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ICE Ramps Up Tracking Antifa With Spying Technology
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has dramatically expanded its surveillance arsenal in recent months, signing millions in new tech contracts to pursue both immigration violators and what the Trump administration has called radical antifa-linked agitators.
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NNSA Nominee: AI Key to Modernizing US Nuclear Arsenal
The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration is using artificial intelligence to modernize its nuclear warhead program, David Beck, nominee for the agency's deputy administrator for defense programs, told lawmakers.
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Rubio in New UFO Doc: Something in Air Over Facilities; 'It's Not Ours'
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is prominently featured in the trailer for an upcoming documentary on UFOs in which high-ranking government officials confirm the existence of "otherworldly things."
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Faulty Engineering Led to Implosion of Titan Submersible Headed to Titanic
Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday.The NTSB made the statement in its final report on the hull...
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AI Used to Identify Nazi Executioner in WWII Photo
While artificial intelligence, or AI, is commonly used to produce trivial or deepfake content, it was used by a German historian to identify a Nazi executioner in a World War II photograph taken more than 80 years ago.
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NASA Lab to Lay Off 550 Workers in Major Reorganization
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced Tuesday it is laying off about 550 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce, as part of a reorganization that began in July and is not tied to the current U.S. government shutdown.
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Tech Guru Schmidt: AI Presents a Dangerous Side
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned that advanced artificial intelligence models can be manipulated by hackers, posing serious risks if misused.
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3 Physicists Win Nobel for Quantum Tunneling Work
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research into quantum mechanical tunneling.The researchers will be formally awarded the prize at a ceremony on Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's...
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French Book Shares 'Great Reversal,' Science Behind God
The timeless question of God's existence is given scientific support from a pair of French authors in an upcoming English edition release of "God, the Science, the Evidence: The Dawn of a Revolution."
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Piece of NASA Equipment Lands on West Texas Farm
Members of the Walter family were enjoying a quiet Thursday on their farm in West Texas when they saw a massive parachute drifting across the sky.
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Avi Loeb to Newsmax: Comet Size of Manhattan Passing by Mars
A large comet is making its way through our solar system, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb told Newsmax on Friday.
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Avi Loeb to Newsmax: 'Keep Our Eyes Open' on Origins of Interstellar Object
An interstellar object coming close to Earth could be alien technology first detected by scientists decades ago, Harvard University physicist Avi Loeb told Newsmax on Thursday. The object, called 3I/ATLAS, was detected...
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Saturn's Moon Enceladus Shows Signs of Habitability
Scientists have uncovered new types of organics in icy geysers spouting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, bolstering the likelihood that the ocean world may harbor conditions suitable for life. Their findings, reported Wednesday, are based on observations made by NASA's Cassini...
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Nobel Laureate in Physics George Smoot Dies at 80
Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe during a long career at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has died, the school said.
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Creator Says AI Actress is 'Piece of Art' After Backlash
The creator of an AI actress who exploded across the internet over the weekend has insisted she is an artwork, after a fierce backlash from the creative community.
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NASA Planning Village on the Moon
The U.S. plans to build a village that can support "sustained human life on the moon" within the next decade, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced Monday.
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Microsoft Halts Israeli Spy Use of Azure Cloud
Microsoft has disabled portions of its cloud services for Israel's Defense Ministry after finding evidence the ministry used its technology to surveil civilians in Gaza, escalating tensions over one of the company's most controversial contracts.
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Meta Launches Super PAC to Fight AI Regulation
Meta is increasing its lobbying efforts to support state lawmakers who favor AI and tech, and to oppose those who do not, as more state-level AI regulations emerge, Axios first reported.
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AI-Cloning of Lara Croft's Voice Has 'Tomb Raider' Fans, Actors Up in Arms
A lifelong fan of "Tomb Raider," French gamer Romain Bos was on tenterhooks when an update of the popular video game went online in August. But his excitement quickly turned to anger. The gamer's ears - and those of other "Tomb Raider" fans - picked up something amiss with...
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Google: Biden Admin Pressured It to Censor YouTube
Google has confessed that the administration of former President Joe Biden "pressed" the tech giant and YouTube to censor content the government felt was COVID-19 "misinformation" according to a letter released Tuesday by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
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Meta in Talks With Media Firms for AI Content Licensing Deals
Meta Platforms has been in talks in recent months with media firms including Axel Springer, Fox Corp and News Corp to license news content for integration into its artificial intelligence products, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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House Staffers to Have Access to Microsoft Copilot This Fall
House staffers will soon be able to use Microsoft Copilot's chatbot, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Wednesday at the annual Congressional Hackathon, Feedscoop reported.
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Atlantic Hurricane Season Unusually Quiet So Far
Not a single named storm has formed in the Atlantic Ocean in nearly three weeks, even though it's the peak of hurricane season."Where the heck are the Atlantic #hurricanes?" Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University, wrote recently on X.Many are...
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Staffers: Meta Buried VR Child Safety Research
Meta is facing new whistleblower allegations that it buried internal research on child safety problems inside its virtual reality platforms, according to an extensive report by The Washington Post on Monday.
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EchoStar Sells Spectrum Licenses to SpaceX for $17 Billion
EchoStar on Monday agreed to sell wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for its Starlink satellite network for about $17 billion, in a bid to resolve a regulatory review over underutilization of its assets for 5G service expansion.