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2 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
DeSantis’ Reedy Creek board says Disney stripped its power
Disney and the previous Reedy Creek board agreed to revert decisions back to Disney World, which could render DeSantis’ board powerless.
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4 days agoExpression spacepopper
Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm
Exclusive: Australian company resurrects flesh of lost species to demonstrate potential of meat grown from cells
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6 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
ChatGPT started a new kind of AI race — and made text boxes cool again
It’s pretty obvious that nobody saw ChatGPT coming. Not even OpenAI. Before it became by some measures the fastest growing consumer app in history, before it turned the phrase “generative pre-trained transformers” into common vernacular, before every company you can think of was racing to adopt its underlying model, ChatGPT launched in November as a “research preview.”
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6 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet
It’s no secret that climate change discourse is shrouded in obfuscation, disinformation, greenwashing and lies, both outright and of omission. But a recent leak of a draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on March 20 has been particularly enlightening when it comes to just how much how delegations negotiate, watered down, and delete scientists’ findings.
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8 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
US Space Force wants to test how to build satellites in orbit with $1.6 million Arkisys deal
The U.S. Space Force has inked a deal to build satellites in orbit in a bid to boost space infrastructure. Under the Space Force agreement, the U.S. defense agency's innovation division SpaceWERX has awarded a $1.6 million Direct-to-Phase II SBIR contract to the California-based Arkisys Inc., in collaboration with aerospace partners Qediq Inc, Novawurks, Motive Space Systems, iBoss, and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES).
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8 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
A first look at using iMessage from a PC with Microsoft’s Phone Link app
Microsoft is gradually rolling out an updated Phone Link app that finally lets you couple an iPhone to a Windows PC. I got access to the new Phone Link version yesterday and immediately paired my iPhone 14 Pro with my PC to send and receive messages via iMessage, make calls, and see the notifications from my phone alongside my usual PC ones.
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8 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Jack Dorsey's fintech company Block is being accused of facilitating criminal activity
Hindenburg Research, a prolific short-seller, has claimed that Block, once known as Square, is committing widespread fraud
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9 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Scientists solve mystery behind strange comet that some thought was alien spacecraft
Scientists have a new explanation for the odd behaviour of the mysterious comet
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9 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
ChatGPT-owner OpenAI fixes 'significant issue' exposing user chat titles
ChatGPT-owner OpenAI said on Wednesday it had fixed a bug that caused a "significant issue" of a small set of users being able to see the titles of others' conversation history with the viral chatbot.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
The Cure’s Robert Smith Got Ticketmaster To Promise Partial Refunds Due To “Unduly High” Fees
We apparently now live in a world — OK, a country — where artists have to stay in an active dialogue with Ticketmaster to ensure that their fans don’t get priced out of shows. Today, the Cure’s Robert Smith tweeted that Ticketmaster would promise partial refunds to counteract its “unduly high” fees for the band’s upcoming North American tour.
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2 weeks agoExpression spacepopper
Uh Oh, OpenAI's GPT-4 Just Fooled a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA
OpenAI's brand new GPT-4 AI has managed to ask a human on TaskRabbit to complete a CAPTCHA code via text message — and it actually worked.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Grey hair and wrinkles at an early age led researchers to new treatment for rare cancer
Sarcomas are cancer tumours found in e.g. the bones, muscles or fatty tissue. It is a rare type of cancer seen in only one per cent of cancer patients. It is complex and difficult to treat. However, a new study may have found a new treatment that can help the sickest sarcoma patients.
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3 weeks agoUnspecified spacepopper
New TikTok channel highlights rise of North Korea content on the short-video app | NK News
A morning walk through the streets of Kaesong. An idyllic drive through the North Korean countryside. An ordinary resident playing a mobile game on a modern smartphone.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Japan destroys new rocket in space after second-stage engine failure
Japan said it had destroyed a new medium-lift rocket it launched into space on Tuesday after the vehicle's second-stage engine failed to ignite, in a blow to its efforts to expand access to space and remain competitive in a launch market roiled by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Katy Perry accused of bullying ‘American Idol’ contestant: ‘Not gonna go far’
“American Idol” fans are scrutinizing Katy Perry, 38, for how she treated contestant Sara Beth Liebe, a happy-go-lucky 25-year-old mother of three, on Sunday’s episode of the sing…
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
London falcons ate fewer pigeons during lockdowns
The study by King’s researchers suggests that predatory birds in urban spaces are vulnerable to changes in human activities that support prey populations.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Russia bans government officials from using most foreign words
Russian government officials will be banned from using most foreign words when carrying out their duties, according to an amended law on the formal use of Russian that President Vladimir Putin signed on Tuesday.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Why are eggs so expensive? Because an avian flu killed 43 million hens | Gene Baur
A global pandemic of highly pathogenic avian influenza is driving deaths in the egg industry. And factory farming is largely to blame
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
China could launch 13,000 satellites to "suppress" and spy on Starlink
The South China Morning Post reports that researchers claim China is planning to build a massive satellite network, codenamed GW, in near-Earth orbit. According to a team led by associate professor Xu Can with the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Space Engineering University in Beijing, the plan for GW involves the placement of 12,992 satellites, owned by the newly established China Satellite Network Group Co. Xu and his team revealed the details in a paper about anti-Starlink measures...
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Texas is planning to make a huge public investment in space
Everything is bigger in Texas, or so the saying goes. When it comes to investing in commercial space, it just might be true. As part of the state's biennial budget process, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called on the state legislature to provide $350 million to create and fund a Texas Space Commission for the next two years.