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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will help determine if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course. NASAAlthough it may sound like a new level of Space Invaders, NASA is launching a spacecraft to collide with an asteroid. The aim of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission on Sept. 26 is to change the asteroid's trajectory. The DART mission is meant to test the technology that could defend Earth from being struck by potential asteroid or comet…

The exterior of Crypto.com Arena on January 26, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.Rich Fury | Getty ImagesIt took seven months for the Matt Damon-endorsed Crypto.com to realize that it accidentally sent AU$10.5 million dollars (about $7.1 million at today's exchange rate) to a woman in Australia, instead of the 100 Australian dollar refund she requested. Now, the cryptocurrency trading platform is going after Melbourne-based Thevamanogari Manivel and her sister, Thilagavathy Gangadory, to retrieve its money — along with 10%…

“This didn’t really work,” says Nicolas Heess, also a research scientist at DeepMind, and one of the paper’s coauthors with Lever. Because of the complexity of the problem, the huge range of options available, and the lack of prior knowledge about the task, the agents didn’t really have any idea where to start—hence the writhing and twitching.So instead, Heess, Lever, and colleagues used neural probabilistic motor primitives (NPMP), a teaching method that nudged the AI model towards more human-like movement patterns, in…

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: Crypto.com sues an Australian woman after erroneously sending her $10.5M in May 2021 after she requested a $100 refund; the woman allegedly purchased a house — A woman asked for a $100 refund from the crypto platform but instead received $10.5 million—and then went on a spending spree, according to reports. Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: Crypto.com sues an Australian woman after erroneously sending her $10.5M in May 2021 after she requested a $100 refund; the woman allegedly…

Earlier this year, the Voyager 1 spacecraft—over 14 billion miles from Earth—started sending NASA some wacky data. Now, engineers with the space agency have identified and solved the issue, and no, it wasn’t aliens.The strange data was coming from Voyager 1’s attitude articulation and control system, which is responsible for maintaining the spacecraft’s orientation as it hurtles through interstellar spaceat about 38,000 miles per hour.The garbled telemetry data meant that Voyager 1 was communicating information about its…

Samsung has been dusting off some of its older devices to deliver some updates lately. We know about the company sending a GPS update to devices as old as the Galaxy S7, but now it’s taking that even further. Samsung is sending updates to millions of unsupported Galaxy phones.The Galaxy S8 was released back in 2016, and it officially lost its support in 2020, and we were all surprised to see it get some love from Samsung. It seems uncharacteristic of the company, as, while it does offer the best software support for any…

A handful of old Galaxy smartphones that are no longer officially supported got updated earlier this month, but that was only the beginning. As it turns out, Samsung is rolling out a similar firmware update with GPS fixes for millions of other aging Galaxy phones, including the Galaxy S5 Neo, the Galaxy Alpha, the Galaxy S6 series, and the Galaxy A7 (2018). Similar to the other recent firmware updates for the Galaxy Note 8, the Galaxy S7, and the Galaxy S8, the latest software release for Samsung’s older Galaxy phones…

Billionaire investor Ryan Cohen cashed out his entire position in Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY -19.63% this week, capping a wild stretch of trading in the stock and marking the latest sign that meme-stock mania is still alive. Mr. Cohen, the co-founder of pet-supply retailer Chewy Inc., developed a deep fan base of individual investors last year after he ascended to become chairman of GameStop Corp., the original meme stock. In March, he revealed an activist position…

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we talked about a hack that gave new, ironic meaning to the word “trustless.” This week, we’ll get into one of the most polarizing aspects of crypto — privacy. If someone forwarded you this message, you can subscribe on TechCrunch’s newsletter page. all mixed up A weekly window into the thoughts of senior crypto reporter Anita Ramaswamy: Tornado Cash has been the talk of the town this week in crypto circles. The U.S. government’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), a…

NASA’s next moon rocket will have an important cargo from tech company Apple. According to a report by 9to5Mac, the US space agency will send an iPad onboard an uncrewed spacecraft called Orion on the…