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Feb 06 • 3 months ago

NASA stage show explores "outer" outer space with Henson's Fraggles

"Our two worlds that on paper wouldn't seem connected, made a lot of sense to connect."

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Feb 06 • 3 months ago

Rocket Report: SpaceX probes upper stage malfunction; Starship testing resumes

Amazon has booked 10 more launches with SpaceX, citing a "near-term shortage in launch capacity."

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Feb 06 • 3 months ago

Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea

Production source says it takes "weeks" to produce just minutes of usable video.

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Feb 06 • 3 months ago

"ICE Out of Our Faces Act" would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition

Senator: ICE and CBP "have built an arsenal of surveillance technologies."

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Feb 06 • 3 months ago

With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code

The emphasis is on "mid-turn steering and frequent progress updates."

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Feb 06 • 3 months ago

The Switch 2 is getting a new Virtual Console (kind of)

Hamster Corp.'s new "Console Archives" does what Nintendon't.

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Feb 06 • 3 months ago

AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.

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Feb 05 • 3 months ago

The Download: attempting to track AI, and the next generation of nuclear power

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This is the most misunderstood graph in AI Every t

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Feb 05 • 3 months ago

Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race

Publishers are rolling out more aggressive defenses.

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Feb 05 • 3 months ago

Steam Machine and Steam Frame delays are the latest product of the RAM crisis

Valve says it still hopes to ship both devices "in the first half of the year."

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Feb 05 • 3 months ago

Tesla slipped behind VW in European EV sales last year

Electric vehicle sales increased by 29% in 2025, even as overall sales grew 2.2%.

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Feb 05 • 3 months ago

NASA changes its mind, will allow Artemis astronauts to take iPhones to the Moon

"We are giving our crews the tools to capture special moments."

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