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Watch: Humpback Whale And Calf Breach Yards Away From Kayakers In Costa Rica

Kayakers in Costa Rica had the best view of an unexpected show in the middle of the ocean when a humpback whale and its calf breached yards away from them.

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Slopads Fraud Ring Exploits 224 Android Apps To Drive 2.3 Billion Daily Ad Bids

A massive ad fraud and click fraud operation dubbed SlopAds ran a cluster of 224 apps, collectively attracting 38 million downloads across 228 countries and territories.

The Akatsuki (PLANET-C) mission was a Japanese spacecraft, launched in 2010, that orbited Venus to study its atmosphere from 2015 to 2025. It was designed to research atmospheric circulation, composition, and weather patterns, and made significant discoveries.

Us Military Bases Are Getting New High-Tech 'Flyaway Kits' To Deal With Drones. Here'S What'S In Them.

The kits are meant as a rapid-response solution when other options aren't enough, though deployment could be faster.

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Nuclear Etfs Soar Ytd Under Trump Regime, Top 2024 Performance

U.S.-listed nuclear energy exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have experienced a monumental surge so far this year, significantly outpacing their performance in 2024.

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Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a class action by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.

🖥 Since then, the gap has widened dramatically. The reason is simple: global demand for GPUs to train and run AI models remains at a historic high, and Nvidia sells everything it can produce.

The interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is back in view after swinging behind the Sun — and new observations are only deepening the mystery.

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Nasa astronaut films the Northern Lights from space Zena Cardman captured the footage of the display from the International Space Station on 17 November.

NASA astronaut films Northern Lights from space. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

This is a Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82. At a distance of approximately 11.5 million light-years from Earth it is the closest supernova of its type discovered in the past few decades. The explosion is categorized as a Type Ia supernova, which is theorized to be triggered in binary systems consisting of a white dwarf and another star — which could be a second white dwarf, a star like our sun, or a giant star. Astronomers using a ground-based telescope discovered the explosion on January 21, 2014. This Hubble photograph was taken on January 31, as the supernova approached its peak brightness. The Hubble data are expected to help astronomers refine distance measurements to Type Ia supernovae. In addition, the observations could yield insights into what kind of stars were involved in the explosion. Hubble’s ultraviolet-light sensitivity will allow astronomers to probe the environment around the site of the supernova explosion and in the interstellar medium of the host galaxy. Because of their consistent peak brightness, Type Ia supernovae are among the best tools to measure distances in the universe. They were fundamental to the 1998 discovery of the mysterious acceleration of the expanding universe. A hypothesized repulsive force, called dark energy, is thought to cause the acceleration. Among the other major NASA space-based observatories used in the M82 viewing campaign are Spitzer Space Telescope, C...

Hubble Monitors Supernova In Nearby Galaxy M82 - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/kuQfuD

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Gene Cernan - Apollo 17 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/23UPsxX

Australia is generating so much solar power that it's now giving it out for free. Residents in three of the country's states — New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia, representing approximately 14 million people, or roughly half of the country’s population.
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A Russian firm unveiled a humanoid robot dubbed Aldol during a flashy showcase in Moscow, only for it to fall on its face. Figuratively *and* literally.

All to the iconic soundtrack of Rocky, no less.

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♊ Google DeepMind Launched Gemini 3 Pro, The Most Powerful AI

It shot straight to the top spot on the LMArena leaderboard, knocking Elon Musk's Grok 4.1 out of first place. xAI's model barely held the lead for a day.

⚡️ This new Gemini model is incredibly smart. It boasts PhD-level mastery in STEM.

The James Webb Space Telescope may have finally found the 1st stars in the universe "We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a galaxy cluster between us and LAP1-B."

It’s about goddamn time www.space.com/astronomy/th...

Color added by using this ESO image under a CC BY 4.0 license. Please include ESO in the attribution if using this image, like so: NASA/ESA/ESO/Judy Schmidt Some processing notes: The cores of the galaxies were saturated in the ESO image, so I airbrushed over them with an approximate color. The stars were blurred/averaged and then shrunk down with a "minimum" filter so I could get just their color without the huge halo. I did some color balancing, as well. It's not ideal. It still looks pretty good, though. Establishing HST's Low Redshift Archive of Interacting Systems Luminosity: ACS/WFC F606W Red: Melipal/VIMOS V (550 nm) Green: Melipal/VIMOS B (425 nm) Blue: Melipal/VIMOS U (380 nm) North is 1.37° counter-clockwise from up.

AM 1914-603 (Color) - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/SDCbUj

First Human Case of H5N5 Bird Flu Health officials in Washington confirmed the first-ever human infection with H5N5 avian flu, detected in an older adult who was likely exposed through backyard chickens. The patient remains hospitalized, but there’s no sign the virus has spread further.

Apple gets last laugh as iPhone Pocket is sold out in U.S. online and physical Apple Stores
Priced at $149 and $229 for the short and long versions of the accessory, Apple has another winner on its hands.

The Steam Machine feels like the TV gaming PC I’ve always wanted I’ve been looking for a better way to play Steam games on my TV, and the Steam Machine checks all my boxes.

‘Metroid Prime 4: Beyond’ Puts the Switch 2’s Controls to its Biggest Test
Psychic Samus in 'Metroid Prime 4' isn't nearly as interesting as mouse mode.