Plans are afoot to launch large mega-constellations of AI data centers into Earth orbit. That ambition, pursued by multiple space industry leaders, coincides with a warning from scientists of potentially “catastrophic outcomes,” as the…
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Rush to put AI data centers in space poses poorly understood dangers
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‘Anthropic’s Claude models are no longer available’: US State Department ditches Claude on the orders of Trump – while Senate approves Gemini, ChatGPT, and CoPilot for use
- US government departments are honoring Trump’s Anthropic ban
- The State Department has switched from Claude to ChatGPT
- Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot have all been approved for use in the US Senate
The US State Department has dropped Anthropic’s…
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British man powers DIY car with discarded vapes
Anyone who’s walked through the grounds of a music festival or even peeked…
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How volcanic eruptions and internal climate cycles jointly shape Asian monsoon rainfall
From the rice paddies of South Asia to the wheat fields of northern China, summer monsoon rains sustain the livelihoods of billions. Yet these vital rains fluctuate dramatically from decade to decade—a variability that has long puzzled climate…
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The Iconic Longevity of the Rattlesnake’s Warning
When people think about snakes, rattlesnakes invariably come to mind, even though they constitute just two of the more than 500 genera of snakes. Only the pit vipers (Crotalus) and the massasaugas (Sistrurus) have the unique adaptation of loosely…
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California Startup Wants to Send Thousands of Mirrors to Orbit For the Dumbest Reason Ever
A new startup has come up with a way to sell sunlight on demand, proposing a constellation of satellites that would reflect beams of light onto Earth.
Reflect Orbital wants to deploy up to 50,000 in-space mirrors mounted on…
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Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say
Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the Persian Gulf nation. Nuclear experts call this…
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Scientists Enter a Remote Cave and Find Evidence That the Sahara Was Green and Rainy 8,000 Years Ago
The Sahara Desert, now the largest hot desert on Earth, was once dramatically different. Geological evidence from caves in southern Morocco shows that the region received far more rainfall thousands of years ago.
This discovery comes from…
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Missile strike hits SES teleport in Israel
Satellite operator SES said a missile “targeted and struck” its teleport facility in Israel March 9 as tensions spill across the region amid ongoing Israeli and U.S. military operations against Iran.
The post Missile strike hits SES teleport…
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Replit snags $9B valuation 6 months after hitting $3B
Vibe-coding sensation Replit has hit another funding milestone. The company announced Wednesday that it raised a $400 million Series D at a $9 billion valuation, led by previous investor Georgian Partners. Other participating investors include G…
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