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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes in massive fireball during prelaunch test

Blue Origin just hit a hurdle on its way to the moon. The company’s powerful New Glenn rocket exploded during a routine prelaunch engine test at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday night (May 28), creating a huge fireball that lit up the dark Space Coast skies. “We experienced an anomaly during today’s hotfire test,” Blue Origin wrote in an statement. ” All…
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Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans

Cognition CEO Scott Wu made headlines again this week when his two-year-old AI coding agent startup raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation. Cognition is the maker of Devin, one of the first and, arguably, most successful AI coding agents. Devin, the CEO says, “naturally owns tasks end to end.” In fact, in the blog post announcing that raise, Cognition laid out a vision where “we are…
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Ishiuchi Miyako photographs completely different things, yet her 50 years of work all looks unmistakably hers

Ishiuchi Miyako photographs abandoned buildings. She photographs scars on human skin. She photographs old Kimono fabric. She photographs lipstick. She photographs her own water-damaged prints. But there’s something that connects all her photography. Something that makes it unmistakably hers. It’s not what she’s photographing; it’s how she photographs. She has an eye for how time leaves…
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Republicans devise another way to make electricity more expensive with new fees

As everything gets less affordable, republicans are proposing big new inspection fees for cheap energy projects, trying to protect their fossil fuel masters from the rise of better options. Wind power is one of the cheapest and most environmentally friendly forms of electricity generation. And offshore wind is great, too, because wind blows more consistently on the ocean, and the land use of…
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