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Trump pulls nomination of NASA chief Jared Isaacman, says new pick will be ‘mission aligned’
Isaacson is a billionaire tech entrepreneur who led Shift4 payments, a credit card payment processing company.
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San Francisco latest Democratic city to crack down on gas appliances
The transition would require water heaters in single-family homes to transition to electric by 2027, furnaces in 2029, and multifamily and commercial water heaters by 2031
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Biden administration backs bipartisan bill to ban TikTok in U.S.
The RESTRICT Act would give the Commerce Department the ability to restrict, and even ban, TikTok and other technologies if they are considered to pose national security risks
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TikTok sets a one-hour screen time limit for teenagers
When the 60-minute screen time limit is reached, users will be required to enter a code, “requiring them to make an active decision” to extend the time they spend on the app
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Ohio train derailment was "100% preventable," says NTSB chair
The train’s operators received a “critical audible alarm message instructing the crew to slow and stop the train to inspect a hot axle"
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Pentagon releases U.S. pilot's photo of Chinese spy balloon
The picture shows the silver-white sphere of the balloon carrying panels below it, and the shadow of the aircraft on the balloon
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U.S. military shoots down third unidentified flying object over Lake Huron
Since the incident with the Chinese spy balloon, the U.S. military has shot down three other unidentified flying objects in three days
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U.S. shoots down unidentified object flying over Alaska
The object was flying at around 40,000 feet (12,190 meters), posing a risk to civilian air traffic
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Bard A.I.: Google reveals chat GPT rival
While it is still unclear what capabilities Google’s chatbot will have, Bard A.I. is designed to answer questions and find information by using the internet as a database
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NASA to test nuclear-powered spacecraft by 2027
The space agency has been studying the concept of a nuclear-powered spacecraft for decades, which it believes could be more efficient than chemical-based rocket engines