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Atlas 5 launches second set of Project Kuiper satellites

WASHINGTON — An Atlas 5 launched a second group of satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband constellation June 23. The Atlas 5 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 6:54 a.m. Eastern. This was the second attempt to launch the vehicle after the initial attempt June 16 was scrubbed because of an issue with the booster that...

Nightmares linked to faster biological ageing and early death

Having nightmares on a weekly basis seems to accelerate ageing – and could even triple the risk of early death. “People who have more frequent nightmares age faster and die earlier,” says Abidemi Otaiku at Imperial College London. Along with his...

China launches ChinaSat-9C geostationary communications satellite

HELSINKI — China launched the ChinaSat-9C communications satellite Friday to replace an aging, foreign-built predecessor and boost domestic broadcasting capabilities. A Long March 3B lifted off at 8:37 a.m. Eastern (1237 UTC) June 20 from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.  The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced launch success under an hour after liftoff, revealing the previously undisclosed payload to be...

Police Shut Down AI Startup’s Party as CEO Screams That “Aura Is Just Too Strong!”

One of the Ivy League dropouts behind a buzzy AI "cheating" app tried to host an illegal party outside the offices of San Francisco's storied Y Combinator — and the stunt got the attention of the fuzz.As TechCrunch reports, the "cheat on everything" app Cluely, which is not funded by Y Combinator, drew massive crowds outside of the incubator's bayside offices following the institution's...

Scientists Just Found Something Unbelievably Grim About Pollution Generated by AI

Tech companies are hellbent on pushing out ever more advanced artificial intelligence models — but there appears to be a grim cost to that progress.In a new study in the science journal Frontiers in Communication, German researchers found that large language models (LLM) that provide more accurate answers use exponentially more energy — and hence produce more carbon — than their simpler and...

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