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The Orion capsule carrying the Artemis II astronauts has successfully splashed down off the coast of San Diego at 8:07PM Eastern time on April 10. It signals the conclusion of Artemis II's 10-day journey around the moon, which is meant to be a test flight for a future mission that would bring humanity back to the lunar surface. The Orion crew module carrying the mission's astronauts separated from the service module at 7:33 PM. While the service module was designed to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, the crew capsule was built to bring the astronauts back home safely.
By 7:53 PM, Orion reached our planet's upper atmosphere, where a six-minute communication blackout occurred due to the capsule heating up as it started its guided descent. The capsule has 11 parachutes, with its drogue parachutes being deployed at 23,400 feet to stabilize and slow it down. When Orion reached 5,400 feet above the ground, the drogue parachutes were cut off so that the three main parachutes could be deployed. That decreased the capsule's velocity to 200 feet per second, enabling a safe splashdown.
NASA's engineers conducted several tests while the capsule was in the water before the recovery team headed to the capsule on inflatable boats to extract the crew from Orion. By 9:34 PM, all four crew members were out of the capsule. They were then hoisted into helicopters and flown to the USS John P. Murtha dock ship, where doctors will assess their health.
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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for April 11.
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A 20-year-old man was arrested by the San Francisco Police Department after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's house, The New York Times reports.
In a statement shared on X, SFPD wrote that it responded to a request for a fire investigation in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco around 7:12 AM ET / 4:12AM PT. "At the scene, officers learned that an unknown male subject threw an incendiary destructive device at a home, causing a fire at an exterior gate." After the man fled on foot, police found and arrested him around an hour later while responding to a business' complaint about an "unknown male subject threatening to burn down the building." That business turned out to be OpenAI's headquarters and the subject happened to be the same man who threw the Molotov at Altman's house.
— San Francisco Police (@SFPD) April 10, 2026
"Early this morning, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and also made threats at our San Francisco headquarters. Thankfully, no one was hurt," an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed
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Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for April 11, No. 769.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra on March 31 to formalize a memorandum of understanding covering AI safety research, joint model evaluations, and economic data sharing. Australia's memorandum of understanding with Anthropic covers more than model testing. It extends to safety evaluations, economic data sharing, research collaboration, workforce training, […]
The post What Australia's Anthropic MOU Can and Cannot Do appeared first on eWEEK.
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The latest changes to the Windows 11 Notepad app and snipping tool show Microsoft is retreating from the "Copilot" branding, even if the AI functions remain.
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 Rumors about Apple's first foldable iPhone are picking up now that the device has entered a new testing stage that precedes mass production. If you've been having trouble keeping up with what's new, we've recapped the latest iPhone Fold rumors that have come out over the last few weeks.
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Amazon looks to reshape its cloud gaming service, which has yet to catch on with gamers.
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The FBI extracted unencrypted messages from an iPhone's notification database. There are ways to keep your messages safe.
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Android and iPhone consumers can now use E2EE in the app, but you need to be subscribed to Enterprise Plus.
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Amazon is ending support for third-party integrations on its Luna cloud gaming service. The most immediate changes mean that it's no longer possible to buy Ubisoft and Jackbox Games subscriptions or standalone games through Luna.
Amazon will automatically any cancel active subscriptions bought through Luna at the end of customers' next billing cycle. If you have a Ubisoft subscription that you bought directly from Ubisoft instead, you'll still be able to access games on that service through Luna until June 10.
The Bring Your Own Library option — which allows users to play games they own on the likes of
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The iPhone has been to space a few times now -- in fact, Apple products have a long history of space travel.
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NASA's Orion module splashed into the Pacific Ocean just after 8 p.m. Eastern on Friday, concluding an important test for the Artemis program.
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Nintendo has confirmed that there won't be any restocks of its popular Mario Kart World bundle, but there are still savings to be had elsewhere.
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The culinary intelligentsia would have you believe that gas stoves are the only kind worth considering. Here's my case for induction after making the swap.
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NEW RESOURCES Hawaii News Now: New website connects those affected by Kona low storms to rebuilding help. "The Department of Planning and Permitting announced Tuesday the launch of the Rebuild Donation Match […]
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Sick! The Federal Aviation Administration is targeting gamers in its most recent job advertisement for air traffic controllers. The administration's annual hiring window opens at 12AM ET on April 17, and considering the ongoing shortage of air traffic controllers, it's calling this a period of "supercharged hiring." Rad! The FAA's YouTube video draws parallels between gaming and directing air traffic, and notes that the average salary for the role after three years is $155,000. Hella!
The FAA is clearly seeking players who are at least old enough to remember the Xbox One and Bjergsen in the LCS, which puts would-be candidates around their early 20s at least. It's either that, or the ad editors really just picked videos at random from the pile of stock footage marked gamerz. But I won't lie, it made me smile to see that Xbox One logo appear out of nowhere. Nostalgia is a hell of a thing.
"To reach the next generation of air traffic controllers, we need to adapt," US Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said. "This campaign's innovative communication style and focus on gaming taps into a growing demographic of young adults who have many of the hard skills it takes to be a successful controller."
The FAA has been losing more air traffic controllers than it can hire and retain since the 2010s, and this trend only worsened during the pan
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As child social media bans spread across Europe and beyond, Estonia isn't having it. On Friday, the country's education minister said the bans won't "actually solve problems," while warning that the kids will find a way regardless.
Although companies like Meta would love for you to believe it's a fairy tale, social media addiction is associated with tangible negative repercussions for children. Studies show that its harms range from depression and anxiety to sleep deprivation and obesity. (The latter is from all the targeted junk food advertising.) On the other hand, teens can find community and support from social media.
A growing list of countries looked at the negative data and concluded that the answer was to ban social media altogether for children. Although the age cutoff varies, legislation has been floated or enacted in Australia, Greece,
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 For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Astropad to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win one of Apple's iPhone 17 models and a Fresh Coat anti-reflective screen protector from Astropad to use with it.
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Shockingly, the answer to a long-running and complex issue is not "gamers."
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He also allegedly went to OpenAI HQ and threatened to burn down the building.
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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss all of the rumors surrounding Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone, now said to be called the "iPhone Ultra," which is shaping up to be a comprehensive redesign unlike anything the company has shipped before.
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Whether you work from bed, bath or the backyard, this guide has you covered.
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Cash, cards, keys and tickets -- all replaced by your phone. It makes everything easier, but is that a good thing?
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Can I Am Maximus claim a historic second win?
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A new installment of show starring Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney and Jacob Elordi premieres this weekend.
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Two landmark social media addiction trials opened the floodgates and Meta is officially afraid.
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 Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26.4.1, a minor update to the ?macOS Tahoe? operating system that came out last September. ?macOS Tahoe? 26.4.1 comes two weeks after Apple launched macOS Tahoe 26.4.
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NEW RESOURCES Coastal Review: State launches digital exhibit featuring NC's first governor. "The exhibit, ‘Governor Richard Caswell and Revolutionary North Carolina,' contains 337 newly transcribed and searchable documents about Caswell's career, the […]
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