Enlarge / Taranjit Sandhu, India’s ambassador to the United States, signs the Artemis Accords in Washington on June 21. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson watches from… Read More »India, a growing space force, is forging closer ties with NASA
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On July 1, Mississippi and Virginia passed laws requiring adult websites to verify users’ ages, despite attempts by Pornhub to defy the law. Those efforts… Read More »Pornhub is shutting down more US users in continued protest against age verification laws
From Melbourne to Manchester to Miami, people are struggling under the weight of soaring price hikes for the things they buy every day. The worst… Read More »How inflation and interest rates vary around the world
Edward Fredkin, who, despite never graduating from college, became an influential computer science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a pioneer of artificial intelligence… Read More »Edward Fredkin, 88, who saw the universe as one big computer, dies
But do flat structures work? André Spicer, a professor of organizational behavior at Bayes Business School in London, said that while the “cultural zeitgeist growing… Read More »Companies with ‘flat’ structures rarely work. Is there a solution?
Even as the rain fell, the sprawling construction site was buzzing. Yellow and orange excavators danced slowly around a maze of muddy pits, waving giant… Read More »The war between Russia and Ukraine has forever changed this business in Finland
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