Space Agencies Are Trying to Keep Astronauts From Losing Their Sight
A device currently being used to help octogenarians do self-administered eye exams could be part of future space missions to monitor astronauts’ ocular health.
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OpenAI's Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause
OpenAI has announced that it's pausing some "internal activities" involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant...
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Creating a Supersonic Trebuchet
As awesome as trebuchets are, the fact that medieval engineers didn’t create versions capable of launching supersonic projectiles is a bit of a bummer. Fortunately it’s...
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APOD: 2026 August 10 – Three Galaxy Pairs
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 10 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD APOD: 2026 August 10 –...
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Beyond Consensus: The Fragmentation of AI Policy Across the Linux Ecosystem
The AI policies across the Linux ecosystem are very heterogeneous, ranging from the GCC’s restrictiveness, the Linux kernel’s pragmatism, to the more open disclosure-based utility model...
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Comu is a $6 tiny CH32V203 RISC-V development board that fits inside a USB port
Over the years, we have seen several tiny “omu” USB boards that share this “fits-in-a-USB-port” form factor. It started with the Tomu, based on a Silicon...
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Australians must now prove their age to buy R18+ games on the Xbox store
Microsoft is the first among major games platforms to implement stricter age verification.
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Retrotechtacular: A View of the Moon from 1964
If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race for the moon. You can capture...
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Steam Week in Review: Games about sorting 1000s of mundane objects onto shelves are the new craze sweeping PC gaming
All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending August 9.
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Free-to-play Division game launches on Steam to mixed reviews: 'Calling it slop disrespects actual slop'
The Division Resurgence was made for mobile and it shows.
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Katalyst Space makes progress in restoring control of Swift servicing spacecraft
The company that developed a spacecraft to boost the orbit of a NASA observatory says it is making progress in recovering from its own spacecraft’s problems....
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