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Jeremy Hansen 'pumped' about historic trip around the moon
1+ hour, 28+ min ago (452+ words) Winnipeg -22" C, Cloudy with wind Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen says getting humans to fly around the far side of the moon is good for humanity. Speaking to reporters at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida as NASA rolled the Artemis…...
Grounds for optimism – Winnipeg Free Press
15+ hour, 16+ min ago (793+ words) Winnipeg -23" C, Cloudy with wind Soil health has always been important to anyone who wants to grow plants that flourish but never more so than today. Soil degradation due to drought and extreme weather is a global problem that has…...
Looking back on five years of covering environmental issues
15+ hour, 16+ min ago (1091+ words) Winnipeg -22" C, Cloudy with wind This is my love letter to the Earth. For nearly five years I've been writing a monthly Free Press feature called the Green Page. As that has come to an end I can't help thinking…...
Ailing astronaut returns to Earth early in NASA's first medical evacuation
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (541+ words) SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours after the astronauts exited the International Space Station. Their first stop was a hospital for an overnight stay. "Obviously, we took this action…...
Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (980+ words) The online crowdsourced encyclopedia revealed that it has signed up AI companies including Amazon, Meta Platforms, Perplexity, Microsoft and France's Mistral AI. Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of the early internet, but that original vision of a free…...
US carbon pollution rose in 2025. Experts blame cold winter, high natural gas prices, data centers
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (554+ words) American emissions of carbon dioxide and methane had dropped 20% from 2005 to 2024, with a few one- or two-year increases in the overall downward trend. Traditionally, carbon pollution has risen alongside economic growth, but efforts to boost cleaner energy in recent years…...
Google teams up with Walmart and other retailers to enable shopping within Gemini AI chatbot
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (376+ words) An instant checkout function will allow customers to make purchases from some businesses and through a range of payment providers without leaving the Gemini chat they used to find products, according to Walmart and Google. The news was announced on…...
Atmospheric river expected along B.C. south coast; 'main brunt' arriving Sunday
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (367+ words) VANCOUVER " Environment Canada says an atmospheric river will take aim at British Columbia's south coast this weekend as heavy rain continues to batter the north coast. It says the "main brunt" of the weather system in the Metro Vancouver region…...
From climbing vacuums to cyber pets: Some highlights of CES 2026
1+ week, 1+ day ago (972+ words) As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put it, "The ChatGPT moment for physical AI is here." And everywhere you looked, robots. They roamed the show floor, assisted workers and entertained crowds " from humanoid helpers and furry "cyber pets" to task-specific machines....
Elon Musk's xAI to build $20 billion data center in Mississippi
1+ week, 2+ day ago (223+ words) The data center, called MACROHARDRR, is being built in Mississippi's DeSoto County near Memphis, Tennessee. It will be the company's third data center in the greater Memphis area. xAI CFO Anthony Armstrong said the cluster of data centers will house…...