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Boeing’s crewed Starliner flight won’t return until at least August, NASA says
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is pictured docked to the International Space Station. NASA Boeing’s crew spacecraft Starliner will stay docked with the International Space Station into August, NASA confirmed on Thursday, as the mission remains on hold while the company and agency study problems that arose early in the flight. Starliner capsule “Calypso,” which carried NASA […]
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Britain’s Labour faces an uphill battle as it looks to rein in AI’s key players
An Internet user checks ChatGPT on his mobile phone, Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, April 26, 2023. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images LONDON — Britain is set to introduce its first-ever law for artificial intelligence — but Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s new Labour government faces a delicate balancing act of forming rules that […]
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A growing number of parents are refusing to give their children smartphones — and the movement is going global
Photo: Jaromir Chalabala / Getty LONDON — The evidence linking smartphone use with mental health harms in children is growing and one grassroots organization in the U.K. is supporting parents who are refraining from giving their kids the devices. Smartphone Free Childhood, founded by Daisy Greenwell and Clare Fernyhough in February, set up various group […]
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The next front in U.S.-China tech battle? Underwater cables that power the global internet
Subsea cables are the backbone of the internet, carrying 99% of the world’s data traffic. Serg Myshkovsky | Photodisc | Getty Images U.S.-Chinese tensions surrounding technology have have sunk to sea lows. Subsea cables hit the headlines earlier this year after four out of 15 critical submarine cables in the Red Sea were cut amid […]
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket suffers rare inflight failure, is grounded during investigation
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flies carrying a payload of 22 Starlink internet satellites into space after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on March 18, 2024 as seen from Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is grounded, pending an incident investigation, after an inflight failure — a rare […]
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NASA still expects Boeing’s Starliner to return astronauts from ISS, but notes SpaceX backup option
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore (R) and Suni Williams, wearing Boeing spacesuits, depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center for Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to board the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for the Crew Flight Test launch , on June 5, 2024. Miguel […]
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Space station startup Gravitics lands $125 million order from Axiom
A pathfinder for Gravitics’ 4-meter space station module design in use for developing manufacturing and assembly methods. Gravitics Washington-based startup Gravitics has signed a $125 million contract to expand Axiom Space’s planned space station, the latest deal in the burgeoning private market for orbiting habitats. “Working with the station operator that will have hardware on […]
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Boeing delays Starliner return by ‘weeks’ for testing, NASA says astronauts aren’t stranded
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is pictured docked to the International Space Station orbiting above Egypt’s Mediterranean coast on June 13, 2024. NASA NASA and Boeing are further extending the first Starliner crewed flight but are not yet setting a new target date for returning the capsule to Earth, the organizations announced on Friday. Boeing’s Starliner capsule […]
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SpaceX is building a NASA craft to intentionally destroy the International Space Station after retiring
A satellite image shows an overview of the International Space Station with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, June 7, 2024. Maxar Technologies | Via Reuters NASA will have a spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX guide the International Space Station’s destruction later this decade, the agency announced Wednesday. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded an $843 […]
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Neuralink competitor Paradromics gears up to test its brain implant on humans
Neurotech start-up Paradromics will be trialing its brain implant next year, as the race to be the leader in the nascent brain-computer interface (BCI) space heats up. “The brain is a super fascinating organ. We have about 85 billion neurons and every neuron is a million times slower than a computer chip. And yet, the […]
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