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India assesses technical snag that aborted moon mission

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Jul 20, 2019

India's space organization is examining the technical snag behind Monday's aborted launch of a spacecraft intended to land on the far side of the moon and expects to set a new launch date within days. The Chandrayaan-2 mission was called off less than an hour before liftoff by the Indian Space Research Organization when a "technical snag" was observed in the 640-ton, 14-story rocket launcher.

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Jul 18, 2019

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New York State Government

ICE will not be able to use new law to ID undocumented immigrants, say lawmakers

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Jul 16, 2019

After reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have asked at least three states to run facial recognition searches on their driver’s license databases, concerns have been raised that a new law allowing undocumented immigrants to receive licenses in New York will put them in danger of deportation by federal officers.

Headlines

Activists worry about potential abuse of face scans for ICE

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Jul 11, 2019

Civil rights activists complained Monday of the potential for widespread abuse following confirmation that at least three states have scanned millions of driver's license photos on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement without the drivers' knowledge or consent. Public records obtained by the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology provided the first proof that ICE had sought such scans, which were conducted in Utah, Vermont and Washington.

In Other News

Technology allows NBC to add new elements to Tour de France

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Jul 8, 2019

The NBC Sports Group will air more than 350 hours of coverage across NBC, NBCSN and the NBC Sports Gold online streaming package. Despite the challenges of live coverage, it is a lot easier compared to the weekend highlight shows that used to be the only way to view it.

The Business Section

Tech jobs soar to all-time record heights in Bay Area

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Jul 6, 2019

The Bay Area’s technology boom is so robust that it has reached record highs, but the remarkable surge has also reduced Santa Clara County’s share of tech employment in the nine-county region as the San Francisco-San Mateo area has gained a bigger piece of the pie. Tech employment — the economic engine of Silicon Valley for two decades — continues to grow at a rate faster than all other sectors and has soared well above the lofty pinnacles of the dot-com era.

Stranger than Fiction

Orange fireball lighting Florida sky was Chinese space junk

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Jul 4, 2019

Conspiracy theorists took to social media in a flurry of excitement Wednesday after a mysterious flying object resembling an orange fireball streaked across the Florida sky.

In Other News

3-D printing recreates ancient sculpture destroyed by ISIS

NewsPlexus Media

Jul 4, 2019

The replica Lion of Mosul, which can be viewed online , was modelled from crowd-sourced photos taken by Mosul Museum visitors in happier times and 3-D printed as part of Google's digital arts and culture project. It's going on display at London's Imperial War Museum in an exhibition that looks at how war devastates societies' cultural fabric — and at the ingenious and often heroic steps taken to preserve it.

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NASA: Intense work under way on rocket for future moonshots

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Jul 3, 2019

Crews are working around the clock at a NASA rocket factory, intent on meeting a new fall 2020 deadline to test launch a mega-rocket designed to propel astronauts to the moon and beyond, a space agency official said Friday. "I came out here in the middle of the night ... talking to people who were working on the engine section, working hard through the night," NASA Deputy Administrator James Morhard said on a press tour at New Orleans' Michoud Assembly Center.