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The Artemis mission ends with a splashdown.
NASA will test the heat shield of its Orion Spacecraft, which parachuted back to Earth from the Moon, for a second time. This time, it will be flying over the Pacific Ocean with Artemis II, NASA said. The capsule will be carrying two astronauts on a test mission, which is designed to evaluate the spacecraft’s…
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Russia launched missiles at Ukraine, knocking out power and water.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that the Russian military carried out attacks on energy facilities in three regions of the country on Monday. “We are focusing on preventing energy loss from disrupting a critical nuclear power plant in Ukraine,” he added. Reportedly, Ukraine’s state energy supplier Ukrenergo said the power grid in the…
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The Russian prison where the NBA star was held has been freed.
The US and Russia on Thursday announced the release of American athlete Brittney Griner and Russian citizen Paul Whelan, who were detained in Russia last year. Griner was sentenced to 15 years in prison for spying, while Whelan was charged with spying for Syria. Both the Americans were released as part of an exchange of…
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There could be a violent new phase in the war due to Putins rage against civilians.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the withdrawal of Russian troops from the border with Ukraine and the Ukrainian troops have been encircled in the city of Kherson, the president’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. This comes after Russia launched missile attacks on Ukraine earlier this week, killing at least 16 people and injuring over 100 others.
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Hawaii’s lava continues to come down the mountain with no end in sight.
As the lava flow from Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano entered its second week, scientists warned that the flow could come within an hour. “The next 24 hours or so could determine if we’re going to have a repeat of our experience from a year ago,” said US Geological Survey’s Hawaii Volcano Observatory. Mauna Loa began…
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The Memorial and the Center for civil Liberties won the peace prize.
The Centre for Civil Liberties, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting the right to criticise power, protection of fundamental rights of citizens and documenting war crimes, said the award was important for the organisation because “for many years we worked in a country that was invisible”. It was founded in…
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The attackers continue to target the US electric grid.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in October 2017 “tried to go for a big, showy public response” to a cyberattack on a bridge that linked Crimea with Russia, a senior US official said. “I don’t think Russia would measure success in cyberspace by a single attack,” the official added. “I don’t think Russia would measure success…
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The Center of Civil Liberties was the winner of the peace prize.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Sunday awarded the 2018 Peace Prize to Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ally Alexey Navalny and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for their “long-standing devotion to human rights and democracy”. Lukashenko was detained in 2012 on charges of plotting against the government. Russia has been engaged in a…
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Brendan Fraser’s performance is not enough to keep ‘The Whale’ afloat.
Brendan Fraser, who starred in films including ‘The Mummy’ and ‘The Mummy Returns’, has revealed that he didn’t want to make an acting comeback. “I wanted to do something that wasn’t going to be pornographic,” the actor said. Brendan, who played the role of Mummy in the 2000 film ‘The Mummy’, added that it was…
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Best Buy will have Black Friday deals in the year 2022, including Apple.
The Lowest Price Guaranteed (LPG) Android Phone for the year 2021 is the Asus 10 years smartphone which is available at a saving of up to $50. The phone has a 5.7-inch AMOLED display withGorilla Glass 4 protection, 64 GB of storage, Snapdragon 835 processor, 12 MP camera, 10MP rear camera and 3MP front-facing camera.
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There are new levels of luxury on planes.
A flight attendant has died after she tried to help a passenger who became stuck in the overhead bin of a US-bound flight. According to reports, the attendant was trying to help the passenger when the incident happened. The passenger told authorities that he’d had trouble opening the bin since he had fallen asleep. The…
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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are a good way to make you laugh.
American photographer Karine Aigner won Wildlife Photographer of the Year for a close-up photo of a “buzzing ball of cactus bees spinning over the hot sand on a Texas ranch”. The photo is called “The Big Buzz” by Aigner. Sixteen-year-old Katanyou Wuttichaitanakorn of Thailand won the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award for his…
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With the attacks on Ukraine, Putin gave the hard-liners what they wanted.
