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<title>Meta’s layoffs leave Supernatural fitness users in mourning</title> |
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<![CDATA[<p>Tencia Benavidez, a Supernatural user who lives in New Mexico, started her VR workouts during the Covid pandemic. She has been a regular user in the five years since, calling the ability to work out in VR ideal, given that she lives in a rural area where it’s hard to get to a gym or work out outside during a brutal winter. She stuck with Supernatural because of the community and the eagerness of Supernatural’s coaches.</p> |
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<![CDATA[<p>KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida—The rocket NASA is preparing to send four astronauts on a trip around the Moon will emerge from its assembly building on Florida's Space Coast early Saturday for a slow crawl to its seaside launch pad.</p> |
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<p>Riding atop one of NASA's diesel-powered crawler transporters, the Space Launch System rocket and its mobile launch platform will exit the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center around 7:00 am EST (11:00 UTC). The massive tracked transporter, certified by Guinness as the world's heaviest self-propelled vehicle, is expected to cover the four miles between the assembly building and Launch Complex 39B in about eight to 10 hours.</p> |
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<![CDATA[<p>Archaeologists recently found the wreck of an enormous medieval cargo ship lying on the seafloor off the Danish coast, and it reveals new details of medieval trade and life at sea.</p> |
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<h2><b>A medieval megaship</b></h2> |
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<p>Svaelget 2, as archaeologists dubbed the wreck (its original name is long since lost to history), was a type of merchant ship called a cog: a wide, flat-bottomed, high-sided ship with an open cargo hold and a square sail on a single mast. A bigger, heavier, more advanced version of the Viking knarrs of centuries past, the cog was the high-tech supertanker of its day. It was built to carry bulky commodities from ports in the Netherlands, north around the coast of Denmark, and then south through the Øresund to trading ports on the Baltic Sea—but this one didn’t quite make it.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/archaeologists-find-a-supersized-medieval-shipwreck-in-denmark/">Read full article</a></p> |
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<![CDATA[<p>The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna's Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow library must delete all copies of its WorldCat data and stop scraping, using, storing, or distributing the data.</p> |
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<p>Anna's Archive is a shadow library and search engine for other shadow libraries that was launched in 2022. It archives books and other written materials and makes them available via torrents, and recently expanded its ambitions by <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/worlds-largest-shadow-library-brags-it-scraped-300tb-of-spotify-music-metadata/">scraping Spotify to make a 300TB copy</a> of the most-streamed songs. Anna's Archive <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/annas-archive-loses-org-domain-says-suspension-likely-unrelated-to-spotify-piracy/">lost its .org domain</a> a couple of weeks ago but remains online at other domains.</p> |
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<![CDATA[<p>A generally healthy 63-year-old man in the New England area went to the hospital with a fever, cough, and vision problems in his right eye. His doctors eventually determined that a dreaded hypervirulent bacteria—which is rising globally—was ravaging several of his organs, including his brain.</p> |
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<![CDATA[<p>On Friday, OpenAI <a href="https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/">announced</a> it will begin testing advertisements inside the ChatGPT app for some US users in a bid to expand its customer base and diversify revenue. The move represents a reversal for CEO Sam Altman, who in 2024 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVRHTWWEIz4&t=2267s">described</a> advertising in ChatGPT as a "last resort" and expressed concerns that ads could erode user trust, although he did not completely rule out the possibility at the time.</p> |
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<p>Today is a good day to watch television. That's because the first two episodes of <em>Star Trek: Starfleet Academy</em> hit the Paramount+ streaming service, becoming the newest addition to the long-running Star Trek franchise. It's set in the late 32nd century, 120 years after the burn that ended all warp travel, and with it, most of Starfleet in the process. Now that warp travel is once again possible—you'll have to watch <em><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tag/star-trek-discovery/">Discovery's</a></em> final three seasons for more on that—the Federation is putting itself back together, and that includes reopening Starfleet Academy.</p> |
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<![CDATA[This is the first time NASA has called an early end to a space mission for medical reasons.]]> |
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<![CDATA[<p>Two Americans, a Japanese astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth early Thursday after 167 days in orbit, cutting short their stay on the International Space Station by more than a month after one of the crew members encountered an unspecified medical issue last week.</p> |
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<p>The early homecoming culminated in an on-target splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 12:41 am PST (08:41 UTC) inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. The splashdown occurred minutes after the Dragon capsule streaked through the atmosphere along the California coastline, with sightings of Dragon's fiery trail reported from San Francisco to Los Angeles.</p> |
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<p>Four parachutes opened to slow the capsule for the final descent. Zena Cardman, NASA's commander of the Crew-11 mission, radioed SpaceX mission control moments after splashdown: "It feels good to be home, with deep gratitude to the teams who got us there and back."</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/nasas-first-ever-medical-evacuation-from-space-ends-with-on-target-splashdown/">Read full article</a></p> |
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<media:credit>NASA/Bill Ingalls</media:credit><media:text>Crew-11 pilot and outgoing ISS commander Mike Fincke after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean early Thursday.</media:text></media:content> |
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<link>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/spotify-to-raise-subscription-prices-by-up-to-2-in-february/</link> |
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<![CDATA[Scharon Harding]]> |
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:22:07 +0000</pubDate> |
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<![CDATA[Spotify claims the higher fees will help "benefit artists." ]]> |
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<![CDATA[<p>After a dozen years of keeping subscription prices stable, Spotify has issued three price hikes in 2.5 years.</p> |
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<p>Spotify informed subscribers via email today that Premium monthly subscriptions would go from $12 to $13 per month as of users' February billing date. Spotify is already <a href="https://www.spotify.com/us/premium/">advertising</a> the higher prices to new subscribers.</p> |
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<p>Although not explicitly mentioned in Spotify's correspondence, other plans are getting more expensive, too. Student monthly subscriptions are going from $6 to $7. Duo monthly plans, for two accounts in the same household, are going from $17 to $19, and Family plans, for up to six users, are moving from $20 to $22.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/spotify-to-raise-subscription-prices-by-up-to-2-in-february/">Read full article</a></p> |
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