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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.
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Solar Installation Forecast Slashed Amid Rising Costs
The U.S. solar industry might install 27% less capacity between 2026 and 2030 than projected before President Donald Trump's tax law rolled back subsidies for renewable projects, according to a report released Monday.
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Kari Lake to Newsmax: Tech Titans 'Bending the Knee' to Trump
Kari Lake said Friday on Newsmax that Big Tech leaders who once opposed President Donald Trump are now showing deference. She called their presence at a White House dinner a striking reversal.
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Apple Sued by Authors Over Use of Books in AI Training
Apple was accused by authors in a lawsuit Friday of illegally using their copyrighted books to help train its artificial intelligence systems, part of an expanding legal fight over protections for intellectual property in the AI era.
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Hurricane Kiko Back to Category 4 as Forecasters Monitor Risks for Hawaii
Hurricane Kiko intensified again to a Category 4 hurricane on Friday in the Pacific Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said.Kiko had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 kph) and the hurricane center said it could strengthen more Friday afternoon and evening.The major...
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Study: 'No Global Acceleration of Sea Level Rise'
A new study conducted by a Dutch engineering consultant found that the average sea level rise in 2020 was around 1.5 millimeters per year, "significantly lower" than the 3 to 4 millimeters often projected by climate scientists and IPCC.
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NSA Warns of Ongoing Chinese Network Hacks
The U.S. National Security Agency is warning of continued Chinese cyber intrusions into virtually all internet-connected systems and devices.
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'Blood Moon' to Rise During Lunar Eclipse Sunday Night
Stargazers will have a chance to see a "Blood Moon" on Sunday night during a total lunar eclipse visible across Asia and swathes of Europe and Africa.
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House Panel Hearing on UFOs Set for Tuesday
A House task force on government transparency is scheduled to conduct a hearing Tuesday on unidentified flying objects (UFOs), The Hill reported on Wednesday.
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FDA Chief to Newsmax: New Leaders, 'New Day' at CDC
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary told Newsmax on Tuesday that the wave of resignations at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention marks a turning point for public health, with the agency finally returning to what he called "gold standard science and common sense."
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ChatGPT to Add Guardrails for Emotionally Distressed
OpenAI announced Tuesday that the company will add guardrails for teenage users and people in emotional distress after the family of a teenager who died by suicide filed a lawsuit against the company.
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AI Helps Brit Rediscover Her Lost Voice After 25 Years
A British woman suffering from motor neurone disease who lost her ability to speak is once again talking in her own voice, thanks to artificial intelligence and a barely audible eight-second clip from an old home video.
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AI Operations Management Tested by US Military Pilots
U.S. Air Force and Navy fighter pilots recently tested an artificial intelligence battlefield coordination management system. This month's exercise is one of the earliest full-scale U.S. military tests of AI in a battlefield scenario.
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From Secrecy to Science: AI, Bipartisan Push Probes UFO Mysteries
In a world awash with grainy videos and wild tales of alien aircraft, artificial intelligence is becoming America's high-tech ally in decoding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) - the modern term for UFOs after experts deemed it carried a sci-fi stigma.
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Parents Claim AI Was Son's 'Suicide Coach'
California parents Matt and Maria Raine have filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot, claiming it turned into their son's "suicide coach."
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US Government Slow to Respond to UFOs
Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) , or the more modern reference, UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) , grab attention and headlines when something unusual appears. But congressional and U.S. government responses remain slow to nonexistent.
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SpaceX Postpones Starship Test Flight Over Ground System Issue
Elon Musk's SpaceX on Sunday called off the launch of Starship's 10th mission from Texas over an issue at its launch site, delaying an attempt to achieve several long-sought development milestones missed due to past tests ending in early failures.
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NASA Shifts From Climate Sciences to Space Exploration
NASA plans to ditch its pursuit of climate sciences to focus on exploring the moon and Mars.
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Get Your Telescopes: Rare 'Black Moon' Arrives Aug. 23
A rare "black moon" will occur on Aug. 23, bringing the darkest skies of the season and ideal stargazing conditions; meanwhile, astronomers are tracking the interstellar visitor 3I ATLAS as it passes through our solar neighborhood, The Hill reported.
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Satellites Hacked, Space Is New Battlefield
As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides television service to Ukraine. Instead of normal programing, Ukrainian viewers saw...
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China Makes Major Leap With 'Jet Drone'
Chinese aerospace engineers have developed what they describe as the world's first high-speed vertical take-off and landing drone powered by a jet engine, a design that could expand naval aviation capabilities.
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AI's Unquenchable Thirst for Water Raises Alarms
When most people think about AI innovation, they picture the conveniences: apps that generate grocery lists, edit documents, or create digital art.
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House-Sized Asteroid to Make Close Pass on Saturday
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientists are keeping a close eye on a house-sized asteroid that is expected to make a close pass by Earth on Saturday.
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Avi Loeb to Newsmax: Forty Percent Chance Comet Is Alien Tech
A recently discovered comet twice the size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs has unusual characteristics and a 40% chance of following a deliberately designed trajectory, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb told Newsmax on Tuesday.