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• Hundreds of private jets are expected to flood Las Vegas this weekend for Super Bowl LVIII.
• Parking space is limited to only about 500 spots across four Vegas-area airports.
• Eyes are on Taylor Swift's potential travel to the game after her string of concerts in Tokyo this week.

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• Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi confirmed "the Taylor Swift effect" in a recent interview.
• Khosrowshahi said that local Uber teams plan specifically for her when she comes to town. 
• Uber joins companies that have weighed in on Taylor Swift's economic impact.

Yes, "the Taylor Swift effect" is real.

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• Humans have left 227,000 kilos (over 500,000 pounds) of garbage on the moon. 
• Some scientists say we've entered the "lunar Anthropocene," an epoch defined by our impact on the moon.
• They warn that humanity should consider our potential negative impacts on the moon's surface.

Humans have always looked at the sky, using the stars

After months of frustration, NASA finally got the Bennu asteroid sample container open in January, revealing the large amounts of asteroid scooped up by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Now, a top member of the mission says the distant hunk of space rock may be a planetesimal—a planet’s building block—that once belonged to…

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With Valentine's Day coming up, there's no better time to invest in pleasure. From Feb. 7 through Feb. 15, sex toy brand Ava is offering 20% off its entire Amazon storefront.

One year after fully embracing generative AI chatbots, Microsoft is giving Copilot a fresh lick of paint. Copilot now has a more streamlined design on the web and in its mobile apps. The company says there's a cleaner look and feel for the chatbot's responses, while Copilot will display a carousel of suggested prompts to highlight what it can do.

The redesign comes just ahead of the Super Bowl

Sports documentaries are becoming a popular genre among streamers, from Netflix to Apple TV Plus.

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A few months back, I was walking around DesignerCon and something impossible caught my eye. It was a Star Wars Black Series figure, but something was off. This looked different. It looked, dare I say, too good. The face looked so much better than usual. The outfit somehow more detailed and interesting. Then I stepped…

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Behold the volcano-blanketed moon, Io.

After swooping by Jupiter's tortured moon on Feb. 3, NASA's Juno spacecraft beamed back some of the closest-ever images of this unique world. The agency's deep space probe came within just 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of Io, following a similar pass just over a month ago. Planetary scientists hope these much-anticipated flybys will answer fundamental questions

• A new streamer from ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery could change how we watch sports.
• It'll bring many cable sports to streaming, but a lot is still unknown — including the price.
• Here are six big questions swirling around the service.

ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery

Netflix has always been a trendsetter in the online streaming arena, but this latest trend is the worst one yet.

Almost a year after Netflix started cracking down on password sharing in the U.S., Disney+ (Disney Plus) is set to do the same, per The Verge. Subscribers expect to receive an email with more information about the change, which restricts Disney+ usage to devices in the home of the person

• Optimism about mortgage rates rose to levels last seen in March 2022, a Fannie Mae survey found.
• The upbeat mood is driven by stronger job security and lower borrowing costs as the Fed looks ready to cut rates. 
• Other parts of the