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Every year, there are a few dates I immediately look forward to on the calendar. My birthday, of course. My wedding anniversary. Christmas. Super Bowl. San Diego Comic-Con. And, maybe above all others, DesignerCon.

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• Police rescued a hiker who got too close to a volcanic eruption in Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula.
• The volcano began erupting on December 18 after a series of earthquakes hit the surrounding areas.
• Icelandic

The UK Supreme Court ruled that AI cannot get patents, declaring it cannot be named as an inventor of new products because the law considers only humans or companies to be creators.

The court unanimously denied a petition from Stephen Thaler, founder of the AI system DABUS, to name his AI as an inventor. The UK’s decision aligns with

• Home builders will see a new "golden age" in 2024, according to the CEO of Howard Hughes.
• Falling mortgage rates will trigger even greater demand for new home construction.
• The existing home market, meanwhile, will stay frozen as the supply-demand imbalance worsens.

A segment of the

• WalletHub released a report ranking the best US cities to celebrate Christmas in 2023.
• Cities were ranked across 28 metrics including hotel room costs and gift shops per capita.
• Atlanta took the top spot, followed by Pittsburgh and Orlando.

Cities across the US are celebrating the holiday season with Christmas trees, light displays, and

We all know AI can regularly beat humans at intellectual games like chess. But now, AI has proven itself in the physical realm. That annoyingly hard wooden Labyrinth game? AI can beat you at that, too.

According to The Next Web, researchers at ETH Zurich have created an AI robot that beat the Labyrinth world record held by Lars-Goran Danielsson. The Labyrinth-playing robot, called "CyberRunner,"

We’re still discovering new ways covid-19 can harm us, some four years after the emergence of this complicated viral disease. In a recent report, doctors in Massachusetts describe a teen girl whose vocal cords became paralyzed soon after a bout of covid-19. The girl required a tracheostomy in place for more than a…

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• What happens when homeless people are given $750 a month for a year?
• Participants in a study reported being more likely to find shelter and closer to meeting basic needs.
• Results from the study's first six months appear to show the effectiveness of a basic-income plan.

About 100 homeless people in California

Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines are all set with their Moon landers. Now they just need their rockets prepped and the launch windows to swing open. But once underway, these NASA-funded missions, slated for early 2024, will chart a new course for the future of private space exploration.

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This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers.

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Experimental rockets, Moon landers, planetary flybys, breathtaking spacewalks, and vintage boosters—these are just a few of the many stories that contributed to the most striking and memorable images of 2023.

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Four astronauts are getting ready to travel to the Moon and back for NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, and the space agency is making sure that the crew is well-prepared in case things go wrong during the 10-day journey through space.

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