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After traveling deeper into space than any other humans, the Artemis II astronauts pointed their moonship toward home Monday night, wrapping up a lunar cruise that revealed views of the far side never beheld by eyes until now.Their flyby of the moon — NASA’s first return since the Apollo era — even included some celestial sightseeing besides yielding rich science. It was a significant step toward landing boot prints near the moon’s south pole in just two years.A total solar eclipse greeted the three Americans and one Canadian as the moon temporarily blocked the sun from their perspective. Mercury, Venus,…

It’s a good day for America’s largest health insurance stocks. The biggest players in America’s private, for-profit health insurance system, including UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (NYSE: UNH), Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), and CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS), are all seeing their share prices rise after the Trump administration announced it will backtrack on earlier proposals and increase Medicare insurer payments significantly more than expected. Here’s what you need to know.What’s happened?On Monday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that manages America’s government-funded health programs, including Medicare, announced that it would increase payments to Medicare insurers by…

Beyond spaceAcross the deep well of companies founded by SpaceX alums, you’ll notice that many are tackling problems that to a nonexpert might seem to teeter along the edge of what’s currently imaginable. There’s Airhart Aeronautics, cofounded and led by Nikita Ermoshkin, a former SpaceX avionics systems and integration engineer, which is building personal airplanes designed with a simple control panel that (the hope is) anyone, basically, could fly. At SpaceX, Jaret Matthews was a mechanism group leader for the Dragon spacecraft. His company, Astrolab, is currently developing commercial planetary rovers that could soon land on the moon, and one…

That uneasiness reaches beyond the right to bear arms. It’s increasingly affecting people’s ability to pursue a seemingly unrelated hobby: 3D printing.State lawmakers across the United States are debating—and in some cases nearing passage of—rules that would require 3D printers to include mandatory “print blocker” software. These systems would scan files and refuse jobs they think might produce firearm parts. Washington’s HB 2321 would require printers or slicers to screen files and reject potential printouts that could be used in a weapon. California’s AB 2047 would require manufacturers to attest that each model sold in the state includes a certified…

Published April 7, 2026 03:15AMEvery morning I take my nine-pound Schnauzer on a mile-long walk around the neighborhood for poopies and sniffing. We repeat the journey just before bedtime. If I were to continue this daily mileage, it would take me ten years and four months to walk the distance that a hiker named Nick Gagnon recently covered in a single continuous push. In 2025, Gagnon, who goes by the trail name “Chezwick,” did the so-called Triple Crown of thru-hiking, completing the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), Continental Divide Trail (CDT), and Appalachian Trail (AT) back-to-back-to-back. That’s about 7,525 miles on…

Given its $24 billion price tag and two decades in development, one would think that the Artemis II mission’s Orion spaceship would be flawless. Alas, that’s not how things work in the space program. These machines’ designs are so complex and so many things can go wrong that there is always going to be a breaking point somewhere. Sometimes this involves comical but potentially dangerous consequences—like Artemis II’s toilet malfunction or its Microsoft Outlook glitches—while other times there are tragic endings, like the losses of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia and their crews. Still, I wasn’t expecting a “use…

Published April 7, 2026 03:27AMI stepped off the bus from Tokyo and into a dense fog. The town of Kazuno, in Japan’s rural Akita prefecture, looked nearly abandoned. I’d arrived expecting the pastoral whimsy of a Miyazaki film. Instead, I seemed to have wandered into a level of Silent Hill.I crisscrossed the street, peering into mostly vacant shop windows, many of them plastered with flyers warning locals about bears. I saw more signs of bear safety when two elementary-aged girls passed me. Small golden bells hung from their backpacks, and long after the little girls disappeared into the fog ahead,…

For years, companies have assumed that their digital relationship with customers would happen in a place they controlled: their website, their app, their checkout flow, their interface, their carefully optimized funnel. That assumption shaped an enormous amount of corporate behavior. Brands invested fortunes in design systems, SEO, conversion optimization, customer journeys, and digital experiences because the screen was where persuasion happened and where transactions were completed. That assumption is starting to break. The next wave of AI is not just about answering questions better. It is about acting. OpenAI’s Operator is designed to go to the web and perform tasks using its…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The number of seniors (those age 65 and older) is growing by 3.2% each year, compared to 0.8% of the whole population — and their role in the consumer class is increasing with it. Because of the growing senior population, there’s also a growing interest and opportunity in “silver tech” and longevity. Many people think technology is only for young people. They imagine teenagers on TikTok or college students coding in libraries. This is actually a big mistake. The world is getting older. People are living much longer lives now.…

Over the weekend, Mario, Luigi, Bowser, and the rest of Nintendo’s iconic crew traipsed around the solar system and smashed their way to the top of the box office in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. It’s the latest sign that Hollywood and moviegoers have changed their tune on video game adaptations.  The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (a sequel to 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie) opened on April 8, just in time for the lead-up to Easter weekend. According to studio estimates cited by CNBC, the Illumination and Nintendo co-production earned $130.9 million over the weekend and $190.1 million in…