Ukrainian forces have captured a bridge in the city of Kherson from Russian troops, a Ukrainian military statement said on Sunday. The statement added that Ukrainian forces have also “recaptured” the town of Lyman, a strategic railway hub in the eastern region of Donbas. Russian forces have reportedly been firing from across the Dnipro river…
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The much anticipated commercial-supported plan will be called “Basic with Ads”.
Disney Plus Basic plan, which costs $7.99/month and replaces the ad-free version, is cheaper than the basic plan. It’ll cost $7.99/month in the US. The Disney Plus Premium plan, which now costs $10.99/month, has been reduced to $11.99/month in the US. Earlier this month, Disney had announced that it’ll no longer offer an ad-free plan.
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Academics should be worried about the writing of smart essays by an artificial intelligence bot.
MIT researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot named ChatGPT that can answer questions in human language. It was built by using a form of simulated reward and punishment called reinforcement learning. The researchers fed human-written answers to ChatGPT as training data, and then used a form of reinforcement learning to push the model…
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The world’s 1,000 most spoken languages will be supported by a giant Artificial Intelligence language model.
Google has said it’ll be funding the collection of data for low-resource languages, including audio recordings and written texts. “By having a single model exposed to and trained on many different languages, we get much better performance on our low resource languages,” Zoubin Ghahramani, VP of Research at Google AI, said. “One of the…interesting things…
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What does this mean for Wear OS?
Google’s Director of Software Engineering for Wear OS, Pete Kilburn, said the company hopes to have a new version of Wear OS every year. “If new functionalities added in Android are critical for watches and hearable, then we’ve got to find a way to get it into the watch,” he added. “There will still be…
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It will be a very busy Thanksgiving travel season.
The AAA National Autonomous Highway Forecast (NAPRA) has projected that the US will witness nearly 49 million people travel by car this year, a 6% increase compared to the same period last year. “Given how separated…we were during the first two years of the pandemic, travel demand is high,” a AAA spokesperson Aixa Diaz said.
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The Supreme Court may not be able to use Trump’s latest delay tactic.
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday said it doesn’t have to restore a hold on the JusticeDepartment’s access to documents marked as classified because former US President Donald Trump’s request doesn’t ask them to. Trump was ordered by a House committee to turn over documents, including emails, pertaining to the probe into Russian meddling in…
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Biden calls the risk of Armageddon the highest it’s been since the Cuban missile crisis.
US Vice President Joe Biden has said that it’s not clear whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a decision to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict. “We don’t have any information to cause us to change our strategic deterrence posture, and we don’t assess that President Putin has made a decision to use…
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The New York Times reported that Musk sent the worst midnight email to his boss.
An alternative platform like Gab, Parler and Truth Social offers a “keyhole view” of what Twitter will look like under new owner Elon Musk, said Media Matters for America President Joe Roth. He added that the company’s decision to cut jobs “when the company is losing over $4M/ day” was “unfair”. Twitter has offered severance…
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Russia demanded that a spy held in Germany be freed.
US President Joe Biden said the government is in “close contact” with the family of Paul Whelan, an American man who has been detained in Russia since 2018. This comes after Russian authorities released American Brittney Griner and jailed Russian citizen Viktor Bout in a prisoner swap. The US is working to secure Whelan’s release,…
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The royals are getting ready for the documentary.
During the first episode of ‘Harry and Meghan’, Prince Harry said that his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Meghan Markle, had “torn” his family. “There’s a hierarchy of the family…There’s a hierarchy of the family…What’s going on in my dad’s [Prince Charles] life?” he asked. He added, “I just don’t know how to react to it.”…
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Putin gave his hard-liners what they wanted.
The Ukrainian State Emergency Service has said at least 19 people were killed and 104 others were injured in Russian missile attacks across Ukraine on Monday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s top adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, said that Ukrainian intelligence believes that Russian forces planned the attack as a pretense to escalate the war in Ukraine.
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A remake of the classic story ‘Pinocchio’ is beautiful, but has too many strings attached.
‘Pinocchio: When The Forest Meets the Sea and the Unstable Geppetto’ is a film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, who also produced the movie. The story of ‘Pinocchio’ tells the story of a wooden puppet named Geppetto (played by Pinocchio himself), who’s under the care of a sea monster named Podest (Ron Perlman).