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Cheers, angst as US nuclear plant Three Mile Island to reopen

The planned reopening of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant is praised as a boon for Pennsylvania and a boost for AI, but it is loathed by residents still haunted by a near-catastrophic meltdown there in 1979.

Nvidia CEO says will balance compliance and tech advances under Trump

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Saturday that his company will balance legal compliance and technological advances under the incoming administration of Donald Trump, and nothing will stop the global advancement of artificial intelligence.

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Netanyahu vows to keep up 'fight' against Iran nuclear arms

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday that Israel would continue its "fight" to prevent arch-foe Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, during a Holocaust ceremony attended by Iran's exiled crown prince.

SpaceX scrubs test flight of Starship, world's biggest rocket

A frozen valve forced a postponement on Monday of the first test flight of SpaceX's Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond.

SpaceX postpones test flight of Starship, world's biggest rocket

SpaceX on Monday postponed the first test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars and beyond.

'Voices from the buried city': Warsaw ghetto memory lives on

A child's burnt shoe, a charred pram, shattered kitchenware -- the items on display in the Polish capital tell the story of how Jews in wartime Warsaw lived, loved and died.

SpaceX Starship, world's biggest rocket, set for first test flight

SpaceX is counting down to the first test flight on Monday of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars and beyond.

Elon Musk forms X.AI artificial intelligence company

Elon Musk has formed an X.AI artificial intelligence corporation based in the US state of Nevada, according to business documents that surfaced on Friday.

SpaceX will try to launch most powerful rocket ever Monday

SpaceX plans to carry out its first test flight on Monday of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon and eventually beyond.

EU privacy watchdog sets up ChatGPT task force

The European Union's central data regulator said on Thursday it was forming a task force to help countries deal with wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, ramping up the pressure on its US maker OpenAI.

Weather delays launch of Europe's Jupiter space mission by 24 hours

The launch of the European Space Agency's JUICE mission, which aims to discover whether Jupiter's icy moons are capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, was postponed on Thursday for 24 hours due to bad weather.

Europe's JUICE mission to launch for Jupiter's icy moons

The European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft is to blast off Thursday on an eight-year journey through the Solar System to discover whether Jupiter's icy moons are capable of hosting extraterrestrial life in their vast, hidden oceans.

Judge shopping: It's all-American, but is it fair?

It's an open secret in the United States that lawyers go "judge shopping" for favorable decisions, but the practice of filing suits in select jurisdictions has come under renewed scrutiny following an abortion case with national ramifications.

3D-printed rocket maker to focus on bigger vehicle for commercial launches

Relativity Space, an aerospace startup that carried out the first test flight of a 3D-printed rocket, announced Wednesday that it will focus on a bigger rocket to compete for commercial launches with SpaceX and other companies.

Search for alien life extends to Jupiter's icy moons

Could vast, long-hidden oceans be teeming with alien life in our very own Solar System?

Twitter working on AI despite Musk call for global pause: report

Elon Musk is advancing an artificial intelligence project at Twitter despite recently calling for an overall pause in developing such technology, US media reports said Tuesday.

'Revenge of the geeks': Drones battle on Ukraine front

At a Ukrainian training camp near Bakhmut, surrounded by soldiers lugging heavy equipment and firing ear-piercing weapons, a bespectacled man carrying a grey pouch struts jauntily across a field.

Runaway black hole creating trail of new stars: scientists

A huge black hole is tearing through space, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long trail of newborn stars, space scientists say.

AI better than humans at key heart test: study

Artificial intelligence is better than humans at assessing heart ultrasounds, the main test of overall cardiac health, the most rigorous trial yet conducted on the subject found on Wednesday.

'Snowball Earth' might have been rather slushy: study

Millions of years ago, the Earth was so cold that most of its surface was covered in ice. But that hard freeze might have been slushier than once thought.

Webb telescope discovers oldest galaxies ever observed

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the four most distant galaxies ever observed, one of which formed just 320 million years after the Big Bang when the universe was still in its infancy, new research said on Tuesday.

First woman, Black astronaut to make 2024 flight around Moon

NASA unveiled the crew on Monday for its first human mission to the Moon in more than 50 years –- including the first woman and Black man to voyage into deep space.

NASA reveals crew for 2024 flight around Moon

NASA revealed the names on Monday of the astronauts -- three Americans and a Canadian -- who will fly around the Moon next year, a prelude to returning humans to the lunar surface for the first time in a half century.

Basquiat-Warhol: a rare artistic duo, reunited in Paris

There are vanishingly few great collaborations in the annals of fine art. For a brief moment in the 1980s, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat showed the world how it was done.

Charles III lays wreath for WWII bombing victims in Hamburg

Britain's King Charles III on Friday commemorated German victims of World War II Allied air raids, a gesture carrying great significance for both countries.

China's JD to spin-off two units, list in Hong Kong

E-commerce giant JD.com will spin off its industrial and property units and take both of them public, the company said, in the latest reorganisation of a major Chinese tech firm.

Charles III to commemorate victims of Allied bombings in Hamburg

Britain's King Charles III will commemorate German victims of World War II Allied air raids on Friday, a gesture carrying great significance for both countries.

AI generator Midjourney pauses service over deepfake 'abuse'

Research laboratory Midjourney has paused free trials of its image-generation software after users cranked out realistic deepfakes including of former US president Donald Trump getting arrested and Pope Francis in a puffer jacket.

Those protruding T Rex teeth? They were covered by lips: study

Sorry, "Jurassic Park" and toymakers everywhere.

Toys and tales helping Ukraine kids process war trauma

In the cellar of a Kyiv kindergarten decorated with bunting and wall paintings of doughnuts and cats, dozens of children are taking shelter during an air raid.

NASA, Boeing aiming for July launch of Starliner space capsule

The first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner space capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) will take place in July, Boeing and NASA officials said Wednesday.

Astronomers discover one of biggest black holes ever recorded

One of the largest black holes ever recorded has been discovered using a new technique that could spot thousands more of the insatiable celestial monsters in the coming years, according to astronomers.

Sugar traps force cockroaches to adapt new sex 'gifts'

Humans using sugar in cockroach traps has inadvertently led to female roaches being turned off by the sugary "gifts" males use to entice them into mating.

Meatball from extinct mammoth unveiled by food tech firm

Food scientists unveiled a giant meatball made from lab-grown flesh of an extinct woolly mammoth on Tuesday, saying the protein from the past showed the way for future foods.

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