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Elon Musk breaks silence on OpenAI trial decision - Teslarati

Elon Musk broke his silence regarding the jury decision to throw out the case against OpenAI and Sam Altman. The Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI frontman has already indicated that an appeal will be filed regarding the decision, which went against him yesterday.

WGN TV Chicago
Schlitz beer discontinued after 177 years - WGN-TV

— After 177 years, Pabst is discontinuing Schlitz beer. The beer was based in Milwaukee starting in 1849 and was later produced by the Pabst Brewing Company. Pabst bought the brand in 1999.

Wgel.com
Bernard “Bummy” G. Lowe - WGEL Radio

Lowe, aged 82, of Carlyle, passed away at his home on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. Born on October 30, 1943, he was the son of Henry and Amelia (Lee) Lowe. Bernard is lovingly remembered by his brother Gary Lowe, sister Ruth Ann Hopper, and num…

Phys.Org
Consistency check casts doubt on evolving dark energy - Phys.org

Cosmologists have long struggled to determine whether the universe's accelerating expansion is being driven by a simple cosmological constant, or whether dark energy's influence is evolving over time. In a new analysis published in Physical Review D, Samsuzza…

Phys.Org
Findings reconsider the existence of Europa's vapor plumes - Phys.org

Looking back at 14 years of Hubble telescope data for Jupiter's moon Europa has given Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists a better understanding of its tenuous atmosphere. The findings have cast doubt on previous evidence suggesting that the icy mo…

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Droid Life
Everything New in Wear OS 7 - Droid Life

Wear OS 7 has been announced, set to release to supported smartwatches later this year. Google claims that watches upgrading from Wear OS 6 to Wear OS 7 can expect up to 10% improvement in battery life, plus plenty of new features. Wear OS 7 Canary is now ava…

Associated Press
Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements - AP News

Artificial intelligence has become an unwelcome topic at college commencements. Graduates at several colleges and universities have interrupted speakers with boos when they mention AI. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the latest keynote speaker to face heckl…

Space Daily
The James Webb Space Telescope has found galaxies that appear to have formed within 280 million years of the Big Bang, some containing heavy elements that shouldn't have had time to form — and at least one peer-reviewed paper has now proposed that t - Space Daily

The James Webb Space Telescope wasn’t supposed to find any of this. When it launched in late 2021, astronomers expected it would peer further back in time than any instrument in human history. They hoped to see the first faint galaxies — the small, dim, chemi…

Space Daily
The Opportunity rover survived on Mars for 14 years — roughly 55 times longer than its 90-day design mission — before a 2018 global dust storm so vast it turned "day into night" across the entire planet buried its solar panels, and despite NASA sending more t - Space Daily

In January 2004, a golf-cart-sized robot bounced down through the atmosphere of Mars on a cluster of airbags, rolled to a stop, and started doing what it was sent to do. NASA’s engineers had given it 90 Martian days to work. Maybe 92 Earth days if you wanted …

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