Technology
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NASA delays International Space Station mission over station leak
The station has been in the news for unrelated reasons in recent years, including over the unexpectedly lengthy stay of American astronauts, who returned to Earth in March.
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Google cloud services and other websites see unexpected outage
"We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products beginning Thursday [at] 10:51 PDT. Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue," the website said. "We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption."
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Musk losing feud to Trump, at least in terms of the value of his companies
Thursday alone wiped out approximately $150 billion of Tesla’s market valuation as Musk's personal net worth drops below $400 billion.
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DirecTV and Dish to merge in $10 billion deal
Discussions between DirecTV and Dish TV were off and on over the last 10 years.
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SpaceX launches a mission to rescue Boeing Starliner crew still in space
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are the two astronauts who have been at the station since June.
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Instagram unveils 'teen accounts' with 'built-in protections' for online safety
'Teen Accounts have built-in protections which limit who can contact them and the content they see, and also provide new ways for teens to explore their interests,' the company says
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SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew returns to Earth after historic mission
The five-day mission, which included the first commercial spacewalk, ended with a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico
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United Airlines offers free Wi-Fi through Elon Musk's Starlink
United said it expects the technology to eventually be on all of the more than 1,000 United aircrafts in the next few years.
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Hackers break into Tiffany and Lara Trump's social media accounts to promote crypto scam
“Lara’s and Tiffany Trump’s X accounts have been hacked,” read a post on the World Liberty Financial venture's Telegram channel on Wednesday.
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Amazon admits error made Alexa provide differing answers on voting for Trump vs Harris
Social media users and Fox News noticed Alexa gave a more solid answer on why a person should vote for Harris, but merely stated that it cannot endorse a political candidate when asked about Trump.
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Forensic firm discovers security bugs, Ukrainian national anthem written into NH voter database
New Hampshire election officials hired a small Connecticut-based IT firm to update its voter registration database ahead of the 2024 election.
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Brazil Supreme Court panel unanimously upholds nationwide ban on social media platform X
The ban stems from X not designating a local legal representative.
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Brazil Supreme Court threatens to shut down social media platform X
Earlier this month, Musk said the social media platform X said it would cease its operations in Brazil "effective immediately," citing the judge's "censorship orders."
