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Opinion: An overhyped U.S.-China arms race in AI helps big tech and venture capital
It’s a familiar refrain in tech boardrooms and government corridors: China is aggressively challenging America to an arms race in artificial intelligence. Whoever wins will control the geopolitical landscape — and global economy — for generations. For years, Pentagon officials and...
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan
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An ex-NASA physicist warns cheap satellite 'megaconstellations' like Elon Musk's Starlink could disrupt Earth's magnetosphere exposing all life to deadly cosmic rays. Dr. Sierra Solter-Hunt's new study draws on new estimates that Musk's SpaceX is burning up over 2,755 lbs (1.3 tons) of wireless...
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Are EVs the future or merely a niche market?
The automotive industry is in a most difficult period of its history. How can it predict the future? Technological marvels enabled by digital electronics have periodically emerged as new consumer products and services. And what is most remarkable is how quickly they have become accepted as...
photo: Creative Commons / Marco Verch
Hubble spots a bright galaxy peering out from behind a dark nebula
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy partly hidden by a huge cloud of dust known as a dark nebula. The galaxy IC 4633 still shines brightly and beautifully in the main part of the image, but to the bottom right, you can see dark smudges of dust that are blocking the light from...
photo: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Acknowledgement: L. Shatz
Indian American scientist leads NASA mission to launch sounding rockets during solar eclipse
Aroh Barjatya, inspects the subpayloads that eject from the rocket mid-flight. The subpayloads carry the plasma density, neutral density, and magnetic field sensors. PHOTO: NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility/Berit Bland On April 8, 2024, during the solar eclipse that traversed the United States, Canada,...
photo: NASA / Garon Clark
Japanese astronaut to be first non-American to set foot on Moon
A Japanese astronaut will become the first non-American to set foot on the Moon during one of NASA's upcoming Artemis missions, US President Joe Biden announced. The offer to Japan, an opportunity many nations have long dreamed of, came as part of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's state visit, and as...
photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls
NASA, Japan Advance Space Cooperation, Sign Agreement for Lunar Rover
WASHINGTON, April 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Masahito Moriyama have signed an agreement to advance sustainable human exploration of the Moon. Japan will design, develop, and operate a...
photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls
With $6.6B to Arizona hub, Biden touts big steps in US chipmaking
Washington; Flagstaff, ArizonaPresident Joe Biden on Monday announced a $6.6 billion grant to Taiwan’s top chip manufacturer to produce semiconductors in the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona, which includes a third facility that will bring the foreign tech giant’s investment in the state to $65...
photo: White House / Adam Schultz
Alibaba Exploring How to Deliver Cheap Plastic Garbage Via Space Rocket
Specious Delivery Chinese rocket maker Space Epoch has announced a partnership with e-commerce platform and Alibaba-owned landfill generator Taobao to make deliveries via rocket around the world in just one hour — and to be entirely honest, the concept is so outlandish that we can't quite tell if...
photo: AP / Mark Lennihan
James Webb images capture the galactic winds of newborn stars
A stunning new pair of images from the James Webb Space Telescope show a new view of a familiar galaxy. Messier 82 is a famous starburst galaxy, full of bright and active star formation, and scientists are using Webb to study how stars are being born in the busy conditions at the center of the...
photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Alberto Bolatto (UMD)

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