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Aurora Has Launched The First Commercial Driverless Trucking Service, Running Long-Haul Routes From Dallas To Houston. Uber Freight & Hirschbach Use Its Tech, Which Has Logged Over 1,200 Driverless Miles. Gatik Handles Short-Hauls, & Kodiak Robotics Uses Safety Drivers. Aurora Plans To Expand By Late 2025, Amid Union Safety & Job Concerns.

Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, A Brazilian Nun And The World’s Oldest Person, Has Died At 116 In Porto Alegre On 5/1/25. Born In 1908, She Credited Her Long Life To Faith And Was Blessed By Pope Francis In 2018. A Football Fan, She Marked Birthdays With Her Team’s Stadium-Shaped Cakes. Ethel Caterham, 115, From England, Now Holds The Title.

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Bradford Smith—The 1st ALS Patient, 1st Nonverbal, & 3rd Person Worldwide To Receive A Neuralink Brain Implant—Can Now Type & Speak (Via A Cloned Voice) Using Only His Mind. The Device, Linked To His Motor Cortex, Detects Neural Activity &, With AI, Translates Signals Into Commands. Smith Called It A Major Step In Freedom & Comm, On X.

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Scientists Set A Record By Sending Quantum Data (QD) Over 254 Km Of Reg. Telecom Fiber, Proving That Quantum Internet Can Work Without Extreme Cooling. A Team Also Transmitted QD 30.2 Km Alongside 400 Gbps Internet Traffic With No Interference, Showing It Could Run On Current Networks For Ultra-Secure, Faster, & Future-Ready Communication.

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Don Pettit, NASA‘s Oldest Active Astronaut, Returned To Earth On His 70th Birthday After 220 Days Aboard The ISS, Bringing His Total Time In Space To 590 Days Over 4 Missions. John Glenn, Who Died In 2016, Remains The Oldest To Orbit Space At 77 In 1998. Pettit’s Soyuz MS-26 Capsule Landed In Kazakhstan With Russians Alexey Ovchinin & Ivan Vagner.

Capital One’s $35B All-Stock Merger With Discover Would Make Capital One The Largest U.S. Credit Card Issuer, & Could Challenge Visa/Mastercard By Shifting Its Customers To Discover’s Network. The DOJ Found No Reason To Block The Deal, & The Federal Reserve & OCC Have Given The Final Approval. But Critics Warn Of Higher Fees & Credit Costs.

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Scientists Using JWST Detected The Strongest Signs Of Life Outside Our Solar System On Exoplanet K2-18b, Detecting High Levels Of Dimethyl Sulfide And Disulfide 1000sX Higher Than Earth’s. These Compounds, Made By Earth’s Marine Phytoplankton, Suggest K2-18b Could Be A Hycean World Teeming With Life, But More Data Is Needed To Confirm Life.

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Pope Francis, Who Died On 4/21/2025 At 88, Will Be The First Pope Buried Outside The Vatican Since Leo XIII In 1903. He’ll Be Laid To Rest At Santa Maria Maggiore—Founded In 432, A Year After Mary Was Declared Mother Of God—Rome’s Only Basilica Retaining Its Original Early Christian Form. His Burial Honors His Humility & Deep Devotion To Mary.

China‘s Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, Opening In June 2025, Will Be The World’s Tallest Bridge At 2,051 ft Above River Level. Located In Guizhou, The 9,482-ft Steel Truss Suspension Bridge Cuts Travel Time From 2 Hrs To 1 Min. Its 22,000-Ton Trusses Weigh 3x Eiffel Towers. Nearly Half Of The World’s 100 Tallest Bridges Are In Guizhou.

Meenakshi Raghavan, 82, Is India’s Oldest Known Female Practitioner Of Kalaripayattu, The Country’s Oldest Martial Art, Originating In Kerala Over 3 Kyr Ago. She Has Trained Students For Decades, Runs The Kalari School Founded By Her Late Husband In 1950, Performs Occasionally, And Inspires Many With Her Lifelong Dedication And Discipline.

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