A team of scientists, astronomers and engineers meets weekly in a conference room on a Howard County, Md., research campus and plans to save the world.
Space Exploration
Feb 8, 2019
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Mike Schroepfer is sitting in a conference room inside Facebook's Frank Gehry-designed headquarters. His ultra-modern surroundings—22-foot ceilings, raw steel beams, polished concrete pathways that flow through acres of ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 17, 2015
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A group of Amazon workers in Minnesota who are Somali refugees resettled in the Midwestern US state demanded better working conditions Friday during a protest outside one of the retailer's warehouses.
Business
Dec 15, 2018
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Object recognition—determining what objects are where in a digital image—is a central research topic in computer vision.
Computer Sciences
May 8, 2015
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When Srikanth Singamaneni and Guy Genin, both professors of mechanical engineering and materials science at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, established a new collaboration with researchers ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 9, 2023
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Painted on a prominent wall at Viasat's latest headquarters expansion is the phrase, "There is always a better way."
Business
Jan 3, 2019
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Microsoft on Wednesday set out to boost workplace collaboration with a giant Surface Hub touch screen tailored for brainstorming.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 10, 2015
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Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has told lawmakers at France's lower house of parliament that they need to listen to scientists on the issue of climate change and act now to avert a catastrophe.
Environment
Jul 23, 2019
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"Please refrain from hand shaking," read a sign at an event in London I recently attended. Despite increasing anxiety about coronavirus, for many of us, it was the first time we had encountered such a request. Underneath ...
Social Sciences
Mar 12, 2020
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What's the best place to conduct a conversation about a confidential or even classified matter? Surprisingly, probably not a conference room designed in accordance with acoustical criteria approved by the Department of Defense ...
Engineering
Dec 4, 2013
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