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Wes Davis

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    WhatsApp’s iOS beta gets a new “Recently Online” section in contacts.

    WABetaInfo reports the feature is live in beta version 24.9.10.71 of Meta’s encrypted messaging app. Recently online contacts will only show up for those who haven’t “disabled their last seen and online status,” according to the outlet.

    A screenshot showing the new Recently Online section, which sits above the Alphabetical list of contacts.
    The new “Recently Online” section.
    Screenshot: WABetaInfo
    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    OpenAI makes ChatGPT’s chat history feature available to everyone — no strings attached.

    OpenAI says free and Plus subscribers can now use the feature without giving over their chats to train its models.

    With chat history on, users can pick up previous chats where they left off, and the chatbot will reply as though they never stopped. The company also says users can start one-off chats that aren’t saved in the history.

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    China’s dream moon base has a NASA Space Shuttle.

    The China National Space Administration released a video showing its concept for a future lunar base, which it says it will have set up by 2045, writes Space.

    The China Global Television Network appears to have blurred out the Shuttle in the video on YouTube.

    A screenshot of a moon base, with the US Space Shuttle lifting off in the background.
    Good to see the Space Shuttle back at work.
    Image: China National Space Administration
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    Wes Davis
    Get a load of the horsehead on this nebula.

    Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope recently produced the “sharpest infrared images to date” of the Horsehead Nebula, according to the European Space Agency.

    As BBC Science Focus explains, images like this are made up of multiple composites taken at different infrared wavelengths, then shifted to the visible spectrum and combined.

    A color-shifted image of a portion of the Horsehead Nebula. The dust clouds are blue and brown, a reddish glow follows their contour, and stars and galaxies sit in the background.
    A small portion of the Horsehead Nebula.
    Photo: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, K. Misselt