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Intuitive machines obtained a robot on the moon last year. The Houston company can do it again, but do you keep the spaceship in a vertical position this time?The second lander of the company, named Athena, was launched on Wednesday evening on a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket by NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is now on a path by Aring to the moon.The space vehicle was turned on, but then several minutes of suspense followed when it was late to check -in. In the end, the probe data arrived, accompanied by relief in controlling the mission of intuitive machines.On March 6, the spaceship will try to land in Mons Mouton, a region about 100 miles from the southern pole of the moon. This will be closer to the south pole than each previous spatial vehicle is landed.When the first Lander of in...

A group of scientific experts who recommend the Food and Drug Administration on vaccine policy - and it was the goal of the criticisms of the Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - he learned on Wednesday that his next meeting to discuss the flu vaccines next year has been canceled.The FDA sent an EE -mail to the members of vaccines and to the related consultative committee of organic products on Monday afternoon informing them of the cancellation, according to a high official who is familiar with the decision. There was no reason given. The panel was to meet on March 13th.A member of the Committee, dr. Paul Offit of the Pediatric Hospital of Filadelphia, a frank critic from Kennedy, confirmed the cancellation and warned that it could interfere or delay the production of flu vaccines."It...

The people of Israel embraced them on their last trip, emerging in multitude along the funeral course for a family that had become emblematic of the country's trauma after 7 October 2023, attack.Shiri Bibas and his two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were kidnapped during the attack led by Hamas to the southern Israel, brought to Gaza and killed in captivity, according to the Israeli authorities. On Wednesday, in the midst of a national outburst of solidarity and pain, they were buried under a blue sky, not far from the border community where they had lived and from which they were seized.Through 16 months of fear and uncertainty about their destinies, the Bibas had become a symbol for many Israelis, both from the tragedy that meant that their country that day in October, when about 1,200 ...

Sometimes, the silence talks stronger than the song.This is the hope, at least, for more than 1,000 musicians who have released an album without text on Tuesday to protest against the British government's proposal to expand the ways in which developers can use works protected from copyright to train artificial intelligence models.The album, which was created by artists including Annie Lennox, Billy Ocean, Hans Zimmer and Kate Bush, is not exactly silent: it presents recordings of empty studies, which the artists support represent "the impact that we expect that the proposals of the government would have had "means of subsistence on the musicians."There are steps and rustle: is it a closure of the door? A page that runs? A Moscow? -But only the most contemporary composers outside referred t...

Tesla's actions had been in tears since Donald J. Trump won the presidential elections. Investors were betting that the car manufacturer would benefit from over $ 250 million that its CEO, Elon Musk, spent to support the Trump campaign.But a drop of 8 % of Tesla's actions Tuesday almost swept away what remained of that event. The investors who once thought that Mr. Trump could help eliminate the regulatory obstacles for Tesla's autonomous driving technology have worried that Mr. Musk is spending too much time in Washington while Tesla's sales precipitate.They also worry that the immersion of Mr. Musk in the right politics, including his approval of a far -right party in Sunday's German elections, is alienated a significant number of buyers. In the United States, some Republicans have also ...

The republicans of the Chamber hunting for ways to pay the tax cuts of President Trump have asked to cut the fee of the federal government of Medicoid expenditure, including a proposal that would have actually passed out the expansion of the 2014 program of the 2014 program.The cutting of medicaid expenditure, which is fundamental for the bill on the budget that the republicans of the Chamber could vote on Tuesday, could entail millions of Americans throughout the country losing the health coverage unless the states decide to play a more role important in its financing.Republicans are taking into consideration the reduction of the 90 % share that the federal government is required to pay to the states that register the participants in the expansion. The modification could generate $ 560 bi...

As commander of a rebel group allied with Al Qaeda during the long civil war of Syria, the man known by his nom du war, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, welcomed foreign jihadists, sent suicide bombers to explode military posts and sworn to create an Islamic State.A decade ago, he told a journalist that Muslims should not enter Parliament to swear a constitution created by man because they had to respect "the rule of almighty God".The same commander became the new president of Syria after a rebellious alliance, he led the strong man Bashar al-Assad in December. He broke with Al Qaeda years ago and now he takes his real name, Ahmed al-Shara. He exchanged his military efforts with seeds and undertaken a charm offensive to convince foreign leaders and his Syrian companions who can repair his country i...

"No, in fact, to be honest, we paid," Macron said. As in the case of the United States, he said, there was a mix of subsidies, loans and loan guarantees. "We provided real money, to be clear," he said.Mr. Trump, smiling, made a skeptical face and nodded as if to say he didn't buy him.Mr. Trump, who was unable to brandish the end of the war in 24 hours or before his inauguration, as he promised to do on the countryside track, said that the talks he had started with Mr. Putin could end the war "In a few weeks, if we are intelligent." He added: "If we are not intelligent, it will continue and we will lose young people and beautiful people".The president underlined his request that Ukraine signed hundreds of billions of dollars in mineral rights to reimburse US military aid, to which Zelensky ...

Two years after Apple has introduced a encrypted storage function for iPhone users, the company is pulling those security protections in Great Britain rather than satisfying a request for the government that creates a tool to provide the organizations of the law that access to access to cloud data of customers.Starting from Friday, iPhone users in Great Britain will begin to see a message on their phones saying that Apple can no longer offer its advanced data protection functionality. The functionality allowed users to encrypt almost all their iCloud data, making messages, notes, photos and backups of indecipherable iPhones, even when the information has been stored in cloud computing centers.Apple is removing the function after the British government has asked the company to create a rear...

The question left many workers who hurried.Most of the workforce of the office for the financial protection of consumers had recently been put on leave while Musk gutted the agency and was asked not to work, leaving them without results to be reported, said a worker. Mr. Musk's allies in the government suggested using artificial intelligence to identify budget cuts and workers of different agencies worried that their answers would be evaluated by the AIThe approach echoed to a Mr. Musk adopted with managers and employees on Twitter. In April 2022, Mr. Musk joined the Board of Directors of the Social Media Company, but at the time he quarreled with Parag Agrawal, his CEO, for his public criticisms of the Company. When Mr. Agrawal asked Mr. Musk not to publish harmful things on Twitter, Mr. ...