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This week, Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in an antitrust trial that could result in the breakup of Meta’s social networking empire. It might be years before the nearly 3 billion users of the company’s flagship app Facebook—known internally as the Blue app—learn the fate of the service they still use, despite the constant obituaries. (For the record, two years ago, Tom Alison, who heads the service, issued a statement affirming “Facebook is not dead nor dying.”) But with all the hubbub surroundi
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This week's flight of the New Shepard spacecraft, NS-31, and its all-female crew has stirred up a mess of coverage, from tabloids to high-brow journalism outlets. And why not? Six women, led by superstar Katy Perry, were flying into space! By contrast, Ars Technica has been largely silent. Why? Because yet another suborbital flight on New Shepard matters little in the long arc of spaceflight history. Beyond that, I did not want to be too negative about someone else's happiness, especially since
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Images of the Eagle Nebula have been captured before, but not with this much color. As part of their ongoing celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary, NASA and ESA have shared a new image of the Eagle Nebula, specifically a "spire of cosmic gas and dust" that's in a region last captured by the telescope two decades ago. The tower in the image is 9.5 light years tall, according to NASA and ESA, and only a portion of the larger Eagle Nebula, which is considered a "nursery" fo
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By pretty much any account, Blue Origin's publicity stunt of sending an all-female crew into space was a major flop. The Jeff Bezos-owned New Shepard capsule spent mere minutes in kinda-sorta-maybe space, giving its extremely wealthy passengers a momentary glimpse of weightlessness — though more in the way a rollercoaster ride causes you to shift out of your seat than in the microgravity of actual orbit (unlike a theme park ride, though, a ticket for the jaunt set passengers like pop star Katy
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The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth since 1998, housing groups of astronauts in the microgravity environment around 250 miles above the surface of the planet. All of that time in space has taken a toll on its aging hardware, and the space station is due to retire within the next few years. Until then, however, safety experts are warning of long-running issues that threaten the safety of the ISS, and the crew on board. During a meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory P
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This week, Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in an antitrust trial that could result in the breakup of Meta’s social networking empire. It might be years before the nearly 3 billion users of the company’s flagship app Facebook—known internally as the Blue app—learn the fate of the service they still use, despite the constant obituaries. (For the record, two years ago, Tom Alison, who heads the service, issued a statement affirming “Facebook is not dead nor dying.”) But with all the hubbub surroundi
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is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. You know, I was simply going to ignore the bizarre Blue Origin stunt flight from earlier this week. But then it flopped beyond my wildest imagination, and so here we all are. Doubtless you know the contours already: Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sánchez, pop star Katy Perry, and four other women did a big space tourism trip in the name of per
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We’re currently seeing growing concern about the potentially harmful impact of things like social media usage by kids and teens, with many states and countries enacting laws to address this. Discord has responded by starting to use a mix of AI-powered face scans and ID checks in two specific scenarios … Child protection laws Social media apps have been accused of trying to get teenagers addicted to their apps, and also failing to take any meaningful steps to ensure that users meet their claime
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Credit: United Launch Alliance Pushed by trackmobile railcar movers, the Atlas V rocket rolled to the launch pad last week with a full load of 27 satellites for Amazon's Kuiper Internet megaconstellation. Last week, the first operational satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband network were minutes from launch at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. These spacecraft, buttoned up on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, are the first of more than 3,200 mass-produced sa
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These indirect systems rely on a combination of field sampling—foresters roaming among the trees to measure their height and diameter—and remote sensing technologies like lidar scanners, which can be flown over the forests on airplanes or drones and used to measure treetop height along lines of flight. This approach has worked well in North America and Europe, which have well-established forest management systems in place. “People know every tree there, take lots of measurements,” Scipal says.
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Welcome to Edition 7.40 of the Rocket Report! One of the biggest spaceflight questions in my mind right now is when Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket will fly again. The company has been saying "late spring." Today, the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel said they were told June. Several officials have suggested to Ars that the next launch will, in reality, occur no earlier than October. So when will we see New Glenn again? As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an is
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The Meta monopoly trial has raised a question that Meta hopes the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) can't effectively answer: How important is it to use social media to connect with friends and family today? Connecting with friends was, of course, Facebook's primary use case as it became the rare social network to hit 1 billion users—not by being acquired by a Big Tech company but based on the strength of its clean interface and the network effects that kept users locked in simply because all the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 02:04:50
After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress to try to explain what had happened. The focus on how much data Facebook had on everyone, including “shadow profiles” for non-Facebook users, was enough to shake financial markets and, eventually, prompt a public apology tour from Mark Zuckerberg. Now we’ve learned from a slide presented today at FTC v. Meta during former COO Sheryl Sandberg’s testim
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After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress to try to explain what had happened. The focus on how much data Facebook had on everyone, including “shadow profiles” for non-Facebook users, was enough to shake financial markets and, eventually, prompt a public apology tour from Mark Zuckerberg. Now we’ve learned from a slide presented today at FTC v. Meta during former COO Sheryl Sandberg’s testim
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NASA’s lease for its headquarters building expires in 2028, and the agency is searching for a new space to house its workforce. As the agency explores options in Washington or the surrounding area, a group of Texas lawmakers has taken the opportunity to request that NASA headquarters be moved to Houston, Texas, to “reinvigorate our national space agency.” In a letter addressed to Donald Trump, the U.S. senators urged the president to relocate NASA’s headquarters from Washington D.C. to the Lynd
