Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the new Grow with Google program. Andrew Federman Google says it doesn’t want to leave anyone behind as technology changes the way people live and work. The search giant on Thursday introduced $1 billion in new initiatives aimed at training and educating workers to help […]
Daily Archives: October 12, 2017
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Key algorithms have been developed which helped scientists achieve a goal first proposed more than 40 years ago — using angular correlations of X-ray snapshots from non-crystalline molecules to determine the 3-D structure of important biological objects.
LONDON — Eutelsat’s newest satellite reached its target position in the geostationary orbit this week only four months after its launch, setting an industry record for the fastest all electric orbit-raising. Eutelsat-172b was launched June 1 along with Viast-2 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. The satellite’s builder Airbus said the […]
Adult Swim A recurring argument has raged for as long as I’ve lived: How much should we blame creators for how their work influences people? Not much, I’ve always thought. We’ve just seen why. Between charges of widespread sexual harassment in Hollywood and Eminem in parking garages, you may not […]
President Donald Trump’s Twitter comments threatening to pull federal resources from Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory grapples with the lack of basic necessities, elicited shock and alarm on the island and mainland. San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz urged “every American that has love, and not hate in their […]
FILE PHOTO: A view of “Moai” statues in Rano Raraku volcano, on Easter Island, Chile on October 31, 2003. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File photo More By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The massive brooding stone figures peering from Easter Island’s hillsides are emblematic of the enigmatic people who once thrived on the […]
Courtesy of the Tishkoff lab By Colin Barras Skin tone has varied greatly among humans for at least the last 900,000 years. So concludes an analysis of the genetic variants associated with skin pigmentation in people from several regions of Africa. The latest findings suggest that some particularly dark skin […]
Soon to be mapped: our galaxy the Milky WayNASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech) By Leah Crane We’re putting the far side of the galaxy on the map. The most precise measurement yet of an object on the far side of the galaxy’s centre is paving the way for a definitive map of the […]