“NASA’s orbiting Lunar Gateway is either essential for a moon landing or a boondoggle in the making,” writes IEEE Spectrum. the_newsbeagle writes: NASA is under pressure to put humans back on the moon by 2024… NASA’s plan for meeting that ambitious target relies on building a space station in lunar orbit, called the Gateway. NASA says it will use its (over…
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6.6 Million Lose CBS Channels After ‘Business Dispute’ With AT&T
“Media giants are embroiled in yet another fight over TV rates, and viewers are once again paying the price,” writes Engadget. CBS’ channels in 17 markets (including New York, San Francisco and Atlanta) have gone dark on AT&T services like DirecTV Now and U-verse after the two companies failed to reach an agreement on a new carriage contract before the old…
When Online Teachers See Child Abuse
Rick Zeman (Slashdot reader #15,628) shares “a thought-provoking article on when online English teachers see child abuse at the other end of their cameras.” Of the 24 online teachers interviewed, about two thirds told “harrowing” stories, EdSurge reports, and within the teachers’ Facebook groups new reports “surface nearly every week.” The teachers post in these private Facebook groups because they aren’t…
Comic-Con Trailers Include ‘Star Trek: Picard’ and HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ Series
“At Comic-Con, Sir Patrick Stewart took to the Hall H stage Saturday afternoon to discuss his new series, Star Trek: Picard,” reports CBS News: The series will focus on what caused famed captain and admiral Jean-Luc Picard to leave Starfleet, and his life since…. Patrick Stewart — who is also an executive producer — answered questions about the show. “We never…
Atlassian’s Changes Annual Performance Reviews To Stop Rewarding ‘Brilliant Jerks’
Australia-based Atlassian”has implemented a new performance review strategy designed to give their workers a better evaluation of how they’re performing,” reports Business Insider, adding that Atlassian’s global head of talent said the company wants to measure contributions to a larger team effort. “We want people to get rewarded for what they delivered.” In 2018 it soft-launched a strategy where most of…
Atlassian Changes Annual Performance Reviews To Stop Rewarding ‘Brilliant Jerks’
Australia-based Atlassian”has implemented a new performance review strategy designed to give their workers a better evaluation of how they’re performing,” reports Business Insider, adding that Atlassian’s global head of talent said the company wants to measure contributions to a larger team effort. “We want people to get rewarded for what they delivered.” In 2018 it soft-launched a strategy where most of…
Astronomers probe a mini-Neptune’s atmosphere
Exoplanet Gliese 3470 b fits nicely in size between our solar system’s Earth and planet Neptune. Known as a “mini-Neptune,” it likely has a rocky core beneath a deep, crushing, hydrogen-helium atmosphere. The analysis of its atmosphere is a first for one of these mid-sized worlds. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/astronomers-probe-mini-neptune-atmosphere-gliese-3470-b…
Microsoft Demos Hologram ‘Holoportation’
Microsoft “continues to plug away at making holoportation possible,” reports ZDNet: In a new demonstration, officials showed off a scenario where a life-sized holographic representation of a person could be beamed into a scenario with real-time simultaneous language translation happening — a communication scenario on which Microsoft has been working for years. At Microsoft’s Inspire partner show (which is co-located with…
Gaia starts mapping our Milky Way’s bar
“We knew the Milky Way had a bar, like other barred spiral galaxies. But we only had indirect indications from the motions of stars and gas. This is the first time we see the galactic bar in 3D space, based on geometric measurements of stellar distances.” Source: https://earthsky.org/space/gaia-starts-mapping-our-milky-ways-bar…
Are moons forming around this distant gas giant planet?
After many years of searching, astronomers have finally found what appears to be a circumplanetary disk – that is, a disk of gas and dust – surrounding a young exoplanet. Evidence suggests that moons may be forming there. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/circumplanetary-disk-pds-70-c-gas-giant-planet-moons…