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“The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built now has a half-dozen launches under its belt. … Flight 6 carried the first-ever Starship payload — a plush banana onboard Ship, which served as a zero-gravity indicator. (It was not deployed into space.) In addition, Ship briefly re-lit one of its six Raptor engines about 38 minutes into the flight. (Super Heavy also employs Raptors — a whopping 33 of them.)”

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“Wired happens to have a bureau in one of Waymo’s first markets, which is both an asset and a challenge: The novelty of being on the road with a bunch of robots has largely worn off for us in San Francisco, too. … To provide the most useful dispatch from the future, then, we realized we needed a way to make self-driving cars feel strange again. A way to scare up the less superficial lessons of our city’s years with Waymo. We got to thinking.”

“Of all the odd mating rituals found in the natural world, the most unique may be that of the bowerbird. Bowerbirds, a family of 20 species found in New Guinea and Australia, are named for the elaborate structures they create — ‘bowers,’ often made of sticks or grasses, that seem to have no evolutionary purpose except to attract a mate. Females visit multiple bowers before choosing. They meticulously inspect the structures and observe the males’ courtship displays — dancing, calling, and showing off what biologist and filmmaker Sir David Attenborough called their ‘seduction parlors’ — then choose the one that seems the fittest. In the name of sexual selection, male bowerbirds create art.”

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“If all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players, where does that leave non-human figures, like artificial intelligence chatbots? As it turns out, AI can hold its own against humans — even the Bard himself — when it comes to writing poetry. AI chatbots can imitate famous poets like William Shakespeare well enough to fool many human readers, according to a new paper published last week in the journal Scientific Reports. … For example…”