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Starship Home for the Quest 3 is an attempt to give meaning to mixed reality

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Starship Home, a cozy mixed-reality game for the Meta Quest 3, is trying to get to the heart of “what makes a game meaningful in mixed reality.” That’s according to developer Doug North Cook, who wrote on Reddit that the game, which turns your environment into a custom spaceship and you into an intergalactic horticulturist, … Read more

SpaceX cleared to attempt third Starship launch Thursday

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SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket is prepared for a third launch from the company’s Boca Chica launchpad on an uncrewed test flight, near Brownsville, Texas, on March 13, 2024. Joe Skipper | Reuters Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing to launch its third Starship test flight as soon as Thursday morning … Read more

Japan’s first private-sector rocket launch attempt ends with explosion shortly after takeoff

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TOKYO — A rocket that was supposed to become Japan’s first from the private sector to put a satellite into orbit exploded shortly after takeoff Wednesday, livestreamed video showed. Online video showed the rocket called Kairos blasting off from Wakayama Prefecture, in central Japan, a mountainous area filled with trees, but exploding midair within seconds. … Read more

Crunchyroll Will Attempt to Compensate Funimation Users for Loss of Digital Libraries

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Screenshot: Sunrise/Crunchyroll In an increasingly perilous streaming and digital media landscape—where content is as quick to vanish into the ether as it is spread out across myriad services—Crunchyroll’s recent announcement it was entirely subsuming Funimation three years after it merged with its largest anime streaming rival by raising prices and wiping out digital libraries from … Read more

Intuitive Machines’ moon landing succeeds in bold attempt

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A small American company’s robotic spacecraft has brought the United States back to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than a half-century. Intuitive Machines, a Houston-based space company, landed on Thursday, becoming the first commercial company to reach the moon intact. The unprecedented achievement is a win for NASA, which … Read more

Watch Odysseus attempt the first US Moon landing since 1972 at 6:24PM ET

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Intuitive Machines has just made history by becoming the first private aerospace company to land a spacecraft on the Moon’s surface. Following its launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last Thursday, the robotic Nova-C “Odysseus” lander built by Intuitive Machines has now touched down — also making it the first US spacecraft to successfully … Read more

Man Charged: Attempt to Sell Nuclear Materials from Myanmar 

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Takeshi Ebisawa, a 60-year-old Japanese man—believed by U.S. officials to be a leader within the organized crime syndicate Yakuza—has been charged with conspiring to traffic nuclear substances from Myanmar to other countries with the expectation that Iran would eventually use them for its weapons program. Federal prosecutors said that Ebisawaand three co-conspirators had allegedly been … Read more

Denzel Washington’s New Remake Needs To Improve On His Attempt At Doing Kurosawa From 8 Years Ago

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Summary Denzel Washington and Spike Lee are reuniting to adapt a Japanese thriller, marking their fifth collaboration. “High and Low” will be based on Akira Kurosawa’s work. Set to debut in theaters before streaming, the new film must capture the complex themes of the original. SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT … Read more

TikTok’s attempt to stall DMA antitrust rules rejected by EU court

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TikTok’s attempt to stall the EU from designating it as a “gatekeeper” — companies with platforms powerful enough that they must follow strict Digital Markets Act (DMA) antitrust rules — has been rejected by a court. Bloomberg reports that the EU’s General Court has dismissed owner ByteDance’s request for an interim measure that would effectively … Read more