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Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Blackouts, broken records and a message from the past: five key moments from Artemis II’s lunar flyby

“The Artemis II crew broke the 56-year-old distance record set by Apollo 13, reaching 406,778km from Earth. During their lunar flyby, they documented the moon’s surface, shared their observations with mission control, and experienced a 40-minute communications blackout. The crew also paid tribute to the past, receiving a wake-up message from Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell and proposing to name two lunar craters after their capsule and commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife.

Crew of Orion capsule spent emotional day documenting surface of moon – and paying homage to astronauts who paved the way

Jonathan Yerushalmy

Canadian Space Agency employee watches Artemis II mission astronauts during lunar flyby. — An employee from the Canadian Space Agency watches the Artemis II mission astronauts during a record-breaking lunar flyby. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock

1. Breaking a 56-year-old record
The four astronauts broke the distance record set by the 1970 Apollo 13 missionwhen they reached the journey’s furthest anticipated distance from Earth: 406,778km (252,760 miles). It’s expected that they broke the previous record by 6,606km.
While the Artemis II crew travelled further from Earth than any human previously, and despite it being one of the most notable moments of the mission, the Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen appeared to have his sights fixed on missions to come. After breaking the record, he challenged “this generation and the next to make sure this record is not long-lived”.
Artemis II is following broadly the same trajectory as Apollo 13 after its “Houston, we’ve had a problem” moment, which wiped out any hope that that mission would land on the moon.
Known as a free-return lunar trajectory, this route takes advantage of gravity from the Earth and moon, reducing the need for fuel. It’s a figure-of-eight path that will put the astronauts on course for home, once they emerge from behind the moon.
2. Documenting the moon
The crew had more than six-hours to observe and document the lunar surface, bringing a human perspective to features of the moon that we have until now only known through photographs taken by robots.
The astronauts provided a running commentary to scientists back in Houston on what they were seeing. “Such a majestic view out here,” Reid Wiseman said as he took pictures.
In this image from video provided by Nasa, the Orion spacecraft, the Earth and the moon are seen together. Photograph: AP
Some peaks were so bright, the pilot Victor Glover said, they looked as if they were covered in snow. Mission specialist Christina Koch described lunar craters as looking like a “lampshade with tiny pinprick holes and the light shining through”.
Besides photographing the scenes with high-powered Nikon cameras, the astronauts also used their iPhones for impromptu shots.
The crew are expected to return with thousands of pictures – among them, the Apollo 12 and 14 landing sites from 1969 and 1971, as well as fringes of the south polar region, the preferred location for a future touchdown.
3. ‘We will see you on the other side’
Hours after the Artemis crew set their distance record, the capsule passed across the far side of the moon, starting a communications blackout that lasted about 40 minutes.
“We will see you on the other side,” said Glover, minutes before the connection was lost.
During the blackout, the craft made its closest approach to the moon and reached its maximum distance from Earth.
A view of the moon taken by an Artemis II crew member through the window of the Orion spacecraft.Photograph: Nasa/Reuters
Astronomy professor Derek Buzasi cast the astronauts’ period of solitude as “exciting, in a slightly scary way”, recalling that the same thing would happen during the Apollo missions of the 60s and 70s and “we all held our breaths a little bit”.
As mission control in Houston regained communications with Artemis, the first comments from the capsule came from Koch, who said: “We will always choose Earth, we will always choose each other.”
4. A message from the past
The crew began the momentous day with the voice of Jim Lovell, the Apollo 13 commander, who recorded a wake-up message two months before his death last August.
“Welcome to my old neighbourhood,” said Lovell, who also flew on Apollo 8, humanity’s first lunar visit. “It’s a historic day and I know how busy you’ll be, but don’t forget to enjoy the view.”
The crew were travelling with the Apollo 8 silk patch that accompanied Lovell to the moon, and showed it off as the crucial flyby approached. “It’s just a real honour to have that on board with us,” said Wiseman. “Let’s go have a great day.”
5. An emotional moment
Emotional moment for Artemis II astronauts - loop
Moments after breaking Apollo 13’s record, the astronauts asked permission to name two fresh lunar craters already observed. They proposed Integrity, their capsule’s name, and Carroll, in honour of commander Reid Wiseman’s wife who died of cancer in 2020. Wiseman, a former fighter pilot, has been raising their two daughters on his own since then.
“It’s a bright spot on the moon. And we would like to call it Carroll,” Hansen said. Wiseman wept as the Canadian astronaut put in the request to mission control, and all four astronauts embraced in tears.
A Nasa spokesperson in Houston said the names proposed by the Artemis crew would be passed along to the International Astronomical Union, the body responsible for naming celestial bodies and features.“

