
The European space industry is booming. Yet despite the boom, the industry is struggling to find commercial buyers for arguably its most valuable output: data. At the Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna, the European Space Agency (ESA) and private sector leaders laid out Europe’s bold space ambitions and called for increased cooperation to address deep commercial gaps. Josef Aschbacher, ESA’s
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- AI sped up coding. Now, the real challenge for startups is product management.
- If a prototype takes a day, waiting a week for user feedback is "really painful," said Andrew Ng.
- The former Google Brain scientist said his teams are "increasingly relying on gut" to make
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- Shake 'n Shake gave its two cents on Cracker Barrel's new logo change.
- Cracker Barrel simplified its logo by removing an image of a man in overalls.
- Shake 'n Shake said the logo change meant Cracker Barrel was erasing its heritage.
Steak 'n Shake has joined the fiery debate on Cracker Barrel's new logo.
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- Elon Musk sought Mark Zuckerberg's investment in OpenAI, the startup said in a filing.
- Musk's $97.6 billion bid for OpenAI was rejected earlier this year.
- Meta is competing hard with OpenAI, poaching top talent and enhancing its large language model.

A new study offers a comprehensive look at how wildfire affected the mortality rate on Maui in August 2023.

The moon is almost completely dark tonight, thanks to where we are in the lunar cycle.
The lunar cycle is a series of eight unique phases of the moon's visibility. The whole cycle takes about 29.5 days, according to NASA, and these different phases happen as the Sun lights up different parts of the moon whilst it orbits Earth.
So let's see what's happening with the moon tonight, Aug. 22.
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TL;DR: Watch the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup for free on BBC iPlayer. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.
The best international teams in the world of women's rugby are heading to England to compete over the next few weeks in the Women's Rugby World Cup. We're expecting a fascinating tournament with plenty of electric performances from the sport's most

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.
There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give
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- "South Park" on Wednesday aired an episode packed with nods to current tech events.
- The episode satirized ChatGPT users as well as Apple CEO Tim Cook's recent Oval Office visit.
- It also took a jab at Silicon Valley elites

In a very NSFW premiere, 'Peacemaker' goes full 'Alice in Wonderland' with its pocket dimension shenanigans.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you