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NASA cancels $450M Viper moon mission, dashing ice prospecting dreams


The now-scrapped moon mission would have been the U.S. space agency's first resource-mapping mission off planet Earth.

The Korean tech giant is acquiring Oxford Semantic Technologies, a U.K.-based knowledge graph startup that has built an AI reasoning engine. Given the years and money invested in the Zone’s creation, there’s logic in Dyson’s decision to turn its R&D work into a more standard set of headphones with the OnTrac. Spotify’s AI DJ, which first launched last year, is meant to serve as a smart audio guide that introduces music using a convincingly realistic voice.

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