Google has fired Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of the ethical AI team, after she used an automated script to look through her emails in order to find evidence of discrimination against her coworker Timnit Gebru. The news was first reported by Axios.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover beams back first images from its wild landing
NASA just released a cache of tantalizing photos from its Perseverance rover after landing on Mars Thursday, with one showing the rover getting dropped off by the rocket-powered platform it used to gently descend on the Red Planet’s surface. Scientists are poring through hundreds of images and expect to release […]
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2021 Honda Civic RS sedan review
The hatch gets all the focus, but the RS sedan is a competitive offering within the Honda Civic range. Is it as practical as the hatch, though?
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This Week in Cars: The Porsche 911 GT3, the Chevy Bolt EUV, the Chip Shortage
Our trip through the week’s stories, including EVs, EV plans gone awry, and the far-reaching negative effects of global climate change.
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Don’t turn your nose up at the TikTok feta pasta, it’s gone viral for a reason
The recipe is more than just an internet trend — it’s the closest thing to communal dining in the age of COVID.
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Wild NASA image shows Perseverance rover just before Mars touchdown
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter also snapped a lucky view from over 400 miles away.
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Once He Steps Down From Amazon, Jeff Bezos Will be Able to Focus his Energy on Blue Origin
When it comes to the private aerospace sector (aka. NewSpace), some names stand out from the rest. The most obvious of these is SpaceX (the brainchild of Elon Musk and the leading source of innovation in commercial space) and the United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between Boeing and […]
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Humble dung beetles may be ideal DNA detectors for animal surveys
Biologists wanting to identify the resident creatures of a location, be it nearby woods or a distant mountainside, could soon have new assistants to help them vacuum up a surrounding’s DNA: dung beetles. The guts of these unfussy eaters contain species-identifying mammalian DNA, a study has found, and could provide […]
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Road map to U.S. fusion power plant comes into clearer focus—sort of
Plans to build a prototype fusion power plant in the United States have come into tighter focus, as a new report lays out a rough timeline for building the multibillon-dollar plant and a strategy for developing its design. The United States should strive to start construction of the pilot by […]