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Escape Velocity: The Road To Space


Escape Velocity: The Road To Space
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By Liam Jamieson and Charu Sudan Kasturi
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Mark the time and date. At 9 a.m. EDT today, British billionaire Richard Branson plans to blast off in his Virgin Galactic spaceship on a course for the edge of Earth’s atmosphere. It marks a brave new world for commercial space tourism, ranking among orbital milestones going back to 1957, when the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik 1 satellite to begin the space age.
Nine days from now, on July 20, the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, is set to take off too, on a spacecraft produced by his company Blue Origin. Until now, only the Russian government space agency Roscosmos had taken civilians on paid excursions. But with their closely-timed trips, Branson and Bezos are telling the world they’re ready to bet their lives on the success and safety of their own commercial expeditions. And they’re not alone. Today’s Sun ....

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I'm fired: Google AI in meltdown as ethics unit co-lead forced out just weeks after coworker ousted


Plus: IBM reportedly trying to sell Watson AI Health, and more
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Mon 22 Feb 2021 // 12:21 UTC
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In brief Google has finished its probe into the controversial ousting of Timnit Gebru, co-leader of its Ethical AI unit. The ad giant promised to implement new procedures around “potentially sensitive employee exits,” though it did not make its findings public.
Gebru said she was fired for warning coworkers in an internal memo that, due to management apathy, it was a waste of energy trying to foster diversity, equality, and inclusion within the Silicon Valley goliath. Google claimed she effectively resigned.
Bosses had told her to remove her name from a research paper on the negative environmental and social effects of massive, power-hungry, biased language-processing neural networks like the ones used by Google. In the aftermath of that clash, Gebru said she told executives she would be comfortable remaining ....

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Hundreds of 'cashed-up', Covid-free Americans cannot holiday in New Zealand after Antarctic posting


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Staff board a US Air Force C-17 as they prepared to take the season s first flight to McMurdo Station from Christchurch Airport in September 2020.
They are “cashed-up”, Covid-free and desperate for a well-earned vacation, but the hundreds of Americans who fly into New Zealand after being stationed in Antarctica have been told they have to “leave on the first available flight”.
Much to the chagrin of the personnel who have been based at America’s Antarctic research base, McMurdo Station, they are not allowed to holiday here, despite transiting through Christchurch on their way home.
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Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins confirms no new community cases in the community or in MIQ and says no-one who catches Covid should be blamed. ....

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