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A 17-year-old NASA intern discovered a planet 6.9 times bigger than Earth on his third day. In 2019, Wolf Cukier noticed an unusual signal in space telescope data that turned out to be TOI-1338 b.
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Anthropic is being sued for allegedly using nearly 300 Elvis Presley songs to train Claude without permission.
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Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, that played the role of Ensign Pavel Chekov, has passed away at the age of 90.
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BBC's Blue Planet III will deliberately keep some murkier and less polished underwater shots to assure viewers they are not using AI. The series will be narrated by 100-year-old David Attenborough and won't use a single frame with AI.
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Fishermen in Australia rescued a kangaroo found 3 km out to sea. After his crew helped the tired animal enter the boat, Jake Murray gave the kangaroo a hug to keep it calm until they were back on land.
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A student movement won the elections in Serbia, taking down 12 year incumbent Aleksandar Vučić. However, work is only starting for the 'Student List', as they don't even have a central leadership.
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AI executives are turning to religion in an effort to make their technology "morally good". They hope feeding it an aggregate of different religions will make AI choose some sort of average moral view.
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Lula da Silva has been elected to a fourth term as president of Brazil in a historic upset. His far-right opponent Flávio Bolsonaro, who lost by 4.4 million votes, refused to concede and asked for the election to be canceled.
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One very unlucky delivery deliver in Georgia fell through someone's porch and into a 20-foot deep pit while trying to deliver their food. It took an entire team to rescue him.
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Eric Bauza, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Road Runner and more has unfortunately passed away at age 46.
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The GTA 6 murals getting painted across the country could still be there decades from now. A mural painted to promote GTA San Andreas in 2004 is still there over 20 years later in Brooklyn, New York.
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Samsung is giving their employees absurdly high bonuses to keep them from leaving for Chinese companies. One employee making roughly $60,000 a year will be receiving an estimated $560,000 bonus to stay with the company.
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Donald Trump complimented Nicki Minaj at a rally today, saying she has a "beautiful a**" that's "hard to miss".
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SpaceX might be creating their own mobile network. They're considering building a network that's a hybrid of satellites and over 80,000 cell towers, theoretically giving them better cell service than big carriers like Verizon and AT&T.
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Taking care of pets in America has gotten a lot more expensive. Vet costs have gone up by roughly 67% since 2017, with pet owners struggling to afford care for their pets when it matters most.
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Windows XP launched 25 years ago today on October 25, 2001. The desktop background would go on to become the most iconic desktop of all time.
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A man who graduated from one of America's top universities with Nobel-cited research can't find a job. Jack Weis is living with his parents after getting a PhD at Princeton, and he's had no luck with full-time work despite applying for 2,300 jobs since 2024.
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The FDA has given clearance to a new breakthrough treatment for PTSD. Personalized Magnetic e-Resonance Therapy (MeRT) lets doctors find and target abnormal brain activity with magnetic waves. At an up to 68% remission rate, it may be the most effective PTSD treatment ever.
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