Month: October 2020

    • NASA’s robot is about to land on asteroid Bennu to unlock the secrets of life

    A meeting between OSIRIS-REx and Bennu will mark the first NASA mission to collect material from the surface of an asteroid. This mission is also a labor of love for researchers around the globe who invested years of their lives into the historic mission. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) arrived at

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    • YouTube is now banning conspiracy theory content, such as QAnon or Pizzagate, that targets individuals and groups and is used to "justify real-world violence" (NBC News)

    NBC News: YouTube is now banning conspiracy theory content, such as QAnon or Pizzagate, that targets individuals and groups and is used to “justify real-world violence”  —  YouTube said Thursday that it would no longer allow content that targets individuals and groups with conspiracy theories … YouTube is now banning conspiracy theory content, such as

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    • TikTok chief security officer says its servers are already separate from ByteDance

    Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok’s chief security officer says in new court documents that the US Commerce Department has mischaracterized how the app stores and secures user data, as the company renews its motion for a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s looming ban. Roland Cloutier, global chief security officer for TikTok,

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    • River, which offers a customized stream of bite-sized, shareable news stories from sources like NPR, Twitter, and NYT, raises $10.4M and launches on iOS (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: River, which offers a customized stream of bite-sized, shareable news stories from sources like NPR, Twitter, and NYT, raises $10.4M and launches on iOS  —  River today launched its eponymous social media app, which is designed to organize conversations into streams of shareable stories. River, which offers a customized stream of

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    • Why companies should introduce ‘sustainable mobility’ as an employee perk

    On the surface, the path to “sustainable mobility” sounds easy enough — swap out your existing internal combustion-engine vehicles with zero-emission electrics or lower-emission hybrids. Presto! Lower emissions = sustainable mobility. But the real value of a sustainable mobility initiative far exceeds the boundaries of fleet management to span the entire enterprise. The return on

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    • Balto, whose AI for call centers listens to conversations and prompts agents on what to say next, raises $10M Series A, bringing its total raised to $14M+ (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Balto, whose AI for call centers listens to conversations and prompts agents on what to say next, raises $10M Series A, bringing its total raised to $14M+  —  Balto, a startup developing a conversational AI platform for call centers, today closed a $10 million funding round. Balto, whose AI for call

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