When Jaime Teevan, chief scientist and technical fellow at Microsoft Research, was asked to investigate the data privacy issues caused by Microsoft Recall, the Windows maker’s poorly received self-monitoring tool brushed aside the concerns. Teevan spoke Wednesday with Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, at the fifth anniversary conference of the American … Read more
By Isabelle Stanley for Dailymail.Com and Reuters 3:37 PM June 3, 2024, updated 5:25 PM June 3, 2024 About 60 stocks were affected by the technical glitch Some listed prices plummeted by 99 percent, while others saw small declines The New York Stock Exchange has resolved a ‘technical problem’ that caused tens of billions of … Read more
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – A parachute failed to fully inflate during Blue Origin New Shepard’s final suborbital flight because a line controlling its deployment was not cut as planned. One of the three New Shepard crew capsule parachutes failed to fully inflate during the capsule’s descent during the NS-25 mission on May 19. The … Read more
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is ready for its long-awaited first crewed launch. That launch, which will begin the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station (ISS), is scheduled for 12:25 p.m. EDT (1625 GMT) on Saturday (June 1) from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station here , atop a … Read more
The early universe contained much less miniature black holes than previously thought, making the origin of the missing matter in our cosmos an even bigger mystery, a new study suggests. Miniature or primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes that are believed to have formed in the first fractions of a second after the Big … Read more
He’s blessed with a $14.5 million Tuscan-style mansion with seven bedrooms, thirteen and a half bathrooms, library, movie theater, gym, pool and chicken coop – not to mention two wonderful children and an enchanting wife who longs for you to taste her jam. But Prince Harry, and indeed his entire neighborhood, may now be in … Read more
After surveying 661 employees working in astronomy and geophysics, the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has highlighted the “urgent” need to tackle bullying and harassment in the fields. In short, 44% of respondents reported suffering in the workplace during the two years prior to the survey, and 65% of those respondents said their reported concerns were … Read more
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) systems engineer Bobak Ferdowsi helps search for alien life in all the right places and is a crowd favorite when it comes to building robotic spacecraft and solving complex aerospace problems, all while sporting a super cool mohawk hairdo. Currently, Ferdowsi serves as Fault Protection lead on NISAR’s joint Earth observation … Read more
Butlin’s is coming to North Wales to consider bringing the brand back to the region, but there’s one problem. The holiday giant left the area in the 1990s after decades at Butlin’s Pwllheli, which was sold to Haven in 1999. Vale of Clwyd MP Dr. James Davies has been in discussions with Butlin’s about taking … Read more
New ‘constellations’ above Earth, made from defunct satellites and old rocket parts, have been identified to draw attention to the ever-growing problem of space debris. The project is called Space Trash Signs and is the result of a collaboration between space sustainability company Privateer, German design agency Moby Digg, visual artist Frank Gräfe and communications … Read more