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SpaceX sent the Starship vehicle on its fourth flight test on Thursday. The vehicle lifted off at 8:50AM ET and separated from its Super Heavy booster rocket without issue. While the Starship continues on its path toward the Indian Ocean, a livestream from



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It emerged recently that Humane was trying to sell itself for as much as $1 billion after its confuddling, expensive and ultimately pretty useless AI Pin flopped. A New York Times report that dropped on Thursday shed a little more light on the company's sales figures and, like the wearable AI assistant itself, the details are not good.

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Google first launched NotebookLM, its AI-powered research tool, in summer 2023 and now the company is expanding its capabilities and access. In a new blog post, Google announced that NotebookLM is officially running on Gemini 1.5 Pro, an upgrade from the original Gemini Pro model that brings a host of new features. The research and writing assistant has also expanded to over 200 countries and



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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told his invasion force, "Your task will not be an easy one." He was brutally right.
  • The D-Day invasion was the largest seaborne invasion in history and a turning point in World War II.
  • By the end of the Normandy campaign, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians had been killed or wounded.
  • The greatest risks were borne by American troops



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Lise De Baissac was a leader in the French Resistance whose efforts contributed to the success of the D-Day landings.
  • Women played key roles in D-Day, the Allied seaborne invasion of Nazi-held France.
  • "Women are the hidden figures of D-Day," says journalist Sarah Rose.
  • These are three of the British agents who contributed to the Allied victory in Normandy

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DuckDuckGo has launched private AI chats, allowing you to anonymously access AI models like GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 3 Haiku. It won’t store your chats, nor can the companies behind each AI model use them for training — saving you from jumping through a settings menu just to opt out.

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Gen. Bernard "Monty" Montgomery addressing British troops.
  • The D-Day invasion of Normandy was a massive, complex operation with nearly 160,000 troops.
  • Allied war planners prepared for months, drafting many plans for the spearhead into German-occupied Europe.
  • Britain's Gen. Montgomery kept it simple, writing his plans for the historic land, air, and sea operation on one sheet of paper.

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The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC rescinded its endorsement of former Rep. Mondaire Jones after he endorsed Rep. Jamaal Bowman's primary opponent.
  • The Congressional Progressive Caucus is dropping its support for former Rep. Mondaire Jones.
  • It comes after Jones, a former caucus member, endorsed Rep. Jamaal Bowman's primary challenger.
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I'm the first to admit that the amount of joy Google Sheets brings me is a bit odd, but I use it for everything from tracking my earnings to planning trip budgets with friends. So, I'm excited to see that Google is making it easier to get notified about specific changes to my spreadsheet without me learning to code (something I've just never gotten into). The company has announced that Google