Polestar electric vehicles gained access to Tesla Supercharger network, but the company faces potential ban in the US market due to proposed rules banning Chinese connected-car software and hardware.

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A food engineer and candy expert from the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains their preference for Snickers bars due to their combination of nougat, caramel, peanuts, and milk chocolate, highlighting their scientific understanding of confections.

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Apple has redesigned the Mac mini for the first time since 2010. The new model features the M4 and M4 Pro processors, a smaller design, and starts at $599 with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.

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SpaceX has successfully captured a Starship rocket using mechanical arms, marking a significant step towards making launch cheap, frequent, and reliable. The company aims to refuel and reuse rockets, with the ultimate goal of landing on the Moon and Mars.

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NASA astronaut Don Pettit, 69, is the oldest active astronaut, who gave up his personal drink bag to bring unflavored gelatin to the International Space Station for scientific experiments.

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The Silk Road's history has focused on its endpoints, but less is known about the people and cultures encountered along the way. Traders passed through large cities and crossed the Tien Shan mountain range.

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NASA officials have identified the root cause of the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracking during the Artemis I test flight, but are withholding the information until further reviews are completed.

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An Associated Press investigation found that OpenAI's Whisper transcription tool creates fabricated text in medical and business settings, inventing text that speakers never said, in up to 80% of cases.

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Experts gathered at TED AI 2024 in San Francisco to discuss AI's impact on science, art, and society, focusing on immediate challenges such as training data rights and hardware-based regulation.

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OpenAI releases early Windows app for ChatGPT, available to subscribers of higher-tier plans.

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