Tech & Science Daily podcast: Nasa’s Orion moon probe is Earth-ward bound

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Rachelle Abbott6 December 2022

It’s the home stretch for Nasa’s Orion space capsule, which made a final lap around the moon before heading back to Earth while testing systems for a 2024 human lunar mission.

The probe made a last pass to come within 80 miles of the moon’s far side, and will use the power of lunar gravity to help catapult it nearly a quarter of a million miles back to our planet.

Orion launched three weeks ago - without a crew - strapped to the most powerful rocket ever built by Nasa.

Artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has been going down a storm on social media due to its worryingly-good long-form writing skills.

But one researcher tells CNN of concerns the AI software can give “plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers”, further muddying the waters of facts online.

Research by consumer watchdog Which? has found social media users are still being bombarded with misleading and potentially fraudulent investment ads.

Tech & Science Daily finds out what cons to be alert for, with Which? senior lawyer Lisa Webb.

Plus, Heathrow Airport has a new worker - Boston Dynamics robot dog, Spot, or ‘Dave’ as it’s known on-shift. Conservationists are urging government investment to save global biodiversity at the COP15 summit in Montreal, Elon Musk’s Neuralink faces a welfare probe after animal deaths, why you get sniffles in the winter and shirtless Robert Pattinson teases Mickey 17 sci-fi trailer.

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