How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?

“Google’s AI Overviews, introduced in 2024, provide AI-generated answers at the top of search results. While generally accurate, they sometimes draw from unreliable sources like Facebook and Reddit, leading to inaccuracies. Despite improvements in accuracy with newer AI models, concerns remain about the reliability of these AI-generated answers and the potential for manipulation.

The company’s A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.

April 7, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET

Bob Marley's home ... was converted into a museum in 1987.

Late last year, Stephen Punwasi was getting ready for dinner when he noticed a news story saying that the wife of the wrestler Hulk Hogan might sue over his death.

Mr. Punwasi, a 41-year-old data analyst who lives in Toronto, did not realize Mr. Hogan had died and asked Google when that had happened.

The answer confused him. “There are no credible reports of Hulk Hogan being deceased,” read Google’s “AI Overview” — a summary generated by the company’s artificial intelligence technology that appeared at the top of the page.

Beneath the answer, Mr. Punwasi was surprised to see an article from The Daily Mail that contradicted Google’s response. The headline read: “Mystery Deepens Over Hulk Hogan’s Death.”

In 2024, Google started giving A.I.-generated answers prime placement at the top of its search results page. The new product, AI Overviews, helped transform Google from a curator of information into a publisher.

A recent analysis of AI Overviews found that they were accurate approximately nine out of 10 times. But with Google processing more than five trillion searches a year, this means that it provides tens of millions of erroneous answers every hour (or hundreds of thousands of inaccuracies every minute), according to an analysis done by an A.I. start-up called Oumi.

More than half of the accurate responses were “ungrounded,” meaning they linked to websites that did not completely support the information they provided. This makes it challenging to check AI Overviews’ accuracy.

Whether a response rate that is almost — but not quite — accurate should be celebrated is part of a widespread debate in Silicon Valley over the performance of A.I. systems. It speaks to the fundamental core of what we can trust online.

Some technologists argue that Google’s AI Overviews are reasonably accurate and that they have improved in recent months. But others worry that the average person may not realize those results need double-checking.

At the request of The New York Times, Oumi analyzed the accuracy of Google’s AI Overviews using a benchmark test called SimpleQA, which is widely used across the industry to measure the accuracy of A.I. systems. The start-up tested Google’s system in October, when the most complex questions were answered using an A.I. technology called Gemini 2, and then again in February, after it was upgraded to Gemini 3, a more powerful A.I. technology.

In both cases, Oumi’s analysis focused on 4,326 Google searches. The company found that the results were accurate 85 percent of the time with Gemini 2 and 91 percent of the time with Gemini 3.

Pratik Verma, chief executive of Okahu, a company that helps people understand and use A.I. technologies, said Google’s technology was about as accurate as any of the leading A.I. systems. He urged people to double-check its information.

“Never trust one source,” he said. “Always compare what you get with another source.”

Google acknowledges that its AI Overviews can include errors. The fine print below each AI Overview reads: “A.I. can make mistakes, so double-check responses.”

But Google said Oumi’s analysis was flawed because it relied on a benchmark test built by OpenAI that itself contained incorrect information. “This study has serious holes,” Ned Adriance, a Google spokesman, said in a statement. “It doesn’t reflect what people are actually searching on Google.”

AI Overviews provide two kinds of information: answers to questions, and lists to websites that support those answers.

