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At Grand Bizarre, customers can swim, eat, drink, mingle and now, if they fancy, stroll around the corner and smoke cannabis in a restricted area. Cannabis Carnival is being touted as one of the first of its kind in Ontario — a dedicated place to smoke cannabis that its president, Zlatko Starkovski, says is …
Read More »Boeing capsule returns from space station after test flight with no crew
Boeing’s crew taxi returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Wednesday, completing a repeat test flight before NASA astronauts climb aboard. It was a quick trip back: the Starliner capsule parachuted into the New Mexico desert just four hours after leaving the orbiting lab, with airbags attached to …
Read More »A Million Miles Away From Earth, What Next For James Webb Space Telescope?
NASA’s next-generation James Webb telescope, which travelled about 1 million miles from Earth, has reached its final destination. But, the science operations are expected to begin only in late June or early July, Space.com reported. Till then there’s a lot more to be done. A joint effort with the European …
Read More »Here’s why Russia’s space chief keeps asking Elon Musk to visit him
Enlarge / Yulia Peresild will play the lead role in the Russian space film The Challenge. Roscosmos The leader of Russia’s space program is desperate to have Elon Musk come and visit him. On multiple occasions, Dmitry Rogozin has invited the founder of SpaceX to come to Kazakhstan for the …
Read More »Despite WFH, Testhouse acquires new space in Technopark
Testhouse, a UK-based global software testing and quality assurance company, has acquired a 12,000 sq ft of office space in Technopark here in addition to its existing facilities of similar space in the campus. Most employees may be working from home due to the ongoing pandemic, said Rajesh Narayan, CEO, …
Read More »48 civil rights and advocacy groups join in asking the FTC to ban corporate facial surveillance technology, continuous corporate surveillance of public space (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: 48 civil rights and advocacy groups join in asking the FTC to ban corporate facial surveillance technology, continuous corporate surveillance of public space — The open letter uses Amazon as a case study to argue that corporate surveillance technologies cause immense harm and fall under …
Read More »upGrad, an online education startup focused on the post K-12 space, raises $120M from Singapore's sovereign fund Temasek, sources say at a $575M-$675M valuation (Kaavya Chandrasekaran/The Economic Times)
Kaavya Chandrasekaran / The Economic Times: upGrad, an online education startup focused on the post K-12 space, raises $120M from Singapore’s sovereign fund Temasek, sources say at a $575M-$675M valuation — Education technology startup upGrad, promoted by media entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala, said it has raised $120 million … News Source …
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