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Intuitive Machines has just made history by becoming the first private aerospace company to land a spacecraft on the Moon’s surface. Following its launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last Thursday, the robotic Nova-C “Odysseus” lander built by Intuitive Machines has now touched down — also making it the first US spacecraft to successfully land



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Google and Samsung aren’t the only ones baking magical AI selective photo erasers into their devices — they’re about to become table stakes for Windows PCs too. Microsoft has just announced Generative erase, a feature that lets you do similar things in the Photos app that comes bundled with Windows.

Above and below, you can see how Microsoft disappears a dog’s leash and some



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Intuitive Machines' Odysseus moon lander touched down on the moon's surface.
  • NASA and Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission landed on the moon Thursday.
  • This is NASA's first return to the lunar surface since the last Apollo mission in 1972.
  • The IM-1 mission's landing helps catapult the US into a 21st-century space race to the moon's south pole.

An American moon lander touched down



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  • As Reddit prepares to go public, a new filing with the SEC has revealed its biggest backers.
  • OpenAI's Sam Altman is the third-largest shareholder, the filing revealed.
  • It was previously known he was a Reddit investor — but not to this extent.

We learned a new detail about Sam Altman Thursday: just how much he supports Reddit.

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San Diego police remind Apple Vision Pro users about the importance of pedestrian safety.
  • San Diego Police told Apple's Vision Pro users to keep "virtual experiences on the sidewalk."
  • The police posted an Instagram video showing someone crossing the street and wearing the headset. 
  • The warning follows instances of people using the headset while crossing streets or driving.

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After years of speculation, Reddit has officially filed paperwork for an Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which plans to use RDDT as its ticker symbol, will also allow some longtime users to participate by buying shares.

In a note shared in the company’s S-1 filing with the SEC, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said that many longtime users already feel a “deep sense of



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Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, the tool that uses generative AI to create images from text prompts, revealed Stable Diffusion 3, a next-generation model, on Thursday. Stability AI claimed that the new model, which isn’t widely available yet, improves image quality, works better with prompts containing multiple subjects, and can more accurate text as part of the generated image



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After nearly three decades, Vice will stop publishing stories to its website. Vice Media CEO Bruce Dixon said today that the company is going to lay off hundreds of employees as it plans a shift toward social platforms, according to a memo to employees obtained by Washington Post reporter Will Sommer.

“It is no longer cost-effective for us to distribute our



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Have you seen a claim on social media that Google is “sunsetting” Gmail this coming August? What appears to be a screenshot from an official Google announcement has gone viral on X, but it’s completely fake.

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Netflix's live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender is brimming with interwoven storylines, applause-worthy cameos, and Easter eggs that will turn fans into Pointing Rick Dalton.

And in the third episode of the series, "Omashu," there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it detail lurking in the background.

About 45 minutes in, Prince Zuko (Dallas James Liu) and Uncle Iroh (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) are