The SUV-sized Perseverance rover to launch on Mars this week has a companion: a splendid four-pound helicopter with four-foot-long rotor blades that weigh as light as feathers. It will attempt to make the first powered flight on another planet, a potential game changer for deep space exploration. If all goes …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared by video conference before a congressional subcommittee on Wednesday. A low frame rate made him look choppy. CNET It was the big moment for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, but it appeared Wednesday as a small box on a large television screen before the U.S. House …
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Individually gifted with four of the world’s most powerful tech executives, Republican Congressman Greg Steube of Florida decided to question Google CEO Sundar Pichai about Gmail’s spam folders. We’ve all had issues with spam folders, but Steube suggested to Pichai that his campaign emails sent to spam were part of …
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Apple in early 2019 removed or restricted many popular screen time and parental control apps from the App Store due to its use of Mobile Device Management, or MDM, which the company says put the user’s security and privacy at risk. During today’s antitrust hearing with the United States House …
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Scientists have revived the microbes found in sediments 100 million years ago, giving us another insight into what life was like in the past. As reported by Gizmodo, an international team of scientists led by geomicrobologist Yuki Morono of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology revived these microbes …
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