[ad_1] What just happened? Microsoft has responded to the backlash against its new Productivity Score tool in Microsoft 365 that essentially allowed managers to monitor employee activities. The Redmond firm is removing usernames from the role, which means companies will no longer be able to access information about individuals; instead, …
Read More »China’s space ambitions: robot on Mars, a human on the moon
[ad_1] BEIJING (AP) – China’s landing of its third probe on the moon is part of an increasingly ambitious space program that has a rover robot en route to Mars, is developing a reusable space plane and plans to return humans. to the lunar surface. The Chang’e 5, the first …
Read More »Reconsider Africa as a Potential Growth Market for American Businesses
[ad_1] Jeremy Amias, Vice President, Americas, Standard Chartered New year, new opportunities Describing 2020 as a challenging year seems an understatement, to say the least. While US businesses started the year uncertain due to continuing tensions between China and the United States, a new set of totally unexpected challenges emerged …
Read More »Ethiopia: the establishment of a capital market remains in limbo despite reform measures
[ad_1] Since the dawn of the reform, Ethiopia has undertaken several economic reforms, including plans to privatize public companies and liberalize a large part of the economy. Despite this development, Ethiopia still does not have a capital market. Amid these developments, one of the debatable issues is the question of …
Read More »In Latvia, new technology that could one day prevent asteroids from hitting Earth
[ad_1] Deep on the campus of Riga Technical University, a team of researchers is searching for technology that will one day help prevent asteroids from hitting Earth. Very high precision chronoscopes built by hand in the laboratory of Latvian startup Eventech are used today to track the movements of satellites. …
Read More »A Google map of the universe
[ad_1] The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), developed and operated by Australia’s national scientific agency, CSIRO, mapped approximately 3,000,000 galaxies in just 300 hours. This Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey is like a Google map of the universe where most of the millions of star-shaped point maps are distant galaxies. …
Read More »Troubled Arecibo Observatory collapses further – BGR
[ad_1] The historic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has had a difficult year after a partial collapse in August. There have been two additional landslides and the telescope is scheduled for destruction soon. The telescope cables have failed and, more recently, a large platform fell from its perch high above …
Read More »China’s Chang’e 5 spacecraft lands on the Moon – BGR
[ad_1] China’s ambitious Chang’e 5 mission to the Moon successfully landed at its intended destination. The mission will take samples from the surface of the Moon and from a couple of meters below the surface. Those samples will eventually be sent to Earth for study. NASA may be planning its …
Read More »China’s Chang’e 5 spacecraft lands on the Moon – BGR
[ad_1] China’s ambitious Chang’e 5 mission to the Moon successfully landed at its intended destination. The mission will take samples from the surface of the Moon and from a couple of meters below the surface. Those samples will eventually be sent to Earth for study. NASA may be planning its …
Read More »Researchers develop a hydrogen and oxygen harvesting system for use on Mars | Physical chemistry, Space exploration
[ad_1] The active Martian water cycle, that is, the presence of shallow water and soluble perchlorate salts in Martian soil, enables the production of life-supporting hydrogen and oxygen fuel on Mars by electrolysis of perchlorate brines. A team of scientists at Washington University in St. Louis has demonstrated an approach …
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