NASA has successfully tested their first RS-25 rocket engine for the agency's next heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), for 500 seconds. The SLS, which will use 4 RS-25 engines in its core stage, is designed to take humans to deep space destinations like asteroids or Mars. NASA stated that "the next time rocket engine No. 2059 fires for that length of time, it will… Read More
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Video news startup NowThis is partnering with FWD.us, the immigration lobbying group backed by Mark Zuckerberg and other tech executives, to tackle one of the biggest issues in this year's election cycle. Last night at South by Southwest, the two organizations announced a partnership where NowThis is creating a video series focused on immigration. NowThis President Athan Stephanopoulos… Read More 
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico legislative leaders rarely, if ever, communicate by work email and keep private the details of breakfast and dinner appointments with industry and special interest groups, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.
The Legislature's four top leaders provided their appointment calendars and ...
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digitalundivided, an organization geared toward advancing equity in tech, is opening an innovation center for black and Latina female founders in tech this summer. Located in downtown Atlanta, GA, the BIG Innovation Center will be home to a four-month long accelerator program as well as a paid developer internship program for students interested in computer programming. digitalundivided hopes… Read More 
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Ulysses is a Markdown text editor for small and big projects. It works quite well for anything between a blog post and a novel. And Ulysses is also the kind of apps we need on iOS. It's an expensive $25 app that provides nearly all the features of its desktop equivalent. In other words, it's a serious app to do serious work with a clear business model. And of course, everything stays… Read More 
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Donald Trump's three GOP rivals said Sunday that it is getting more difficult for them to justify saying they would support the real estate mogul if he wins the Republican presidential nomination.
"I think if Donald is the nominee, I think it is a disaster," Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said ...
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The FBI wants Apple to do something no private company has ever been forced to do: break its own technology. Specifically, the FBI wants Apple to build a new version of its mobile operating system (iOS, or GovOS) so that the contents of an iPhone can be removed from an iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the gunmen in the San Bernardino shooting. Read More 
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Machines 3, humans 1… That's the current score in a five-match series being played out between DeepMind's AlphaGo and human Go world champion, Lee Sedol. Read More 
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A Michigan legislative leader has released his state emails and a weekly meeting schedule, hoping to reinforce his push for the Legislature to no longer exempt itself from the state's public records law.
House Minority Leader Tim Greimel on Friday disclosed a week's worth of emails ...
Elementary school students in Ann Arbor took swing dancing lessons.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - In an era when text messaging is a universal form of instant communication - especially during hectic legislative sessions - Gov. Rick Scott and his top aide refuse to do it and don't want their employees doing it either, his office says.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa lawmakers are exempt from releasing their work emails or daily schedules to the public because they determine their own rules on such matters, and the Iowa Supreme Court has upheld that authority.
Legislative staffers cited the Iowa Constitution in their records request denial to ...
In the first part of this series, we learned about designing products that use good triggers and motivators to get users like Joe to engage in healthy behaviors. Now, how can we ensure that these new behaviors become long-term habits? In this second part, we return to Nir Eyal's Hooked model to look at reinforcing Joe's behavior through rewards and an investment in your product. Read More 
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