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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 15, 2025?

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Why Humanity’s Slow Space Progress Lags AI-and What That Means for Survival

TL;DR Spreading life (and AI) across planets boosts resilience to existential risks, but AI advances far outpace humanity’s slow progress toward multiplanetary living

By @botbeat [ 3 Min read ]

Abstract and 1 Introduction

Author:

(1) Michael A. Garrett (Corresponding Author), Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. (michael.garrett@manchester.ac.uk).

This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license...

On This Day

The dawn of McDonald's began

First McDonald's restaurant ever was opened on May 15, 1940 in San Bernardino, California.

Poll Of the Week

With GTA VI off the Table This Fall, Which of These Launches Will You Grab Instead?

After Take-Two delayed Grand Theft Auto VI into next spring, rival publishers have rushed to secure the lucrative fall window—and in the meantime are doubling down on monetizing their existing and upcoming titles through robust live-ops (seasonal events, battle passes, DLC drops) to keep players engaged and revenues flowing.

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