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Lunar Satellite Shoots Lasers to a Moon Lander for the First Time
NASA’s diligent lunar orbiter transmitted a laser beam to a dome-shaped aluminium device the size of a billiard ball on India’s Vikram lander, pinging its location on the Moon. This laser-enabled technique could one day help NASA astronauts find their way on the lunar surface. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) pointed its laser altimeter instrument,…
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First US Lunar Lander Since Apollo Is Now Dust at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean
Astrobotic bid farewell to its Peregrine lunar lander on Thursday as the spacecraft plunged through Earth’s atmosphere, thereby preventing the failed mission from colliding into other spacecraft. The Pittsburgh-based company lost contact with Peregrine at around 3:50 p.m. ET, with the spacecraft potentially performing a control reentry over the South Pacific at 4:04 p.m. ET.…
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DeepMind Co-Founder: AI Is Fundamentally a “Labor Replacing Tool”
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. For months, I’ve been harping on a particular point, which is that artificial intelligence tools—as they’re currently being deployed—are mostly good at one thing: Replacing human employees. The “AI revolution” has mostly been a corporate one, an insurrection against…
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The Rabbit R1 Looks Cool, But What The Hell Is It?
Diving deeper into how this new mysterious thing works.