July 20 marked the anniversary of the first human foot on the moon. If you were alive back then, you probably remember being glued to television watching Armstrong’s high-tech footage taking that first step. But if you go back and watch the video today, it doesn’t look like you remember …
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Adobe has hired Marc Levoy, the computer photography pioneer who led the development of innovative technologies found in Google’s Pixel smartphones. Levoy will now bring his expertise to help Adobe develop a “universal camera app.” Levoy became a professor of computer science at Stanford in 1990, focusing on computer graphics …
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JOB LinkedIn to fire nearly 1,000 LinkedIn is laying off nearly 1,000 employees, roughly 6 percent of its workforce globally, with unemployment in the United States above 13 percent and national economies from Europe and Asia to the Americas, declining due to the pandemic. The outbreak has disrupted trade globally, …
Read More »Banned Chinese companies deny allegations of abuse to Uighurs
WASHINGTON – Several Chinese companies and major international brands that supply rejected the Trump administration’s decision to add 11 Chinese companies to a government blacklist for aiding human rights violations, saying they had found no evidence of forced labor or others. abuses in their supply chains. . On Monday, the …
Read More »Scientists ‘shocked’ by high levels of microplastic contamination in London’s Thames
LONDON – Just over 60 years after it was declared “biologically dead”, England’s Thames River had been hailed as an environmental success. But while much of the effluents, chemicals, and heavy metals that used to pollute the river are gone, microplastics have taken their place. Mammals such as porpoises, seals, …
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