Month: December 2022
Twitter view counts start appearing prominently
View counts for tweets are starting to show up for some Twitter users — at least for their own tweets. On December 1st, Musk promised the feature would be coming for “all tweets, just as view count is shown for all videos,” an announcement he reiterated a week later adding…
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The NASA Mars Lander InSight Has Died And People Here On Earth Are Very Upset
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California was in charge of the mission, and its scientists also expressed their sorrow at InSight’s end while praising the scientific discoveries the robot was able to make. “InSight has more than lived up to its name. As a scientist who’s spent a career studying…
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Meet The YouTuber Everyday Astronaut, Who’s Actually Going To The Moon Next Year
In March 2021, Yusaku Maezawa, the space-obsessed Japanese billionaire behind the e-commerce site Zozotown, announced a contest to select eight civilian crew members to join him on a private spaceflight. The weeklong mission, called dearMoon, will fly around the moon and back on a SpaceX Starship sometime in 2023. One…
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s former friends pleaded guilty and are cooperating in the FTX fraud case
Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang, two executives in Sam Bankman-Fried’s fallen crypto empire, have pleaded guilty to federal charges and are cooperating with prosecutors. The news was announced late Wednesday by Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Williams didn’t specify what charges the two…
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Attorney says facial recognition got her kicked out of a Rockettes show
Kelly Conlon, an attorney from New Jersey, says she wasn’t allowed to see a Rockettes show at Radio City Music Hall after she was identified by a facial recognition system, according to a report from NBC New York. Conlon told the outlet that guards approached her while she was in…
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NASA’s InSight lander loses power, enters retirement on Mars
On Mars, another machine just bit the dust. The marsquake-detecting, photo-snapping InSight lander has now officially completed its mission and will now spend its retirement in the same place it spent its career — sitting on a flat plain on the Martian surface, as dust slowly accumulates on its solar…
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