Boeing on Wednesday gained US authorization for a project to launch satellites that will provide internet services from space.
Space Exploration
Nov 3, 2021
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Thanks to algorithms that learn about social media users' content preferences, Facebook timelines, Twitter feeds, suggested YouTube videos, and other news streams can look startlingly different from one person's online account ...
Environment
Oct 29, 2021
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Facial recognition, body cameras and other digital technologies are increasingly used by police departments, municipalities and even gated communities, but these tools manufactured by private companies raise the specter of ...
Social Sciences
Oct 14, 2021
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Two companies, OneWeb and SpaceX, are racing to put fleets of thousands of communication satellites into orbit. In March, they had their first near miss. Avoidance maneuvers were successful, but how many more close calls ...
Space Exploration
May 12, 2021
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Nokia says it has been tapped by NASA to build the first cellular communications network on the moon.
Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2020
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The separation of physical from intellectual work on archaeological sites has persisted throughout the nearly 200 years of archaeological fieldwork in the Middle East, according to Allison Mickel, a professor of anthropology ...
Archaeology
Aug 4, 2020
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Compounds containing metals could hold the key to the next generation of antibiotics to combat the growing threat of global antibiotic resistance.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 27, 2020
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When Lorna De Leoz invited laboratories to participate in her glycomics study, she hoped for 20 responses. Instead, she was deluged by emails from around the world.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 2, 2020
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Dispossession in South Africa is associated with the period of colonialism and apartheid. As a result, not much consideration is given to how previously marginalized black communities continue to be dispossessed by coal-mining ...
Environment
Nov 11, 2019
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Writing in the International Journal of Technology Marketing, Georgios Tsekouropoulos of the Hellenic Open University, in Patra, Greece, discusses the notion of viral advertising. Specifically, he addresses the relationship ...
Economics & Business
Sep 20, 2019
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