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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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Scientists receive radio signal sent by a galaxy 9 billion light years away
The signal was emitted from the galaxy when the universe was only 4.9 billion years old
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Mexico turns to artificial intelligence to track missing persons amid 110,000 disappearances
The program creates charts to demonstrate what connections there are between different missing persons to see if there’s a link with various suspected perpetrators in different locations, allowing investigators to get a visual as to what places may have higher frequencies of disappearances and which incidents may be more than coincidence
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Ukraine's first lady sheds tears at Davos over Kyiv helicopter tragedy that killed 14
The incident has been a blow to Ukraine as several members of the country’s interior ministry were aboard and died
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New laser could detect aliens living on distant planets
In order to detect life in outer space, the laser uses a powerful laser beam to search for signs of water, oxygen, and other biosignatures that could indicate the presence of life on a planet
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Puerto Rico to privatize power as outages continue
The new contract would mean the end of Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority, which currently oversees the island’s power management
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Government reports more than 500 UFO sightings, several unexplained
The events “continue to occur in restricted or sensitive airspace, highlighting possible concerns for the safety of flight or adversary collection activity”
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NASA's James Webb Telescope discovers first exoplanet, close in size to Earth
The planet, named LSH 475 b, is located in the constellation Octans and is 41 light-years away—relatively nearby in space terms
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FAA system outage halts all national flight departures
More than 3,700 flights have been affected since 8:20 a.m., according to the website FlightAware, which tracks flight delays and cancellations. At least 656 flights have been canceled so far
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TikTok pushes harmful content to users as often as every 39 seconds
In one case, TikTok’s algorithm recommended suicidal content to a research posing as a teen in as little as 2.6 minutes after joining.
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Japan and Netherlands join U.S. in blocking China from advanced chipmaking tech
U.S. allies like the European Union, Japan and South Korea had initially declined to join the Biden administration's controls, fearing retaliation from a large trading partner.