What does it take to innovate? Some things that may pop in your head probably include: thinking outside of the status quo, bright minds, making room for mistakes and learning from them. But what often gets overlooked is perhaps the most obvious answer — time. That’s one of the lessons we learned from our chat with Stephanie, CMO of edX, in…
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Rocket start-up Astra tries back-to-back launches to win $12 million
A private satellite that’s low on fuel could survive five more years because another satellite has come to its rescue – a technique that could be used by future service spacecraft Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2235515-rocket-start-up-astra-tries-back-to-back-launches-to-win-12-million/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Netflix, Which Spent $100M in Oscars Campaign Alone, Won Just 2 Awards. ‘Parasite’, a South Korean Movie That Cost $11M To Make, Won 4
An anonymous reader shares a report: Around Thanksgiving, it looked like this could have been Netflix’s year to win it all at the Oscars. Critics were heaping praise on the epic scale of Martin Scorsese’s mob movie “The Irishman,” which felt destined to be the streaming giant’s best shot at the elusive best picture trophy. The Los Gatos-based tech company put…
Taurus? Here’s your constellation
How to find to find the constellation Taurus in your night sky. Plus the names of some of its bright stars and star clusters and its mythology. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/taurus-heres-your-constellation…
PETA Suggests Celebrating Groundhog Day With a Weather-Predicting AI-Enabled Robot
There’s a North American tradition that says there’ll be six more weeks of winter if a groundhog can see his shadow (due to clear skies) on February 2nd. And while it’s been honored every year with a ceremony in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania since 1887, PETA is now suggesting that the event’s organizers should stop using a live groundhog — and replace him…
Canberra astronomer becomes first Australian to win major US science award in 133 years
Lisa Kewley has transformed our understanding of the early years of the Universe, the development of galaxies, and what happens when they collide. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-01-canberra-astronomer-australian-major-science.html…
2019 Was the Second Hottest Year on Record, NASA Says
It’s the award no one wanted to win: 2019 was the second hottest year on record, government scientists confirmed yesterday (Jan. 15). Source: https://www.livescience.com/2019-second-hottest-year-on-record.html
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover closer to getting its name
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is one step closer to having its own name after 155 students across the U.S. were chosen as semifinalists in the “Name the Rover” essay contest. Just one will be selected to win the grand prize—the exciting honor of naming the rover and an invitation to see the spacecraft launch in July 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air…
Major Union Launches Campaign To Organize Video Game, Tech Workers
A new campaign launched Tuesday by one of the nation’s largest labor unions — and spearheaded by one of the leading video game industry activists in Southern California — aims to organize video game studios and tech offices to form or join a union. The Los Angeles Times reports: The Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE for short) is a new…
GirlsDoPorn: Young Women Win Legal Battle Over Video Con
A U.S. judge has awarded $12.8 million to 22 unnamed women, ruling that they were tricked into appearing in widely distributed online porn videos. The BBC reports: Some of the models duped by the owners and operators of the GirlsDoPorn website had become suicidal, he said. They were told the videos were for a private collector or overseas DVDs, according to…