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Solar particle events arrive without warning. Bursts of protons from the sun can deliver dangerous radiation doses to astronauts far from Earth. Spacecraft walls offer some defense. Yet mass limits constrain how much shielding engineers can add. A wearable solution just cleared its biggest test yet.

Microsoft once cast artificial intelligence as a generational force it intended to command. Two years on, the software maker confronts a more sobering reality. It will fold its separate consumer and business Copilot applications into one unified experience. At the same time the company drops several experimental features that failed to gain traction.

Business Insider recently examined how Flock Safety, the company behind thousands of automated license plate readers installed across American cities, has adjusted its data retention policies in response to growing pressure from privacy advocates and local governments.

DeepSeek just rewrote its own rules. The Chinese artificial intelligence company notified users this month of sweeping increases to its API rates. Some charges jump more than four times higher. The changes take effect August 16.
Output tokens for its popular V4 Flash model now cost $1.32 per million at peak hours. They previously ran 28 cents. V4 Pro output moves to $3.96 from 87 cents. Even cache hits see dramatic lifts. Off-peak rates sit at half those peak figures. The company introduced time-based pricing to spread demand across quieter hours.