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Meta deactivates feature that let you generate AI images of any public Instagram account

Meta deactivates feature that let you generate AI images of any public Instagram account

A fresh space update is giving scientists and engineers another useful data point, the kind that can matter long after the launch photo or mission headline fades.

The value of space work is often delayed. The public moment is the mission update; the real payoff comes from the data, the engineering lessons and the experiments that follow.

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First US test of modular reactor reaches criticality

First US test of modular reactor reaches criticality illustration

The important part of this research is not the drama of a single result, but what the result may let scientists do next. The immediate finding may be technical, but the long-term value is in what it could make safer, smarter, cheaper, faster, or easier to understand.

The test is not whether the discovery sounds impressive on first reading. It is whether the evidence is strong, the limits are clear, and the work gives other researchers a firmer platform for the next step.

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Google's Gemini Omni can generate 'anything from any input,' starting with video

A new gadget story is only interesting if it survives contact with ordinary life: charging, durability, usefulness, price and whether people still reach for it after the novelty fades.

The gadget market is crowded. A product earns attention when it solves a daily problem clearly, not when it merely adds another line to a spec sheet.

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