
Japanese lunar firm ispace will launch its Hakuto-R lander to the Moon on a SpaceX Falcon 9 no earlier than December, CEO Takeshi Hakamada said this week.
The lander, called Resilience, is funded by private capital and JAXA, the Japanese space agency, and is expected to be shipped to Cape Canaveral a month and a half before launch.
It will deliver six payloads to the lunar surface, including the first experiment to attempt electrolysis on the Moon, and

Days after Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump went head-to-head in their first (and so far, only) televised debate, the memes don’t appear to be slowing down.
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Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, renamed it X, fired much of its staff and made other big changes, a steady stream of celebr

OpenAI introduced on Thursday OpenAI o1, a new series of large language models the company says are designed for solving difficult problems and working though complex tasks.
The models

A federal judge in Utah has temporarily blocked a social media access law that leaders said was meant to protect the personal privacy of children and limit their use of such platforms, saying it is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Shelby on Tuesday issued the prelimi

Fentanyl overdoses have become a leading cause of death for minors in the last five years or so, even as overall drug use has dropped slightly. In a 2022 analysis of fentanyl-laced prescription pills, the DEA found that six out of 10 contained a potentially lethal dose of the

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European Union regulators said Thursday they’re investigating one of Google’s artificial intelligence models over concerns about its compliance with the bloc’s strict data privacy

A new data visualization tool lets people in creative fields explore their ethical considerations around AI.
The Creative AI Magnifier was developed by MANY, a design studio headed by Andrew Shea, who is also an associate professor of integrated design at The New School’s Parsons School of Design, which helped fund

A billionaire stepped out for the first private spacewalk Thursday, teaming up with SpaceX on the daring endeavor hundreds of miles above Earth.
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