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SpaceX

Microsoft teams up with SpaceX to launch Azure Space to bring cloud computing into the final frontier

Home News Spaceflight Microsoft has teamed up with SpaceX and SES to launch the tech giant's new cloud computing business for spaceAzure Space, Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure, aims to offer mobile cloud computing data centers that can deploy anywhere. For the emerging business, Microsoft has called upon SpaceX's Starlink…

bubmagOctober 21, 2020

Exoskeleton

How to count insects from space

It’s dark. Vegetal decay hangs thick in the air, trapped beneath the rotting innards of a felled beech tree. You wedge the hard shell of your exoskeleton through softening pulp, legs clicking in rhythm with each other. Chemosensors on your antennae and mouthparts ping with a steady stream of information,…

bubmagOctober 21, 2020

Pandemic

Art galleries on the brink as pandemic lays waste to plans

This year, it was planning on seven and to expand into the United States as part of a strategy to cope with Brexit. Two have gone ahead – one in Germany, traditionally one of its most important markets, and another in non-EU Switzerland.A third show, intended for Europe, is being…

bubmagOctober 21, 2020

Joe Biden

Barack Obama to hold his first in-person event for Joe Biden

WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama is returning to Philadelphia on Wednesday for his first in-person 2020 campaign event for Joe Biden. WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama is returning to Philadelphia on Wednesday for his first in-person 2020 campaign event for Joe Biden. In 2016, the man known as…

bubmagOctober 21, 2020

Huawei

Huawei Y7a announced: Kirin 710A SoC, 48MP quad camera, and 5,000 mAh battery

Huawei today added a new mid-range smartphone to its Y series, dubbed Huawei Y7a. It is built around a 6.67" FullHD+ LCD, that has a hole up top in the center for the 8MP selfie camera. Around the back, you get a 48MP primary camera that's joined by an 8MP…

bubmagOctober 21, 2020

Moravec‘s Paradox

Inaugural Global AI Summit opens virtually

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia launched a national strategy on Wednesday to become a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and data by 2030, attracting more than $20 billion in foreign and local investments. “Saudi Arabia wants to set the best example globally in using AI for the development of a nation,”…

bubmagOctober 21, 2020

Nancy Pelosi

Why the stimulus delay isn’t a crisis (yet)

If the impasse between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House on a new stimulus deal is supposed to be a crisis, you wouldn't know it from the stock market, where prices continue to rise.That's been in no small part because U.S. economic data has held up remarkably well…

bubmagOctober 21, 2020

Pandemic

Lung cancers ‘may have been misdiagnosed as COVID’ during pandemic

The first wave of the coronavirus outbreak has had a huge impact on UK lung cancer patients' survival and detection rates, a report has said.A third of patients have died since the beginning of the pandemic, experts said, while waiting for life-saving treatment while referrals for the deadly disease dropped…

bubmagOctober 21, 2020

NATO

Despite Pandemic Threat, Gubernatorial Hopefuls Avoid COVID Nitty-Gritty

Just 15 days ahead of the election, Montana Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney laid out his ideas on how he’d handle the COVID-19 pandemic if elected governor. Details were few, but the Democrat’s plan became one of only a handful being offered by candidates in the 11 U.S. governor’s races about…

bubmagOctober 21, 2020

Xi Jinping

Despite Trade War and Virus Jibes, Why Beijing May Want to Keep Trump in the White House

Donald Trump has frustrated and enraged China during a tumultuous first term, but Beijing may welcome his re-election as it scans the horizon for the decline of its superpower rival.Relations are as icy as at any time since formal ties were established four decades ago, with China warning it does…

bubmagOctober 21, 2020

Microsoft teams up with SpaceX to launch Azure Space to bring cloud computing into the final frontier

How to count insects from space

Art galleries on the brink as pandemic lays waste to plans

Barack Obama to hold his first in-person event for Joe Biden

Huawei Y7a announced: Kirin 710A SoC, 48MP quad camera, and 5,000 mAh battery

Inaugural Global AI Summit opens virtually

Why the stimulus delay isn’t a crisis (yet)

Lung cancers ‘may have been misdiagnosed as COVID’ during pandemic

Despite Pandemic Threat, Gubernatorial Hopefuls Avoid COVID Nitty-Gritty

Despite Trade War and Virus Jibes, Why Beijing May Want to Keep Trump in the White House

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