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How many more lunar landings will there be this year? | Tech Reader

Performing a controlled, soft landing on the moon isn’t easy. Three missions attempted to reach our nearest neighbor in recent weeks. Two of the landers — one from...

Japan’s lunar lander wakes up from cold lunar night | Tech Reader

Japan’s lunar lander has reestablished contact with its mission controllers on Earth, confirming that it had successfully made it through a bitterly cold two-week lunar night. SLIM (Smart Lander...

Third Starship launch a step closer as FAA completes inquiry | Tech Reader

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has completed its investigation into SpaceX’s second Starship flight, which took place in November last year and ended with mid-flight explosions of the...

Odysseus lander mission to end early due to power issue | Tech Reader

NASA and Intuitive Machines may have made history with the recent first U.S. lunar landing in more than 50 years, but it looks like the mission will come...

How to watch SpaceX launch Crew-8 to the ISS this week | Tech Reader

NASA Live: Official Stream of NASA TV NASA and SpaceX are making final preparations for Crew-8’s flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in a launch targeted for Thursday...

Astronaut captures stunning images of a snowy Grand Canyon | Tech Reader

In the final days of his six-month stint aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen took some time out of his science work to snap...

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Inside the Biden Administration’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety

At a computer security conference in Arlington, Virginia, last October, a few dozen AI researchers took part in a first-of-its-kind exercise in “red...

Instagram’s new location sharing feature sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

Instagram with some long-requested features. The most notable is the introduction of a location-sharing tool for friends. Once opted into, the map...

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT Enterprise to the executive branch workforce for $1

OpenAI has announced that it will be partnering with the US General Services Administration (GSA) to offer ChatGPT Enterprise practically free of charge...