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The Race for the Next-Gen Space Station

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NASA The station is slowly leaking air, presumably from stress cracks in its hull that crew members have struggled to locate, and it’s getting increasingly expensive to maintain as parts wear out. When the time comes, Axiom says, it would detach its components and reconfigure them with other parts for a new station. “If

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Tao Images/Alamy. Examples include the use of Facebook's data around the 2016 U.S. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Icelandic volcano eruption of 1973.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Looking deeply into the human voice Chad Hagen Singh suggests that speech analysis alone can be used to generate a shockingly detailed profile of an unknown speaker. “If On camera, the man claimed he’d taken part in the violence and had firebombed a drugstore. Police later arrested a man named Edward Lee King on unrelated drug charges.

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Falling Domestic Fares and an A.I. Arms Race: What Travelers Can Expect in 2024

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is like a teenage intern,” said Chad Burt, co-owner of the travel adviser network Outside Agents , “better, smarter, faster than you, but you need to lead them.” It was acquired by Accor Hotels in 2016. It is hard to believe that it has only been about a year since travelers started dabbling in ChatGPT-created itineraries.

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