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A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun. The mission also will help the agency prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft launched at 3:55 p.m. EST, Thursday, aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. “Congratulations to Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, UC Berkeley, and all our partners on the successful launch of ESCAPADE. This heliophysics mission will help reveal how Mars became a desert planet, and…
Health officials in the United Kingdom are warning that this year’s flu season for the Northern Hemisphere is looking like it will be particularly rough—and the US is not prepared. The bleak outlook is driven by a new strain of H3N2, which emerged over the summer (at the end of the Southern Hemisphere’s season) sporting several mutations. Those changes are not enough to spark the direst of circumstances—a deadly pandemic—but they could help the virus dodge immune responses, resulting in an outsized number of severe illnesses that could put a significant strain on hospitals and clinics. In the UK, the…
The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon plans to cut about 15,000 jobs over the next week. Sources told the publication that Verizon is attempting to reduce costs as it faces more competition for wireless service and home internet customers. At the reported scope, this would be the largest reduction in history for the telecom company.Verizon leadership indicated that a sea change was coming in its third-quarter financial report last month, although many of the figures for the period were positive. The company’s net income reached $5.1 billion and most other metrics showed year-on-year growth. However, Verizon did a marked…
Store closures will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for Verizon. When a rumor about mass layoffs and store closures at Verizon surfaced, a large number of our readers made it clear that they didn’t want the carrier to shut down stores.Only screens and no stores make Verizon customers angryWe asked our readers if they would be fine if Verizon shuttered stores. Of the 2445 readers who responded, 1733 (71 percent) said it would be the last straw for them. 393 (16 percent) do everything online, so it wouldn’t make a difference to them. 318 (13 percent) would…
It shouldn’t be surprising that Disney, the company that has become willing to degrade its boldest, most artistic endeavors for profit by churning out unnecessary sequels and bland live-action remakes, is talking to AI companies about letting fans make endless user-generated slop of their properties on Disney+. And indeed, the company that has changed IP law to keep Mickey Mouse out of the hands of the masses is now apparently doing just that. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney CEO Bob Iger said in the company’s latest earnings call that it is “in the midst of rolling out the biggest…
Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 17, 2025 Curiosity has been investigating the “boxwork unit” for several months now. Readers might remember we drilled at the edge of the boxwork at “Altadena,” back in June. Since then, we have driven just under a kilometer across the boxwork unit (about 0.6 miles) and now we are ready to acquire the next drill target, in an area where the structure is really well preserved. The boxwork structures are a series of ridges and hollows, so our plan is to drill within…
When OpenAI unveiled its first open-weight models in years this August, it wasn’t just tech companies that were paying attention. The release also excited US military and defense contractors, which saw a chance to use them for highly secure operations.Initial results show that OpenAI’s tools lag behind competitors in desired capabilities, some military vendors tell WIRED. But they are still pleased that models from a key industry leader are finally an option for them.Lilt, an AI translation company, contracts with the US military to analyze foreign intelligence. Because the company’s software handles sensitive information, it must be installed on government…
, which are based on customer feedback and bring the app closer to the all-in-one platform vision the carrier has held since its launch in 2024. has become more of a digital companion than a carrier app. The most notable feature is an always-on AI assistant that will help users with shopping and managing their accounts. Customers can converse with the chatbot by voice or text to get quicker answers and solutions, saving time on research. The AI assistant will help you make sense of account changes. | Image Credit – T-Mobile Routine tasks such as viewing your bill or making changes…
Amazon is making its satellite communication network a bit more official with a rebrand. The company has announced that Project Kuiper will now be called “Amazon Leo,” a nod to the fact that its network is composed of satellites in low Earth orbit.Project Kuiper’s journey to becoming a proper Amazon brand has been a long one. The company introduced the project in 2019 with the goal of offering internet in regions without a reliable connection, through a proposed constellation of over 3,000 satellites that could blanket 95 percent of the global population in high-speed internet. That constellation has yet to…
Dispatch, the superhero workplace comedy by AdHoc Studio, oscillates between being a fun, low-stakes romp and the video game equivalent of those obnoxious YouTube brain-rot videos your edgy teen nephew can’t stop watching, and it does so with such whiplash-inducing intensity that there were points when I was genuinely unsure if I even liked the game. Yet, when the week-long gaps between its eight episodes started to close, I was always looking forward to spending time at Robert Robertson III’s desk and sending my team of ex-criminals out to save the day again. As a video game, Dispatch is a…