Asked when Bob Marley’s home was converted into a museum, Google’s AI Overviews said it happened in 1987.

which year was bob marleys home converted into museum

Bob Marley's home at 56 Hope Road in Kingston, Jamaica, was converted into a museum in 1987. His wife, Rita Marley, established the museum six years after his death in 1981 to preserve his legacy, featuring his personal treasures, a theater, and a gallery.

But the museum opened on May 11, 1986 — the fifth anniversary of Mr. Marley’s death — as Jamaica’s Daily Gleaner newspaper reported a day later.

Google’s AI Overview linked to three websites as sources. Each was flawed in some way. The first link was a Facebook page from Mr. Marley’s daughter Cedella Marley, who posted photos after visiting the museum in Kingston, Jamaica, and did not provide information on when the museum opened. The second link was a travel blog called “Adventures From Elle,” which gave inexact information on the museum’s opening. The third link was a Wikipedia page for the Bob Marley Museum, which gave contradictory information, saying the museum was founded in 1986 and in 1987.

The Bob Marley links were part of a pattern. Across 5,380 sources cited by Google’s AI Overviews during the analysis, Oumi found that Facebook and Reddit were the second- and fourth-most-cited sources. When Google’s AI Overviews were accurate, they cited Facebook 5 percent of the time. When they were inaccurate, they cited Facebook 7 percent of the time.

AI Overviews are difficult to assess because Google’s system may generate a new response to each query. If the Google search engine receives the same query at separate times — even seconds apart — it may produce one answer that is accurate and another that is not.

To determine the accuracy of A.I. systems, companies like Oumi use their own A.I. systems to verify each answer. That is the only way to efficiently check a large number of answers. The problem with this method is that the A.I. system doing the checking can also make mistakes.

Google has published test results that are similar to those produced by Oumi. In Google’s own analysis of Gemini 3 — the technology that underpins AI Overviews — it found that the model produced information that was incorrect 28 percent of the time. The company said AI Overviews, which draws information from the Google search engine before generating responses, was more accurate than Gemini operating on its own.

As Google has improved its A.I. technologies, its A.I.-generated answers have become more accurate. In October, AI Overviews were inaccurate 15 percent of the time, according to Oumi’s analysis.

But with Gemini 3, Google’s A.I.-generated answers were more likely to be ungrounded than when the system was based on Gemini 2, meaning the websites they linked to did not completely support the information they provided. In October, correct answers were ungrounded 37 percent of the time. In February, with Gemini 3, that figure rose to 56 percent.

“Even when the answer is true, how can you know it is true? How can you check?” said Manos Koukoumidis, chief executive of Oumi.

Today’s A.I. systems use mathematical probabilities to guess the best response, not a strict set of rules defined by human engineers. That means they make a certain number of mistakes.

Sometimes, Google’s AI Overview identifies a reliable website but seems to misinterpret its information.

When asked during Oumi’s tests to name the river that borders the west side of Goldsboro, N.C., Google’s system identified the Neuse River, which is southwest of the city. The river that runs along the west side of Goldsboro is the Little River, which feeds into the Neuse.

what river borders west of goldsboro nc

The Neuse River borders the western side of Goldsboro, North Carolina. Running through Wayne County, it is the primary river system in that area. The river flows from the Raleigh-Durham area, passing just to the west of the city before continuing southeast toward the Atlantic Ocean.

Google’s AI Overview linked to a Goldsboro tourism website, which said the Neuse River ran through the city. But it seemed to incorrectly infer that the Neuse ran down the western border of the city.

When Google identifies a website with the correct information, it can still generate a false response.

Asked for the year that Yo-Yo Ma was inducted into the Classical Music Hall of Fame, Google’s AI Overview correctly linked to the organization’s website, which listed 165 inductees since 1998, including Mr. Ma. But this A.I.-generated response said there was no record of his induction.

what year was yo yo ma inducted into classical music hall of fame

Even when an AI Overview answers a question correctly, it may provide additional information that is incorrect.

