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Watch out, Martians.Meteorites slam into Mars five times more than planetary scientists thought, a finding published in the journal Nature Astronomy. This makes impacts on the Red Planet about a daily occurrence. A 26-foot-wide (8-meter) crater forms almost each day, and a nearly 100-foot (30-meter) crater is created once a month. Previous estimates of these Martian impacts largely came from studying crater imagery on the moon and from Mars-orbiting craft. But unprecedented seismic data — detected by NASA’s now-defunct InSight lander — showed objects regularly impacting the surface.”This rate was about five times higher than the number estimated from orbital…

It was the worst day ever for the stock with losses wiping out $28.4bn from Nike’s market valuation.Nike’s stock has plunged as a forecast for a surprise drop in annual sales amplified investor concerns about the pace of the sportswear giant’s efforts to stem market share losses to upstart brands such as On and Hoka. It was the worst day ever for the stock, which slumped 20 percent on Friday, with the losses wiping out $28.41bn from the company’s market valuation. On Thursday, the company had projected a mid-single-digit percentage fall in fiscal 2025 revenue, compared with analysts’ estimates of…

April 17, 2023; Sacramento, California, USA; Golden State Warriors assistant coach Kenny Atkinson during the second quarter in game two of the first round of the 2023 NBA playoffs against the Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports The Cleveland Cavaliers formally named Kenny Atkinson as their new head coach on Friday, awarding a five-year deal to the former Golden State Warriors assistant. Atkinson, 57, will replace J.B. Bickerstaff, fired by the Cavs last month after three straight winning seasons. “Kenny brings a wealth of experience, a proven track record of player development, and a…

Do you spend more time in bed with your laptop, answering Slack messages, than you do with your partner? Then it may be time for a reality check. When our romantic relationships carry too much of the burden of our professional life, it can lead to resentment, jealousy, and, ultimately, a breakup—especially when we expect our partners to carry an unfair share of our work stress. “We bring a set of expectations that our intimate partners are a source of emotional support, and that we can be our most authentic versions of ourselves,” Alexandra Solomon, a Chicago-based psychologist and host…

American actor and comedian Martin Mull, known for his work on the TV sitcoms Roseanne and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, has died at age 80.Mull, who also starred in the 1985 comedy film Clue, died on Thursday at his home after a “valiant fight against a long illness”, his daughter Maggie Mull said on social media.In a tribute on Instagram, Ms Mull wrote that her father “was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and for doing Red Roof Inn commercials.”“He would find that joke funny,” she added. “He was never not funny.”Mull’s first notable role was in 1976,…

Screenshot: End Wokeness Twitter At this point, just about everyone in America and around the world knows the President of the United States is incapable of doing his job. He proved it over and over again last night. Remember all the gaslighting from the media and Democrats about how Biden is secretly an intellectual giant, waxing intellectual in private? Yeah. Sure, guys. Just look at this again, and tell me that – only in secret meetings where only Democrats are present – Biden is the next Albert Einstein: But the debate itself wasn’t Joe Biden’s biggest problem. And it’s not…

Poe, an AI chatbot platform owned by the question-and-answer site Quora and backed by a $75 million Andreessen Horowitz investment, is providing users with downloadable HTML files of articles published by paywalled journalistic outlets.Prompting the service’s Assistant bot with the URL of this WIRED story about the AI-powered search service Perplexity plagiarizing one of our stories, for example, yields a detailed, 235-word summary and a 1-MB file containing an HTML capture of the entire article, which users can download from Poe’s servers directly from the chatbot.WIRED was similarly able to retrieve articles from paywalled sites including The New York Times,…

Palestinian fighters say they’re ‘inflicting deaths and injuries’ in attacks with anti-tank rockets and small-arms fire.Palestinian fighters engaged Israeli forces in fierce battles in northern Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood a day after tanks and troops rolled in and sent tens of thousands of terrified civilians fleeing. In a statement on Friday, al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said it blew up a booby-trapped residential building in Shujayea, killing four Israeli soldiers and wounding five others. The improvised explosive device used was an undetonated F-16 missile recovered intact after it was fired from an Israeli warplane, it said.…

Jun 10, 2024; St. Petersburg, Florida, USA; Baltimore Orioles pitcher Corbin Burnes (39) walks back to the dugout against the Tampa Bay Rays at the end of the first inning at Tropicana Field. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports The Baltimore Orioles placed right-hander Corbin Burnes on the paternity list Friday and recalled left-hander Matt Krook from Triple-A Norfolk. Burnes, 29, gave up one run on nine hits over seven innings in a win against the Texas Rangers on Thursday as he improved to 9-3 and lowered his ERA to 2.28. The 2021 National League Cy Young Award winner…

Credit: Republicans Against Trump X The media in general is having quite a morning following last night’s presidential debate. Joe Scarborough might be having the worst one of all. As reported earlier by The Political Insider, the debate was an all-out debacle for President Biden who often looked bewildered, slurred his words, misstated facts, and lost his train of thought with, as the New York Times said, “mouth agape.” The normally compliant media saw the slow-motion car wreck in real-time and immediately began plotting Biden’s removal as the presumptive Democrat nominee in 2024. Count Scarborough, who just three months ago…

To finally “put the ‘weight debate’ to rest,” Wells Fargo analyst Zachary Fadem and his team bought and weighed 75 burrito bowls, they wrote in a note this week. The analysts “studied” (and hopefully later devoured) burrito bowls at eight different Chipotle locations in New York City, with half of the orders placed digitally and the other half in person. Through the study, the analysts found that the bowls’ weights were wildly inconsistent. The median bowl ordered online and in-person weighed about the same, according to the Thursday note, but the weight of the burrito bowls varied drastically in each…

A technical glitch on the Air France-KLM Flying Blue website last December resulted in a mistake that temporarily made it possible to book round-trip business-class tickets from several Canadian cities to Europe for just 27,000 miles (plus taxes) on Air France and KLM.When Kinza Chaudhry read about the unbelievable deal, she raced to the Flying Blue website. She hoped to take her mom to visit relatives in Europe this summer. If she could snag tickets while the low prices lasted, they could fly in style, she thought.Chaudhry transferred 54,000 Citi ThankYou Rewards points into a new Flying Blue account she…