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📷 Artemis II

North Atlantic right whale numbers slowly rise after years of decline Stronger laws are needed to protect the endangered whales, experts urge,

Stronger laws are needed to protect the endangered whales, experts urge,

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The exterior of Apollo Hammersmith at night, illuminated with bright blue and purple lights. Above the entrance, a large marquee displays the words “DEATH STRANDING” in bold red letters.

The image shows the inside of the concert hall during the performance. The orchestra is playing on stage, with musicians seated under warm lighting. Above them, a large screen displays a dramatic scene from the Death Stranding 2 game, featuring Higgs holding a crimson mask. The audience is seated in the dark, watching the performance.

Death Stranding: Strands of Harmony – the concert in London was absolutely incredible! 👍🏻
A stunning orchestra and the iconic soundtrack made me relive this unforgettable, emotional journey all over again through the powerful visuals of the game.

Thanks ❤️
#DeathStranding #StrandsOfHarmony

This is happening to my district 😭 I live at higher level, I am safe. Hope people are ok 🙏

#ragasa #HongKong

"A clever warning for what’s to come": Massive Attack is forcing the issue of facial identification tech by using it on their own audience "There is no such thing as privacy."

Massive attack are sounding alarm bells over the use of facial identification during their live concert.
The band is seemingly critiquing facial recognition as invasive and jeopardizing our privacy and security.

Countries Race for Arctic Supremacy With New Icebreakers: Green Daily The Arctic is thawing, but navigating its icy waters is still a major concern. As nations from the US to China and Russia look to tap minerals, oil, and gas fields at the top of the world — and gain a military edge — they’re building out their fleets of icebreaker ships.

Countries Race for Arctic Supremacy With New Icebreakers: Green Daily

Google is killing the only thing that makes android special. 🤷🏻🤖

Fireball lights up sky over western Japan Flashing light visible for hundreds of miles was an exceptionally bright meteor, say experts A flashing fireball dashed across the skies of western Japan, shocking residents and dazzling stargazers, though experts said it was a natural phenomenon and not an alien invasion. Videos and photos emerged online of the extremely bright ball of light visible for hundreds of miles shortly after 11.00pm local time (1400 BST) on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Fireball lights up sky over western Japan

The State of Louisiana is suing Roblox

"Roblox is overrun with harmful content and child predators because it prioritizes user growth, revenue, and profits over child safety"

Today in Spain: A roundup of the latest news on Thursday Spain asks for EU help in fighting wildfires, third victim is claimed and more news on Thursday August 14th.

Spain asks for EU help in fighting wildfires, third victim is claimed and more news on Thursday August 14th.

Thousands evacuated in Spain as deadly heatwave fans Mediterranean wildfires Boy, four, dies of heatstroke in Rome as scientists say high temperatures and fires are reminder of climate emergency

Thousands evacuated in Spain amid deadly wildfires and new heatwave #Climate

Jim Lovell in a spacesuit in front of a rocket launch pad

Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 and a four-time spaceflight veteran, has died.

He was 97 years old.

NASA statement:
www.nasa.gov/news-release...

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Is Here OpenAI is releasing GPT-5 on Thursday to both free users of ChatGPT and paying subscribers.

OpenAI is releasing GPT-5 on Thursday to both free users of ChatGPT and paying subscribers. www.wired.com/story/openai...

Panama playlists is an anonymous site exposing the public Spotify playlists of powerful figures (like US VP JD Vance, CEOs, journalists).
The songs reveal surprisingly bland tastes—and highlight how little privacy we have online, even through seemingly harmless platforms.👇🏻

#PanamaPlaylists

At the Tesla Diner, the Future Looks Mid

Opened July 21 in Hollywood, Elon Musk’s Tesla Diner blends retro-futurism, 75 Superchargers, Cybertruck-style meal boxes, and a dancing robot mascot. Two weeks in, the menu’s been cut down to 5 sandwiches and a few sides.
... welcome to the future?

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losse...

New Lancet review launches the Lancet Countdown on Health & Plastics, warning of a $1.5 trillion/year health burden from plastics—impacting people from infancy to old age at all life cycle stages. Microplastics in tissues, air pollution, vector spread, toxic exposure all major threats.

The strongest earthquake on the planet since 2011 has triggered tsunami warnings for parts of Russia, Japan, and Alaska, as well as all of Hawaii. CNN's Will Ripley reports on the 8.8-magnitude quake.

Follow live updates: cnn.it/3J8mcah

Magnitude 8.7 #earthquake in Kamchatka, following a M7.4 last week - may be largest earthquake since 2011, 8th largest on record globally, #tsunami warning in place for US west coast and Canada - the historic 1952 M9 closely caused a destructive tsunami across the Pacific

When Coke and Pepsi Fought for Soft Drink Supremacy in Space

In 1985, Coca-Cola and Pepsi sent their sodas to space aboard the Shuttle Challenger to test microgravity dispensers. Coke worked better, Pepsi fizzed out. But astronauts ended up preferring... Tang. 🍊🍶

DolphinGemma: Google AI model understands dolphin chatter Google has developed an AI model called DolphinGemma to decipher how dolphins communicate and one day facilitate interspecies communication.

Google developed DolphinGemma, an AI model that analyzes dolphin sounds to decode their language and help enable interspecies communication.

‘The Last of Us’ tried to stop a fungus. Here’s what real scientists are doing. Here’s how real scientists are effectively preparing to battle fungus today.

As Season 2 premieres, the characters in HBO’s “The Last of Us” have been battling a deadly fungus for 25 years and counting. It makes for good storytelling, but how difficult is it to make an effective fungal antibiotic or vaccine in real life?

🧵🧪Atmospheric CO₂ concentration rose to more than 430 ppm this weekend as it climbed towards its annual maximum. In April of the year that I was born it averaged 319 ppm. That's a 35% increase within my lifetime.
1/n

Mysterious sea foam on South Australian beaches reportedly leaves more than 100 surfers ill Leafy seadragons, fish, and octopuses among creatures to have washed up dead on both Waitpinga beach and Parsons beach

A mysterious foam on a South Australian beach is being blamed for more than 100 surfers becoming ill, and for the deaths of fishes.
Health authorities say the foam could be due to a microalgal bloom driven by hot temperatures, still water, and an ongoing marine heatwave.

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

Ricordo che i rifiuti tecnologici sono smaltiti gratuitamente da ogni rivenditore, anche senza dover acquistare nulla. Basta portarli in negozio chiedendo di smaltirli come rifiuti.
Oppure presso il comune.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Ok, this is the last one

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH | Pre-Order Trailer YouTube video by KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS

Kojima did it again. This is pure cinema.
Can't wait for June 26th.

The image is a creative reinterpretation by Olly Gibbs of the Oscar statuette, adapted to represent the animated film Flow, which has won the Best Animated Feature at the 97th Academy Awards. The statuette is transformed into a totem-like structure, with the film’s characters climbing on it.

The underdog (or the undercat) won!
Congratulations, @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social !

@ollygibbs.bsky.social
#Flow

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Skype is shutting down on May 5, 2025

1,000 artists release 'silent' album to protest UK copyright sell-out to AI | TechCrunch The U.K. government is pushing forward with plans to attract more AI companies to the region by changing copyright law. The proposed changes would allow

The album is just the latest move in the U.K. to bring attention to the issue of how copyright is being handled in AI training. Similar protests are underway in other markets, like the U.S., highlighting a global concern among artists.