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Jess Weatherbed

Two private landers head to the moon to aid future NASA astronauts

The landers have a long journey ahead of them. | Image: SpaceX

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning carrying two private lunar landers into orbit in support of NASA’s future Artemis landing crews. The Blue Ghost and Resilience landers, built by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and Japan’s iSpace aerospace firms respectively, aim to provide data on the Moon’s environment and test technologies that will help to one day return astronauts to the...

The Verge

Dominic Preston

Honor’s Magic 7 Pro looks flagship through and through

The Honor Magic 7 Pro ships in blue, black, and a shadowy grey. | Image: Honor

Honor’s flagship Magic 7 Pro launches in the UK and Europe today, powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite and protected by top-tier water-resistance. It also features a high resolution 200 megapixel telephoto camera.

Arriving a week after the OnePlus 13 and a week before we expect to meet Samsung’s Galaxy S25 phones, the Magic 7 Pro is among the first phones to release outside of China with Qualcomm’s new...

NYT > Home Page

Yan Zhuang

Pilots Battling L.A Fires Face Heat, Turbulence, and High-Pressure Risks

The people flying planes and tankers involved in dousing blazes face hot, sweaty, turbulent conditions — and the risk that fire retardant won’t land where it’s needed.

SBNation.com

Matt Warren

NFL free agent rankings: Cornerbacks

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Take a look at the free agents at the cornerback position.

As many as seven cornerbacks could come off the board in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft, and this important position also has some very worthy starters available in free agency this offseason.

We polled a group of writers from around SB Nation to gather consensus rankings about the available players.

We will remove players from the list as they re-sign with their current teams all...

SBNation.com

Mark Schofield

Nolan Siegel looking for a ‘simple’ first season in IndyCar

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Arrow McLaren driver Nolan Siegel addressed his first full season in IndyCar and much more ahead of the 2025 season

The 2024 motorsport season pulled Nolan Siegel in almost every direction possible.

The young driver started 12 races in IndyCar, ten of those with Arrow McLaren, one with Juncos Hollinger Racing, and one more with Dale Coyne Racing. He started five races in the Indy NXT series, winning one and finishing with three...

Fast Company

Harry McCracken

Tech CEOs are just postponing their Trump 2.0 reckoning

Big Tech is bending over backward to give the incoming president the benefit of the doubt. That could get far harder once he’s actually wielding power.

In Silicon Valley, a million bucks doesn’t exactly count as vast riches. Still, it’s a nice, round figure pregnant with symbolic value. And so it meant something when major tech companies and their leaders lined up to donate that amount to Donald Trump’s fund for his second inauguration.

ESPN.com

Michael Voepel

Iowa St. record 3-point streak ends at 945 games

Iowa State's women's basketball team failed to make a 3-pointer for the first time in 945 games, snapping its NCAA-record streak.

Wired Top Stories

Kate Knibbs

That Sports News Story You Clicked on Could Be AI Slop

A new report, shared exclusively with WIRED, shows how an AI content mill with hundreds of sites managed to pull big-name advertisers into their schemes.

Wired Top Stories

Reece Rogers

AI Agents Are Here. How Much Should We Let Them Do?

WIRED’s advice columnist cracks open the publication’s archive to consider past promises about AI agents, and to get some advice on how we can use automation while retaining our humanity.

NYT > Home Page

Tracy Mumford, Christina Morales, Choe Sang-Hun, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger

Gaza Cease-Fire ‘Right on the Brink,’ and the S.E.C. Sues Elon Musk

Plus, who gets a quinceañera?

SBNation.com

David Fucillo

Your daily NFL trivia game, Wednesday edition

Think you can figure out what NFL player we’re talking about? You’ll get five clues to figure him out.

We’re back for another day of the SB Nation in-5 daily trivia game, and we’re returning to our system of a new article each day for the game.

We tried using a single article for the game, updated with the latest game each day, but it was creating a bit of an unwieldy experience in the comments. So, we’ll have the current day’s game plus the previous three days in each...

ESPN.com

Gauff, unbeaten in 2025, into Aussie third round

Coco Gauff stretched her unbeaten start to 2025 to seven matches and 14 sets by moving into the third round at the Australian Open on Wednesday.

Wired Top Stories

Joel Khalili

The Madcap Rise of Memecoin Factory Pump.Fun

Pump.Fun raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in its first year in operation. Despite some growing pains, its creators say this is just the beginning.

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The Verge

Tom Warren

Microsoft stops using Bing to trick people into thinking they’re on Google

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Microsoft has quietly killed off its spoofed Google UI that it was using to trick Bing users into thinking they were using Google. Earlier this month you could search for “Google” on Bing and get a page that looked a lot like Google, complete with a special search bar, an image resembling a Google Doodle, and even some small text under the search bar just like Google search.

The misleading UI no longer appears on the Google search result of Bing this week,...

The Verge

Jess Weatherbed

Drake withdraws accusation that UMG and Spotify illegally boosted Kendrick Lamar’s diss track

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Drake has withdrawn the petition he raised accusing Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) of illegally boosting Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track “Not Like Us.” According to documents filed with the New York Supreme Court on Tuesday, the pre-action case is being discontinued with no financial cost to any of the parties involved.

The petition, or “pre-action case,” isn’t a full lawsuit — it refers to a stage of litigation that seeks...

The Verge

Tom Warren

Microsoft won’t support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th

Image: Microsoft

Microsoft says it will no longer support Office apps, known as Microsoft 365 apps, on Windows 10 later this year. The support cutoff coincides with Windows 10’s end of support on October 14th, and will mean businesses and consumers that rely on Microsoft 365 apps will need to upgrade to Windows 11.

“Microsoft 365 Apps will no longer be supported after October 14, 2025, on Windows 10 devices,” says Microsoft in a blog post. “To use Microsoft 365 Applications on...

NYT > Home Page

Lydia DePillis

Economic Toll of Los Angeles Fires Goes Far Beyond Destroyed Homes

The ongoing disaster will affect residents’ health, local industries, public budgets and the cost of housing for years to come.

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