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Why Iran deadline is trending  CNN

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A women’s ‘push-up hack’ is trending on social media – an anatomist explains why it works  The Conversation

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1. Spotify now lets everyone turn off videos in its app  TechCrunch
2. Spotify Introduces New Video Controls for Listeners  Spotify
3. Spotify’s newest feature lets you focus on audio without distractions  9to5Mac
4. Spotify now lets you turn off all its videos  The Verge
5. Spotify now lets you turn off all video  Engadget

1. Amazon upsets ebook lovers by ending support for old Kindle devices  The Guardian
2. Amazon to end support for older Kindles, prompting user outcry  BBC
3. Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done  ZDNET
4. Amazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older Kindles  WIRED
5. Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore. Here’s What to Do.  The New York Times

1. Google introduces AI-generated avatars to YouTube Shorts  Engadget
2. You Can Now Clone Yourself on YouTube With an AI Avatar Tool  CNET
3. YouTube Is Releasing an AI Tool That Lets You Deepfake Yourself  inc.com
4. Creators can now use AI versions of themselves to make YouTube Shorts  Android Police
5. How to Create Your Own Avatar on YouTube  iPhone in Canada

1. Google bakes NotebookLM, its research tool, into Gemini  Engadget
2. Try notebooks in Gemini to easily keep track of projects  blog.google
3. Gemini gets notebooks to help you organize projects  The Verge
4. Google Gemini's 'Notebooks' Let You Focus Your Chats on a Specific Subject  Lifehacker
5. Google Brings Notebooks to Gemini  Thurrott.com

1. TCL's soft on the eyes NXTPAPER 70 Pro is finally in the US at T-Mobile  Android Central
2. TCL NXTPAPER 70 Pro Now Available in the U.S.  PR Newswire
3. TCL just dropped a phone that lasts an entire week without a charge  Android Police
4. This phone tries to fix eye strain by turning its screen into an e-reader  Yahoo Creators
5. T-Mobile is giving away a unique, newly-released phone for free  PhoneArena

Windshaper

A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.  The WindShaper is ideal for generating arbitrary wind gradients and wind gusts via a simple Python API.  A companion WindProbe is also available for quick surveys of flows.  The WindProbe utilizes the lab’s OptiTrack motion capture system to extract the position and orientation of the 5-hole cone probe located on the probe tip.

• Large dynamic fan array: 9’x7’, 1134 fans arranged as 567 ‘wind pixels’
• Wind speeds: 0 to 16 m/s (0 to 36 mph/31 kts)
• Acceleration: 4 m/s², Deceleration: 2.5 m/s²
• Each fan is programmable via Python scripting
• Replicates steady winds, gusts, and wind gradients

Listen to this audio excerpt from Dan Florez, test director for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program:

At 1:47 a.m. EST November 16, 2022, as the Artemis I engines ignited, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and Dan Florez, NASA test director for the agency’s Exploration Ground Systems, watched from Kennedy’s Launch Control Center roof as the midnight sky turned bright as daylight, the crackle and roar of launch vibrating through them. Little did they know, one of them soon would be the Artemis II commander, and the other would be an important figure in bringing the mission home safely.

Florez is one of the NASA test directors for the Exploration Ground Systems Program. The test directors are a group of 20 engineers at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida who plan and execute integrated testing for Artemis missions. Their work includes developing timelines and procedures for launch countdown, propellant loading, emergency egress, pad and launch abort scenarios, recovery operations, and more. They help lead the ground systems team in all areas of testing.

At the time of Artemis I launch, Florez and his fellow test directors had already developed the launch countdown timelines for Artemis II.

“We were really focused on loading that spacecraft with cryogenic propellants and successfully launching it. With Artemis II, we’re going to have to do all that again, but in the middle of that, we’re going to have to embed the crew timeline to get the crew safely inside the spacecraft, get all the systems checked out, and launch them into space,” Florez said. “And we have to do the same thing on the tail end through recovery. So, there’s a lot of complexities when you have the human element thrown into the operation.”

Since Artemis I, Florez has focused his work even more heavily on the human element, taking on rescue and recovery operations.

“We have to have a plan to go get to the crew if we have an abort, if we land anywhere in the world within 24 hours,” said Florez. “My role right now is to do a lot of that coordination to make sure we have all the assets and all the resources in place to get to the crew.”

When the Artemis II crew returns to Earth aboard the Orion spacecraft, Florez will be there, prepared and ready with NASA’s Landing and Recovery Team and the U.S. military.

Recovery operations are routinely verified and validated in what is called an underway recovery test. NASA and Navy teams board a U.S. Navy ship and travel off the coast of San Diego to test retrieving the capsule and getting the crew safely on the ship. In late February 2024, the Artemis II crew joined the recovery team’s eleventh iteration of testing called, URT-11.

“It was really great to have that perspective of having astronauts in the loop during our test operations,” said Florez. “Everywhere along the way, we got feedback from them.”

Artemis II launched at 6:35 p.m. EDT April 1, from Launch Complex 39B, sending NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on their approximately 10-day mission around the Moon.

Florez and his colleagues are prepared and ready to apply everything they tested to recover the crew.

WindShaper

A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.  The WindShaper is ideal for generating arbitrary wind gradients and wind gusts via a simple Python API.  A companion WindProbe is also available for quick surveys of flows.  The WindProbe utilizes the lab’s OptiTrack motion capture system to extract the position and orientation of the 5-hole cone probe located on the probe tip.

•Large dynamic fan array: 9’x7’, 1134 fans arranged as 567 ‘wind pixels’

•Wind speeds: 0 to 16 m/s (0 to 36 mph/31 kts)

•Acceleration: 4 m/s², Deceleration: 2.5 m/s²

•Each fan is programmable via Python scripting

•Replicates steady winds, gusts, and wind gradients

The Artemis II crew captured this photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026. The Milky Way’s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center.

See more photos from the mission.
Image credit: NASA

Description

Staff at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California watch the agency’s Artemis II mission unfold soon after launch on April 1, 2026, at the Space Flight Operations Facility, which operates the Deep Space Network (DSN).

The DSN comprises of three complexes in Goldstone, California; Madrid, Spain; and Canberra, Australia. Each complex has several radio frequency antennas that communicate with dozens of spacecraft exploring the solar system in addition to the crewed Artemis II mission.

The DSN is managed by JPL for the agency’s Space Communications and Navigation program, which is located at NASA Headquarters within the Space Operations Mission Directorate. The DSN allows missions to track, send commands to, and receive scientific data from faraway spacecraft. JPL is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California, for NASA.

For more information about Artemis II, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier plans to investigate OpenAI for its alleged harm to minors, potential to threaten national security, and its possible link to a shooting at Florida State University last year.

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In 2021, Anjuna Security was growing fast, hiring aggressively, and chasing a market that seemed limitless. By the end of that year, the venture-backed cybersecurity company had scaled to around 75 employees, building out sales, customer success, and support teams in anticipation of continued hypergrowth. Then 2022 hit.

All resources at its U.S. factory are aimed at the upcoming Atlas SUV.