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Signatures of Ice-Free Ancient Ponds and Lakes Found on Mars by Lori Dajose Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2025 Researchers have discovered two sets of ancient wave ripples on Mars, signatures of long-dried bodies of water preserved in the rock record. Wave ripples are small undulations in the sandy shores of lakebeds, created as wind-driven water laps back and forth. The two sets of ripples indicate the former presence of shallow water that was open to the Martian air, not covered by ice as some climate models would require. Ripples are one of the clearest indicators of…
An Estee Lauder counter is seen on the floor of a department store in Brooklyn on Feb. 5, 2025 in New York City.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesSeveral beauty stocks posted major losses this week, as companies such as E.l.f. Beauty and Estee Lauder reported disappointing earnings and cut guidance.E.l.f. closed out its worst week since August 2018, with shares cratering nearly 29% over the five-day period. The cosmetics brand on Thursday posted a revenue beat for its fiscal third quarter, but missed on adjusted earnings per share and cut its full-year guidance to between $1.3 billion and $1.31 billion in…
For the fourth year in a row, SpaceX will be holding its Hyperloop Pod Competition. The event, which features teams of students from universities across the globe, is expected to raise the game this year, with returning champion TUM Hyperloop (formerly WARR Hyperloop) from the Technical University of Munich looking to hit half the speed of sound with its upgraded pod. TUM has been competing in SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod Competitions since the first tournament was held in 2015. The team has created a reputation for creating incredibly quick pods over the years, even beating the 240 mph record set by…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three weeks in, President Donald Trump keeps cranking out executive orders designed to remake the government while billionaire Elon Musk hunts for more ways to upend the federal workforce.Trump also provoked — then called off — trade wars with Canada and Mexico but allowed one with China to move forward. He seemingly made light of potentially thorny political issues while insisting he was serious about the United States seizing Gaza, emptying out its residents and redeveloping the area into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” It was an idea that friend and foe alike around the world…
Until recently, Elon Musk seldom posted about the U.S. Agency for International Development on X, where he is wont to share his thoughts on nearly every subject. Then on Sunday came a flurry of posts wherein the world’s richest person, the Trump-appointed head of the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, described USAID, the foreign humanitarian assistance agency, as “a viper’s nest of radical-left marxists who hate America,” “evil” and “a criminal organization.””Time for it to die,” Musk posted.Musk’s sudden — and consequential — interest in USAID did not emerge from a vacuum: The agency has long been a target…
A federal judge on Friday said he would not immediately block the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing systems at the Labor Department.U.S. District Judge John Bates said he had concerns about DOGE but that the labor unions who sued to block their access to the systems have not yet provided evidence of any legal injury.”Although the court harbors concerns about defendants’ alleged conduct, it must deny plaintiffs’ motion at this time,” Bates wrote.The Labor Department has investigated companies like SpaceX and Tesla that are owned by Elon Musk, who leads DOGE, and keeps records on these investigations.…
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer, is the first of Elon Musk’s DOGE crew to lose their job.Elez resigned from his post at Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal uncovered that Elez had published racist statements on an anonymous account that once bore his name. However, on Friday, Musk confirmed he could bring Elez back to DOGE.”He will be brought back,” Musk posted to his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, while quoting Vice President JD Vance’s post supporting Elez’s rehiring. “To err is human, to forgive divine.” Tweet may have been…
GitHub Copilot, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot for the coding platform, is getting several new features. Announced on Thursday, the company is adding a new agent mode to the chatbot that can automatically iterate on code generated by it and analyse errors. Alongside, the Microsoft-owned platform also made Copilot Edits generally available, which was first announced at the GitHub Universe in October 2024. The company also took the curtains off Project Padawan, the platform’s first software engineer (SWE) AI agent.GitHub Is Introducing New Features to CopilotJust a week after GitHub added the DeepSeek-R1 AI model to its platform, the company…
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsElon Musk has been condemned for sharing lies about the global response to the Sweden school massacre. Rickard Andersson, a 35-year-old recluse, has been named in Swedish media as the suspected gunman who killed 10 people at Risbergska School in Örebro, before turning the gun on himself. But as well-wishers paid their respects to the victims of the massacre online, X owner and member of the Trump administration…
The Trump Administration announced today that it would be pausing the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program (NEVI) in an effort to realign federal spending with the priorities of the new White House. It is the latest move that President Donald Trump has made to essentially put tax dollars that are used toward the EV transition on hold. The NEVI program was put into effect by the Biden Administration and received many points of criticism as the $5 billion project yielded very few new charging stations and ports despite the massive price tag. Biden administration announces $5B budget to develop EV…