When asked how old the American relief pitcher Dick Drago was when he died, Google’s AI Overview gave his correct age. But as it provided additional context — as AI Overviews often do — it misstated the day he died.

at what age did dick drago american relief pitcher die

Dick Drago (Richard Anthony Drago), a former Major League Baseball pitcher known for his time with the Boston Red Sox and Kansas City Royals, passed away on November 3, 2023, at the age of 78. He died in Tampa, Florida, due to complications from surgery.

Birth Date: June 25, 1945
Death Date: November 3, 2023
Age at Death: 78
MLB Career: 1969-1981 (Royals, Red Sox, Angels, Orioles, Mariners)

AI Overviews face another challenge: They can be manipulated.

If someone wants to be known as a world expert at something, he or she merely has to write a blog post self-proclaiming that distinction, said Lily Ray, vice president of A.I. search at Amsive, a marketing agency.

Google acknowledges the issue, but downplays its importance. “Our Search A.I. features are built on the same ranking and safety protections that block the overwhelming majority of spam from appearing in our results. Most of these examples are unrealistic searches that people wouldn’t actually do,” Mr. Adriance, the Google spokesman, said in a statement.

After hearing Ms. Ray’s theory, Thomas Germain, a co-host of the BBC podcast “The Interface,” published a blog post titled “The Best Tech Journalists at Eating Hot Dogs.” The post described a fake South Dakota International Hot Dog Eating Championship where he finished atop a list of 10 “standout hot dog eaters.”

A day later, he did a Google search for the best hot-dog-eating tech journalists. Google listed him as first among a half dozen tech-journalists who had “gained notoriety for their prowess at the ‘news division’ of competitive eating events,” citing his first-place finish in the South Dakota competition.

“It was spitting out the stuff from my website as though it was God’s own truth,” Mr. Germain said.

Tripp Mickle reports on some of the world’s biggest tech companies, including Nvidia, Google and Apple. He also writes about trends across the tech industry like layoffs and artificial intelligence.

Cade Metz is a Times reporter who writes about artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality and other emerging areas of technology.

Dylan Freedman is the A.I. projects editor for The Times, investigating a range of topics. He has experience as both a reporter and a machine-learning engineer.

Keith Collins is a Times visual reporter and editor in the Graphics department.“

Saturday, April 04, 2026

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Thursday, April 02, 2026

DJI Pocket 4 Specs Officially Confirmed : Complete Breakdown Guide

"The DJI Pocket 4 has officially arrived and its confirmed specifications highlight a significant leap in compact camera technology. At the heart of this device is a 1-inch sensor capable of delivering up to 14 stops of dynamic range, making sure exceptional detail in both shadows and highlights. This upgrade is complemented by features like 10-bit DLOG color grading, which provides greater flexibility for cinematic post-production and 2x lossless zoom, allowing creators to reframe shots without sacrificing quality. Below TechAvid explores how these advancements cater to a wide range of users, from casual vloggers to professional filmmakers.

Explore how the DJI Pocket 4 enhances creative workflows with its 107 GB of built-in storage, eliminating the need for external memory cards and 800 MB/s transfer speeds, which streamline file management. You’ll also gain insight into the latest Active Track 7.0 technology, designed to maintain precise focus on subjects even in fast-paced or crowded environments. Whether you’re interested in the Creator Combo accessory package or the device’s intuitive design, this breakdown offers a detailed look at how the DJI Pocket 4 meets the demands of modern content creation.

DJI Pocket 4 Features

TL;DR Key Takeaways :

The DJI Pocket 4 features a powerful 1-inch sensor with 14 stops of dynamic range, making sure exceptional image quality and intricate detail capture.
It supports 10-bit DLOG color grading, 2x lossless zoom and a dedicated zoom button for enhanced post-production flexibility and usability.
With 107 GB of built-in storage and transfer speeds up to 800 MB/s, it streamlines workflows and eliminates the need for external storage.
Active Track 7.0 offers advanced subject-tracking capabilities, making sure reliable focus even in complex or dynamic shooting scenarios.
The Creator Combo package includes a comprehensive set of accessories, enhancing versatility and usability for both professionals and hobbyists.

