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U.S. Faces Week of Extreme Weather, Including Blizzards and Flooding

A series of powerful major weather systems are moving across the United States this week, bringing “extremely dangerous” blizzard conditions to the center of the country, widespread damaging winds across the East, tornadic storms to the South and “significant” flooding to the Northeast, forecasters warn. “It’s a pattern where we can see relatively strong storm

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American Company’s Spacecraft Malfunctions on Its Way to the Moon

The first NASA-financed commercial mission to send a robotic spacecraft to the surface of the moon will most likely not be able to make it there. The lunar lander, named Peregrine and built by Astrobotic Technology of Pittsburgh, encountered problems shortly after it lifted off early Monday morning from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch of

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Robots Learn, Chatbots Visualize: How 2024 Will Be A.I.’s ‘Leap Forward’

At an event in San Francisco in November, Sam Altman, the chief executive of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, was asked what surprises the field would bring in 2024. Online chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT will take “a leap forward that no one expected,” Mr. Altman immediately responded. Sitting beside him, James Manyika, a Google executive,

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