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Observing the Earth – Canada–US heatwave (ESA)

While heatwaves are quite common during the summer months, the scorching heatwave hitting parts of western Canada and the US has been particularly devastating...

TechInnovation – Poison in the Well. Securing the Shared Resources of Machine Learning (Andrew Lohn, CSET)

Modern machine learning often relies on open-source datasets, pretrained models, and machine learning libraries from across the internet, but are those resources safe to...

Science/Artificial Intelligence – Creating a Map of Science and Measuring the Role of AI in it (Autumn Toney, CSET)

Data Snapshots are informative descriptions and quick analyses that dig into CSET’s unique data resources. Our first series of Snapshots will introduce CSET’s Map...

Space – Webb passes key launch clearance review (ESA)

The international James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review for its launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport...

Canada – Concrete Action Needed Against Islamophobia in Canada (Insiya Mankani, HRW)

Today is Canada Day and for many Canadians this national holiday represents an opportunity to finally come together with friends and family as Covid-19...

Eswatini – Respect Rights While Policing Protests (HRW)

Eswatini authorities should ensure that security forces deployed in the wake of protests respect citizens’ rights and observe international standards of law enforcement, Human Rights...

TechInnovation – Ghost raises $100M Series D for autonomous driving and crash prevention tech (Aria Alamalhodaei, TechCrunch)

Autonomous driving system developer Ghost Locomotion has raised a $100 million Series D funding round, led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Returning investor Founders Fund...

TechInnovation – TikTok expands max video length to 3 minutes, up from 60 seconds (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)

TikTok is embracing longer videos. The company announced this morning it will roll out the option to create videos of up to 3 minutes...

Germany/Facebook – German government bodies urged to remove their Facebook Pages before next year (Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch)

Germany’s federal information commissioner has run out of patience with Facebook. Last month, Ulrich Kelber wrote to government agencies “strongly recommend” they to close down their official...

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