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Poll: Americans believe space exploration is ‘essential’ (but don’t actually want to go to space)
Jun06
A majority of Americans believe the United States should remain the global leader in space exploration, according to new Pew Research. Unfortunately, few of them actually want to explore space. In a poll released today, more than 70 percent of Americans believe it’s “essential” to be a world leader in space exploration. And while nearly three-fourths of those polled feel strongly about the issue, fewer than 20 percent believe it’s worth prioritizing missions to Mars or the Moon. According to the respondents, NASA’s top priorities should be monitoring the Earth’s climate (63 percent), remaining on the lookout for asteroids and…
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E3 2018 is upon us once again, and we’ve got a lot of conferences to keep up with — nine major ones, in fact. I’ve already given a lengthy preview of what to expect from the conference. But if you want a simple, just-the-facts-ma’am accounting of where, when, and how to board the hype train… I’ve got you there, too. So here’s a quick cheat sheet. Times will be displayed in PT and ET. Electronic Arts: Saturday, June 9 @ 11 am PT/2 pm ET Watch on Twitch or YouTube. Microsoft: Sunday, June 10 @ 1 pm PT/4 pm ET Watch on…
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Alphabet Inc. shareholders today voted down several proposals that would tie pay to diversity goals in an effort to promote equal wages among females and people of color. “At Alphabet, diversity and inclusion activities by individual contributors have been met with a disorganized array of responses, including formal reprimand,” said Google software engineer Irene Knapp during the meeting. “This chilling effect.. has impaired company culture.” Shareholder proposals attempted to address some of Google’s biggest issues in hiring a diverse workforce and paying them fair wages. Both employees and shareholders challenged the company to address issues of fair pay and underrepresentation…
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A team of researchers recently developed an AI that can transfer your real-time facial expressions, eye movements, and poses to a portrait – making it appear as though the person in the image is actually talking and moving. It’s disturbingly convincing, and almost constantly improving. The AI, called HeadOn, was developed by the same people who brought you last year’s jaw-dropping Face2Face. In fact, HeadOn is a bit of an upgrade to that one. The project’s white paper calls it the “first real-time source-to-target reenactment approach for complete human portrait videos that enables transfer of torso and head motion, face…
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