Technology

SpaceX has launched a 3-ton shipment to the International Space Station, including “mighty mice” for a muscle study, a robot sensitive to astronauts’ emotions and a miniature version of a brewery’s malt house By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer December 5, 2019, 8:29 PM 3 min read SpaceX launched a 3-ton shipment to the International […]

We had an all managers meeting in Florida, and it was one of the years they had been really battered by hurricanes. As we were planing the agenda, we had a block of time on a Wednesday afternoon for team building, and my immediate thought was, “We’re going to play golf, right?” Then a couple

The Homeland Security Department says it has no plans to force U By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer December 5, 2019, 11:45 PM 2 min read The Homeland Security Department is backing away from requiring that U.S. citizens submit to facial-recognition technology when they leave or enter the country. The department said Thursday that it

Nineteen women sued Lyft this week, joining a growing list of people who say the popular ride-hailing service failed to prevent drivers from sexually assaulting them, then ignored the complaints. The lawsuit is the latest to accuse Lyft of failing to enact basic safety measures that would have prevented the alleged assaults. After the women

The recent color change of the Mekong River may be a sign of trouble; experts say an upstream dam is blocking sediment from flowing downstream, which may lessen nutrients in water and cause erosion downstream By BUSABA SIVASOMBOON Associated Press December 6, 2019, 1:01 AM 3 min read The Mekong River has recently acquired an

KOH KHANUN, Thailand — Crouched on the ground in a dimly lit factory, the women picked through the discarded innards of the modern world: batteries, circuit boards and bundles of wires. They broke down the scrap — known as e-waste — with hammers and raw hands. Men, some with faces wrapped in rags to repel

An unmanned Russian supply ship carrying tons of supplies has blasted off to the orbiting International Space Station December 6, 2019, 10:36 AM 1 min read An automatic Russian supply ship carrying tons of supplies successfully blasted off Friday heading for the International Space Station. The Progress MS-13 cargo ship lifted off as scheduled at

The report covered the safety of both riders and drivers. Murder victims were drivers, passengers and third parties. In cases of rape, Uber said, 92 percent of the reported victims were riders. But drivers reported other types of sexual assaults at roughly the same rate as riders, Uber said. The company was not specific about

In a long anticipated safety report, ride-sharing giant Uber says more than 3,000 sexual assaults were reported during its U By RACHEL LERMAN and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press December 6, 2019, 6:34 PM 4 min read Uber, as part of a long anticipated safety report, revealed that more than 3,000 sexual assaults were reported during

David Bacon, senior software engineer in Google’s quantum lab: Quantum computers do computations in parallel universes. This by itself isn’t useful. U only get to exist in 1 universe at a time! The trick: quantum computers don’t just split universes, they also merge universes. And this merge can add and subtract those other split universes.