Why gender-swap photo filters are still problematic
Welcome to TNW Pride 2020! All throughout June we’ll highlight articles that focus on representation for LGBTQPIA+ people in the STEM communities. Can we have a grown-up conversation about those...
New UK-US agreement allows US companies to launch from UK spaceports – TechCrunch
In a new move designed to encourage more economic and scientific collaboration between spacefaring nations, the U.K. and U.S. governments have signed a new agreement that would make it possible...
This AI tool helps people with speech difficulties to communicate
A new AI tool can help people with speech difficulties to communicate by reducing the number of keystrokes they need to type. Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Dundee developed the system...
Arizona fires seen fuming from space
The biggest fire now burning in the U.S. can be seen raging from space. It’s now peak fire season in Arizona, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-16...
Microsoft employs experimental undersea data center in search for COVID-19 vaccine – TechCrunch
Part of the challenge in seeking out an effective treatment for COVID-19 is simply one of scale – protein folding is key to understanding how the virus that causes COVID-19...
Astranis reaches key milestone with MicroGEO communication satellite, aims for service to begin next summer – TechCrunch
Satellite telecommunications startup Astranis has achieved a key technical milestone with its MicroGEO product, a small geosynchronous communications satellite that it will use to launch its first commercial service starting...
Partying Americans just got a reality check from the coronavirus
On June 6, after over 100,000 Americans had already been killed by the new coronavirus, over a dozen friends went out to party at Lynch's Irish Pub in Jacksonville Beach,...
SpaceX to build floating spaceports for rockets bound for the Moon and Mars, and for hypersonic Earth travel – TechCrunch
SpaceX is hiring experts in Offshore Operations in Brownsville, job ads revealed on Tuesday – and the purpose is to help the company develop and build floating spaceports that will...
A glimmer of hope
Hola pandemic pals, It’s the middle of June and COVID-19 is still here. In fact, the data indicates it’s just getting started. We’re seeing the largest daily spikes of new...
Bit Bio’s ‘enter button for the keyboard to the software of life’ nabs the company $41.5 million – TechCrunch
Bit Bio, the new startup that pitches itself as the “enter button for the keyboard to the software of life,” only needed three weeks to raise its latest $41.5 million...