaming industry says one in five companies have a dedicated AI governance role, and most organizations have no established governance practices.

In what is targeted to be an annually updated report, the UNLV International Gaming Institute published its first research on the use of artificial ...Read more

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Damage seen at Blue Origin Space Coast test site; unclear if New Glenn launch could be delayed

As Blue Origin prepares for the next launch of its New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral, the company appears to have experienced unexpected damage at its rocket manufacturing facility in Merritt Island, Florida.

Photos posted to social media show a damaged roof to what is know as the 2CAT facility, a vertical building used for tank cleaning and...Read more

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San Jose reshapes AI coalition into nonprofit, eyes global role

San Jose wants to shape how local governments use artificial intelligence, and it’s restructuring its AI coalition into an independent nonprofit to do it.

The city is converting GovAI — a coalition founded by San Jose in 2023 — into a nonprofit, using a $150,000 grant from the Packard Foundation to fund the transition. The conversion ...Read more

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How to watch NASA's moon mission splash down off San Diego today

Four days after astronauts flew around the moon for the first time in a half-century, ground crews across Southern California are making final preparations for their high-energy reentry and splashdown off the coast of San Diego, expected around 5 p.m. Pacific time Friday.

Southern Californians likely won't be able to see reentry or splashdown ...Read more

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy defends spending $200 billion in AI push

As Wall Street frets about the tech industry's eye-popping artificial intelligence spending spree, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy isn't blinking.

In a letter to shareholders Thursday, the Seattle-based tech giant's chief defended the $200 billion Amazon plans to spend on AI infrastructure this year, saying the company is not going to be conservative in ...Read more

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Artemis II astronauts set to splash down on Earth tonight

Records were set. History was made. Now all that’s left is to get the four Artemis II astronauts home safe.

NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen are in the final run of a 600,000-mile trip that began on April 1 when they launched from Kennedy Space Center on the first...Read more

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Near the shrinking Salton Sea in Southern California, children's lungs may pay a price

LOS ANGELES — Along the shores of the shrinking Salton Sea, desert winds regularly kick up dust and send it drifting through nearby neighborhoods. New research indicates that living there may affect kids' lungs.

Scientists from the University of Southern California tested the lung capacity of 369 children between the ages of 10 and 12 for ...Read more

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Large spiders the size of your palm are popping up across the US. Here's why you shouldn't be afraid

There is a spider making a home in the U.S, that’s the size of your palm and soars through the air riding the wind.

Although the Joro spider, an invasive species that has been spotted across the United States, isn’t dangerous, its size and the web it creates can seem like props from a horror movie.

“They’re not medically significant,�...Read more

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All eyes on Orion heat shield ahead of Artemis II landing

When the Orion spacecraft returned from its first lunar trip on the uncrewed Artemis I mission in 2022, it suffered major damage to the spacecraft’s heat shield coating. That raised the crew safety alarm for Artemis II and ultimately was among the reasons it was delayed until 2026.

Decisions about the heat shield made since then, though, will...Read more

This wild ground bee, _Andrena nothoscordi_, is typically found in the U.S. Midwest and Southeast and loves false garlic flowers. Sam Droege/USGS Bee Lab via Flickr

It’s OK to love all the bees (the honey bees, too)

North America’s bee populations are in trouble, but don’t blame the honey bees. While some people argue that an overabundance of managed honey bees – those raised to help pollinate crops and produce honey – is causing native bees to disappear, the evidence doesn’t support the claim.

What is true is that populations of many ...Read more

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For 40 minutes, the greatest solitude humans have known

The crescent Earth — our oasis holding everything we cherish, now just a speck in the infinite blackness — seemed to kiss the jagged lunar surface. The moon’s thousands of scars projected themselves across the Earth as it slowly slipped out of sight.

“I’m actually getting chills right now just thinking about it,” said Artemis II ...Read more

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Meta, Oracle and Qualcomm share details on layoffs across California

Tech behemoths, including Oracle and Meta Platforms, are laying off hundreds of California workers as they invest heavily in artificial intelligence.

Some of the top companies in tech that already had announced big plans to lay off thousands have revealed more details about where they are cutting in recent government filings.

Software giant ...Read more

A cracked heat shield rattled NASA after Artemis I. Now, Artemis II will put the fix to the test

EDWARDS, Calif. — The Artemis II astronauts are scheduled to return Friday from their trip to the moon. When they do, they will slam into Earth's atmosphere at over 32 times the speed of sound — and will do so using a reentry technique that has yet to be tested in real-world scenarios.

In 2022, NASA sent the uncrewed Artemis I test mission...Read more

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Do data centers really use so much water? Here are 5 key issues

ST. LOUIS — As data center projects have popped up across the St. Louis region, driven by the growth of industrial-scale computing for artificial intelligence, one of the primary concerns raised by residents is about water — as in, will data centers consume vast amounts of the local water supply?

Data centers — essentially huge warehouses...Read more

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Editorial: Don't play God with Gulf sealife

For decades, there’s been a quasi-clandestine accord about expanding oil drilling in the Gulf. Nobody wanted to go there — well, except the oil and gas companies aching to root around for black gold, and their most loyal minions in high places.

The idea of wherever-you-want drilling never made sense, for an array of reasons. Money was a key...Read more