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Former YouTube CEO and one of Google's earliest employees, Susan Wojcicki, passed away at 56 after a two-year struggle with lung cancer, her husband, Dennis Troper, announced via a Facebook post late Friday night.

"It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan Wojcicki passing. My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after 2 years of living with non small cell lung cancer," Troper said in the post. 

He continued, "Susan (more…)

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

Mimicry of intelligence isn't intelligence, and so while AI mimicry is a powerful tool, it isn't (more…)

The Chinese Long March 6A rocket, launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China on Tuesday, carrying 18 Qianfan ("Thousand Sails") satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO), has broken up in space.

On Thursday afternoon, US Space Command announced on X that the "Long March 6A rocket launched on Aug. 6, 2024" has broken up in LEO, "resulting in over 300 pieces of trackable debris in low-Earth orbit." 

Space Command has "observed no (more…)