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Need a little more pop to your Slack emoji? Want to really stand out when you react with your favorite image? Turns out you can add HDR emoji to Slack, and they will be rendered in eye-searing brightness, at least on hardware that supports it. Works great on iPhones, and not at all on Android devices. Note: These examples will work best when posted to Slack. Support in browsers and on devices varies, YMMV. Original HDR brew install imagemagick # Adjust the Multiply value up or down to preser
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In Meta’s antitrust trial on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified that TikTok’s success was a risk to Meta’s business, saying the short-form video app was a “top priority” and a “highly urgent” competitive threat when it arrived in 2018, according to Bloomberg and other outlets. The reports come from a packed first week of testimony in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s trial against the social networking giant. If the FTC’s lawyers prevail, the trial could potentially require Meta to
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority I’m in the process of moving into my brand-new apartment, and honestly, the whole experience has been stressful, to say the least. Between trying to decipher all the legal paperwork tied to my real estate purchase and figuring out how to decorate the space so it doesn’t feel cramped or tacky, there have been a lot of challenges to overcome. Thankfully, I wasn’t alone in this. I had the help of my good friend, AI. I found myself leaning heavily on Gemini for the
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This highly scalable approach may finally open the skies to a host of commercial drone applications that have yet to materialize. Amazon Prime Air launched in 2022 but was put on hold after crashes at a testing facility, for example. On any given day, only 8,500 or so unmanned aircraft fly in US airspace, the vast majority of which are used for recreational purposes rather than for services like search and rescue missions, real estate inspections, video surveillance, or farmland surveys. One ob
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An all-female crew went briefly to space for an 11-minute flight on Monday. The criticism that followed has lasted much longer. Pop star Katy Perry, author and former journalist Lauren Sanchez, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyễn, film producer Kerianne Flynn and CBS host Gayle King were on Blue Origin's successful NS-31 flight this week. The crew rolled to the launchpad in Rivian electric trucks and took an elevator up to board the crew capsule. Blu
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Should the city of Houston, which proudly bills itself as "Space City," have a prized Space Shuttle orbiter on public display? More than a decade ago, arguably, the answer was yes. After all, the Space Shuttle program was managed from Johnson Space Center, in southeastern Houston. All the astronauts who flew on the shuttle trained there. And the vehicle was operated out of Mission Control at the Houston-based facility. But when the final decisions were being made to distribute the shuttles 15
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The trial between the US Federal Trade Commission and Meta began this week—and the future of the company is at stake. The FTC wants Meta to sell off two prized assets, Instagram and WhatsApp, arguing that it acquired them illegally to suppress competition. Today on the show, Senior Writer Paresh Dave joins host Zoë Schiffer to talk about what we know right now about the government’s case—and what we learned when Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Monday. Articles mentioned in this episode: FTC v M
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Reluctant road-tripping detective Charlie Cale is back for more Poker Face, and not only is she bringing a new mystery to Peacock every week, she’s bringing guest stars galore. Natasha Lyonne stars as the human lie detector—Charlie’s superpower of sorts is that she can tell when anyone is lying, though she will adjust her usual comeback of “Bullshit!” if the fibber is a little kid, as this new season two trailer demonstrates. Season one of Poker Face was no slouch in the guest-star department—J
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xAI has launched a new interface for its Grok chatbot that could be compared to ChatGPT's Canvas. The Elon Musk-helmed AI company has introduced the first version of Studio, which can generate documents, code and even browser games on a separate window. If you ask Grok to write an essay for you, for instance, you'll find text formatting buttons (Bold, Italics and Underline) at the top of the interface. You'll also find a a drop-down menu with header options and buttons to create bullet and numbe
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Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Drivora, my favorite watch face, is down from $1.99 to $0.49. Three other faces, Granza, Field, and Lumeon, are also discounted to $0.99. All of these are built with Watch Face Format and are optimized to run on Wear OS 5 watches like the Pixel Watch 3, Galaxy Watch 7, and OnePlus Watch 3. About a year ago, I went digging on the Play Store for excellent watch faces for the Pixel Watch and Galaxy Watch that are built using Wear Watch Format (WFF), and
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Artificial intelligence services at their heart are massive data plays: you need data — a lot of it — to build the models, and then the models need efficient ways to ingest and output data to work. A company called Hammerspace has built a system to help AI and other organisations tap into data troves with minimal heavy lifting, and it’s been seeing impressive adoption. Now, with customers including NVIDIA, Meta, Tesla, Palantir and the Department of Defense as well as other very recognisable na
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Earlier this week, a crew of six women — including pop star Katy Perry, CBS broadcast journalist Gayle King, and Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sánchez — launched to the edge of space as part of an 11-minute thrill ride organized by the Amazon cofounder's space company. The vacuous publicity stunt — which claimed to make the crew of mostly uber-wealthy media personalities "astronauts" after a mere two days of basic safety training — drew plenty of criticism. After all, apart from s
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Meta is back in court this week, and it's a throwback to the company's early days. This week CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in an antitrust case brought by the Federal Trade Commission concerning the company's 2012 and 2014 acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, respectively. In the 2010s, Facebook was a big player in social media, but it wasn't the tech empire that Meta is today. Part of what made the company such a powerhouse was its timely purchase of Instagram for $1 billion. But that may h
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Pop star Katy Perry may need to update the lyrics to her hit song Firework to, "Baby, you're an astronaut." On Monday, Perry became one of the latest celebrities to visit space. Author and former journalist Lauren Sanchez was also part of Blue Origin's successful NS-31 mission. Aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyễn, film producer Kerianne Flynn and CBS host Gayle King (Oprah Winfrey's bestie) filled out the roster for the all-female crew. Winfrey attend
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is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a “potentially crazy idea” in 2022 to get people using Facebook more: deleting everyone’s friends’ lists. The possibility was discussed on Monday via internal emails shown by the FTC as Zuckerberg testified during Meta’s antitrust trial. Zuckerberg floated the idea of considering “wiping everyone’s graphs” — their friends list
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