Riding atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft sets off to collide with an asteroid in the world’s first full-scale planetary defense test mission in November 2021. NASA/Bill Ingalls This article was originally featured on Undark. On a fall evening...
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Digital Trends Ahead of Google I/O 2024, there was little doubt that Google would talk about AI. The event started on a fittingly rowdy note. YouTube sensation Marc Rebillet started the show adorned in a bathrobe after popping up from a giant cup. Contents The status of AI trinketsAI is now aware of...
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Elon Musk. Anna Webber/Variety/Getty ImagesTesla chair Robyn Denholm joked that she wished Twitter, now X, didn't exist.Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk's posts on the platform have got him into trouble in the past.Denholm admitted to the FT that she has "tough conversations" with Musk over his...
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Quick Take Farside data shows that Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) accumulated an impressive $948.3 million over five consecutive trading days. This remarkable streak marks...
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There’s a strong rally in the commodities market with precious metals like Gold and Silver hitting new record highs recently. Gold is grabbing all the limelight in the global financial market, hitting a new all-time high against the USD. As a result, market analysts are keeping a close watch...
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Today, the global cryptocurrency market is facing a slight decline, however, certain Ethereum-based altcoins are standing out with impressive performance compared to Bitcoin amid volatility. While Bitcoin has seen fluctuations between $65,937.18 and $67,694.30, with a slight 0.02% rise in the last...
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who has been reported dead after the helicopter he was in crashed on May 19, 2024, is a consummate loyalist whose passing will be a severe blow to the country’s conservative leadership. While search and rescue teams – hampered by rain, fog, forests and mountains –...
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The big economic news this week was Biden’s very large tariffs on a number of Chinese-made goods. Those tariffs appear to have acted as a catalyst for a bunch of other countries — India, Brazil, Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, the EU, etc. — to consider their own tariffs on China. In other words, much of...
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As the era of “global boiling” spawns ever deadlier heatwaves, a handful of heat tsars are working with officials in cities from Miami to Melbourne in a race against time to cool urban heat traps and prevent tens of thousands of deaths. Seven chief heat officers – who all happen to...
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