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Elon Musk’s feud with President Donald Trump has officially reached orbit.Musk said in a post on X Thursday that SpaceX “will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately” in light of Trump’s statement that floated canceling the billionaire’s government contracts and subsidies.The SpaceX CEO included a screenshot of Trump’s earlier Truth Social post, which said terminating Musk’s government contracts would be the “easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars.”SpaceX’s Dragon spaceships are used to transport NASA astronauts and supplies to and from the International Space Station.In a statement to Business Insider, Bethany Stevens, NASA press…
The basic iPad runs on Apple’s A14 Bionic processor, which ran the iPhone 12 series from 2020. Meanwhile, the iPad Air runs on the M2 processor that spins the wheels in the 2022 MacBook Air.You don’t need to spend more on the iPad Air if you only plan on running basic apps or even demanding games. Both iPads work as well as each other for simple tasks like web browsing, video streaming, or running casual apps. Even a graphics-heavy game like “War Thunder Mobile” runs well on the standard iPad at 50 frames per second (fps) at maximum graphics settings.Concerns…
Perplexity received 780 million queries in May, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared onstage at Bloomberg’s Tech Summit on Thursday. Srinivas said that the AI search engine is seeing more than 20% growth month-over-month. “Give it a year, we’ll be doing, like, a billion queries a week if we can sustain this growth rate,” Srinivas said. “And that’s pretty impressive because the first day in 2022, we did 3,000 queries, just one single day. So from there to doing 30 million queries a day now, it’s been phenomenal growth.” Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially…
NEW YORK (AP) — A Columbia graduate facing deportation over his pro-Palestinian activism on campus has outlined the “irreparable harm” caused by his continued detention as a federal judge weighs his release.Mahmoud Khalil said in court filings unsealed Thursday that the “most immediate and visceral harms” he’s faced in his months detained in Louisiana relate to missing out on the birth of his first child in April. “Instead of holding my wife’s hand in the delivery room, I was crouched on a detention center floor, whispering through a crackling phone line as she labored alone,” the 30-year-old legal U.S. resident…
Regulators in the United Kingdom issued guidance on Thursday, warning that weight loss and diabetes medications may weaken the effectiveness of birth control and may be harmful for pregnant women.The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said women taking tirzepatide, sold under the brand name Mounjaro, may need to use another form of contraception.This is because Mounjaro, a medication licensed to treat diabetes and for weight loss management in the U.K. in conjunction with diet and exercise, may reduce the effectiveness of oral contraceptives in those who are overweight.MORE: Compound versions of GLP-1 drugs for weight loss halted by…
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said his company cut Windsurf’s direct access to Anthropic’s Claude AI models largely because of rumors and reports that OpenAI, its largest competitor, is acquiring the AI coding assistant. “We really are just trying to enable our customers who are going to sustainably be working with us in the future,” said Kaplan during an onstage interview Thursday with TechCrunch at TC Sessions: AI 2025. “I think it would be odd for us to be selling Claude to OpenAI,” Kaplan said. The comment comes just a few weeks after Bloomberg reported that OpenAI…
Facebook Tweet Email Link A judge rebuked Sean “Diddy” Combs for his behavior in court, and a woman using the pseudonym “Jane” alleged that Combs pressured her to have sex with other men as part of her testimony at the hip-hop mogul’s federal criminal trial on Thursday. The key testimony from Jane comes as the prosecution seeks to show Combs and his inner circle used violence, lies, drugs, and other means to coerce Jane and Cassie Ventura into participating in sexual performances with male escorts known as “hotel nights” or “Freak Offs.” Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges of…
CNN — Tom Cruise is now a title-holder for a daring stunt he performed for the latest installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Cruise now holds the title for the “most burning parachute jumps by an individual,” with his jump count clocking in at 16 times. “Tom doesn’t just play action heroes – he is an action hero!” Craig Glenday, Editor-in-Chief of Guinness World Records, said in a statement Thursday. “A large part of his success can be chalked up to his absolute focus on authenticity and pushing the boundaries of what…
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Going into this Stanley Cup Final rematch, confidence oozed from the Florida Panthers just like last year when they won — and also this time from the Edmonton Oilers because they felt prepared for the moment.After losing Game 1 in overtime after a puck over the glass penalty put Edmonton on the power play, the Panthers have not lost any of the belief they carried into the series. In a third consecutive final, the defending champions are unfazed by their deficit and appear well equipped to bounce back in Game 2 on Friday night.“We’ve got a…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — For two decades on Texas college campuses, it was a resilient law in the face of Republicans’ hardening immigration agenda: in-state tuition prices for students who did not have legal resident status. But in a flash, the Texas policy that was the first of its kind in the U.S. was halted Wednesday, blocked by a federal judge hours after the Justice Department sued to dismantle it. Republican Texas leaders did not fight the challenge, but instead eagerly joined it. The surprise and quick end to the law, known as the “Texas Dream Act,” stunned immigration advocates…