Federal funding of new technology is crucial for astronomy, according to results of a study released on September 21, 2020, in the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments and Systems.
The study tracked the long-term impact of early seed funding obtained...
Space aficionados who dream of one day colonizing Mars must grapple with the stark reality of the planet's limited natural resources, particularly when it comes to building materials. A team of scientists from the Singapore University of Technology and...
Illustration by Efi Chalikopoulou for Vox How the technology behind airplane wifi could help connect everyone on Earth. In vast swaths of the United States and the world, there are millions of people who don’t have reliable...
Washington has ordered US companies to seek permission before selling their technologies to Chinese semiconductor giant SMIC, its latest salvo in the battle for technological dominance over Beijing, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
The Department of Commerce "has told...
This week, we took an exclusive look at the chaos that unfolded inside Twitter in the hours after the accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and dozens more got hacked. Twitter has since tightened up its internal security—but with...
The covid-19 pandemic shocked the world and generated high levels of economic, political, and social uncertainty. And for many people, the virus compounded the growing sense of uncertainty they already felt in their lives as a result of automation,...
An Old Navy employee tracks how many people are inside a reopened store in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 8, 2020. | Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Nancy Green, the head of Old Navy for Gap...
More vaccines enter Phase III trials, researchers continue to learn about the long-term impacts of Covid-19, and risk calculation becomes increasingly difficult as the country reopens. Here’s your week in coronavirus news: Want to receive this weekly roundup and...
Of all the AI models in the world, OpenAI’s GPT-3 has most captured the public’s imagination. It can spew poems, short stories, and songs with little prompting, and has been demonstrated to fool people into thinking its outputs were...
Apple CEO Tim Cook testified at a Senate hearing in 2013. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The temporary “Apple tax” break will also affect Airbnb and ClassPass. Apple and Facebook have called a temporary truce in one of...
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