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The NASA Mars Lander InSight Has Died And People Have A Lot Of Feelings About It
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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TikTok Owner ByteDance Has Condemned Employees Who Improperly Obtained Journalists’ User Data
TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance said on Thursday that a small group of employees inappropriately obtained personal data of US TikTok users and are no longer employed at ByteDance. The New York Times reported that some of the users whose data was accessed included two journalists, one at BuzzFeed News…
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Sam Bankman-Fried Was Extradited From The Bahamas And Has Been Freed On $250 Million Bail
Sam Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old founder and former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, was released on a $250 million bail package after appearing in a Manhattan federal courtroom this afternoon. Under the terms of the package, he will be confined to his parents’ home in Palo Alto, California, while he…
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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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Elon Musk Said He Will Step Down As Twitter CEO As Soon As He Can “Find Someone Foolish Enough To Take The Job”
The announcement came just over eight weeks into Musk’s turbulent tenure as head of the social media platform. He added that after finding a replacement, he would “run the software & servers teams” at the company. Things came to a head for the billionaire on Sunday. After a tumultuous few…
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