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We got an inside look at how new United States Army field artillery soldiers are trained at the Field Artillery School in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. 

Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Driscoll, a cannon crew member instructor, walked us through 41 essential items an artillery soldier would bring on a mission.

While some of Driscoll's gear is used by other units in the US Army, he showcased artillery-specific items like

The Sun is a hot mess right now. Solar maximum is fast approaching, and a giant dark spot on the surface of the Sun keeps growing while spewing radiation out to space in the process.

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• Some Republicans are raising the prospect of impeaching Joe Biden.
• Sen. Tom Cotton compared Biden's threat to withhold weapons to Israel to Trump's first impeachment.
• There are numerous

All the way back in 2011, Rise of the Planet of the Apes seemed like it’d be an unremarkable but potentially solid movie. No one really knew what to make of Fox doing a prequel/reboot of the classic sci-fi series, especially since it’d already tried a decade prior with Tim Burton’s divisive 2001 remake. That wariness…

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Apple has apologized after a commercial meant to showcase its brand-new iPad Pro drew widespread criticism among the creative community. In a statement provided to Ad Age, Tor Myhren, Apple’s vice president of marketing, said the company “missed the mark.”

“Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it’s incredibly important to us to design products that empower

• Former White House assistant Madeleine Westerhout testified Thursday in Trump's hush-money trial.
•  The "Access Hollywood" tape sent the RNC reeling, she testified of working there at the time.
• Westerhout said RNC officials were so concerned, they began planning how to replace Trump.

The "Access Hollywood" tape was so

• Google's CEO said "We got it wrong" in response to Gemini's AI debacle.
• Sundar Pichai said that Google "overapplied" in an attempt to cater to a global user base.
• Google has temporarily disabled Gemini's ability to generate images of people.

Google's CEO reflected in a new interview on the company's

If one was to just listen to Elon Musk, they might think the first Neuralink implant in a human was a flawless achievement.

"Successful 100 days with first human implant of @Neuralink," Musk posted to his social media platform X on Wednesday.

It is fair to call Neuralink's first human implant a success – certainly more successful than some of the test animals that Neuralink had implanted the device

OpenAI is open to allowing NSFW responses generated by ChatGPT and its API, but porn is a hard no.

On Wednesday, the company published a Model Spec, a document that pulls the veil back a little bit on how the models are trained to respond to various prompts. In the Spec, OpenAI shared rules for how ChatGPT and the API are directed to respond, including prompts for breaking the law, questions about

Microsoft has quietly started testing an intriguing change to the Windows 11 Start menu that could introduce a floating panel full of “companion” widgets. Windows watcher Albacore discovered the new Start menu feature in the latest test versions of Windows 11 that Microsoft has released publicly.

While Microsoft has not yet announced this feature, the

“Do you have it in you to make it epic?” That’s the question Chris Hemsworth’s Dementus asks in Furiosa: A Mad Max Story, and for at least one person that answer is yes. George Miller, director of Furiosa, does have it in him to make it epic. And, before you even see the movie, there are literal numbers to prove it.

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