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Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events and mitigate disasters. “NASA uses the unique vantage point of space to study our home planet to deliver life-saving data into the hands of disaster response and decision-makers every day for the benefit of all, while also informing future exploration across our solar system,” said Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington. “By understanding Earth’s surface topography, ecosystems and atmosphere, while also enabling longer range weather forecasting, these missions will help us better study the extreme environments…
X is experimenting with a new way for AI to write Community Notes. The company is testing a new “collaborative notes” feature that allows human writers to request an AI-written Community Note.It’s not the first time the platform has experimented with AI in Community Notes. The company started a pilot program last year to allow developers to create dedicated AI note writers. But the latest experiment sounds like a more streamlined process.According to the company, when an existing Community Note contributor requests a note on a post, the request “now also kicks off creation of a Collaborative Note.” Contributors can…
The task of monitoring the health of one’s family can often feel like a messy and complicated process. One minute you’re monitoring your own health stats, and the next you’re rummaging through medical records of your kids or worrying about the health of your aged parents. For the most part, we all try our best, but a new upcoming platform might be set to change the way you keep track of the health of the people you love.Meet Luffu, the intelligent family care systemThe co-founders of the original Fitbit, James Park and Eric Friedman, are back with their latest venture:…
The face-recognition app Mobile Fortify, now used by United States immigration agents in towns and cities across the US, is not designed to reliably identify people in the streets and was deployed without the scrutiny that has historically governed the rollout of technologies that impact people’s privacy, according to records reviewed by WIRED.The Department of Homeland Security launched Mobile Fortify in the spring of 2025 to “determine or verify” the identities of individuals stopped or detained by DHS officers during federal operations, records show. DHS explicitly linked the rollout to an executive order, signed by President Donald Trump on his…
Are male ski jumpers injecting a specific kind of acid into their penises in order to gain a small advantage over their competitors? Maybe. But if so, don’t worry, Winter Olympics officials are on it. As reported by the BBC, there’s been a strange rumor floating around men’s ski jumping, and it all started after German newspaper Bild reported in January that some athletes were injecting hyaluronic acid into their penises before being measured by officials for their tight-fitting suits. Why? Apparently, the acid, which is not banned, causes the injected penis to grow in circumference by about one to…
For the first time, scientists have experimentally shown bonobos (Pan paniscus), our closest living relatives along with chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), can engage in pretend play — something previously assumed to be unique to humans.Just like 2-year-old children can, Kanzi, a unique bonobo who could understand English, kept track of imaginary juice and grapes during pretend tea parties, according to a study published Thursday (Feb. 5) in the journal Science.Although Kanzi, who died in March 2025, did not initiate the pretend play, his ability to follow along shows he had some of the mental building blocks needed to imagine pretend objects…
The Steam Machine is back from the dead. Not as a Valve-supported program for manufacturers to create living room PCs, but instead a home console sibling to the Steam Deck. Valve introduced its second attempt at ruling the living room in a surprise hardware announcement in November 2025, and paired the new Steam Machine with a new Steam Controller and a wireless VR headset it calls the Steam Frame. Since the announcement, as is often the case with Valve, some details remain elusive, however.While we wait for the release of the company’s new hardware lineup in 2026, and more information…
I’m in love with the latest M5-powered iPad Pro, which, by the way, is available with a sweet discount on Amazon right now. We have one in the office, and I’m impressed by its performance and stunning display. It’s perfect if you’re after a powerhouse of a tablet for work or a top-tier entertainment device, thanks to that stunning Ultra Retina Tandem OLED display.However, if you’re looking for something more affordable and don’t need that much firepower at your fingertips, you may want to check out Amazon’s deal on the regular iPad with the A16 chip. The retailer has dropped…
All told, the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics are estimated to cause the loss of 5.5 square kilometers of snowpack and 34 million metric tons of glacial ice. Without the emissions caused by the event’s three main sponsors, those numbers would be much lower: 2.3 square kilometers of snowpack and about 14 million metric tons of glacial ice.That’s according to a January report from the New Weather Institute, which worked with Scientists for Global Responsibility and Champions for Earth to determine the environmental impacts of the 2026 Winter Olympics and whether or not the staging of the Games was detrimental…
For over a year, buying booster packs of Pokémon cards on the official Pokémon Center website has required either the most extraordinary luck, or a bot. When new stock is added to the site, it very quickly collapses under the weight of incoming traffic, leading to error messages or queues that never resolve. Any who do manage to get in before the site goes down are limited by strict purchase restrictions, except of course for those running the bots that are able to scoop up the stock in milliseconds. So was today’s peculiar decision to bundle the enormously popular Surging…