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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Livermore Valley creating wine heritage district to attract visitors
In a bid to draw more people from around the Bay Area and California to the Livermore Valley, where more than 50 wineries large and small operate, vintners are working
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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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Shuttered downtown San Jose hotel is slated to reopen in early 2022: lender
A shuttered landmark hotel in downtown San Jose is slated to reopen sometime during the early months of 2022, a key lender has told investors and regulators. Operated for more
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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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When should you mail packages amid shortages and delays
Lockdowns and safety precautions during the pandemic has worsened an already stressed-out global supply chain, leading to shortages in everything from shipping containers to microchips. And there will be a ripple effect on how
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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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Good and bad news for Disneyland and other theme parks
This past week brought some long-awaited good news for America’s multi-billion-dollar attractions industry and the hundreds of thousands of people who work in it. But even with these welcomed developments,
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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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