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Bitcoin is having a rough stretch. The cryptocurrency dipped to its lowest point since September of last year, briefly touching fifty-eight thousand dollars before clawing back to just under sixty thousand. Meanwhile, roughly one billion dollars in futures positions were liquidated, and derivatives markets are signaling the turbulence may not be over yet.
Shifting to gaming, new details about Grand Theft Auto Six have surfaced through an Amazon Brazil listing, and they paint a genuinely ambitious picture. Players may be able to switch between the two protagonists, Jason and Lucia, mid-mission and tackle objectives as a duo. The open world apparently features NPCs running their own daily routines alongside dynamic random events — a level of living-world detail Rockstar has been quietly building toward for years.
And in space, NASA's TESS telescope has spotted something almost whimsical. Two giant planets orbiting the same star, each with a density so low scientists are comparing them to cotton candy. These so-called super-puff planets challenge our assumptions about how gas giants form and what planetary systems can actually look like out there.
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