Sony's Playstation games once ran solely on discs. But with advances in technology, physical discs are unnecessary, and the company will soon stop making them.
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Reflect Orbital received permission from the Federal Communications Commission to launch a satellite designed to bounce sunlight back to dark parts of the Earth.
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NurPhoto/Getty ImagesMarine biologists off of Baja California recorded one orca teeing up another to smash a sunfish into pieces. Scientists say there could be a reason for this behavior — or it could be just for entertainment.
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Hannah Chin and Nate Rott of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the building blocks of birdsong, the evolutionary history of avocados and Egyptian warrior princesses.
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The Trump administration has terminated or suspended more than 100 federal advisory committees. Former members say agencies like NASA now have less accountability to stakeholders and the public.
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Invasive species can wreak havoc on ecosystems. A new study in Science suggests low- and middle-income countries in the Global South experience greater harms.
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A Food and Drug Administration panel is consider easing restrictions to seven experimental therapies.
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According to former employees, telehealth company LifeMD, which works closely with GLP-1 manufacturer Novo Nordisk, is overprescribing weight-loss drugs with little to no oversight, risking patient safety.
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A new poll shows employees are not sure about if their employers are doing enough.
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Despite criticisms of a brain drain from China to the U.S., the awards come at a time when several high-profile Chinese scholars have returned home, some citing an increasingly hostile academic environment in America. -
The online outcry over the renaming of a summer festival illustrates the unease over the data center boom in the South. -
NPR's A Martinez asks Nate Soares of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute how two experimental OpenAI models hacked their way onto the internet and into another AI company, without instruction.
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The incident is stirring debates over the need for stronger AI guardrails and the extent to which AI agents are capable of acting on their own.
