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1. Europe's ambitious satellite Internet project appears to be running into trouble

   The devil, as always, is in the details.

   Eric Berger - May 1, 2024 2:43 pm UTC

2. AI video throwdown: OpenAI's Sora vs. Runway and Pika

   Workers in animation, advertising, and real estate test rival AI systems.

   Cristina Criddle and Rory Griffiths, Financial Times - May 1, 2024 2:23 pm UTC

3. Daily Telescope: The Horsehead Nebula as we've never seen it before

   Webb delivers with a new look on an iconic classic.

   Eric Berger - May 1, 2024 12:00 pm UTC

4. Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces to counter Starlink

   SES is buying Intelsat, the world's first commercial satellite operator, for $3.1 billion.

   Stephen Clark - May 1, 2024 1:30 am UTC

5. Here's your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

   145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.

   Benj Edwards - Apr 30, 2024 9:52 pm UTC

6. The iPhone's next AAA game, Assassin's Creed Mirage, gets a release date

   The game launched on consoles and PC months ago.

   Samuel Axon - Apr 30, 2024 9:16 pm UTC

7. DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say

   Marijuana to move from Schedule 1, the most dangerous drug group, to Schedule 3.

   Beth Mole - Apr 30, 2024 9:16 pm UTC

8. Binance's billionaire founder gets 4 months for violating money laundering law

   US prosecutors sought 3-year sentence for Binance founder Changpeng Zhao.

   Jon Brodkin - Apr 30, 2024 8:55 pm UTC

9. Health care giant comes clean about recent hack and paid ransom

   Ransomware attack on the $371 billion company hamstrung US prescription market.

   Dan Goodin - Apr 30, 2024 8:44 pm UTC

Paul Sutter walks us through the future of climate change—and things aren't great

Paul Sutter walks us through the future of climate change—and things aren't great

This episode of Edge of Knowledge focuses on our rapidly transforming world.

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1. Researchers make a plastic that includes bacteria that can digest it

   Bacterial spores strengthen the plastic, then revive to digest it in landfills.

   John Timmer - Apr 30, 2024 8:11 pm UTC

2. AWS S3 storage bucket with unlucky name nearly cost developer $1,300

   Amazon says it's working on stopping others from "making your AWS bill explode."

   Kevin Purdy - Apr 30, 2024 7:43 pm UTC

3. Mysterious "gpt2-chatbot" AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts

   Mystery LLM highlights transparency issues in AI testing.

   Benj Edwards - Apr 30, 2024 7:31 pm UTC

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1. Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms from sounding

   If your iPhone hasn't been waking you up lately, you're not alone.

   Andrew Cunningham - Apr 30, 2024 6:58 pm UTC

2. FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus "N95 grade" RGB masks

   "Deceptive advertising and misinformation posed a risk to public health."

   Scharon Harding - Apr 30, 2024 6:52 pm UTC

3. EU probes Meta for killing tool that enables real-time election monitoring

   EU probes Facebook/Instagram owner for possible Digital Services Act violations.

   Jon Brodkin - Apr 30, 2024 6:24 pm UTC

4. Latest Google layoffs hit the Flutter and Python groups

   The groups supported developers both inside and outside of Google.

   Ron Amadeo - Apr 30, 2024 6:17 pm UTC

5. Behind the wheel of CXC's $600,000 off-road racing simulator

   CXC Simulations wanted to build something special for a cruise liner.

   Michael Teo Van Runkle - Apr 30, 2024 5:20 pm UTC

6. "Forgotten" poem by C.S. Lewis published for the first time

   "Mód Þrýþe Ne Wæg" (1935) was among documents sold to the University of Leeds 10 years ago.

   Jennifer Ouellette - Apr 30, 2024 3:53 pm UTC

1. Apple poaches AI experts from Google, creates secretive European AI lab

   At least 36 former Googlers now work on AI for Apple.

   Michael Acton, Financial Times - Apr 30, 2024 2:16 pm UTC

2. New space company seeks to solve orbital mobility with high delta-v spacecraft

   "If we're going to have a true space economy, that means logistics and supply services."

   Eric Berger - Apr 30, 2024 1:30 pm UTC

3. Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

   Tesla is also getting rid of its public policy team, despite robotaxi ambitions.

   Jonathan M. Gitlin - Apr 30, 2024 1:20 pm UTC

4. NASA lays out how SpaceX will refuel Starships in low-Earth orbit

   "The fundamental flow mechanism is the pressure delta across the umbilical."

   Stephen Clark - Apr 30, 2024 12:19 am UTC

5. Cats suffer H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk

   Mammal-to-mammal transmission raises new concerns about the virus's ability to spread.

   Beth Mole - Apr 29, 2024 10:41 pm UTC

6. Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time

   Meanwhile, Roku keeps making more money.

   Scharon Harding - Apr 29, 2024 9:08 pm UTC

7. Dead Boy Detectives turns Neil Gaiman's ghostly duo into "Hardy Boys on acid"

   Supernatural horror detective series has witches, demons, and a charming Cat King.

   Jennifer Ouellette - Apr 29, 2024 8:39 pm UTC