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Space archaeology needs to mix new and old missions to protect ancient sites, scientists urged at a recent NASA conference.Take the example of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. The facility is best known for helping to chart unknown worlds, leading the missions of rovers on Mars and sailing the Voyager spacecraft by all the major outer planets. “But we also look at the Earth, because the Earth is a planet, too,” said Ronald Blom, retired principal scientist of JPL, at the NASA and Archaeology From Space symposium on Sept. 18, to which Space.com received an exclusive invite.Studying…

Ball adds that the speed at which brands wanted to act, without a real plan or understanding of the space, created issues for its longevity: “There was definitely a lot of, ‘We need to do this because everyone’s doing it,’ and ‘We need to do this because shareholders expect us to be doing it.’ There were many that overestimated the relevance of their brand in these 3D spaces.”A Pivot to AINow, many of the chief metaverse officers, who had been so quickly installed, scrambled to reinvent themselves—or otherwise found themselves out of a job entirely. Coca-Cola’s Pratik Thakar swiftly pivoted…

Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images. Liverpool have multiple players who are facing uncertain futures.Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and captain Virgil Van Dijk are all out of contract at the end of the season.Although the trio remain heavily linked with summer exits, including Alexander-Arnold to Real Madrid to replace the recently injured Dani Carvajal, Liverpool are believed to want to extend all three’s stays at Anfield.Van Dijk, for example, is rumoured to have told close friends that he is hopeful ‘positive talks’ will take place soon, keeping him at the club beyond next summer.Liverpool open Ibrahima Konate contract talksHowever, while the…

At least 10 firefighters have been killed in an Israeli air strike in a border area in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry says.A statement said the firefighters had been “ready to go out on rescue missions” from a municipal building in Baraachit when it was struck overnight.Rescuers were still searching for people trapped under the rubble, it added.There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, but it said overnight that fighter jets had struck targets belonging to the armed group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.On Monday afternoon, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that Israeli aircraft had struck more…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The UK Serious Fraud Office and Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation have given themselves 24 hours to settle a dispute over the agency’s conduct during a probe into the Kazakh mining group. ENRC’s civil trial against the SFO, which was due to start on Monday, has been put on hold for a day while the settlement talks take place.The lawsuit is one part of a legal battle waged by ENRC against the agency over its conduct during the 10-year probe, which has left the…

Our longevity may actually turn out to have a hard limit. In a new study this week, scientists show that the long rise in our collective life expectancy seen during the 20th century has started to slow down as of late. The findings suggest that focusing on simply expanding our lifespan might be short-sighted, the researchers say. Life expectancy at birth is a commonly used metric of an area’s overall health. It estimates how long the average person born in a particular year (2024, for example) would be expected to survive, given current trends in mortality among different age groups.…

Getty ImagesReleased in this week in 1959, Pillow Talk challenged Hollywood’s conservative morality, cleverly navigating restrictions on how bedroom activities could be portrayed. In the 1980s its stars talked to the BBC about how the film mirrored the attitudes of a nation on the cusp of sexual revolution.”It seemed risqué, but isn’t it funny when you think what they’re showing now?” Doris Day’s playful observation in a rare 1989 BBC interview perfectly encapsulates a film that once pushed Hollywood’s boundaries of acceptability. Released in 1959, Pillow Talk flirted with the themes of modern romance and desire in ways that now feel…

Este artículo también está disponible en español. Crypto analyst CobraVanguard has suggested that the Solana-based meme coin MYRO could be the next to reach a $1 billion market cap. This follows his prediction that the meme coin could enjoy a 200% price surge from its current level.  Why MYRO Could Enjoy A 200% To $0.2 CobraVanguard mentioned in a TradingView post that the meme coin is forming a falling wedge on the daily timeframe. He claimed that MYRO could enjoy massive upside moves if it breaks out from its current resistance. The analyst added that he expects the price to…

Decades from now, there will be many stories to tell about the early days of Ethereum. We will remenisce about how a peculiar and powerful technology began to change the landscape of trust on the internet. Some will remember being skeptical, while others may claim to have known all along that it would change the world. Those future stories are out of reach for us – obscured as all things are by the challenges and uncertainties of the present moment. But there are other stories out there, right now, that we need to listen to. Stories of people; of their…

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