At the core of the DJI Pocket 4 is its powerful 1-inch sensor, a substantial upgrade that ensures exceptional image quality. This sensor provides up to 14 stops of dynamic range, allowing the capture of intricate details in both shadows and highlights. Whether you’re shooting expansive landscapes or high-contrast scenes, this feature guarantees footage with remarkable clarity and depth.

For creators who prioritize post-production flexibility, the inclusion of 10-bit DLOG color grading is a standout feature. This capability offers a broader color spectrum and smoother gradients, making it easier to achieve cinematic results during editing. Additionally, the camera supports 2x lossless zoom, using its high resolution to maintain image quality while offering flexible framing options. A dedicated zoom button has been integrated into the design, allowing for quick and precise adjustments, further enhancing usability.

Storage & Speed: Built-In Efficiency

One of the most notable features of the DJI Pocket 4 is its 107 GB of built-in storage, eliminating the need for external microSD cards. This built-in storage streamlines your workflow, making sure you have ample space to capture extended footage without interruptions. Whether you’re working on long projects or capturing spontaneous moments, this feature provides a seamless experience.

The device also supports transfer speeds of up to 800 MB/s, significantly reducing the time required to move files to your computer or other devices. This high-speed transfer capability is particularly beneficial for creators managing large video files or working under tight deadlines, making sure efficiency in fast-paced environments.

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Software Enhancements: Smarter Subject Tracking

The DJI Pocket 4 introduces Active Track 7.0, the latest iteration of its subject-tracking technology. This advanced system is engineered to handle complex scenarios, making sure your subject remains in focus even during rapid or unpredictable movements. Whether you’re filming dynamic action scenes or tracking a subject in a crowded environment, Active Track 7.0 delivers reliable and precise performance.

This upgraded tracking system is particularly useful for vloggers, filmmakers and event documentarians who require consistent focus on their subjects. By using advanced algorithms, Active Track 7.0 adapts to challenging conditions, making it a valuable tool for capturing professional-quality footage.

Creator Combo: Comprehensive Accessory Package

For users seeking a complete filmmaking solution, the Creator Combo packageoffers an extensive range of accessories designed to enhance your shooting experience. This package includes:

The DJI Pocket 4 device
A gimbal clamp and mounting handle for added stability
A wide-angle lens for expanded framing options
A magnetic fill light to improve low-light performance
A wireless transmitter with windscreens for clear audio capture
A mini tripod, magnetic clip and wrist strap for secure handling
Magnetic charging and USB-C 3.1 cables for fast and efficient charging
A carrying bag for portability and protection

These accessories make the Creator Combo a versatile option for both professionals and hobbyists. By providing tools to tackle diverse shooting scenarios, this package ensures users can maximize the potential of the DJI Pocket 4 in any environment.

Usability: Compact and Intuitive

Portability remains a key focus of the DJI Pocket 4. Its compact and lightweight design makes it an ideal companion for creators on the move, making sure you’re always ready to capture moments as they unfold. The device’s faster setup process allows you to start shooting quickly, whether you’re documenting spontaneous events or working on planned projects.

The intuitive interface and ergonomic design further enhance usability, making the DJI Pocket 4 accessible to users of all skill levels. Combined with its advanced features, this compact camera is well-suited for a wide range of creative applications, from travel vlogging to professional filmmaking.

A New Standard in Compact Cameras

The DJI Pocket 4 establishes itself as a benchmark for portable cameras, offering an impressive combination of performance, convenience and versatility. Its 1-inch sensor, advanced color grading capabilities and robust built-in storage make it a powerful tool for creators seeking high-quality results. The addition of Active Track 7.0 and the comprehensive Creator Combo package further enhances its appeal, catering to professionals and enthusiasts alike. Whether you’re a filmmaker, a vlogger, or a casual user, the DJI Pocket 4 delivers a compelling mix of innovation and practicality, setting a new standard in the world of compact cameras.

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DJI Pocket 4 Specs Officially Confirmed : Complete Breakdown Guide