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Actor who portrayed commander in 1995 Oscar-winning film says Lovell dared to go to places most wouldn’t go
Late Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has received a tribute from Tom Hanks, the actor who brought him to life in an Oscar-winning movie and said he had gone places most wouldn’t dare.
“There are people who dare, who dream, and who lead others to places we would not go on our own,”...
American astronaut and commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission who dramatically brought the crew back to Earth
Just after 9.20pm, Houston time, on Monday 13 April 1970, Jim Lovell, who has died aged 97, looked out of the left side window of Odyssey, the command module of the Apollo 13 lunar mission. Caught in the sunlight was what looked like smoke, which Lovell believed, correctly, was...
Yes, they can be hard to spot – but this find highlights how little we know about creatures crucial to our ecosystem
Gwen Pearson is adjunct professor at Michigan State University Department of Entomology
Scientists recently announced they had found an enormous new stick insect in Australia. At 41cm in length and weighing 44g, the main question I heard was: “Why didn’t scientists notice...
Some six months after DeepSeek shook Silicon Valley, is the Chinese AI chatbot still relevant?
The service rolled out this week, prompting confusion and safety concerns. Meta, which owns Instagram, said the feature was turned off unless users activated it.
Overuse of digital gadgets harms teenagers, research suggests. But ubiquitous technology may be helping older Americans stay sharp.
Aalborg zoo points to importance of mimicking natural feeding, but critics say its campaign devalues pets
After a Danish zoo posted a reminder of its long-running programme allowing people to donate their healthy, small pets to be “gently euthanised” and fed to predators, reaction poured in from across the globe.
But beyond the battleground playing out on social media – where some protested...
It took Amazon several years to overcome technical hurdles as it remade its voice assistant with new artificial intelligence technology.
Email obtained by Guardian says Pfizer was told approval may not be granted, meaning Moderna may have to fill gap
Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for young children may not be renewed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this fall, prompting Moderna to fill possible gaps in supply, according to an email obtained by the Guardian.
The move would pull the only remaining Covid vaccine for all...
Grok Imagine’s “spicy” mode made explicit videos of Taylor Swift, according to The Verge and Gizmodo.
Nasa hails Lovell for saving 1970 moon mission from ‘potential tragedy’ and safely returning crew to Earth
James “Jim” Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.
Lovell died on Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, Nasa said in a statement.
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Academic study suggests devices cannot differentiate between someone being overworked and being excited
They are supposed to monitor you throughout the working day and help make sure that life is not getting on top of you.
But a new study has concluded that smartwatches can’t accurately measure your stress levels – and may think you’re overworked when really you’re just excited.
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The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess player.
“Sam Altman in his remarks said that this is a major upgrade,” but he also said that “we’re not at A.G.I. yet.”
Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.
Robots on sale at the store include humanoid butlers, chess partners and dogs.
The president signs an order aimed at expanding the kinds of investments allowed in retirement accounts.
The court revived a legal challenge to a 2022 regulation that significantly reduced the compensation utilities paid to owners of home solar systems for the electricity they sent to the grid.
GPT-5’s release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world’s most advanced AI.
The A.I. start-up said its new flagship technology was faster, more accurate and less likely to make stuff up.
The new measures have been widely embraced, but new age-verification methods have drawn some criticism because of privacy concerns.