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12/03/2021

Join us for a dynamic and interactive webinar to learn what are the investment trends and opportunities for contending with a rapidly changing climate.

Join us for a dynamic and interactive webinar about the investment trends and opportunities for contending with a rapidly changing climate.

07/20/2021

Jeff Bezos and crew returned to Earth! Take off my hat to Wally Funk, 82 years old, pioneering female pilot,

The Amazon founder and three passengers reached the edge of space and safely returned after a flight of just over 10 minutes that the billionaire businessman hopes will kick-start an expansive new era for human space travel.

02/17/2021

How to Run an Effective Ideation Workshop on Zoom (Apply by Feb. 17)
Speakers: Dennis Boyle & Delphine Huang
Thursday, February 25, 1:00 to 3:30 PM PST

Join Dennis Boyle, IDEO co-founder/partner, and Delphine Huang, IDEO Medical Director, for a 2.5-hour interactive workshop on brainstorming as a team in a digital/remote setting. Focused specifically on health early-stage startups and Rosenman founders, we will be covering how to use design-thinking techniques and tools to creatively brainstorm, synthesize insights, and move towards iterative prototyping.
https://rosenmaninstitute.org/product/how-to-run-an-effective-ideation-workshop-on-zoom-applications-are-open/

02/10/2021

Toyota announces 2 electric cars coming to the US this year.

The carmaker confirmed plans for the arrival of two different EV models, plus a new Prime plug-in hybrid.

11/11/2020

Virgin Hyperloop completes first test with actual passengers
Hyperloop technology, which promises to transport people and goods at speeds of up to 600 miles an hour, has long seemed too good to be true. But one company says it has cleared an important step toward commercializing it by moving two of its employees through a test system.

Virgin Hyperloop gave the first ride on its test track Sunday in Las Vegas, but it will be years before the public can potentially take a high-speed ride on a hyperloop.

10/28/2020

NASA's Sofia discovers water on sunlit surface of Moon

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon.

10/28/2020

SpaceX Reveals Pricing for Beta Testing Its Starlink Internet Service

The pricing for SpaceX’s Starlink beta service in the U. S. appears to have been revealed, after potential users received emails inviting them to sign up to the service.

10/16/2020

Microsoft has used a court order to take control of computers responsible for installing malware onto government networks which could have potentially disrupted the upcoming U.S. election.

Microsoft said Monday it had used a court order to take control of computers that were installing ransomware and other malicious software on local government networks and threatening to disrupt the November election.

09/28/2020

3D camera earns its stripes at Rice

The Hyperspectral Stripe Projector captures spectroscopic and 3D imaging data for applications like machine vision, crop monitoring, self-driving cars and corrosion detection.

09/10/2020

The Department for Transport in the UK is considering legalising hand-free driving, which would allow drivers to check email and perform activities while their car steers on auto-pilot.

Government is consulting industry on technology which can take control of a vehicle at up to 70mph.

09/10/2020

Researchers at Cornell are looking into ways to improve the fairness of search results so that all relevant search results get proper exposure as opposed to just the most popular ones.

In a new paper, Cornell researchers introduce a tool they’ve developed to improve the fairness of online rankings without sacrificing their usefulness or relevance.

09/10/2020

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are looking into ways to improve robot perception by giving them a sense of hearing along with eyesight.

In what they say is the first large-scale study of the interactions between sound and robotic action, researchers at CMU's Robotics Institute found that sounds could help a robot differentiate between objects.