NASA delays ambitious human lunar landing to 2025
NASA is pushing back its target date for returning humans to the Moon, now eyeing a crewed lunar landing in 2025 instead of 2024 as originally planned. NASA blames the
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Ecobee’s new home security service has a professional monitoring option
Ecobee now gives you the option to pair its smart home monitoring devices with a professional security service. With the company’s new service, which replaces the Haven service it formerly offered, you
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The cost of vaccinating children against COVID-19 are greater than the “benefits”
In our Toxicology Reports (TR) paper on COVID-19 that examined myriad issues associated with the ongoing mass inoculations (hereafter called the TR paper), we also evaluated the ratio of costs to benefits
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Data used to build algorithms detecting skin disease is too white
Public skin image datasets that are used to train algorithms to detect skin problems don’t include enough information about skin tone, according to a new analysis. And within the datasets where
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Unity to pay $1.6 billion for The Lord of the Rings VFX maker Weta Digital
Unity, which makes the popular Unity game development engine, announced an intent to acquire the tools, pipeline, technology, and some engineering staff from Weta Digital, which is perhaps best known
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Autonomous vehicle company cruises into Sunnyvale in major expansion
A General Motors-backed autonomous vehicle company is setting up shop in Sunnyvale as part of a major Bay Area expansion that will bring hundreds of tech jobs to the South
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Tesla subjects women to ‘rampant sexual harassment’ at Fremont plant, suit says
Tesla Inc.’s female employees face “rampant sexual harassment,” according to a lawsuit by a woman who works in the electric carmaker’s Fremont, California, factory. Jessica Barraza, 38, said in a
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Apple accelerates work on electric car project, aiming for fully autonomous vehicle
Apple Inc. is pushing to accelerate development of its electric car and is refocusing the project around full self-driving capabilities, according to people familiar with the matter, aiming to solve
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In wake of climate talks, US preps giant Gulf crude auction
The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday will auction vast oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico estimated to hold up to 1.1 billion barrels of crude, the first
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VinFast announces US headquarters in Los Angeles
Lured by a $20.5 million state tax credit, Vietnamese automaker VinFast has announced its U.S. headquarters will be located in Los Angeles — a move that builds on the company’s initial $200
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