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Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation following an incident during its first crewed flight in two years, in which one of the parachutes on the New Shepard capsule failed to fully inflate.

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China’s curious spaceplane is at it again, releasing an unidentified object into orbit that could signal the end of its mysterious mission.

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Boeing may be subject to criminal prosecution after the Department of Justice (DOJ) accused it of violating the terms of a 2021 settlement agreement.

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The Cybertruck continues to make us laugh with how bad it is, and now it’s literally breaking people’s fingers and slicing their legs. The strange, secretive AI model referred to as “gpt2-chatbot” has resurfaced. Check out the rest of the big tech news for the week.

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In the latest disturbing twist to the Boeing saga, the company admitted to falsifying records related to the inspection of its 787 Dreamliner plane. The company publicly disclosed this after news broke of yet another federal investigation into the company.

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Boeing, the troubled aircraft manufacturer that makes most of the planes that Americans fly on, was the subject of an unsettling Congressional hearing Wednesday wherein multiple invited speakers accused the company of fostering a “safety culture” that is anything but safe.

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The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating an incident involving a Southwest Airlines flight that was forced to return to its point of origin after the cowling, or covering, on one of its engines fell off during takeoff and struck the wing flap of the aircraft.

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Kayak has a lot of neat features that make traveling easy, including one that allows you to filter out a certain type of plane that ripped a little boy’s shirt off when its door blew out 16,000 feet in the air.

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China’s Shenlong robotic spaceplane, on its third mission, has added a new layer of intrigue to its space activities by deploying six unidentified objects into Earth’s orbit.

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After wrapping up a lengthy mission in Earth orbit nearly a year ago, Space Force’s spaceplane is ready to take off again for the seventh flight of the Shuttlesque test vehicle.

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